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
Louise Bessette is thinking about her career these days. One of the leading pianists of her generation has reason to reflect on the past three decades. She has just been recognized by the Governor General with an award for a lifetime of achievement in the performing arts.
Mavis Staines was consumed by ballet as a child. "My very first lesson was in Ottawa in a community centre. The shoes I was wearing had been purchased on food stamps. I was transfixed. "I came home after my second class and said to my mother 'I'm
If art and science were expressed as a Venn diagram, Juan Geuer would be the shared space in the middle. Born in the Netherlands in 1917, Geuer was an artist from a family of artists, yet in Canada he worked at the Earth Physics Branch of
The work of statesmen and women often gets done on the sidelines during a round of golf or at a good meal on a country estate. In the case of Canada, the home of Henry Herbert, the 4th Earl of Carnarvon was such a place. Highclere Castle
Suzie Vinnick has several albums to her credit. The Saskatoon native has just released Shake The Love Around and it's gathering some pretty solid reviews. She's bringing that new music to the NAC Fourth Stage on April 25 but before the show she answered some
The full scope of the largest public art project in Ottawa's history is coming into focus with the call for proposals to turn Stage 2 of light rail into a visual destination. In Stages 1 and 2, some $21 million is being spent on artworks, based
You’d never sink your life savings into a Ponzi scheme, right? Especially one operated by a former pig farmer who wants you to breed racing pigeons. But you might be surprised at what you’d do, given certain circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote much about tragedy, and in the end he became one. The exhibition Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, now at the National Gallery, has key images of the German philosopher as a man who looked haunted, even tormented by the
