Julian Armour’s Music & Beyond Festival: A Jewel Among All that Sparkles in Ottawa.
Think of the classical music scene in the Capital and there is one name that seems to embody it: Jul…
Fogerty and Fuchs Bring the Hits
“This was one of the first songs I ever played with my band back in 1968,” said an excitedly hig…
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
by Brian Fagan • Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 384 pp.
This spring’s flooding of the Assiniboine River…
OLM Photo Gallery: Kirk Franklin Brings Gospel Sound to Bluesfest
The Ottawa Bluesfest has been a hit for years, drawing crowds from all over the world. One of the ke…
The Path to Self-Governance: A Rationale Behind Eradicating the Indian Act
An archaic and racist-based legislative barrier to First Nations Peoples achieving self-governance i…
First Nations Come Last
On May 27, her last day after a decade as Canada’s official watchdog, Auditor General Sheila Fraser…
Thai Coconut
Tucked away behind a high-rise condo building on Prince of Wales Drive near Meadowlands is the resta…
Laura Langford Has the Bag for You
Clean, elegant, functional. That is how 24-year-old Ottawa native Laura Langford would describe her…
Ottawa Concert Venues and Presenters of Yester-year
In the midst of a vibrant and heady festival season, here is a look back at what made Ottawa a festi…
First Week Ends With Old Time Rock ‘N Roll
After drying off from a night with The Black Keys and cooling off from shaking it with Gord Downie o…
Crimes Against Children
When you look deep into a child’s eyes, you can see their complete trust in the world and their vu…
The Black Keys Heat Up Cold and Wet Crowd
Well, that was interesting. Mixed feelings are really the most prominent ones when it comes to the w…
Third Night at Bluesfest: Something for Everyone
Who says that the young and the old can’t mix? On the third night of Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest, it ce…
A Tale of Two Cities…Part 1: Berlin
A city formerly divided, both figuratively and literally, by a giant concrete wall now adorned with…
Striving for a Better Future
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The recent increase of daily deal sites infiltrating the online consumer market combined…
Bluesfest Opening Night Rocks Hard
A popular sentiment echoed by Ottawa personalities introducing musicians and one of the most tweeted…
Get the Look: Kate Middleton’s Royal Style
Kate Middleton may not have been born a royal, but she certainly looks the part of the Duchess of Ca…
The Arc of a Tennis Champion
This year’s Wimbledon men’s final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic had the potential to b…
CrossFit: At the Forefront of a Fitness Revolution
As far as beginnings go, the origins of the CrossFit strength and conditioning program were largely…
Get Up Close to Ottawa City Hall Public Art
Canada’s urban centres are homes to many works of public art. Stand-alone, commemorative or decora…
Defining Canadian Style
The French are chic. Italians are sexy yet sophisticated. Canadians are… what exactly?
A cultural…
What’s With all this New Oz Wine, Part 1?
Fans of Aussie hooch rejoice, the focus has once again returned to the Land Down Under (“Where women…
Dressing for Yourself: The Man Repeller Style
I first stumbled across the term “man repeller” when introduced to the fashion blog of the same…
Gelato, by any other name
When the hot weather descends on Ottawa, and the sub-zero winter is all but forgotten, one cannot he…
Hockey’s Loss, Vancouver’s Shame
The NHL season ended on Wednesday night, not a moment too soon. Unfortunately it didn’t end so muc…
