These days when Alice Beaudoin enters the National Arts Centre it feels like a home away from home. That matters to Beaudoin. The former member of the Kitigan Zibi band council was also a member of an advisory council that was established to guide the NAC
The first season of the NAC’s new Indigenous Theatre is brimming with promise and ambition. Artistic Director Kevin Loring and his team have lined up shows from across the country and elsewhere, with a major emphasis on the resilience of Indigenous women. Along with English and
Ottawa writer Kate Heartfield has a new e-novella, a new novel on the way to bookstores in the not too distant future and a pair of Nebula Award nominations. What's not to like? Her e-book Alice Payne Rides (Tor.com) is the second featuring a time-travelling heroine and
When Miloš Karadaglić was a young lad in Montenegro he dreamed of being a guitar god. But not the kind he has become. Miloš Karadaglić is a god of the classical guitar, not the rock and roll kind. "What other idea of the guitar could a kid
It's probably a natural that Kim Thuy would write a cookbook. She has started a restaurant after all called Ru de Nam. But, she says her book Secrets From My Vietnamese Kitchen (Appetite by Random House), is much more than a cookbook. It is the story
Did Arlan Galbraith believe his own sales pitch? Others sure did. So many fell under his folksy spell that, between 2001 and 2008, farmers in southern Ontario, as far west as Alberta and in several U.S. states poured millions into Galbraith’s Ponzi scheme involving pigeon
Stephen Maher's third novel started with a dark premise. "I imagined a young woman in New York. I pictured her getting some sort of alarming news. Her smart phone had been compromised and she faced a grave threat. It's the type of premise that Stephen King might
The TD Ottawa Jazz festival is canvassing its members as it prepares an effort to convince the National Capital Commission to allow the event back into Confederation Park in the summer of 2020. The festival was moved out of the park, located between the National
Yousef Bashir is a Palestinian-American from the Gaza Strip. As a young boy he was shot in the back by an Israeli soldier. He recovered and has made his way to the United States where he now lives and works and works hard for peace between
Colm Feore may have Boston on his passport as his birthplace, but his first North American home of any duration was actually in Ottawa where his Irish father got a job as a hospital radiologist. Feore's dad had been studying in the Massachusetts city. Colm and
