Drew Gonsalves and his band Kobo Town, don't get a lot of requests to take part in fundraisers and benefit concerts. But whenever one comes along, he's happy to take part. He knows the role music plays in community building. "Any charitable benefit request we get, we
They say the artists point the way forward. The city of Ottawa certainly seems to need some direction when it comes to the much-maligned addition to the venerable Château Laurier hotel. The latest of five frustrating proposals from the architects doing the work for Larco
When U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence lauded Donald Trump’s pro-life stance during his recent visit to Ottawa, you couldn’t help but wonder if you’d suddenly been spirited back to some earlier decade. Anti-abortion posturing by Sam Oosterhoff and some other Ontario Conservative MPPs induces the same head
Opera and movies compliment each other well. Both are notable for breeding outsized personalities and vicious competition, not to mention production shenanigans of near-mythic status. But while there have been several movies about opera — Fitzcarraldo, Meeting Venus and A Night at the Opera are
