Fire on Ste Catherine

EvilGentleman: 11th May 2007 - 18:41 GMT

Quite the good series. I did not even know about the fire until a friend of mine from Kahnawake called me to tell me about it on the news. The ice is quite spectacular looking, too bad it comes from such a sad source. That's a pretty good shot of the back, as well.

A few days later, the owner of the bar next door took me up to the back roof, from where I could look down and see the devastation from above. All that was left was the brick skeleton of the interior walls, kind of like WW2 newsreel footage of bombed-out buildings. It was quite amazing that nobody was hurt. I still feel bad for Omid, though. I have not seen him since then, and I can only hope that he is getting back on his feet.

Jamie: 11th May 2007 - 22:35 GMT

The goo for this article is actually relevant. Nice.

EvilGentleman: 11th May 2007 - 23:12 GMT

The owners of the bar had considered launching a lawsuit against the Montreal Mirror for the slanderous lies in this article. www.montrealmirror.com/2007/022207/news2.html

The allegations about the rooms upstairs really caught all of us who frequent the Diana Bar quite by surprise. The tenants of the building were a mix of senior citizens, Concordia students, a legal worker, and one of the DJ's for Club Super Sexe. The clientele could often get rowdy, and like any bar in the Montreal area, a number of the customers use drugs, but crack houses and prostitution? Insane.

I knew some people who hung out there who obviously crackheads, but there are also a number of others who hang out there, including two reporters and some off-duty cops, and even some lawyers and medical professionals. And as far as the prostitution goes, I know a lot of the girls there, and most of them are either respectable, or else they give it away, not sell it. Jeez, what poor journalistic integrity.