Word: quartier
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...crafted indoor burrows include the underground city that connects many of the modern centreville buildings, museums and galleries displaying contemporary Canadian and Quebecois art, sex clubs and paraphernalia supermarkets that line the city's main commercial streets and thousands of cafes, bars and restaurants. St. Lawrence Boulevard, and the quartier that surrounds it, is where the bustle and intensity of the city is best felt. In fact, this important street is the dividing line between the predominantly English and French sections of town and is often adorned with graffiti concerning Quebec's intriguing and charged language crisis. St. Lawrence, however...
Nightlife: Montreal nightlife starts late and ends early. Cigar bars, pool rooms and landmarks like the Foufounes Electriques, line St. Denis, St. Lawrence and Ste. Catherine East. For a relaxed evening out, join the smart crowd at Le Quartier Latin on Ontario in the French student area. Red, plush and pleasant, it often hosts live funk. A bubbly, self-consciously hip crowd occupies Jello Bar on Ontario (they like martinis). It features live jazz and Monday night swing dancing. Booty-shaking? Unity on Ste. Catherine East in the Gay Village and Sona, the after-hours club on Bleury, are where...
This weekend's festivities will kick off at 7 p.m. tonight at the Carpenter Center with the showing of two films from the modern African film industry. "Saaraba" and "Quartier Mozart" each presents a view of the experiences of African youth...
...Boheme" is set in the Quartier Latin of nineteenth-century Paris. Mimi, a sweet soul doomed to an untimely death, falls in love at first sight with her neighbor Rodolfo, member of a lovable band of starving artists. Their love affair, made torrid by Rodolfo's jealousy, is mirrored by a no less tumultuous relationship between Marcello the painter and the fiercely independent Musetta...
Played out in public, her extravagant affairs -- with actors, musicians and athletes -- added to the legend. But her legacy is the voice. Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean Cocteau, who died within hours of Piaf, called her a genius: "There has never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed...