Every year now for the past 14 years, the Great Canadian Theatre Company has teamed up with local lawyers to produce a show/fundraiser for local charities. Judges and lawyers are performing in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man at the GCTC until May 11. The play is a fabulous theatrical piece that takes on the delicate matter of [...]

Elvis Presley, eat your heart out.  He may have exposed the masses to his version of the blues but there is nothing like hearing the blues as they were truly meant to be sung. If hitting Beale Street in Memphis isn’t in your near future, head to the National Arts [...]

Today, as runners and Members of Parliament gather at the Centennial Flame to march in solidarity to the American Embassy, it is hard to believe that only a week has passed since the Boston Marathon.  This time last week I was running the marathon, overwhelmed by the excitement of being [...]

Nestled between Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Croatia to the south and southeast and Hungary to the northeast is one of the most beautiful and yet relatively unknown European gems, Slovenia. Whether it’s food, geography, landscape, architecture, activities or even climate, diversity permeates everything. It may sound [...]

The one-man play MERZ is at the Great Canadian Theatre Company for the next two nights. It is definitely one of the strangest and most challenging theatrical experiences you may ever have.  It is absurd, disconnected and at times a bit annoying, but in the most entertaining way.  Context helps. [...]

If you have never been to the opera, there is no better introduction to that incredibly passionate world than to see La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (whose 200th birthday Ottawa’s Opera Lyra is celebrating with this opera-in-concert production). According to Operabase, an on-line database of opera performances, La Traviata was [...]

Lynne Harper’s murder is one that dominated the news for years and to this day, remains one of most famous unsolved cases in Canadian history. The year was 1959 and 12-year-old Lynne Harper was raped and killed and a 14-year-old boy was convicted and sentenced to death based on flimsy [...]