Being so intimately familiar with the dense and chewy texture of Murray's bagels in New York, or the reliably large kettle-boiled ones from Nussbaum & Wu, I wasn't expecting much from Montreal. But I was deliciously surprised.

Tourist destinations are not created equal. If you're a liberal like me, you'll appreciate these top five reasons to add Montreal to your bucket list.

If you're over 40, you should probably click out of this page as soon as possible. This post is about an all-night party in Montreal that doesn't even kick into high gear until 3 a.m. or so.

Habitat was built for Expo '67, entitled "Man and His World," from the title of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece.

The math is easy, even for a writer. 800 concerts in ten days equals 80 concerts a day at Montréal's International Festival de Jazz. But how does thi...