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FEBRUARY 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 5 8 No. Vol. 2020 • FEBRUARY • CULTMTL.COM FREE * Restaurant guide * Marcus * Wolf Parade * Adèle Haenel * Shwap Club PHI ACCELERATION table of Cult Mtl SIMULATION contents is... ACCELERATION Le Blumenthal, an example of Lorraine Carpenter the new school of Montreal editor-in-chief restaurant written about in our [email protected] 2010s food scene retrospective. Photo by Clayton Sandhu SIMULATION Alex Rose film editor [email protected] Nora Rosenthal arts editor ACCELERATION [email protected] NUIT Clayton Sandhu contributing editor (food) SIMULATION to-do list 4 Chris Tucker BLANCHE art director city 6 :rant line™ 6 :persona mtl 6 ACCELERATION Advertising :Inspectah Dep 7 [email protected] Contributors: food & drink 8 SIMULATIONSIMULATION/ DJ SETS • PHI CENTRE Johnson Cummins INSTALLATIONS 407 Saint-Pierre St Marcus 8 Ryan Diduck 29.02.20 Old Montreal Rob Jennings ACCELERATION PERFORMANCES Food halls 10 Erik Leijon Free admission Food scene decade 12 Madeline Lines 9 PM- 3 AM Darcy Macdonald Restaurant guide 14 Keeghan Harrison Rouleau Justine Smith Al South Mr. Wavvy music 24 Sasha Zeidler Wolf Parade 24 The Black Lips/Warish 26 :hammer of the mods 28 Album reviews 29 General inquiries + feedback [email protected] film 30 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 30 The Assistant 32 PHI On Screen 33 : Mel D. Cole. Courtesy Shady Lane Berlin. Productions, : Mel D. Cult MTL is a daily arts, film, music, food and city life site. Visit us at culture 34 � CENTRE Photo , 2019. Black History Month 34 cultmtl.com Shwap Club 36 Cult MTL is published by Cult MTL Media Inc. :play recent 38 and printed by Imprimerie Mirabel. Entire contents are © Cult MTL Media Inc. Bring Down The Walls Bring Down PHI Phil Collins, EXHIBITIONS 7 PM - 12 AM � PHI FOUNDATION 451 & 465 Saint-Jean St CLUB NIGHT Old Montreal � FOUNDATION WORKSHOP Free admission FEBRUARY 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 3 3700 St-Dominique, various times, $33.50/$28.50/$23.50/$18.50 to-do list Feb. 26–March 7 For the daily To-Do List, visit cultmtl.com The annual Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma festival screens over 300 films, including roughly 100 premieres of new feature and short films made in this province as well as some of the best from the past year. The 2020 programming had not been revealed at press time, but English titles will include The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, The Hummingbird Project and Twentieth Century. Feb. 20–March 1 The 21st edition of Montreal en Lumiere offers the usual hivernal hibernation bail-out, connecting the dots between the culinary arts, outdoor winter fun and, with Nuit Blanche on Feb. 29, most of the visual and performing art disciplines, craft practices and nightlife activities you can think of. (Look for our annual Nuit Blanche guide at cultmtl.com later this month.) Feb. 21 Jazz Mofos play a special show at Southwest pub Annexe St-Ambroise to celebrate Mardi Gras. ≥ 5080 St-Ambroise, 8 p.m. Feb. 28–March 1 The second installment of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings saga, The Two Towers, will be screened at Place des Arts’s Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, with Howard Shore’s award-winning score performed live by 250 musicians. ≥ 175 Ste-Catherine W., 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, $104.98–$163.97 Feb. 29 It’s Nuit Blanche! Among the many many many events happening around the city tonight is the Cult MTL co-signed Simulation/Accélération party at Phi Centre, with DJsets, a KelleyJacob participatory installation and performances. (Look for our Caveboy annual Nuit Blanche guide at cultmtl.com later this month.) films, correspondence and select artworks of architect ≥ 407 St-Pierre, 9 p.m.–3 a.m., free To Feb. 8 and conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, as selected by Kitty Scott. It’s the final three-day weekend of Igloofest promises to pack their outdoor Old Port space with dancing masses and a ≥ 1920 Baile, 6:30–8:30 p.m. roster of local and international DJs. March 3–12 At Usine C, check out a Brazilian interpretation of Michel ≥ Jacques Cartier Quay (Place Jacques Cartier & de la Commune Feb. 8 Marc Bouchard’s play Tom à la Ferme, Tom Na Fazenda, E.), 7:30–11 p.m. (till 12:30 a.m. Saturdays), $25/$89 VIP by director Rodrigo Portella. The play will be performed in Montreal dream pop trio Caveboy launch their debut LP Night Portuguese with English and French surtitles. in the Park, Kiss in the Dark with a show at Phi Centre. To Feb. 9 ≥ 1345 Lalonde, various times, $34/$36/$40 ≥ 407 St-Pierre, 8 p.m., $18.54/$21.82 The Geordie Theatre Fest showcases works in Theatre for Young Audiences with staged readings in partnership with the National Theatre School of Canada and 2Play touring shows (The Water Chronicles and Fear of Missing Out) on a March 4 mainstage platform. Feb. 8–9 Straight outta Hudson, Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Of course Montreal has a chocolate festival. Resto Montreal ≥ Holubowski goes large, playing MTelus with opener Dan 3680 Jeanne-Mance, various times, PWYC presents Je T’Aime en Chocolat at Bonsecours Market. Mangan. ≥ 350 St-Paul E., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. To Feb. 29 ≥ 59 Ste-Catherine E., 8 p.m., $39.75–$44.75 A wide range of Black History Month events are happening across the city, from art exhibitions and film screenings to Feb. 17–29 panel discussions and theatrical performances. See our March 5–7 event highlights on pp. 34–35. Genre-hopping Montreal songwriter/producer/crooner Sean Nicholas Savage and Ballet Opéra Pantomime present Not Your Babe Fest is “a feminist festival promoting a safe Please Thrill Me, an ambitious musical with one foot in space for women, non-binary/genderqueer and trans people 1950s movies and the other in a 21st century urban reverie. in the counterculture scene.” The fourth edition will feature Feb. 6 Happening at la Chapelle, in English with a couple of dates local and touring bands playing Casa del Popolo, la Sala featuring French surtitles, the play was directed by Sophie Rossa and B-Ward over the course of three days, with a At the Canadian Centre for Architecture, check out the Cadieux and also features Rollie Pemberton (aka Cadence complementary series of workshops and a flash tattoo day. vernissage for the third installment of the Out of the Box Weapon) and Jane Penny from TOPS. See our feature story exhibition series, showcasing the writings, photographs, about the show at cultmtl.com. ≥ Various locations and times, ticket details TBD 4 FEBRUARY 2020 • Vol. 8 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM :persona rice, General Tao chicken and beef and chow mein are lottery tickets and the standard selection of beer and :inspectah also offered. They even have a pho! wine, and it’s well kept and tidy. But it’s the Thai menu ™ that keeps locals coming back. If you’re not in the mtl There are two bar stools in the corner of this tiny dep area, it’s worth a trek to Frontenac metro to check out dep next to a widescreen TV playing live sports if you want a Montreal dep that actually serves decent food. It’s : rant line to eat in. If you live within a few blocks, you can also places like Dépanneur Idéal that shine a warm hopeful order delivery (don’t forget to add all of your regular light on the less well-served areas of town. THIS WEEK: White lines, SQDC lines, smog! dep delivery items like beer and smokes to the bill!). PLUS: Rats said to be overjoyed about city’s new deposit-return system!! All menu items cost less than $10, and one dish will feed all but the most famished. Like most dépanneurs, this one has also got you covered for basic grocery needs, 25 cent candy, chips, “edited” by AL SOUTH Jean Olivier Dalphond F Hello, I just wanted to say that I can barely see M Hello Rant Line™, I would like today to talk out my window today because of what I’m being about WHITE LINES. No, not the old rap song (sings, BY LORRAINE CARPENTER told is SMOG. It would be okay if it was FOG. I lived loosely, a few bars). No, not what we used to do in England for a while, I’m okay with fog. But this in bars back in the day. I mean the white lines on Jean Olivier Dalphond is the president is smog, and the main reason for it, I’m told, is the roads. Or more what I mean, the white lines people burning wood stoves and FIREPLACES. If that are NOT on the roads. So the Turcot exchange of PixMob, the Montreal company this is true, then there should be a total ban on has been in the news, because it’s really obvious that has popularized the use of LED fireplaces. The government should hire people, there — cars are weaving in and out and practically a team of people, squads of people, to go into spinning off the highway, like on one of those old wristbands at major music and sports the places where people are burning wood in road racing sets, because you can’t see the lines events over the past decade. fireplaces — especially rich people with big at all. It’s a free-for-all there — like the Indy 500. ornamental fireplaces — and FILL THEM UP WITH But that’s just one place! Lines come and go and CEMENT.