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Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – February 2, 2006 A lot of change going around these days. Angelina Jolie changed the last name of her two children, Zahara and Maddox, to “Jolie-Pitt,” and will make Brad Pitt their adoptive father. Here in Canada, over at CBC Radio, my favourite announcer, Anthony Germain, is changing offices and […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – January 26, 2006 Guys, do you ever wish you were porn-store clerk Nino Quincampoix in the French film Amélie, and Ms. Poulain would leave you secret messages by the Beaver Tails stands? Or ladies, maybe it’s Laure you want to be from the movie Vendredi soir, hoping a suave Parisian […]

The Ottawa XPress …don’t you? What better way to prove you’re getting laid? Nothing says you’re desired like a bout of chlamydia. What a catch you are. And isn’t it exciting when your new lover is an International Man of Mystery? Like, when he doesn’t tell you about that sexually transmitted disease he got from […]

The Ottawa XPress– January 5, 2006 HELL IS ‘ROUND THE CORNER The devil’s in the detailing at Angie’s Ratt Restorations. It’s easy to mistake Hull for hell sometimes. And where a fresh deer carcass dangles from a tree in the barren landscape that is the front yard of Ratt Restorations, XPress has indeed found the […]

Ottawa XPress, Shotgun, December 22, 2005 Do you know someone who flips through women’s fashion magazines in the grocery store line or has a subscription to Cosmo or Maxim? For 2006, get them the straight goods on chicks. Buy them a copy of Eve’s Quest instead. From Mother Teresa to Mother Goose, Barbie to Body […]

Ottawa XPress, Shotgun, December 15, 2005 And sometimes the most lost and wasted attract the most balanced and sane And the wild and reckless take up with the clock and the timed and the mixture is all of us and we’re still mixing. From “She Came Along to Me,” Wilco, Bragg and Guthrie Sometimes when […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – December 1, 2005 You know that old saying “Build it and they will come”? Capital Music Hall on Rideau Street was built in the fall of 2003, and bands and fans came. But now that it’s closing in January to make way for Claridge condos, will this un-building also crumble […]

The Ottawa XPress, November 24, 2005 BOOK REVIEW Dan Savage’s Commitment (Dutton/Penguin, 304 pp., $35.00) vs Rob Brezsny’s Pronoia (North Atlantic/Frog Ltd., 296 pp., U.S. $25.50). Savage – ON COMMITMENT AND THE ULTIMATE BENEVOLENCE OF THE CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE In his new book, The Commitment, scandalous and sensible syndicated Savage Love columnist Dan Savage thinks about […]

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – November 24, 2005 “Devil’s Broom” is the fourth track off Joseph Arthur’s album Our Shadows Will Remain. It’s a memorable song about hopelessness, alcoholism and homelessness. “Since you’re gone ain’t nobody else gonna save me/ ’cause I can’t trade a bottle for an empty room/ I just pray that the […]