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Best Neighbourhood
1. Plateau
2. NDG
3. Mile-End
4. St-Henri
5. Westmount
6. Verdun
7. Little Italy
8. Downtown
9. Outremont
10. Gay Village
11. St-Leonard
12. Old Montreal
13. Villeray
14. Côte-des-Neiges
15. Parc Extension
16. West Island
17. Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
18. LaSalle
19. Pointe St-Charles
20. Rosemont
21. McGill Ghetto
22. Brossard
23. Little Burgundy
24. Petite-Patrie
25. South Shore
Same top five as last year, and the year before that, although Westmount and St-Henri switch spots. Is the Southwest becoming cooler? Little Italy and St-Leonard both move up a spot from last year—are more Italians voting??? See #2 Best Minority!
Best Minority
1. Anglos
2. Italians
3. Gays
4. Jews
5. Greeks
6. Portuguese
7. This category is fucked up
8. Irish
9. Indian from India
10. Asians
Honourable mentions: Blacks • Chinese • Latinos • Haitians • Francophones!
This category drew some flack for the first time in a long time this year. Seems some people aren’t happy with celebratory, non-discriminating ethnic boosterism. The science of this category is not yet exact, so, in the interests of democracy, we called them as we saw them—meaning more people voted “Asian” than individual Asian ethnicity (Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Tibetan etc.), just as voting “Haitians” may have split the overall “Blacks” vote. Anglos and Italians still rule, while gays snuck up from behind on the Greeks to take third spot, shooting up from last year’s #10.
Best Building
1. Place Ville Marie
2. Sun Life Building
3. Bell Centre
4. Notre Dame Basilica
5. St. Joseph’s Oratory
6. Belgo Building
7. Olympic Stadium
8. Concordia EV building
9. Habitat 67
10. Bibliothèque Nationale
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Honourable mentions: IBM Tower • Palais des Congrès • City Hall
If anyone doubted hockey is a religion in Montreal, consider that the home of the Canadiens, the Bell Centre, bumped the Oratory out of third place.
Best Place to Spot Celebrities
1. St-Laurent Boulevard
2. Buona Notte
3. Time Supper Club
4. Crescent Street
5. Old Montreal
6. The W Hotel
7. Tribe Hyperclub
8. Old Port
9. Globe
10. Downtown
Honourable mentions: Ste-Catherine St. • Club Med • Opera nightclub
Getting Paris Hilton to show up at your spot doesn’t hurt in this particular popularity contest. The owners of Tribe Hyperclub certainly got a lot of coverage when the size-11-feet designer and heiress showed up for their first anniversary. The Main, however, remains the heavy favourite to spot the rich and famous.
Best Place to Have Public Sex
1. Mount Royal
2. Parc Lafontaine
3. Parks in general
4. Old Port
5. The metro
6. Alleyways
7. My balcony
8. Washrooms (including Barfly, Wanda’s,
Typhoon, McGill Library, Basement of McGill’s new music building, 9th floor Con U, Saphir, Brutopia, Café Melies, Dawson, John Abbott, RCMP HQ)
9. Botanical Gardens
10. Parc Jean Drapeau/Ile Ste-Hélène
Honourable mentions: CCA park • Fringe Fest Beer tent • Back alley behind Casa del Popolo • Behind Empress Theatre in NDG • Between the wall and the dumpster behind Teasers• Cafétéria de Radio-Canada • Centre Ice of the Bell Centre • Construction sites (No workers!!! Go unions!!!) • Dawson 8th floor • During a hockey riot • In the alleys along St-Laurent or the subway tracks hidden behind an umbrella • Bibliothèque nationale • McDonalds at CN station • On an industrial road in Dorval, where you can see the airplanes coming in to land overhead • On your bike going down Amherst from Sherbrooke • Parc sans nom/the Dare-Dare park • Roof of Five Roses factory • Roof on top of Old Dublin • Snow fortress on McGill campus • The elevated cantilever chair at the art installation around Guy and René-Lévesque • Under a McGill Ghetto stairway • Under the cross on top of Mount Royal • Under the overpass on St-Urbain and Van Horne • Under the stage at Foufounes Electriques |
