Expozine 2010

I will be at Expozine 2010, Nov. 13-14, noon to six at 5035 St. Dominique corner St. Joseph (with opening party at Salla Rossa Fri. Nov. 12, 4848 St. Laurent). I’ll be selling at least two new zines, plus copies of new zines since last year and the last few copies of the first printing […]

Louis Rastelli reading at Concordia Co-Op Bookstore

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October 13th 2010 – 7pm
From the press release:

Pillar of the indie-arts community and Local Legend Louis Rastelli will be  reading from […]

The Story of the First Nuclear Attack, Hiroshima August 6, 1945

SCRATCH HISTORY
The Story of the First Nuclear Attack, Hiroshima August 6, 1945
Survivor and witness testimony assembled from various sources by Louis Rastelli
The following is a narrative strung together combining sentences and paragraphs from dozens of different witness and survivor accounts. It was first published in Fish Piss Magazine […]

Expozine Awards Gala, Fanzinothèque in France, Montreal Poolroom

Tonight (March 31) is the annual Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala at Le Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent. Copies of about 30 of the best publications from the 300 publishers who took part in Expozine 2009 will be on sale at the free event, which also features some readings by nominees, MC Alexis O’Hara and […]

Monthly DJ night, Louis Rastelli

Just a reminder that I DJ on the first Tuesday of each month at Bar Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent (near corner St-Joseph, short walk from Laurier metro and steps from the 55 stop), from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Tuesday is Rock n’ Roll night at Casa, so you can expect an eclectic mix […]

Expozine 2009

I’ll be selling my novel, A Fine Ending, and (hopefully) a special new little zine at Expozine this weekend in Montreal, Nov. 14-15, and I’ll also be at the Expozine opening party on Nov. 13 (see www.expozine.ca for details.)
Don’t be shy to come up and introduce yourself! See you there.

More on St. Laurent/ Ste. Catherine, photos etc.

I put together a slideshow for last Saturday’s event at Cabaret Cléo, where I spoke about the history of the Main and that block. The slideshow walks you down both sides of the street from the corner of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine during one afternoon in November, 1965. It uses photos taken from a […]

Corner of St. Laurent/ Ste. Catherine demolition

Well, once again there’s a plan to raze the historic (classified heritage at the federal level) block on the west side of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine St.I wrote an article for the Montreal Mirror that just appeared available here:
 http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/052809/news2.html
If it weren’t for all the empty lots surrounding the block, and if they weren’t violating […]

Writing Fiction

(This is an expanded version of a blog post I wrote for Broken Pencil Magazine’s website this past summer.)
Despite what some readers thought, I think of my first novel, A Fine Ending, as a work of fiction. It certainly has a “non-fiction” aspect to it, in that a real time and place serves as the […]

Assorted news

First of all, I forgot to mention last month that I made the list of the top ten “Best Living Local Authors” in the annual Montreal Mirror’s Best of Montreal readers poll. The full list is available here and also includes my old friend Heather O’Neill, who I published for the first time in 1996 […]