Historic Concert: No more bricks in The Wall
Twenty-two years after he performed it in Berlin on July 21, 1990 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Roger Waters brought down all the bricks in …
Auberge Saint-Antoine is Top City Hotel in Canada
The Auberge Saint-Antoine is the top city hotel in Canada in 2012, according to Travel and Leisure magazine. Opened in 1992, the Auberge Saint-Antoine is in its twentieth year and …
Welsh family, friends head to London to cheer for Valérie
Valérie Welsh is a synchro girl. A synchronized swimmer, that is. Ever since she was eight years old, Val, as her mother calls her, has loved to swim. “When I …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1862 The Morning Chronicle In a charge of larceny, Mrs. McCrossin, deposed that a *pair of drawers belonging to her had been appropriated by Marie Nadeau, servant in the employ …
Moonrise Kingdom : a review of Wes Anderson’s latest movie at Cinéma le Clap
For movie lovers who are not yet familiar with the work of movie director Wes Anderson, the Cinéma le Clap is presently showing the original English version of what might …
Quebec Opera Festival premieres Lepage’s Tempest
The Quebec Opera Festival will again make the city vibrate to the sound of opera music. The second season opens July 25 with Les Violons du Roy’s Mozart at the …
Loto-Québec Fireworks return with new team and new formula
It was announced last week that Loto-Québec Fireworks would be back this summer, just a few days after Mayor Régis Labeaume had stated that the city would not be financing …
Quebec City athletes at London Olympics 2012
Let the games begin! The London Summer Olympics open this Friday, July 27 and Canada’s athletes are geared to go. Canadians will be competing in 23 sports, the seventh largest …
100 years ago….the 1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight …
Irish Picnic at the O’Neill House
On Sunday, July 22, the O’Neill House hosted an Irish Picnic from 2 to 9 pm. On the bandstand, there was traditional dancing by Les Tourbillons de Beauport, traditional music …