In the past few weeks, septuagenarians have provided some of the best music I've seen anywhere. First it was 76 year old Paul Simon wowing the Bell Centre in Montreal with a compendium of songs from his fabulous career. And on a steamy Saturday at the
The 1,000-odd faces in The National Portrait, Douglas Coupland’s new installation at the Ottawa Art Gallery, were photographed across Canada in a project supported by Simons fashion stores. Having walked through Simons and felt old and frumpy, I wondered if the portrait would skew toward
Now that the birds have flown and RBC Ottawa Bluesfest has begun setting up, it's time to consider some of the music coming to this year's festival. Beyond the big names such as Beck, Foo Fighters or Bryan Adams, there are dozens of local acts with
An Ottawa area artist is one of the finalists in the 20th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Sarah Davidson has made the list with her painting the garden at night. The graduate of Carleton University is currently a Master's of Fine Arts student at Guelph University. The
Ottawa-born actor Catherine Rainville has a thing for William Shakespeare. How that happened, she’s sometimes not so sure. Now based in Toronto, Rainville has been working solely in Shakespeare for the past six years, performing in Richard III, King John, Taming of the Shrew Love’s Labour’s
Environment Canada has given RBC Ottawa Bluefest permission to move a bird's nest that was stopping the start of the main stage set-up for the annual festival at LeBreton Flats. The department issued a permit to move the four eggs laid by a killdeer. The department
An alumnus of the innovative STO Union theatre company has won the 2018 Pauline McGibbon Award. Sarah Conn, who is currently the Artistic Associate with the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, received her prize Monday evening during the ceremony marking the annual Dora Mavor Moore awards
Ottawa native Dana Michel is the first choreographer to be a Visiting Dance Artist at the NAC, but if you had met her when she was a student at Hillcrest High School you might not have thought she would end up living and working in
After 34 books, you'd think Tim Wynne-Jones would run out of ideas. But nope. He's just published his 35th called The Ruinous Sweep and is hard at work on another which will be out soon. "I just can't seem to stop," he said in an interview.
Mark Monahan has seen a lot of stuff in 25 years of RBC Ottawa Bluesfest. He's seen damaging winds, collapsing staging and injured roadies. He's seen lots of badly behaved fans. And he's listened to angry debates about lawn chairs. But now a tiny mother bird
