Yikes. For school-going types, summer is ending and fast. Next week is the start of another semester and all of Montreal's campuses are bustling with activity as they get ready for the onslaught. The good news is that there are plenty of shows to keep the returning bevy of students occupied. Not to mention the always fabulous St. Laurent Street Fest, with free music courtesy of Pop on the Main. It's a bit overwhelming but worry not. Amie and Jer are here to take you through this week's local listings.



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Call & Response is a series of Q&As with bands, artists and random people we dig that live in Montreal, visit here, or have some dubious connection to the city.

A band needs to know where they're from in order to know where they're going. Little City came from the close suburbs and not-as-close rural reaches of the larger Toronto area, forming in the heart of the city to merge the brains and hearts of their dense music and words into the sounds found on their debut EP. You can catch them this Thursday August 26th @ Bar St Laurent with Belgrave.

I recently had a chance to sit down with Little City's Shaun Axani via email to ask him some questions about life, love, and Montreal:

Artist Jack Dylan will be hosting Le Flaneur, an exhibition occurring August 27th to September 6th at the Red Bird Gallery, with the vernissage happening this Friday.

Photo by xxhc_kidxx in the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool

Last Friday, while juggling a cellphone, a pen, a Moleskine, and a tray of soppy nachos, I had the opportunity to speak with ambitious, local men's underwear entrepreneur Dylan Ribkoff.

Allison Ulan, the founder of Ashtanga Yoga Montreal was kind enough to shatter my presumptions about Ayurvedic food by inviting me to a practice dinner for an Ayurvedic Retreat she will be offering next month. The last thing I thought it would be was seven courses of bread, fish, chicken, maple syrup, peaches, rice, apples, and blueberries.