It’s a show about the critical importance of imagination in life, but Jake Runeckles and Andrew Iles need to do a little less imagining than other actors might. The two play, respectively, the main characters Bastian and Atreyu in the family-friendly The Neverending Story, opening
Larnell Lewis first picked up a drumstick in church. He was four years old at the time and as it goes, he just started playing along every Sunday. Instead of turning away from music, however, Lewis doubled down and these days he's leading his own band
When Justin Kingsley was a kid growing up in Lowertown, one of his favourite places was the Nelson Theatre on Rideau Street. Today the Nelson is the ByTowne Cinema and it will be screening Kingsley's very first feature documentary film Chaakapesh for three days starting Jan.
Most people's perceptions of the L. Frank Baum story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz have been shaped by the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, the Kansas girl blown to a magical kingdom by a tornado. The colours, the songs and even the
The blossoming solo career of Ottawa's Bryan Cheng is about to get a hometown boost. He will make his main stage series debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra on Jan. 29 performing the famous Elgar Cello Concerto. This isn't his first time performing in the NAC.
Ottawa photo-artist Christine Fitzgerald is heading to the Canadian embassy in Washington. You might say her posting will be long. Fitzgerald has not become a diplomat. Instead, two of her painterly photographs created by the 19th century wet collodion process are headed to the embassy for
It’s unlikely Stan Rogers’ long-loved 1981 song Northwest Passage will ever again be played in my home. The a cappella tune, belted out by the late Canadian folksinger with his male band mates singing lusty harmony, traces a trip by Rogers in which his thoughts
While the public was beating up OC Transpo at City Hall on Thursday, over at the glittering Ottawa Art Gallery in a crowded Alma Duncan Room the design for the new central public library was being unveiled. Safe to say the reception for this new landmark
Sometimes, the precise moment when a work of art began can be known, even if the full concept takes years to coalesce. Andrew Wright, this year’s winner of the Karsh Award for Photography in Ottawa, was strolling about the annual Glebe garage sale in 2009
When Nadia Myre was putting the title on the exhibition of tondos called Meditations on Black Lake, she says she was thinking about looking at a body of water from above. "I was thinking about what would it look like if you were a spirit looking down
