Jennifer Hartley

ABOVE: Marion Day, Andrew Moodie, Geoff McBride, Eric Coates star in Daisy by Ottawa playwright Sean Devine. (Photo: Andrew Alexander) While it is wonderful to be back for socially distanced, in-person live performances, it is even more phenomenal to have the chance to see our hometown theatre/cinema [...]

Photos: Courtesy InterZip Rogers Imagine looking around the glorious scenery of our region, 120 feet above the Ottawa River, then jumping off a platform and flying and screaming with delight across the River from one province to another. This weekend is the last time for the season to experience the [...]

Above: Maryland State House. (RIGHT) Artist Michael Rosato's giant mural of Harriet Tubman on the side of the Tubman Museum and Educational Center, in Cambridge MD. Credit Maryland Office of Tourism With the new school year being a bit (well, a lot) different, maybe you are still wondering what [...]

I was shocked to read that flying, as it turns out, is not a huge transmitter of COVID. Is it risk free? No but with all the precautions that airlines (Air Canada in particular) are taking to ensure optimum safety, it is not as bad as you might have thought and by giving airlines the summer to get their [...]

Tonight is the night, the show of the summer sky so gather up the kids and head outside somewhere dark where you can see the stars to witness the Perseid meteor shower. It peaks tonight and the weather forecast looks good. The Perseids, named after the Perseus constellation, are bits of the comet Swift-Tuttle [...]

Unfortunately, all theatres are closed for the time being and I can only imagine what that is doing to their revenue. While stages are quiet and seats empty, the show must go on. Some organizations have created online programming that is phenomenal. Some have a cost, others are free but in all cases, [...]

Installment number two of MOM I’M BORED is all about history. We are so lucky to live in Ottawa and have access to some of the best museums, such as the Canadian War Museum and the Canadian Museum of History. But there is also the Bytown Museum that offers fantastic insight into the history [...]

Summer is here, online schooling is over and you're probably asking yourself what to do with the kids that doesn't involve plunking them down in front of a screen with a video game (as tempting as that is). Save yourself a brain drain trying to come up with creative ideas that don't involve [...]

ABOVE: Image of the Tower Bridge courtesy London and Partners British 18th Century poet Samuel Johnson once wrote: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” He was absolutely right — and the city has only gotten better [...]

If there is anyone who can pull off a one-man show playing seven (kind of eight – it is complicated) different characters, it is definitely Ottawa acting superstar Pierre Brault. Not only is he an amazing actor, he is a fantastic playwright who lyrically tackles subject matter that is always fascinating [...]