Blue Metropolis fest will honour two Montreal greats (although, let's be honest, who actually thinks of Saul Bellow as a Montreal writer?); a little more on the old library and its architecture; amusing pop scene column spikes typical flubs made by over-enthusiastic journalists (she wants poutine? I finally got hold of a copy of Gourmet's March issue on Montreal – totally sold out here, I had a friend send it from the U.S. – the cover shouting MOST EUROPEAN CITY and AFFORDABLE MONTREAL (cringe), but the editor's claim that she saw French Canadians eating "heaps of poutine" in cafés here in the 1960s was the topper.)
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