Victorian fashion hasn’t gone the way of the dinosaur
Pia Webster, Centretown News
Members of Ottawa's Steampunk, a neo-Victorian fashion group, congregate in all their finery.Archive 1997-2016
Looking over the balcony onto the dinosaur exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature on Elgin Street, one expects to see one kind of extinct creature – perhaps a T-Rex – but on a recent Saturday there was a second, more surprising, kind.Pia Webster, Centretown NewsMembers of Ottawa's Steampunk, a neo-Victorian fashion group, congregate in all their finery.
It’s loud. It’s raw. It’s bedroom funk, swamp R&B and soul boogie all rolled up into one. Justin St-Denis, Centretown NewsLocal blues band MonkeyJunk â Steve Mariner on guitar and vocals, Matt Sobb on drums and Tony D on lead guitar â rehearse in Mariner's basement for their Jan. 18 gig in Toronto.
The Currency Museum is offering its visitors a chance to explore the history of the Bank of Canada through the works of world-renowned Ottawa photographer, Yousuf Karsh.
It seems as though the prorogation of Parliament is all anyone can talk about these days.