Sylvie Hill

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – November 17, 2006 A “Best Of” New York City list comes out in the Village Voice every year, like our Best of Ottawa in the XPress. And boy, can you ever tell a lot about a city-as you can with a person-by what they boast are their best features. New […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – November 10, 2006 Now that I’ve quit drinking and smoking, let me tell you, socializing at parties is a whole new ballgame. It’s like walking around with a plastic bathing cap when everyone’s let their hair down. The good news is I always leave the festivities the way I got […]

The Ottawa XPress – November 3, 2005 BOOK REVIEW Tracy Quan’s Diary of a Married Call Girl (Three Rivers Press, 318 pages, $17.95) Love, lust and funds found south of 79th and 2nd “How much can – or should – one person get away with?” ~Nancy Chan, Call Girl When it comes to sex, you […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 27, 2005 Once upon a time, The Rolling Stones made a video called “The Streets of Love” in Ottawa (rollingstones.com/abiggerbang). But it was a fairy-tale make-believe Ottawa, and all the little Ottawans got silly with glee! A downtown Ottawa nightclub owner, a head honcho at an Ottawa-Gatineau film office, […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 20, 2005 Taking the bus is already a pain in the ass-must OC Transpo rub our faces in it too? OC Transpo raises fares to the extortionate rate of $2.75 a trip while it is needlessly replacing some of the city’s bus stop shelter huts with newer ones. Now […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – October 6, 2005 Would it be for health or hygiene that you’d cut your period out of your life? And do you think you’d be more independent and self-assured? The makers of Seasonale® (www.seasonale.com) think so. I learned about Seasonale® through a documentary called Menstruation Suppression that aired a while […]

Ottawa XPress, Shotgun, September 29, 2005 I’m not Sean Penn. But I’ll try to be kind like him. OK, so I didn’t help Katrina victims, but I tried to save Ottawans from boredom and disappointment at shitty sex-stores. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many Hollywood celebrities offered their services, like John Travolta who flew […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – September 22, 2005 I’m pretty pissed about something. And yes it’s also my PMS talking, thanks. Feminists are ragging on the latest Always Have a Happy Period feminine hygiene campaign (www.beinggirl.com) that encourages women to treat and pamper themselves during the cursed Time of the Month. “It’s like Barbie gets […]

Ottawa XPress, Shotgun, September 15, 2005 My first boyfriend and me waited almost a year before “doing it” – and it was a blast. Instead of intercourse, we filled our time with tonnes of other sexy stuff and substitutes. But where to get started? The only sex shops I knew of were in Hull and […]

Ottawa XPress – September 15, 2005 “Ever notice KFC is one letter away from spelling ‘fuck’?” asks funnyman Harland Williams over the phone from Los Angeles. “So why does everyone eat there?” Considered one of Canada’s best standup exports, Canadian actor and comedian Williams is a success story. He’s been in Dumb and Dumber, There’s […]