Marshall Diabo is an award-winning Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk)/mixed-heritage competitive dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in the Plateau. With a decade of powwow and street dance experience to the stage, he blends hiphop and contemporary styles to elevate queer, 2-spirit, and polyamorous representation in Montreal's arts scene.

Friday morning, I woke up and thought well, it's a beautiful day for a funeral. Mother Nature had turned up the heat, and the sun was out, loud and proud. While it's true that no one wants to go to a funeral, going on a beautiful day sure beats mourning in a snowstorm.

Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) is an Outremont-based recording artist, visual artist, and founder of the EAF label. Morphing experimental, ambient, noise, and punk into confrontational leftfield electronic music, he builds titles and visual scenarios before composing to strike a perfect balance between deep emotional affect and sharp aesthetic innovation.

We love to sort people into boxes. You have your party friend, your movie buddy, the astrology girl, the friend who can help you move; we don't do it on purpose. It seems natural that when a potluck comes up, we know to invite the foodies, the social butterflies who will keep the party flowing,…

While that's true, evidence has long pointed to the contrary. In fact, I'm on record for shit talking the suburbs – the most family oriented of all locales – consistently. I stand by everything I've said about the sleepy little contrived spaces where dreams go to die, especially about the West Island, but I am willing to admit that not all suburbs are created equal.

Carolyne Van Der Meer is an Old Montreal-based journalist, poet, and author of five published books whose work spans international articles, essays, and multi-disciplinary poetry collections. Obsessed with the sudden structural turns of a poem, her writing embraces an economy of words and minimalist punctuation to create space for quiet reader connection.

This past week, someone said something so heinous that the room fell silent around them. People stopped mid chew, and cutlery clattered to plates. A couple clicked photos to post the incident later. Word spread like wildfire.

Double Curve is a Mile End and Little Italy-based indie rock trio formed in 2024 by longtime collaborators from Montreal’s underground music scene. Moving between nervous energy and hypnotic momentum, the band combines abrasive, 90s-inspired textures with melodic undercurrents ahead of their debut LP release later this year.

A dear friend called me the other day, completely frazzled. Her sister just had what could be considered an ill conceived baby. Ill conceived because the parents were ships passing in the night, and the mother is young -- both chronologically and emotionally.

Gillian Sze is an NDG-based poet and children’s author whose work has earned the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the QWF’s A. M. Klein Poetry Prize. An instructor at Concordia University, her slow and attentive practice spans award-winning poetry collections and celebrated children's books translated into multiple languages.