Archive 1997-2016
After providing Ottawa’s tight-knit goth community with a home for nearly seven years, Swizzles’ Death Disco club night closed for good earlier this month.
The weekly event grew to be an institution at the Queen Street venue. Attendees could regularly hear offbeat music including gothic rock, rhythmic noise and electro-industrial – niche genres that few Ottawa locations touch.
A pilot’s license, a flight log, and a photograph sit encased in glass at the Bytown Museum. One hundred years after the start of the First World War, these artifacts are all we have to remember some of those from Ottawa who lost their lives.
Daniel Kolanko, Centretown News
The walls of The Studio Café will be lined with photos from Kristina Corre's #goodthingsottawa blog.The walls of The Studio Café, located on Somerset Street near Little Italy, will be home to a celebration of the local creative community until Nov. 2. And it’s a community, says Centretown artist Kristina Corre, that’s changing for the better.
As the National Arts Centre brings Oscar Wilde’s comedy The Importance of Being Earnest to the stage this month, the legendary 19th-century Irish playwright will be coming full circle, in a sense.