The Royal Flush (Wild Hart Productions, Ottawa) [caption id="attachment_8427" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kate Jaimet. Photo: Chris Mikula[/caption] Did dear old Dad leave a fortune in casino winnings secreted in a lonely cabin before he died? That’s one of multiple plot points in this comedy by Ottawa children’s author
I remember one morning on the Masai Mara in Kenya, shortly after sun rise, watching a massive vulture fly over us and slowly ride the warming thermals up, up into the blue sky. The bird had a wingspan of almost 10 feet, and it was
Toronto author Susan Swan is obsessed with fraudsters. The obsession began more than a decade ago when Conrad Black was sentenced to the Big House in Florida. Swan wondered how prison would change him. Ideas began to flow. A novel was soon in the works. The
Since Opera Lyra was shuttered in 2015, opera in the nation’s capital has been meted out parsimoniously: a student, semi-professional or amateur production here, a visiting ensemble during a summer festival there. Small homegrown organizations like Pellegrini Opera and Operottawa present modest seasons of varying
'If you build it, he will come.' It's a cliche today but there is truth in the famous quote from the move Field of Dreams based on W.P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe. Caroline Obeid remembers such a moment. On the day the Shenkman Arts Centre opened its
Sharon Azrieli sang her first solo in Grade Two in Hebrew school in Montreal. She doesn't remember the name of the song but she is pretty sure it was a prayer. No matter, she had already been bitten by the music bug. And despite life's ups and
This year's five finalists for the Sobey Art Award have been announced. The shortlist is composed of artists 40 and under from five regions in Canada: [caption id="attachment_36782" align="alignleft" width="200"] Comilang_Headshot[/caption] Stephanie Comilang (Ontario) splits her time between Toronto and Berlin. Her documentary-based films seek to understand the global
A new exhibition at the Museum of History is all about walking the walk. Visitors to the museum will be strolling through an exhibition created by the Cree of northern Quebec called Footprints – A Walk Through Generations. Some 150 artifacts tell the story of the Eeyou
Writing matters in Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's life. She is a poet, spoken word artist, novelist and the founder and managing director of the Kegedonce Press. She has seen the evolution of Indigenous literature over the past three decades from its stirrings in the 1980s to the burgeoning bibliography
There’s no immortality in Highland Warriors, the new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum, no chesty Christopher Lambert battling arch enemies across the centuries, a la the movie series. These Highlanders were real men, in real adventures that, in their own way, are immortal. This
