Friday, August 28, 2026

"A Special Place" on CBC and on Cover of The Gazette

 

Links to read the article and watch the film are below

đŸ¥ªđŸ“°✨Pretty 'Special' to wake up to my face on the cover of the newspaper. My new short film, “A Special Place”, about Montreal’s undisputedly legendary Wilensky’s Light Lunch - one of the city’s very oldest restaurants (grilling up Wilensky Specials since 1932!) - premieres today on the CBC Creator Network (link to watch in the comments).

The short film, or ‘music photeo’ as I like to call it, has photos, it's got music, it's got a poem I wrote and it's got one heck of a Special sandwich. Pretty much has it all, even a bit of mustard!

Big thanks to Gregg Silver for the always awesome music, to the CBC for showing the film, to Bill Brownstein for the zinger of a Gazette cover story, to Tim Snow at The Gazette for shooting the photos in the article and to Sharon Wilensky and the devoted and unforgettable team at Wilensky’s at 34 Fairmount St. West in Montreal’s Mile-End neighbourhood. 

And most of all thanks to YOU for watching the film and for spreading the word! Feel free to share this post with other foodies and Montreal lovers. 

WATCH the film on the CBC Creator Network's YouTube channel here: 

https://youtu.be/sJOjPh--Ar0

READ the Gazette cover story by Bill Brownstein here:

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/wilenskys-special-restaurants-ezra-soiferman-cbc/

Love to all from M❤️ntreal!

Ez

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

"Forum de Montréal" Art Print

"Forum de Montréal" art print

Very excited to share the news about my new limited edition art print "Forum de MontrĂ©al" featuring my old ticket stubs from the Montreal forum which closed 30 years ago in 1996. Only 100 of these 16"x24" archival-print images will be produced and hand-signed. 

The print is a companion piece to my 2016 coffee-table book "Last Game at The Forum" about the Montreal Canadiens' last game at that hallowed hockey shrine. 

You can read more about the print and book, and order copies, here.  

Read about the print and book in Dan Laxer's May 2026 piece in The Suburban here. Watch Dan's video interview with Ezra here. 

Go Habs Go! 

-Ez


"The Last Batch" at The Walrus

"The Last Batch" at The Walrus

Happy to share the news that in the June 2026 issue of Canadian literary magazine The Walrus, I had my story and photo essay entitled “The Last Batch” published. 



The article delves into my efforts to photograph the very last batch of fortune cookies coming off the line at Wing Noodles Ltd. in Montreal’s Chinatown. 

You can read the article in full here. Thanks for checking it out! 

-Ez

Soify-selfie with one of the last Wings fortune cookies