is C su ra e fti Pa ng Inside… rt 1 o f 2 Check out our Happenings section to see what’s going on in Montreal. TRUST. REACH. RESULTS. BRIAN, TIMOTHY, JOAN M cGUIGAN From the Blue Metropolis literary AGENTS IMMOBILIER AGRÉES / CHARTERED REAL ESTATE AGENTS festival and a workshop with jeweler Myriam Bardoul to the Rotary garage sale and Centaur Theatre’s production of The Caretaker . pp. 2-3 www.McGuiganPepin.com See our listings on the back page. April 2007 –v2.4 Arts & Entertainment on the Island and Beyond 27,000 copies RESTAURANTS Bombay Choupati and Restaurant Malhi by S. Woods p. 1 Crafting captures Montreal COOKING Easter and Passover fare by A. Howick p. 4 ART Naledi Jackson by Zeke p. 6 by Colette van Haaren WINE Springtime whites and reds by C. Price p. 7 Lively places, where crafters can get together for instruction and to enjoy each other’s company, are sprouting up all over COUNTRY DOCTOR Depression by Dr. V. Heese p. 8 town. Crafting, it turns out, is no longer a solitary endeavour done by lonely spinsters. BOOKS of Mark Haddon by C. McKenzie p. 11 Samantha Star, who opened Scrapbook Star on Somerled Ave. in NDG last year, says that it is 99% women who are into scrap - REAL ESTATE FAQs by B. Schreiber p. 12 booking. Instead of keeping photos in a traditional photo album, MOVIE REVIEW Shooter by D. Price p. 13 they make scrapbooks – large albums designed for artistic dis - PRACTICAL POINTS by J. Smith p. 14 plays of photos and other keepsakes. TOWNSHIPS CALENDAR pp. 14-15 “Scrapbooking seems new in Quebec,” Star continued on page 10 See also these Arts & Crafts features: MATERNALLY YOURS Craft parties, scrapbooking and art classes by A. Melanson p. 1 by R. Haughey DAY-TRIPPING Laurentian artisans p. 13 Bead Emporium collects beads from around the world. Restaurant Review Maternally Yours West & north: Indian restaurants on the outskirts Getting crafty: Part 1 of 2 by Stuart Woods by Annika Melanson My search for the city’s best Indian restaurants took me well There are so many creative activities for beyond a reviewer’s regular downtown and Plateau beat. kids (and parents!) to sink their teeth into An unapologetic urbanite, I have long disdained the suburbs these days. With plenty of opportunities to take an art class, as an undefined halfway point between ski country and my stock up on supplies and even host a craft party, getting crafty Plateau apartment. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I was has never been easier. told of an Indian restaurant in Pierrefonds said to rival the city’s I recently hosted a t-shirt party for my 4-year-old daughter best – and my displeasure at making the journey to a godforsaken Amel and eight of her most artistic friends. 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Maison de la culture de choreographers Ghislaine Doté, Jean- For more information call 514.337.7272. literary festival celebrates the work of NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 27 at 8 pm . François Déziel and Erin Flynn. Tickets Livingston Hall (6th Floor), Montreal are free. To reserve call 514.872.2157 or General Hospital. April 7 to 13 from 9:30 Margaret Atwood. Tickets to the opening Classical Music ceremonies on April 25 are $50. For tickets 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de am to 5:30 pm . go to www.admission.com. For inform- ឣ Contrées lointains . Trio Lucia Hall, Arne NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 17 at 8 pm . ឣ McClure Gallery presents their annual Kirchner and José Gallardo performs Maison de la culture de Côte des Neiges, exhibition of student ation on programming go to www. continued on page 3 bluemetropolis.org. Delta Centre-Ville works by Ravel, Shostakovich and Astor 5290 Côte des Neiges. April 24 at 8 pm . Piazzola. Tickets are free. Maison de la Hotel, 777 University St. April 25 to 29 . Theatre ឣ Vues d’Afrique presents the 23rd edition culture de Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des of Journées du cinéma Africain & Créole . Neiges. April 11 at 8 pm . ឣ Centaur Theatre presents The Caretaker , a This year’s event features an hommage to ឣ Passion et poésie . Trio Lucia Hall, Arne “comedy of menace” by Nobel Prize- Ivorian filmmaker Henri Duparc. Kircher and José Gallardo celebrates the winning playwright Harold Pinter. Tickets Individual tickets are $7. For tickets and life and work of Robert Schumann and his are $42, $32.50 for seniors and $20 for information call 514.990.3201 or go to contemporaries. Tickets are free. To students. Centaur Theatre, 453 St. François www.vuesdafrique.org. Box office, 67 reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison de la Xavier. For more information call 514. St. Catherine St. West. April 19 to 29 . culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 12 at 6 288.3161 or go to www.centaurtheatre.com. pm . March 29 to April 22 . Music ឣ Ensemble Soffio e Voce matches three ឣ Infinitheatre presents The Facts Behind the ឣ Espace musique presents Quebec voices with three clarinets in Helsinki Roccamatios , a play based on a songwriter Guy-Phillipe Wells , one of arrangements of excerpts from Mozart’s short story by Yann Martel. Tickets are seven artists featured in the Sacré talent! operas. Tickets are free. To reserve call free. To reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison 2006 concert series. Tickets are free. To 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de de la culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 20 reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison de la Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. at 8 pm . April 18 at 8 pm . culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 4 at 8 Art pm . Dance ឣ Singer-songwriter Nedjim Bouizzoul , ឣ Former une famille . A painting installation accompanied by his band, Labess , speaks ឣ Choreographer Suzanne Miller plays with by Geneviève Rocher explores the tension out against oppression in his native pacing in Speed , in which a duo performs between binary opposites – like fragility Algeria. Tickets are free. To reserve call the same movement at radically different and monumentality, order and energy, the 514.872.2157. Maison de la culture de speeds. Tickets are free. To reserve call pictorial and the decorative. Admission is NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 12 at 8 pm . 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de free. For more information call ឣ Spirit of the Sufis . The Farid Ayaz Qawwal Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. 514.872.2157. Maison de la culture de Ensemble performs a program of April 10 at 8 pm . NDG, 3755 Botrel. March 29 to May 6 . traditional Qawwali music, the devotional ឣ In Perfect Stranger , choreographer Isabel ឣ The Canadian Centre for Architecture music of the Sufis. 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The Canadian Centre The Rotary Club of Westmount’s for Architecture, 1920 Baile St. From April giant Garage Sale & Auction is 12 . ឣ Les Paysagistes . Seven sculptors pay tribute Giv coming again in June. to Quebec writer, doctor and founder of e the Rhinoceros Party, Jacques Ferron , who We are ready to pick up saleable died 20 years ago this year. Admission is us household or office articles. free. For more information call 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de We need useful, quality and working items: Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. your April 19 to May 27 . furniture, antiques, paintings, lamps, housewares, toys, books, etc... Cinema ឣ Films that Transform . The McGill medical 100% of the funds raised will be used on community, faculty’s ongoing film series screens Born tired... national and international projects... as we have been into Brothels , the Academy Award-winning doing for over 75 years.