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Richard Bugs Burnett 🇨🇦
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⚾ Writer, journalist, editor, columnist ★ “Mr Montreal” – CBC Arts 👠 Divas, baseball & cocktails🍸
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Montreal's 35th Black History Month features a full slate of theatre, film screenings, concerts & other cultural events. This year’s theme is “Let’s raise our voices together” (Élevons nos voix ensemble) ✊🏾

My full roundup ⤵️

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February 4, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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My candid FUGUES mag Q&A with revered & beloved legendary Montreal artist Dayna McLeod about her extraordinary life & work ⤵️

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The Art of Dayna McLeod
Legendary Montreal artist Dayna McLeod has delighted audiences worldwide for more than a quarter-century with her interdisciplinary art and trademark humour. Her writing, performances and videos explo...
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January 31, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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My Montreal Black History Month 2026 choice picks ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

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Via TimeOut Montreal
Black History Month 2026 in Montreal: 7 must-see events & cultural highlights
Comedy, dance, live music and musical performances are among the many events happening throughout February
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January 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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❄️ Blockbuster museum exhibitions, live music concerts, dance, cinema, literature, theatre & comedy among many live entertainment choices in Montreal this Winter 2026 ❄️

My full roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Montréal cultural calendar | Tourisme Montréal
Blockbuster museum exhibitions, live music concerts, theatre and comedy are among the many live entertainment choices in Montréal this Winter 2025.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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❄️ Blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies & smash hit musicals produced by Canada's most exciting English-language theatre companies this Winter 2026 ! ❄️

My full roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
English theatre shines in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
Theatre goers will enjoy blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies and smash hit musicals produced by some of Canada and Montréal’s most exciting professional and independent English-language theatre c...
www.mtl.org
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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⚾ Nos Amours! World’s biggest collection of Montreal Expos memorabilia ⚾

Perry Giannias gives tour of his spectacular collection + previews his 2026 All-Star ExposFest benefit Montreal Children's Hospital

Full story ⤵️

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The world’s biggest collection of Montréal Expos memorabilia | Tourisme Montréal
Montréal Expos diehard baseball fan Perry Giannias started collecting Expos memorabilia when the fabled Major League Baseball team played its final season in Montréal in 2004.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Fashion from Africa, photographer Richard Avedon, famed Cree artist Kent Monkman & iconic detective Sherlock Holmes among many blockbuster exhibitions at Montreal museums this winter

My Winter 2026 roundup ⤵️

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Exhibitions at Montréal museums | Tourisme Montréal
Blockbuster exhibitions about fashion from Africa, photographer Richard Avedon, famed Cree artist Kent Monkman, and iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, are among the many must-see retrospectives and exp...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Montreal is a hotbed of interactive and immersive exhibitions, virtual reality and digital arts.

My Winter 2026 roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Immersive exhibitions in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
Montréal is a hotbed of interactive and immersive exhibitions, virtual reality and digital arts. Blockbuster immersive exhibitions about Ancient Rome, Sherlock Holmes, and cloning are among the many i...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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⭐ Richard "Bugs" Burnett highlights What’s on in Montreal – Some choice arts and entertainment events for December ⭐

Full column in The Montrealer ⤵️

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December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ The Queer Year in Review

My 30th annual column of the past year’s Heroes & Zeros, in the Dec 2025 / Jan 2026 edition of FUGUES mag ⤵️

English version:
www.fugues.com/2025/11/27/y...

En français:
www.fugues.com/2025/11/26/n...
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Le Collège Dawson inaugure le prix Joe Rose destiné aux étudiant·e·s LGBTQ+ ⤵️

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Le Collège Dawson inaugure le prix Joe Rose destiné aux étudiant·e·s LGBTQ+
Le Collège Dawson a lancé le Prix d’engagement communautaire queer Joe-Rose, une nouvelle distinction qui offrira une bourse de 1 000 $ à un·e étudiant·e LGBTQ+ inscrit·e à Dawson. Ce prix annuel port...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🎥 On eve of Dec 1 World AIDS Day, my FUGUES magazine Q&A w/ Elizabeth Taylor EA Tim Mendelson ABT the Hollywood icon, her gay BFFs and the ongoing work of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation 🎬

Full story ⤵️

www.fugues.com/2025/10/27/t...

En français:

www.fugues.com/2025/10/30/l...
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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🎥 Canada’s pioneering image+nation LGBTQ film festival screens & streams 125 films from across Québec, Canada and the world at its 38th edition from November 20 to 30 🎬

My @mtl.org roundup ⤵️

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Montréal’s image+nation LGBTQ film festival turns 38 | Tourisme Montréal
Canada’s pioneering image+nation LGBTQ film festival will screen and stream 125 films from across Québec, Canada and the world at its 38th edition from November 20 to 30, 2025.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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⭐ Richard "Bugs" Burnett highlights What’s on in Montreal – Some choice arts and entertainment events for November ⭐

Full column in The Montrealer ⤵️

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November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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❄️ No city celebrates Christmas quite like Montréal which welcomes 2025 holiday season with many musical concerts & special events ❄️

My @mtl.org roundup ⤵️

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Jingle Bells! Celebrating the holidays in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
No city celebrates Christmas quite like Montréal, which welcomes the 2025 holiday season with countless musical concerts and special events, from the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal to Les Grands Ba...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Montreal is a hotbed of interactive and immersive exhibitions, virtual reality and digital arts

My @mtl.org roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Immersive exhibitions in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
Montréal is a hotbed of interactive and immersive exhibitions, virtual reality and digital arts. Blockbuster immersive exhibitions about dinosaurs, Sherlock Holmes, the Titanic, Montréal’s iconic Notr...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Montreal’s rich, turbulent queer history is the heart of Corps fantômes @theatre-duceppe.bsky.social to Nov 22

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My story via @mtlgazette.bsky.social
Montreal’s rich, turbulent queer history is the heart of Corps fantômes
Have front-line anglophones and allophones been erased from history in the play at Théâtre Duceppe?
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November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🎥 Elizabeth Taylor once said, “I resented my fame until I realized I could use it.” My FUGUES mag Q&A w/ her EA Tim Mendelson ABT her AIDS work & glamourous life w/ her famous gay BFFs 🎬

My Q&A ⤵️

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(📷 Herb Ritts)
The Lasting Legacy of AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor
The most famous movie star of the 20th century, Elizabeth Taylor once said, “I resented my fame until I realized I could use it.” And wield it she did when she waged war against the HIV and AIDS pande...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My candid Q&A w/ Concordia University alumna, Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin who wins inaugural $25K Prix La Caisse en art actuel ⤵️

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Concordia alumna Sophie Jodoin wins inaugural Prix La Caisse en art actuel | News - Concordia University
Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin, BFA 88, won the inaugural Prix La Caisse en art actuel, a $25,000 award that recognizes Quebec’s leading mid-career artists.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Fashion from Africa, iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, and famed Cree artist Kent Monkman are among blockbuster exhibitions  this Autumn 2025 🏛️

My @mtl.org roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Exhibitions at Montréal museums | Tourisme Montréal
Blockbuster exhibitions about fashion from Africa, famed Cree artist Kent Monkman, and iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, are among the many must-see retrospectives and expositions at Montréal museums ...
www.mtl.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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My candid FUGUES magazine Q&A w/ Will & Grace head writer Jon Kinnally ABT his new showbiz memoir "I’m Prancing as Fast as I Can: My Journey From a Self-Loathing Closet Case to a Successful TV Writer With Some Self-Esteem" 📺

Full story ⤵️

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“Prancing” with TV legend Jon Kinnally
Legendary American television writer and producer Jon Kinnally changed TV as the head writer of the trailblazing sitcom Will & Grace. Now, with his signature humour, Kinnally chronicles his life and s...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Blockbuster museum exhibitions, live music concerts, dance, literature, theatre & comedy among many live entertainment choices in Montreal this Autumn 2025 🍃🍁🍂

My @mtl.org roundup for Oct-Nov-Dec ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Montréal cultural calendar | Tourisme Montréal
Blockbuster museum exhibitions, live music concerts, theatre and comedy are among the many live entertainment choices in Montréal this Autumn 2025.
www.mtl.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Montreal celebrates 50th anniversary of 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games. A look back at the Olympic records & legacy in Montreal, and at the commemorative celebrations in 2026 🏅

Full @mtl.org story ⤵️

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50th anniversary of the Montréal Olympic Games | Tourisme Montréal
The world descended upon Montréal for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, the biggest global event Montréal had hosted since Expo 67, which was the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century. The 197...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies & smash hit musicals produced by some of Canada's most exciting pro & indie English-language theatre companies this Autumn 2025 🍃🍁🍂

My @mtl.org roundup ⤵️

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
English theatre shines in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
Theatre goers will enjoy blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies and smash hit musicals produced by some of Canada and Montréal’s most exciting professional and independent English-language theatre c...
www.mtl.org
September 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Thank you to @mtl.org and @bugsburnett.bsky.social for featuring BTW on this list! Check out the article to discover what’s in store for English Montreal Theatre this Fall! 🎭

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
English theatre shines in Montréal | Tourisme Montréal
Theatre goers will enjoy blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies and smash hit musicals produced by some of Canada and Montréal’s most exciting professional and independent English-language theatre c...
www.mtl.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM