a project for the abandoned seville block?

 
(More Allen McInnis/Gazette pictures here.)
In October, I wrote about the old Seville Theatre and the abandoned Ste. Catherine St. West block it sits on. I also posted some comments from readers. 
Well, the theatre is in the news again. I had a story in today’s Gazette about work being done there this week. Since the owner (Claridge Properties Ltd.) isn’t talking, it’s unclear [...]

remembering the seville in the 1950s

Can anyone help this reader (reacting to this article I wrote about the Seville Theatre) who frequented the place in the 1950s and is looking for a comprehensive list of acts that played there?

Andy,
great article on the Seville – brought back wonderful memories
i’m 70 and spent the greater part of the early 50’s [...]

spacing montreal on the seville

Chris DeWolf, on the excellent Spacing Montreal blog, mentions my Seville story in this post. An excerpt:
One thing that seems clear from the Gazette story is that the Seville block’s ownership is as much a problem as it is a solution. For years, ownership of the block has been centralized under Claridge, which has done [...]

students revive a block of ste. catherine

Here’s an email (in response to this article I wrote about the Seville Theatre block of Ste. Catherine St. W.) from a reader who works near Concordia’s new downtown buildings
I cannot resist commenting on your piece about the black hole downtown…although my comment is not about that block but about the blocks between St. Mathieu [...]

the usual suspects and the seville

Here’s an email from a reader with a complaint about “usual suspects” being quoted in my article about the Seville Theatre…
Dear Andy:
I enjoyed very much your article on the Seville block. I am writing to you because underneath the articles surface I felt a questioning of the urban development framework the Gazette uses, that perhaps [...]

missed opportunities at the seville

Here’s an email from a reader (in response to my article about the Seville Theatre) who has some background on what happened to the Seville in the 1980s and early 1990s…
Andy
Thank you for a great article.
I was a founding member of what became Rocky Horror in Montreal, way back when, and actually moved downtown to [...]

ste. catherine st. w.’s ghost block

I have a story in today’s Gazette about the crumbling Seville Theatre and the ghost block it sits on. Here’s the top of the article:
The outer limits of downtown
Andy Riga, The Gazette
The strip of Ste. Catherine St. W. was once alive with nightlife, full of Montrealers heading for Canadiens games at the Forum, movies [...]