arts & entertainment

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ Residents can join in the excitement as Ottawa bids to host the Canada Summer Games in 2021 by registering their support at Ottawa2021.ca . As part of the bid process, the City wants to showcase the strong community support and enthusiasm for hosting the event. ...

Remy Scalza spent 36 hours in Ottawa and wrote about the experience for the New York Times, published Thursday. Because we love it when people write nice things about us, the article went viral in Ottawa. ** You can read it here… ** https://twitter. ...

[caption id=“attachment_59798” align=“aligncenter” width=“720”] “The REAL reason for the sinkhole on Sussex” by Matt French @matthewfrench on Twitter[/caption] Here’s our (mostly) annual list of things that Ottawa was obsessed with (for better or for worse) in 2016. You can read previous year-end lists here. ...

The year 2016 may have become a running gag on social media for the ultimate bad year, but for the Ottawa music scene, it was a rich one full of new releases, fresh artists and plenty of amazing shows. There was plenty to hear and see in 2016 and ** _ OttawaStart. ...

** Salute To Vienna New Year’s Concert ** Strauss Symphony of Canada _ January 2, 2016 • 2:30pm • National Arts Centre _ Niels Muus, conductor (Vienna) Lilla Galambos, soprano (Vienna) Thomas Weinhappel, baritone (Vienna) Featuring dancers from Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine & International Champion Ballroom Dancers ...

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week! _ _ You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . Check back here, as the list is updated throughout the week. _ Top events ...

The National Arts Centre Orchestra thanked their fans for support of charity with a free concert at city hall Sunday. The concert, called FanFair, is held every year in honour of the orchestra’s favourite charities, the Snowsuit Fund and the Ottawa Food Bank. ...

If you created a Venn diagram of symphonic music nerds and space fantasy nerds, the intersection between the two sets was out in all its glory Thursday night at the National Arts Centre. The NAC Orchestra performs _ The Music of Star Wars _ this week as part of its Pops series. ...

There are so many different things going on here in Ottawa at any given time. Seriously. I know it doesn’t seem that way, because you have go to digging, but there are actually super cute cafes and must try cuisine, different ways to pamper yourself with amazing makeup artists and hairstylists, cheap yoga and a variety of fun ways to get that super hot bod you always wanted, the coolest You Tubers and movers and shakers around; our city is seriously abundantly awesome. ...

The numbers are out. It may take a keen eye to notice who’s won and who’s lost, or it may not. While the topline numbers don’t always tell the whole story, they are all we have to digest. Sometimes the best way to tell who won and lost is how individual stations react to these numbers. ...