Eating out is supposed to provide a pleasurable break from the chore of cooking. However, in recent decades food culture has grown to epic proportions and local food is the …

The last concert of the 2015-2016 season of the Club Musical de Québec was an absolute, three-star treat – with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco directed by Nicholas …

While sitting on the balcony enjoying the warmth of the sun on my face last weekend, I quickly forgot the rigours of the long winter. A pair of crows flying …

After almost a decade of prevarication, some forty shabby-looking military houses and apartment buildings lining Boulevard Hochelaga behind the shopping centres in Sainte-Foy are soon to be demolished to make …

On May 21, the YWCA on Avenue Holland held its annual Jardin Pour Soi/Great Plant Sale. Over 2,000 herbs, flowers, vegetables and medicinal plants were on display for sale. For …

What is a weed?  A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Please pull this weed… and eat it. When little yellow flowers start …

While passing by antique shops on Rue Saint-Paul, I was drawn to a poster in a window: Festival les Gosseux s’Exposent. I tried to figure out the poster showing a …

The Secondary IV and V students of Quebec High School’s music theatre class staged their presentation of Beauty and the Beast last weekend, in the school’s Webster Auditorium.  As the …

Stuart Wright celebrated his 90th birthday with style at the Quebec Garrison Club on May 10, 2016, surrounded by family and friends. The top hat, he explained, had been handed …

If you missed the Quebec City Reading Council’s book swap last week, you’ll have to wait a year for the next one. The annual event took place at the gymnasium …