Montrealers need Midnight Poutine. It's a personal ongoing account of the city's happenings. It's a delicious high-fat source of rants, raves and musings. It provides the insight you never find in newspapers and the details and tangents that would never fit in a weekly. It possesses cheese-like flexibility. It's sometimes snarky, often unusual and always informative. Your order has arrived. Dig in.
Contributors:
Carolyn Gregoire
Editing enthusiast, art aficionado, and philosophy major at McGill, Carolyn is a San Franciscan in exile who survives the Montreal winter by hibernating in her loft on St. Laurent and anxiously awaiting summer days spent wandering the mountain. She enjoys eating breakfast at Cafeteria, listening to the 2009 Beatles remasters, and reading Vanity Fair. Will happily write for meager compensation.
Andres Canella
Andres Canella subsists with a steady job, partner, friends & family. He aspires to find some way to gain income through writing, and is available for any job opportunities you may like to present him with. Manual labour an impossibility.
Emmanuel Delacour
Emmanuel est un paume dans cette ville si deconcertante. Il n'est pas expert en litterature, ni en musique ou bien cinema. Il passe ses soirees en ville dans les restaurants a dire des conneries et a faire des promesses. Tout cela sera relate le lendemain sur Internet.
Amie Watson
What does a girl with a Masters in Classical Percussion do when she graduates? Doesn't play in a band. Doesn't even write for the music section of Midnight Poutine. Wait, what was the question? Oh. Putters around the city (and her kitchen) looking for amazing meals. She believes food (and drink) is about health and comfort, so now she's looking out for the well being of all Poutineurs and Poutineuses. A votre sante.
Luc Doucet
Luc Doucet's only goal in life is to be rich. He doesn't like any movie that isn't named 'Armageddon'. Welsh Corgies are his only weakness. If he could have any super power it would be the ability to keep his plants alive for more than 3 weeks. Doucet challenges you to a chess match, any day, all day.
Christine Lariviere
Christine is just another character from a Charles Bukowski poem. With that said, you can find her writing lonely things on napkins in bars, reading books covered in coffee stains, taking long walks at night, collecting old wind-up toys, watch parts and skeleton keys, and in general, forgetting. One year, she spent her birthday in a purple, child-sized, unicorn costume she procured from Value Village, but that was another time.
Amelia Schonbek
A graduate of performing arts school, Amelia came to Montreal to attend McGill. Hoping to secure a degree in something that might allow her to escape starving artist-dom while pursuing a career in dance, she graduated with a B.A. in English Lit instead, prompting some of those around her to question her sanity. Unfazed, she now spends much of her time dancing, writing, and trying to get people to hire her to do those things.
Lucy Lent
Lucy has somehow found herself living in Canada after growing up in the United States. Some claim it's insanity, but Lucy says it's because she has too much energy to stay in one place. Lucy loves culture, casinos, lounges, amusing people, food, and shisha. You'll find her roaming Montreal on any random evening out on some sort of random adventure, most likely involving a restaurant or other kinds of tasty treats.
Ralph Elawani
Ralph Elawani has been sitting on the same fence as Humpty Dumpty for over 23 years. Half Libyan and half Quebecois, his guilty pleasures include cryptozoology, record collecting and speaking of himself using the 3rd person singular.
Greg Bouchard
Greg spends his time listening to music, eating long meals with friends, reading books, and arguing about stuff. One time a fortune teller (he swears a date dragged him) said he would always be happier with a writing outlet in his life, and while everything else she said was completely incorrect, this has generally proven true. Despite his last name, he hails from far outside Montreal, but has lived here long enough to develop militant opinions about important things like Portuguese chicken and laundromats.
Gabby Lefort
Warning: may start crying uncontrollably at the sight of snow or freezing rain; will sing along to any song, no matter how bad; may or may not give you the 'look' for appreciating specific pop culture phenomena; will abuse sarcasm at any given time; may bite if provoked. Please approach only with caution or candy.
Harold Beaulieu
Il ne serait pas exuberant d'affirmer qu'Harold adore le cinéma. Il carbure litteralement a ce qui le passionne, ne jurant que par la beaute qui l'entoure. Il caresse plus ou moins secretement le reve d'un jour realise le film ou la serie qui vous bouleversera. Habite d'un sentiment inne de communication, il tente sans relache de partager l'engouement qui l'anime. Mais n'allez pas pensez qu'il a toujours raison, car, bien qu'il en soit persuade, il n'est qu'un disciple de l'ignorance, desireux d'en apprendre chaque jour un peu plus.
Jeremy Morris
Why did you come here? Why are you trying to find out more about me? Don't you find it strange that out of all the things you can look at on the internet, you chose to read this? Maybe what you are looking for lies not in my bio, but within yourself. Did you ever think of that? I didn't think so.
Jeff daSilva
Jeff is a fashion working rock/skate type guy who loves dodgy bars,pubs,and all sorts of music. Even Country. He also adores girls, fashion, adventure, discovery, film, Montreal, CBC, Nintendo, skateboards, surf boards, mother boards, cupboards, danger, jet engines, sunsets, sunset rubdown, Disney movies, raw talent and lists of stuff.
Margot Nossal
As it turns out, Margot's training as a classical violist has proven useful now that orchestral instrumentation in the Montreal music scene is all the rage. But in attempts at well-roundedness, she also enjoys Wikipedia races, traction, drawing now-defunct comic strips, B movies about teenagers overcoming adversity through song and/or dance (preferably both), and pretending to know how to fix her bicycle.
Phil Lambert
Cultivé aux rythmes abrasifs et autres substances corrosives, Phil est friand de nouveautés. Il adore déblatérer sur les prochains groupes obscurs qui deviendront nouvelles sensations pour ensuite les laisser tomber. Alors, hipster ce Phil? Probablement oui, mais il le fut avant qu’il soit hip de l’être. Sans aucune prétention et en toute honnêteté, Phil aime se rappeler qu’on a tous tendance à se prendre beaucoup trop au sérieux et que la musique devrait d’abord et avant tout rester un petit plaisir de la vie.
Sarah Brideau
Sarah is a 2005 export from the salty Acadian shores of N.B. She loves the sound of purring cats, the CBC, musicians and words. Sarah is an excellent source of random useless facts about important useful things.
Valerie Bourdages
Valerie is a twenty-something girl who has been reported missing. She might be found wandering thrift stores, coffee shops, indie rock shows, electro parties, or book stores. She was last seen carrying a giant purse with Chrissy Hinde's face on it. Your help in catching her is extremely needed.
Design: Jay Delmarr
Programming & Development: Abraham Lopez
Publisher: Tim Shore
Midnight Poutine Podcast
Get ready for the weekend with Midnight Poutine's weekly Weekend Playlist music podcast. Hosted by the dour and serious Jeremy Morris, the Weekend Playlist features songs by bands playing in Montreal.
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