Collab Space: How Community Builds Success

 Photos by Andre Gagne Emile Salem and Blair Kilrea had a dream. The two serial entrepreneurs saw a place where artists, musicians and small business owners would come together, support one another and exchange ideas with a unified goal in mind: together they could overcome any business challenge that may

Danielle Allard is Passing Notes

 Ottawa songstress Danielle Allard may not have been caught passing notes in class but her notebook was filled with them! From an early age she would write down her stream-of consciousness way of thinking onto pages upon pages of youthful musings and ramblings. Some of those would eventually become her

Women in Black! Female All-Stars Gather for Johnny Cash Tribute

 50 years ago Johnny Cash and June Carter were married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. To celebrate the iconic country couple’s Golden Anniversary the annual Cash Birthday Bash returns to the Rainbow Bistro tonight with a toe-tapping twist: an all-female guest roster. Kristine St-Pierre “I think an all-female

Bluesfest Act 2: In Pictures

 All photos by Andre Gagne. It may have been a wet one at times but another RBC Bluesfest has come to a close. It was a record breaking year for the festival which saw over 40,000 patrons pack LeBreton Flats for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and thousands attending on any of

The Ottawa Improv Festival: Making It up as They Go Along

 Quest of the Dragon King. All photos courtesy of the Ottawa Improv Festival.  Before we had the movies, Broadway, opera, Shakespeare and even the ability to write scripts, our early ancestors were thespians of perhaps our oldest form of entertainment, improvisational theatre. It may surprise you that the first documented