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If you’re at Sunday’s Lady Gaga show at Scotiabank Place, look for 14-year-old Michelle Treacy’s from Orleans as she makes a cameo appearance on the video wall. Matthew Treacy sent along this note: _ When Lady GaGa first announced the Monster Ball Tour in 2009, a website opened where fans could submit creative videos of any sort. ...

It was a busy month for our little blog on February - here were some of the most popular blog posts in the past month: 1. Our list of [ 26 essential Ottawa blogs ](http://ottawastart.com/26-essential-ottawa-blogs-the-2011-edition/) (and this list of another [ 30 or so great blogs about Ottawa ](http://ottawastart. ...

From BBC’s Human Planet, here’s some awesome video footage of ice blasting on the Rideau River. (Thanks Rosemary Vaughan for the pointer!) ** See also: ** Ottawa Nature Guide

Ottawa’s favourite kid rockers, The Brothers Dube (formerly The Dube Brothers) have been working on new songs in the studio. Their latest video for the song Reflection is below. You might remember them from Bluesfest last summer, when they jammed with Arcade Fire just outside of the main gates . ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/photo-25282-2529.jpg) ** ** Taken at Confederation Park during Winterlude by Jeremie L. To be fair, this sign was right next to artists working on ice sculptures - but Jeremie says this area wasn’t any more or less slippery than any other part of the park. ...

** UPDATE: ** The full Bluesfest line-up was announced on April 26. Here’s a full list of performers so far for Bluesfest 2011. It’s not quite on the same level of hockey trade rumours, but I’ve seen a few rumours recently about possible performers as Bluesfest (July 5-17, 2011 in Ottawa). ...

Great video from Ottawa’s Bryan Andrew McNally . After you’ve watched the video read all about it below… From Bryan’s blog : The idea behind this was taken from a video created by a fellow named Sam O'Hare. ...

I know, I know, you’ve probably seen this already - it was making the rounds on Twitter on Wednesday. But I thought it was well done and worth posting again here. You should check out this site if you’re interested in taking part in an upcoming Carleton Flashmob. ...

Here are two graphs taken from a Google Realtime search for “Ottawa” . The first one shows Twitter activity for the keyword “Ottawa” during the month of February so far. The tall peak happened on February 10. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/twitter-fisher1.gif) ...

Thanks to Luc Rioux who sent us this photo of ice fishing on the Ottawa River. I think it’s cool (sorry) that we have a collection of ramshackle ice fishing huts across from Rockliffe, home of some of the priciest real estate in the city and to our head of state. ...