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The Ottawa XPress – August 24, 2006 OttawaMetal.com hosts first annual metal benefit concert For a subculture that gets such a bum rap, Ottawa’s heavy metal scene is lucky to have a solid core of fierce familiars to set the record straight. “I just want to do as much as I can to diminish the […]

The Ottawa XPress – August 24, 2006 F#@! The Facts are coming to kill you… musically speaking Ottawa-Gatineau Grindcore band sheds uniformity for diversity One listen to any track off Stigmata High-Five, the new Fuck The Facts album, and you’ll understand why people sometimes crap their pants when they’re scared. This multicultural quartet of girl […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 29, 2006 I have an outhouse to decorate. I’m fascinated by cottage outhouses. My mom has managed to transform hers into a wooden superbooth of hope and “Believe in Yourself!” messaging plastered all over the walls. There among the E.T. poster and dream catchers are watercolour scrolls of the […]

The Ottawa XPress // June 15, 2006 Fringe performer Brendan McNally gets set to go the first round with Heads or Tails. Sleek schooners set sail for Ottawa’s urban theatre world with tales of adventure and intrigue. With this year’s theme being “X Marks the Spot,” get thee ready, matey, for some swashbuckling action at […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – June 8, 2006 Ever try talking dirty to your lover? How’s that working out? I used to believe it was enough for ladies to splay themselves out naked on the centre of a cool, white bed, and – presto! – their job was done. For the most part, I think […]

The Ottawa XPress | June 1, 2006 BOOK REVIEW Jennifer Whiteford’s Grrrl (Gorsky Press, 252 pp.) Whiteford’s channels her own rock star dreams through the novel’s riot grrrl Play. Stop. Rewind. Jennifer Whiteford’s distinctive debut novel, Grrrl, is like a killer mixtape from the early 1990s that you want to play over and over again. […]

Ottawa XPress, Shotgun, May 25, 2006 Most couples are fearful that infidelity, finances or jogging pants will dissolve a marriage, but there’s a more terrifying monster lurking in the shadows. It’s giving up who you are and what you want in order to become one. More plainly put, it’s identity loss. “Marriage has the potential […]

The Ottawa XPress // May 18, 2006 Stoppard stops short of anything real or meaningful As a play about marital infidelity, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing isn’t doing much. As a writer’s drama discussing a writer’s loyalty to the craft, this play impresses a little more. But it fails to unite the two main themes […]

Ottawa XPress, May 11, 2006 The bands are good ’til they make enough cash To eat food and get a pad Then they’re sold out and their music is cliché Because talent’s exclusive to bands without pay Know it all – did you really listen to that song? Could you ever write what you call […]

The Ottawa XPress // May 4, 2006 One man makes us laugh in the name of love. Two thousand years after his death, Jesus is still making headlines. To find out why, Toronto performers Rick Miller (Wyrd Theatre) and Daniel Brooks (Necessary Angel Theatre Company) enlisted the help of a Homer Simpson Pez dispenser and […]