A veteran journalist has won the Ottawa Book Award for English non-fiction for work that details his personal journey down the country's great rivers called Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada. Roy MacGregor joins two other local writers who picked up the top
The Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Erin Costelo has emerged as a musical force to be reckoned with both as a performer and as a producer. Before she celebrates the launch of a new album called Sweet Marie at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage on Saturday,
The Canadian War Museum is celebrating a $300,000 donation from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. The funds will help support a new exhibition that features the art of Sir Alfred Munnings, who was an official war artist commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund. The exhibition will travel
Tim Cook is certainly one of the most prolific historians working in Canada today. He's published five books in the past five years. But none of them have been quite like his latest. The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War is not a
The two books known collectively as The Well-Tempered Clavier were published in 1722 (Book I) and 1742 (Book II). Together they are considered among the most important collections of music ever written. Of the two, the second book is considered the more challenging and frankly is
Monday night in Montreal will mark the culmination of a very long run of good fortune for Ottawa composer Kelly-Marie Murphy. The piece that won the $50,000 Azrieli Prize for new Jewish Music will be performed in concert at the city's Maison symphonique. En El
Akram Khan, one of the most original and riveting performers in contemporary dance, is bidding farewell to a large part of his on-stage career with a world tour of his latest and last full-length solo, Xenos. In the performance, the Anglo-Bengali choreographer continues to explore his
When the internationally known designer Karim Rashid was a young lad of seven, his attention was often focused on a coffee table in the family home. His father Mahmoud had made the table and while that was important, it was what was placed on the table
When Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell opens at the NAC, it will mark a significant occasion for director Peter Hinton. Although Hinton directed the revisionist opera Louis Riel in Southam Hall last year, Silence is the first time he’s been back with NAC English
Ottawa's theatre wunderkind Jordan Tannahill is always up for a challenge, especially when he's working with a world-class artist in an important production. But writing for dance? It's true and the proof is Xenos, by the Akram Khan Company, which opens at the National Arts Centre
