She came, she talked, she conquered. Margaret Atwood, dressed in black with a red scarf, was her usual deeply intelligent, questioning, acerbic and funny self in a reading and one on one session with CBC journalist Joanne Chianello at a sold out Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre on
It is a fall of musical anniversaries in Ottawa this year. First the National Arts Centre Orchestra is celebrating 50 years of performances. Just down Laurier Avenue and across the Rideau Canal, the School of Music at the University of Ottawa is also marking a half
Caroline Bleau used to have brown hair. That is until the soprano sang in the Opera Montreal production of Another Brick in The Wall which adapted the famous Pink Floyd lyrics, written by Roger Waters, and put them to new music by Julien Bilodeau. The show
The newest studios in Ottawa are a place where fun’s loss is art’s gain. Studio Spaces Ottawa is already almost full of artists, who are creating new things in an old, nondescript building on Kaladar Avenue, just off Heron Road near Bank Street. It’s welcome
Evelyn Greenberg was just a little girl when she went with her mother and older sister Jacquelin to a music lesson. The instruction was for Jacquelin, Evelyn recalled. "After six weeks, the piano teacher said to my mother, 'Leave the big one at home and bring me
Michael Crummey’s enchanting, but disturbing, new novel, The Innocents, is set amid a hardscrabble Garden of Eden hugging an isolated cove along the coast of northern Newfoundland. The fable-like story was inspired by a supposedly true event from the late 18th century when a traveling clergyman
Karoly Sziladi's mother once gave him some very good advice. "She said, 'My son, go and get a nice, soft government job in Ottawa'." Being dutiful, he followed her advice and he has never regretted it. That nice government job is as a violinist with the
Pico Iyer has lived in Japan for some 32 years and even though he has lived there that long and has married a Japanese woman and raised two Japanese step-children, he is still trying to figure the place out. The people remain a riddle and a
Ottawa animator Valerie Barnhart has only made one animated film. But first time lucky. She picked up an honourable mention in the competition for the Best Canadian Animation award at this year's Ottawa International Animation Festival. And she won the Vimeo Staff Pick Award. [caption id="attachment_33875"
Although it was pure coincidence, it’s fitting that Ian Cusson’s new work, Le Loup de Lafontaine, had its world premiere by NACO on the evening after the massive pan-Canadian climate change marches. While the narrative behind the music is pulled from a fantastic but simple
