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SEPTEMBER 2020 • Vol. 9 No. 1 9 No. Vol. SEPTEMBER 2020 • • CULTMTL.COM FREE 2020 Montreal cheat sheet + Hot Tramp Records, POP Montreal, Dior, Slaxx & more TH DESTINATION Reinvented PHI presents September 27 to October 31, 2020 Wesli • Oluwa Banjo • Mateo • Naxx Bitota SONICATION Ayrad • ILAM • Senaya • Dakka Dembélé Blaise LaBamba • Sonido Pesao WEB Bantü Salsa Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra SERIES Carine au Micro • Ramon Chicharron Upcoming Imposs To discover at 315 Saint-Paul concerts Kamino centre-phi.com Street West Diely Mori Tounkara Xloww Old Montreal Klaus Marie-Pierre Arthur Rommel Ribeiro & Rodrigo Simões Shay Lia Nomadic Massive • Zal Sissokho Les Francbâtards • El Son Sono GALIPEAU PHI Afrodizz • Joyce N’Sana www.festivalnuitsdafrique.com r CENTRE : JF photo Crédit Recipe. Random letter from table of Cult MTL NOUVEAUCINEMA.CA THE BEST OF the editor contents is... th TODAY’S CINEMA #FNC2020 Hey students, 49 Welcome back, and welcome to Cult MTL’s ninth Alicia Clara, Maryze, Sarah Lorraine Carpenter Armiento and Janette King of Hot editor-in-chief annual Student Survival Guide. Tramp Records, a Montreal label [email protected] for women and non-binary artists. Of course this year is not like the others. Photo by Solomon Krause-Imlach Alex Rose Going back to school doesn’t come with the film editor social scene it usually does, and the city isn’t [email protected] buzzing like it used to. But there’s hope. Even as Nora Rosenthal arts editor temperatures dip, Montreal is offering enough [email protected] FESTIVAL activity and entertainment, in-person and Clayton Sandhu contributing editor (food) online, to get you through the year. Balancing letter from the editor 4 your studies with a safe and rewarding social LIVE SCREENINGS life is doable, and affordable. city 6 Chris Tucker :1st half 6 art director OCTOBER Let us steer you. Because that’s what we do. food & drink 8 Advertising Bucky Rooster’s 8 [email protected] 7—18 Along with offering a pile of practical MONTREAL DU information to help you navigate the city and music 10 Contributors: Hot Tramp Records 10 Johnson Cummins make the best use of its many services in the Paul Desbaillets ONLINE POP Montreal 12 Tina Jesso year of COVID, this guide features pointers Savannah Stewart on Montreal food, nightlife, shopping and art, OCTOBER STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE 14 Special thanks: along with loads of other leisure activities, from Rob Jennings eating 14 cycling to spas. 7—31 navigation 22 CANADA All this is in keeping with the content in our General inquiries + feedback magazine and on our website. Our daily To-Do living 28 [email protected] List and event listings are on pause (but will be shopping 30 back soon, and better than ever), but our site is teeming with news about what’s happening maintenance 34 in the city. And our Best of MTL readers poll results reflect everything our audience loves fitness 34 about this town. Cult MTL is a daily arts, film, music, food entertainment 36 and city life site. Visit us at NOUV Cult MTL is Montreal’s only online source of healthcare 37 cultmtl.com comprehensive cultural coverage. We write Cult MTL is published by Cult MTL Media Inc. EAU and printed by Imprimerie Mirabel. about the city’s festivals, music news, films, the services 40 Entire contents are © Cult MTL Media Inc. restaurant scene, politics, sports and more. film 42 Slaxx 42 So read this guide, keep it handy, look for our On screen 44 monthly magazines, find us online at cultmtl. com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and arts 46 Twitter. And as you make your way through this Dior 46 semester, and semesters to come, know that we’re here for you. Stay safe, work hard, and CINÉMA don’t forget to have fun. Lorraine Carpenter PRESENTED BY Editor in chief, Cult MTL 4 SEPTEMBER 2020 • Vol. 9 No. 1 • CULTMTL.COM PDF/X-1a:2003 :the 1st half BY PAUL DESBAILLETS is set at $825-million CDN. This fee would be the biggest in subject continues to dominate the sports world, for the sport’s history and would be three times more than the At home or at the cottage, GOOD reason! The latest incident (as of press time) was It’s September, and as always $262-million paid by PSG to get their hands on Neymar a the shooting of Kenosha, Wisconsin Black man Jacob little while back. This is going to be a very wild story that will Blake seven times by police officers.This latest round more has happened in the not go away any time soon — or until everyone gets what of madness has pro-athletes refusing to play their gatherings of up to wonderful world of football since they want in this saga. Mr. Messi is also on a $45-million+ respective sports until something is done. Taking a knee annual salary and I’m sure has other clauses like getting is not doing enough so greater action needs to be taken we started to get to know each exclusively red M&Ms in a glass bowl in his locker on game to get the higher-ups to take notice. Athletes from all 10 people are allowed. other last month. days. I’m excited to see who wins this Loto/Messi circus. major sports have said they will not play and games have been cancelled or postponed. As of when this was Here at home, the Montreal Impact kicked off the new written, players in the NBA have returned to play but Alphonso Davis, the 19-year-old star from Edmonton version of the regular MLS season by becoming the first have convinced the league and the owners to turn their became the first Canadian national to win a men’s Canadian professional sports team to play in front of fans arenas into safe in-person voting centres. The athletes UEFA Champions League Final. The best part of this since the COVID-19 pandemic locked things down in March. also demanded that the players, owners and the league story is he was born in a refugee camp in Ghana The crowd of 250 was the maximum capacity permitted itself immediately establish a Social Justice Coalition before moving to Canada when he was five, played inside Saputo Stadium under Quebec’s public-health that will focus on voting in the upcoming U.S. election in for various Canadian youth teams and programs guidelines. The stadium normally holds over 20,000 and it November and push dialogue on reforming the police and before getting into the National Senior Team Canada was an interesting sight on TV, but it was good to see things justice system. Squad. Bayern from the German Football League are moving forward. The plan is for all the Canadian teams (Bundesliga) brought him from the Vancouver to play each other a few times until teams can start to travel No matter what side of the pitch you’re on concerning Whitecaps into the MLS two years ago and have back and forth between Canada and the U.S. politics and sports mixing, the fact that these athletes helped him turn into the elite athlete we are starting are standing up and using their visibility to help affect to see. He represents everything that is great about The CPL (Canadian Premier League) has created the Island change is very powerful, and I for one am all for it. being Canadian and his story has changed the game Games to get the season started and finished quickly. The in this country forever. This is just the start of his season began with eight clubs at the start, and will work The culture and the sport is very much alive in our city. exciting career. itself down to four clubs that will then advance to the second Call it FOOTY, FOOTBALL, SOCCER or FUTBAL — it’s a round for six matches, with the last two standing to play sport that is bigger than the 90+minutes on the pitch. The big news this month, transcending footie it out so that one will be crowned 2020 Canadian Premier fandom, is that Mr. Lionel Messi would like to leave League Champion on Sept. 6. It’s not exactly what this Till next month. FC Barcelona after 20 years with the club. His fledgling league wanted for its season. original agreement with the club was handwritten on a napkin. If you want Mr. Messi to join your club of On the social injustice and race front, things have not ‘‘When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck choice, you need to trigger a buy-out clause, which gotten much better but dialogue is still ongoing and the has nothing to do with success.’’ — Diego Maradona Manuel Mathieu Survivance Let’s continue to protect ourselves properly. September 17, 2020 – March 28, 2021 The artist’s first solo exhibition in a Canadian museum Keep your Wash your Cough into Clean distance hands your sleeve surfaces Québec.ca/coronavirus 1 877 644-4545 An exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum extends its thanks to Quebec’s Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Canada Council for the Arts for their ongoing support. Manuel Mathieu, The Gardener/Mané, 2019. 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