Quebec, Hello! Bonjourrr,” purred the the first lady of Rock ’n’ RollMelissa Etheridge, exaggerating the last ‘r’ in the soulful, powerful voice for which she is known at the Festival …
Monthly Archives: July 2017
P!NK and FEQ soar to new musical heights
As P!nk sang and soared above the Bell Stage on the Plains of Abraham on the evening of Saturday, July 8, she literally brought FEQ’s 50th edition of the popular …
Kendrick Lamar dazzles at FEQ and promises, “I’ll be back!”
Renowned hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar highlighted the first weekend of Quebec City’s 50th Festival d’Été (FEQ), and to no surprise, he delivered a show to remember. “Loyalty, got loyalty inside …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867 The Morning Chronicle Since the opening of the Jeffery Hale Hospital on the first of February, twenty-five patients have been admitted up to the first of the present month, …
Story behind Rue des Wapitis
The streets in the Orsainville sector of Charlesbourg are named after fur-bearing animals such as lynx, deer, moose, mountain goats and, of course, wapitis or elk, that used to be …
Fans join P!NK on the FEQ Bell Stage with virtual reality
The day before P!NK performed, Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ) proudly announced the first use of virtual reality live streaming that would take place during her July 8 concert. During …
Citadel Foundation honours the late Alexander Huard
The Philanthropist, an upcoming production on the life of Jeffery Hale, includes performances by Alexander Huard, one of the actors filmed for this multimedia project to be staged in August …
Back to the future: Trudeau vs Mulroney in 2023?
We passed by Saint-Léon-de-Westmount church the other day on a stroll through our old Montreal haunts. And I had an epiphany, not a religious one, more like a political flash …
Hanging out at the MNBAQ this summer
Vincent Meyer Madaus and Isabel Sarasa Mené are architects with LOT, an award-winning architectural and design firm with offices in New York and Greece. The two colleagues were in Quebec …
Arts Alive! Québec celebrates Canada’s 150th birthday
The third annual Arts Alive! Québec festival helped Canada celebrate its 150th birthday at the Morrin Centre. On Sunday, July 2, free workshops were offered all day. The first Oh …