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September 25, 2008 Ryneisha Bollard

Ottawa fertile ground for gaming culture

Emily Senger, Centretown News

Gamers play Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Street Fighter and other classic video games at the SAW Gallery.

Video gaming in Ottawa is growing into a dynamic culture of both gamers and developers.

September 25, 2008 Hannah Yakobi

Viewpoint: Valuable art pieces under attack by hooligans

There are some things you probably shouldn’t do, some you might just get away with, and some you should avoid at all costs. For instance, letting your dishes pile up for a week is not going to kill you but it’s not the smartest idea either. Calling in sick to work after hosting a party for 60 may actually be successful depending on your “excuses-IQ” and possibly years of practice. When it comes to urinating on a monument, that’s probably something to avoid.

September 25, 2008 Chris Cooper

More than $1 million invested in new theatre

Patricia Grannum, Centretown News

The Gladstone is a centrepiece of Ottawa's art community.

Steve Martin didn’t quite “steal the stage” – he spent $1.3 million rebuilding it, making his new acquisition at 910 Gladstone Avenue into one of Little Italy’s biggest commercial draws.

September 19, 2008 Corcoran Conn-Grant, centretownnewsonline.ca

Film review: Burn After Reading

Like a Coen brothers “Best Of,” Burn After Reading unites Coen alumni George Clooney, Frances McDormand, J.K. Simmons, and Richard Jenkins with some new, if familiar, faces (Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt), and then stirs them into a trademark genre-bender with all the elements of a film noir, a whodunit, a dating movie, and an elaborately convoluted spy mystery.