Montecristo Magazine

3 days ago | montecristomagazine.com | Adele Weder

A family home is—or should be—a memory garden of friendship, family, art, and comfort. Ron Thom, who lived and worked in the golden age of West Coast modernism, harnessed this directive with every client. Even after Thom moved away to Toronto and international fame for his architecture of Massey College Trent University and the Shaw Festival Theatre, his favourite design brief remained the family home.

2 weeks ago | montecristomagazine.com | Arwa Haider

A whirlwind East-meets-West romance, an abandoned teen bride, an ultimate sacrifice—and a devastatingly emotive score. Over more than a century, the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly has established its legacy as one of the most widely celebrated and performed operas in the world. It has also encapsulated undeniably problematic, and pervasive, stereotypes of East Asian culture, and women in particular.

3 weeks ago | montecristomagazine.com | Fiona Morrow

The light is magical. A late-afternoon sky of Wedgwood blue is peppered with clouds edged in dusky pinks and hints of mauve. Over on the horizon, day meets dusk as streaks of pale yellow. Across the gently sloping vineyard, the vines wear their burnished-gold fall foliage loud and proud.

1 month ago | montecristomagazine.com | Tom Hawthorn

The city of Victoria had not seen anything like it since the days of the gold rush. Hockey fans began lining up before daybreak at the doors of Plimley & Ritchie, a downtown sporting goods store on View Street. A queue of men three deep stretched down the block, around the corner, and down the next street. Mail and telephone orders were banned, so eager fans had to show up in person. Businessmen hired day labourers to queue for tickets on their behalf.

1 month ago | montecristomagazine.com | Janet Nicol

Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White was 14 when he began carving with argillite, a fragile sedimentary rock quarried by Haida artists on the archipelago of Haida Gwaii. White learned at the side of his father, the late chief of the Edensu (Edenshaw) Eagle Clan of Kiusta, Morris White. By the age of 17, White was a full-time artist, his work reflecting the stories, songs, and dances of Haida culture.