Category: Focus

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.

It’s 7 p.m. Past the Saturday night hustle and bustle of Elgin Street and the usual crowd at Dunn’s deli, Knox Presbyterian Church quietly opens its doors.

Less than a week after her re-election in Somerset Ward, Diane Holmes is back at work. But she made time this week for reporter Neala Barton and photographer David Kawai to talk about the election and the issues facing her ward and the city for the next four years.