Category: Focus

It’s the love of the game that drives the boys. It’s the love of the boys that drives the parents. It’s 6:15 a.m. on Sunday morning. The roads are empty. The sky is dark. The air is crisp and cold. At the edge of Centretown, four vehicles idle with their lights on in the parking lot of the Tom Brown arena.

It's 9 p.m. Their hearts beat fast. She's panting. He's sweating. For both of them, the night is the best time to work out.

Poor nighttime New York, stuck in its rut of gallery openings and posh soirées, of jazz clubs and exclusive restaurants, of Broadway and the Met. Night after night, New Yorkers grit their teeth for their encounters – yet again! – with the powerful, the well-heeled and the artistically provocative. How over-glitzed. How overblown. How passé.

Staring down the barrel of a glue gun, Melanie Yugo tries her best not to boogie. She should be used to photo shoots like this: the craft-diva Yugo and her partner, DJ Jason Pelletier, have become minor Ottawa celebrities after creating Spins and Needles craft and DJ nights, held in and around Centretown.