Archive 1997-2016
Poets, musicians, and art lovers gather at Swizzles Bar and Grill on Queen Street on the third Sunday of every month to listen, be heard and exchange ideas during the Dusty Owl Reading Series.
CBC and hockey. It’s like peanut butter and jelly, Sonny and Cher, and Regis and Kelly: they work great together. After a 70-year association, hockey and the CBC are still going strong, providing the much-loved Canadian sport to its loyal fans every season that the National Hockey League plays.
It has become a familiar scene to many Canadians: two contestants, clutching each other on a huge stage in front of an audience of screaming fans and a panel of judges, all waiting to see which one of them will become the next Canadian Idol.
The worlds of music and literature collided Oct. 4 at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Local musician Andrea Simms-Karp provided the opening entertainment for the John Newlove Poetry Award.