Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday to a Centrepointe Theatre season that includes comics Howie Mandel and Shaun Majumder, lots of local talent and performances fit for the family. “We do our best at Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe to provide a little something
Fifty years ago, when it opened, the NAC's le café restaurant was an instant destination for foodies in the capital. In those early years, Chef Kurt Waldele emerged as a leading light in Ottawa's rather skimpy fine dining scene and his restaurant (eventually) located along
On May 31, 1969, some 40,000 people walked through the then brand new National Arts Centre in an open house that preceded the official opening night on June 2. Those people wanted to see inside Fred Lebensold's brutalist palace of the performing arts. The National Ballet
It may seem that the Ottawa Art Gallery’s fundraising art auction, Le Party, is becoming more frequent, but it’s just the illusion of a one-time adjustment. Last year’s version was bumped to autumn because of construction of the new gallery and subsequent opening celebrations, but now
Nosferatu is a German expressionist silent horror film made in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. It tells of a vampire named Count Orlock in what is essentially a rip-off of the original story by Bram Stoker. The film was first seen in North America in 1929.
For the past 25 years, Ottawa's LGBT2 choir Tone Cluster has been making music together. ARTSFILE asked Tone Cluster's Artistic Director, Kurt Ala-Kantti some questions to get a sense of the history of the organization and its next concert featuring the powerful piece of music
STOCKHOLM — Janice O'Born remembers the privations after the Second World War in Britain. She was born and raised in Winchester, the venerable cathedral town where she was taught, by her grandmother, that it was important to volunteer, to lend a helping hand. "I started at 16
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The journey of a piece of new music usually is a short one. The piece gets its world premiere and usually a second run through and then ends up on the shelf. It's a rarity that gets played again. Life Reflected, the NAC
STOCKHOLM — For an hour on Friday the NAC Orchestra tour enjoyed heavenly music from both sides of the Atlantic inside the regal setting of the Royal Chapel of Sweden's main palace. In a chamber decorated with sculptures, a painted ceiling and a remarkable golden pulpit,
Retired or defeated politicians like to write books, but usually it's a memoir. But former Capital Ward councillor, David Chernushenko, is trying something different. He's written a speculative thriller and will launch it on Monday at 7 p.m. at Southminster United Chucrh, 15 Aylmer Ave.
