BROWSE AROUND: Search by Neighborhood | Slideshows
Pierre Brault's The Shadow Cutter looks the part, but fails to entrance
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Steve Baylin
It was, he affectionately recalls, love at first sight. And sound.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Danika J. Grenier
Rocket Richard rocked the hockey world, but Rocket Rached's rocking the blues world. And, as he’ll demonstrate Saturday at the Elmdale House Tavern, nothing’s gonna stop him.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC, WORDS>>by Holly Gordon
“I told somebody I feel like the coolest girl in Ottawa,” says Megan Jerome, laughing a bit over the phone line the morning of Thursday’s snowstorm.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Allan Wigney
The CD, guitarist Victor Nesrallah’s fifth, is called Hallways.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, SCREEN>>by Razor Sharp
What the hell: Jim Carrey as a flamboyant, gay conman romancing a soft-spoken Georgian peachy Ewan McGregor? Crazy, yeah — almost as crazy as the real life story of notorious felon Steven Jay Russell. Still, the very idea of two virile Hollywood leading men getting it on, has been enough to make uneasy distributors hold back this 2009 release until now. Is it worth the wait?
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Allan Wigney
Last summer, fledgling local quartet Hotshotcasino caused a not insignificant stir through a nifty bit of self-promotion that involved encouraging curious web surfers to purchase the band’s single, This City, at the low, low price of a tweet — or Facebook post — of encouragement.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Allan Wigney
It’s been three years since Ottawa native Kyrie Kristmanson dazzled us with Pagan Love, an other-worldly collection of original songs that showcased a distinctive voice on the local scene, and sounded like nothing else on the local scene.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, SCREEN>>by Razor Sharp
Boom!
Made you laugh.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, MUSIC>>by Holly Gordon
“If you were to change your name, like your own personal name, your personal identity, right, a little bit, you’d kind of feel like you could make some pretty cool personality changes if you wanted,” says Jeff Innes, laughing a bit on the other end of the phone line from Thunder Bay.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, VISUAL>>by Holly Gordon
The dolls look like they could eat the characters in Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
It’s the teeth that give them away. Sitting in a glass case just outside the door to the Ottawa Art Gallery’s ART Rental and Sales space, artist Stefan Thompson’s five characters have soft, sewn bodies that look huggable.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, SCREEN>>by Holly Gordon
Based on the true story of seven Trappist monks kidnapped and killed in 1996, Of Gods and Men (Des homes et des dieux) isn’t looking for the element of surprise. A slowly moving, sometimes thoughtful film, its focus is the lives and thoughts of the monks. It’s in that focus that writer and director Xavier Beauvois loses his audience — and what could’ve been a deeply affecting film.
Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet uses video projection design to send its dancers down the rabbit hole.
Local photographer Joy Kardish preserves, and reveals, all-but-forgotten spaces.
The 2011 visual and media arts laureates speak for themselves at the National Gallery group exhibition.
The renowned Japanese percussion ensemble, celebrating its 30th year, comes to the NAC March 7.
