what do u guys think of this article?
http://maisonneuve.org/post/2013/04/6/orientalism-gentrification-and-irony-parc-ex-respo/
in response to:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/why-you-should-eat-in-park-ex-montreals-ungentrified-ethnic-food-paradise/article10682175/?page=2
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― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
i think the maisonneuve article is undergraduate garbage and i am smh-ing violently at everyone who's posted it to facebook
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
What is the result of all this? Primarily, the “magical” Parc Ex portrayed by Gollner is one erased of struggle and conflict, hardship and exploitation. It’s so much like an enchanted frontier, in fact, that it’s “almost un-capitalist.” This, in a neighbourhood where few dare to jaywalk, for fear of the omnipresent police cruisers waiting to scoop up one of the many undocumented migrant workers living in the area. This, in a neighbourhood that’s become infamous for its slumlords and deplorable living conditions; its apartments without running water and crawling with cockroaches. This, in a neighbourhood where almost 20 percent of the population pays 50 percent of its monthly income in rent, and where 81 percent of the total population are tenants, facing a high risk of displacement with the encroachment of condo projects and university residences.
― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
feel like that is a very dramatic characterization of parc ex
― flopson, Monday, 8 April 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
ya and i don't really see what that has to do with the article either
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
ppl are really losing their minds about it
what dumb article.
― sofatruck, Monday, 8 April 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
this place is nice,https://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Tamalera-haute-cuisine-de-rue-mexicaine/149679951797182
i haven't found a lot of good mexican food here (though $2 taco tuesdays at cartel, in the same hood, are neat) & dug this place. it's new, v cute. i had hibiscus tacos.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i think s10cki and i both ate there this weekend.
good, cheap, "real" tacos, not hipster bullshit, at a taqueria on st-denis above mont-royal.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Is that new? I'm not great at paying attn to new restaurants... I have had good tacos at the place on Parc tho! I don't think they qualify as hipster?
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
place on parc looks good. that strip is generally v bountiful for casual eating imo, boris & resonance are both v good as well. tamalera is super new, i am trying to get in on the ground floor & one day be treated as a venerable regular, seated quietly at the back.
think i heard about the saint-denis place, will check it out, ty.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I was all excited about moving to a new neighbourhood because I've been in the same place (cheap rent!) in mile end for 8 years, but then a friend decided to move away and I am taking over his lease - it's like 3 blocks away...
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 29 April 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
on parc? do you mean Tachido, the mexican sandwich place? yum. didn't realize they do tacos.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 29 April 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
wasnt crazy about tamalera. cute place, but i spent like $8 on three very meagre tacos and $4 on a jar of horchata that was approx three times the size i required.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Monday, 29 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
tachido is a fairly reliable sandwich place.
Love Tachido sandwiches, but was pretty disappointed in the tacos. There's a little place on Jean Talon and Iberville called Petite Coin Du Mexique that has pretty great food all around.
― sofatruck, Monday, 29 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
i am vegetarian & k fussy so the novelty & yeah aesthetic of tamalera was p satisfying to me. if somebody says hibiscus in most any context i will pay $5+, they were real good. i still haven't had a good burrito since i got here :/
& yeah that jean talon place is neat.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 29 April 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
the tamales actually seemed like a p good deal esp for take-out
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Tachido is a lovely, lovely place, but I have a hard time leaving there with a full stomach. I wish they had actual side dishes.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
The place on St. Denis is called "La Matraca" and it's the best/most authentic one I've been to so far. I'm gonna try La Tamalera, though it looks a bit hipster-ish from the pics. No one in Mexico eats hibiscus tacos.
― daavid, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
oh i've been to Petit Coin du Mexique! years ago (with a friend who had a car, haha.) It was good!I like Tachido's tacos, but yeah, i eat meat and i like the mole. also margaritas in jar-glasses. i haven't tried the sandwiches. i am hungry and wish i could eat tacos right now :(
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
i will def try la matracha. i need to visit california soon just to eat tacos and burritos. and see friends, whatever, burritos.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
you know what goes great with friends is burritos
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
its hibiscus juice doy
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
la matraca is pretty good, authentic-feeling, but not like... amazing
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
I can't take any restaurants on this block seriously bc the groceries are all so good.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
greek post office also v charming
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
i post things there all the time.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
so it's summer now i guess
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
this article is kind of like that maisy one i posted upthread except i agree that they are fucking up the food trucks thing with the permits but i don't really get what it has to do with poor people and immigrants
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/montreals-food-truck-plan-is-a-symbolic-fuck-you-to-poor-people-and-immigrants
― flopson, Friday, 3 May 2013 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/12/travel/20130512-SURFACING.html?_r=0
― flopson, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
henergy
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Evoo is indeed amazing.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 12 May 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
pretty crazy stuff in this court document by the city of westmount suing my ex-landlord
http://jugements.qc.ca/php/decision.php?liste=68811716&doc=C0F572EC5E0A350672108DC3CDBF7AC293A9FDE6E6BE5CF685FD0DCE5483ED28&page=1
[14] On October 23, 1998, Mr. Fattal wrote a letter to Ms. Joanne Poirier, Westmount’s director of urban planning.[1] He called upon Ms. Poirier to “cancel” the September court injunction and accused her of “malicious, painful and abusive activities” that wasted taxpayers’ money. Mr. Fattal stated that it was time for Ms. Poirier to end her “Gestapo style” behaviour. [15] In the top corner of his letter, Mr. Fattal reproduced a Second World War photo of a Nazi officer, with his boot over the neck of a prostrate concentration camp prisoner. In the background, several other prisoners in striped uniforms hung from posts. Mr. Fattal signed his letter to Ms. Poirier, “Your Hostage”.[16] Ms. Poirier was upset by the letter. Westmount’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Fattal, asking him not to communicate with Westmount officials and to direct all future correspondence to them.[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke. ...[24] Between 1999 and 2007, he faxed hundreds of pages of correspondence and photos to the City of Westmount and its employees. At times, the fax transmissions were so lengthy they choked the City’s fax machines and disrupted its communications. Often, Mr. Fattal faxed the same pages over and over again.[25] On a number of occasions, Mr. Fattal faxed gruesome photos of himself, bare-chested and gagging. One photo showed a tortured Mr. Fattal, with bulging eyes, and an iron bar across his mouth. [26] Mr. Fattal also wrote to Westmount employees at their homes, mailing large envelopes to them stuffed with letters of complaint, photos of a bare-chested Mr. Fattal in chains, and other offensive documents. ...[48] In 2011, Mr. Fattal got an iPhone and discovered text messaging. Over the next two years, up until the eve of trial in February 2013, Mr. Fattal sent hundreds of text messages to Mtre. Banon, at all times of day and night, on weekends and holidays, including New Year’s Eve in 2012. In his messages Mr. Fattal repeatedly insulted Mtre. Banon, declaring that he should be ashamed to represent “gangsters” and “criminals” who were intent on ruining Mr. Fattal’s health. In one instance, Mr. Fattal attached a photo of himself and photos of several tombstones, clearly implying that Mtre. Banon and his clients wanted him in an early grave.[49] Mtre. Banon repeatedly asked Mr. Fattal to stop communicating with him, but the messages continued unabated, sometimes at the rate of several a day.[50] Mr. Fattal found other outlets for his anger. He created a website on which he posted derogatory remarks and photos of Mayors Marks and Trent, Mr. St. Louis and Ms. Poirier. He attached large posters to the front of his Saint Antoine building that bore similar statements and photos, as well as his website address. These posters are still on the building today. One of them identifies the building as the “Musée d’histoire d’harcèlement par Westmount”. Mr. Fattal’s building is festooned with City of Montreal flags, indicating his displeasure at being located in the municipality of Westmount.
[15] In the top corner of his letter, Mr. Fattal reproduced a Second World War photo of a Nazi officer, with his boot over the neck of a prostrate concentration camp prisoner. In the background, several other prisoners in striped uniforms hung from posts. Mr. Fattal signed his letter to Ms. Poirier, “Your Hostage”.
[16] Ms. Poirier was upset by the letter. Westmount’s lawyers wrote to Mr. Fattal, asking him not to communicate with Westmount officials and to direct all future correspondence to them.
[17] A further incident in the autumn of 1998 alarmed Westmount’s building inspectors. One day, Westmount’s employee, Mr. Michel Poulin, was performing an electrical inspection at the Saint Antoine building. Mr. Fattal suddenly appeared behind Mr. Poulin wearing a Saddam Hussein mask and brandishing a baseball bat. Mr. Poulin was frightened, but Mr. Fattal later called it a joke.
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[24] Between 1999 and 2007, he faxed hundreds of pages of correspondence and photos to the City of Westmount and its employees. At times, the fax transmissions were so lengthy they choked the City’s fax machines and disrupted its communications. Often, Mr. Fattal faxed the same pages over and over again.
[25] On a number of occasions, Mr. Fattal faxed gruesome photos of himself, bare-chested and gagging. One photo showed a tortured Mr. Fattal, with bulging eyes, and an iron bar across his mouth.
[26] Mr. Fattal also wrote to Westmount employees at their homes, mailing large envelopes to them stuffed with letters of complaint, photos of a bare-chested Mr. Fattal in chains, and other offensive documents.
[48] In 2011, Mr. Fattal got an iPhone and discovered text messaging. Over the next two years, up until the eve of trial in February 2013, Mr. Fattal sent hundreds of text messages to Mtre. Banon, at all times of day and night, on weekends and holidays, including New Year’s Eve in 2012. In his messages Mr. Fattal repeatedly insulted Mtre. Banon, declaring that he should be ashamed to represent “gangsters” and “criminals” who were intent on ruining Mr. Fattal’s health. In one instance, Mr. Fattal attached a photo of himself and photos of several tombstones, clearly implying that Mtre. Banon and his clients wanted him in an early grave.
[49] Mtre. Banon repeatedly asked Mr. Fattal to stop communicating with him, but the messages continued unabated, sometimes at the rate of several a day.
[50] Mr. Fattal found other outlets for his anger. He created a website on which he posted derogatory remarks and photos of Mayors Marks and Trent, Mr. St. Louis and Ms. Poirier. He attached large posters to the front of his Saint Antoine building that bore similar statements and photos, as well as his website address. These posters are still on the building today. One of them identifies the building as the “Musée d’histoire d’harcèlement par Westmount”. Mr. Fattal’s building is festooned with City of Montreal flags, indicating his displeasure at being located in the municipality of Westmount.
― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
wow
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
whoa. i remember reading some stuff about this guy a few years ago, but this is next level.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
i haven't really been surprised by the direction mtl food trucks have gone in...but yesterday i did see a guy wheeling a hot dog stand down the street! really! i was on my bike and didn't stop to ask wtf!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
hot dog cart i mean
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:50 (ten years ago) link
haha sweet, power to that dude
i sell ice cream out of a cart on the weekends for spare cash but it's technically illegal, apparently if you get a ticket the boss pays it tho
― flopson, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
i basically agree with the vice article but i'm suspicious of the whole "poor people and immigrants" angle, given the source
― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
just seems like concern trolling, vice dudes probably just want food trucks to be unregulated because then it'd be more "authentic"
― flopson, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
.. And they could co-opt any "poor or immigrant" cuisine that became popular.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 17 May 2013 10:42 (ten years ago) link
Or not pay $10 for food served in a truck?
idk makes sense to me
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 17 May 2013 12:46 (ten years ago) link
Please to point me to Montreal event listing pages (now that the mirror's gone, sadly).
― ed.b, Sunday, 19 May 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I use this for concerts http://www.cheapthrills.ca/news.html
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
http://cultmontreal.com/events/
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 19 May 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
On a scale of 1 to 10, how brown is your water today?
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
*spits montreal tapwater all over computer screen*
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
i will likely be writing about summertime family things to do for tourism montreal in, like, May, so... stay tuned?
rrobyn did this come out?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
we'll be there in about a month. got my renewed passport and confirmed our airbnb. pumped.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link