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Wednesday Night #1641
August 14, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1641

The fallout from Babel, uninterrupted since Biblical times, with various interpretations of the will of the Deity duplic ...

Wednesday Night #1640
August 7, 2013, 1 Comment

Catherine Gillbert read a delightful essay from The Guardian Weekly about salons. Let’s seek inspiration from Doro ...

Let’s seek inspiration from Dorothy Parker – and revive the salon
August 7, 2013, Comments Off on Let’s seek inspiration from Dorothy Parker – and revive the salon

[Wednesday] 24 July  2013 Let’s seek inspiration from Dorothy Parker – and revive the salon The Algonquin Round ...

Wednesday Night #1639
July 31, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1639

The  surprise appearance of Karl Moore added an unexpected – and as always interesting –  dimension to the ...

Robert Travers RIP
July 29, 2013, Comments Off on Robert Travers RIP

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Robert John Travers on July 27th. He is survived by sist ...

Wednesday Night #1638
July 24, 2013, 2 Comments

We are delighted that Kimon Valaskakis has returned to Montreal – and Wednesday Night – and look forward to his prog ...

Wednesday Night #1637
July 17, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1637

Quotes of the evening Investment policies are in the east, not westward-looking. There are two important political thing ...

Wednesday Night #1636
July 10, 2013, 1 Comment

The Lac-Mégantic disaster has, perhaps, brought out the best in human beings. What would have constituted a disaster un ...

Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel
July 3, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1635 with Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel as the evening’s headliner brought out a capacity crowd of tech and tech-wary friends, almost all with inte ...

Wednesday Night #1634
June 25, 2013, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1634

The good news is that Montreal again has a mayor  (our third in seven months) – the bad news is that it isn’t N ...