Well-known Ottawa actor Paul Rainville has put an old passion back on centre stage with the release of his self-titled, debut album. Rainville sings lead and plays acoustic guitar on the 10 original tracks, some of them dating back years. Produced by Chelsea musician Ian Tamblyn,
Jon Lien had never rescued a whale from a fishing net in his life. But when, in the late 1970s, he was asked if he could, he said, “Sure, I’ll see what I can do.” So reports Newfoundland playwright Robert Chafe. His show Between Breaths –
Mischa Maisky has come a long way from his home town of Riga, Latvia in the old Soviet Union. The 71 year old superstar cellist now travels the world as one of the most recognizable performers of the instrument. He'll be in Ottawa at Dominion Chalmers on
What's surprising, Terese Marie Mailhot says in her candid way," is that a book can have a life of its own." Mailhot's first book Heart Berries (Counterpoint), is an epistolary gut punch of a memoir certainly does — have a life of its own since being published
A 40-year-old teacher has an affair with his 15-year-old student. There’s no question that’s wrong, both legally and morally. It’s also, in the hands of playwright Rose Napoli, damnably complicated and a potent narrative for exploring everything from power to intimacy to the wellsprings of
How staggering was the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci? Consider this: the man who painted what many consider to the greatest painting, the Mona Lisa, also invented the submarine. Leonardo conceived so many things that the pace of human progress must have slowed when he
Olivier Henchiri graduated from the Gatineau Conservatory playing the modern cello. That lasted for a bit, but soon enough he caught the Baroque bug. He was infected by the desire to play music of the time and in the manner of the 17th century. It's the kind
German fantasy writer Cornelia Funke has carved a major place on the world stage with books such as Inkheart trilogy and Dragon Rider. These days she's living in Malibu, California and writing away with the Pacific Ocean as a soundscape. One of her recent projects
After graduating from McGill University with a Masters in Music, Lara Deutsch started preparing for her professional life and the kinds of competitions that help build a resume. The Ottawa native plays the flute and has built up a solid freelance career in this city. But
The genius of Guy Gavriel Kay is his ability to take a period of history and shift it without losing connection to the reality of it. The alternate universes he has created have made him a relatively rare global success story in the field of Canadian
