Listen here or on iTunes! On this week’s Apartment613 Live I caught up  with Patrick Gauthier to chat about what’s going on at this year’s Undercurrents Festival at the GCTC. There is a pretty great line-up at this year’s festival. You can also read a few reviews from our own theatre blogger, Andrew Snowdon, on Apartment613. I also gave fellow  Apartment613 Editor Katrina Marsh a call to find out what she has planned for our annual sex survey. You can fill out the survey online here and also discuss all your sex... | Continue reading article

Listen here or in iTunes. This week’s episode features a live musical set from Yuri Bakker who is in town as a musician in residence at Café Alt. Yuri plays Café Alt as part of a series organized by Popdrone starting February 1st. We also caught up with Rolf Klausener to get an update on The Acorn and his other on-going projects at the Manx and Arboretum. We round out the show with a chat with Marc Clairoux, a former gang member who will be taking part in the Ottawa Library’s... | Continue reading article

Listen here, or in iTunes. In this edition, Ryan and Karen take to the airwaves to chat with Jason Pelletier of Spins and Needles to talk about their new endeavour. They also air two interviews by their common co-host, Trevor: first, with Gloria Song of Scary Bear Soundtrack, who are playing their last show on Jan. 16, and second, with Mathieu Fleury, the city councilor behind the drive to bring Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brule to Ottawa to make suggestions as to how to fix our city. Musical stylings come courtesy... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. Craft beer. The city’s festival scene. Disappearing bookstores. And the inaugural Nuit Blanche. Those were some of the top stories of 2012, at least according to the various ne’er-do-wells and miscreants that serve as editors here at Apartment613. And you can hear why by tuning into our final Apartment613 Live podcast of the year. Along with our own mellifluous voices, this week’s podcast also features some of our favourite interviews from the past 12 months — we revisit the closure of Xpress, the controversy over the Nepean Redskins... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. Hey Apartment613 aficionados, looking for some thought-provoking background noise while preparing the holiday turkey? (Or tofurkey, I don’t judge.) Then check out our penultimate 2012 episode of Apartment613 Live. On this week’s show, we get the lowdown from Sparks Street Mall executive director Les Gagne about the big bash taking place New Year’s Eve, while simultaneously casting a critical glance at the past and future of the pedestrian thoroughfare Ottawans love to snark about. We also air part two of our interview with singer-songwriter Royal... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. Or tune in to CHUO 89.1 FM every Wednesday at 9 p.m. So, an admission: whenever someone mentions Timeraiser, the annual art auction that took place this past weekend at the National Gallery of Canada, I immediately think of this horrifying guy. And then I end up mildly terrified. But! The good news is that none of the Timeraiser-related guests who descended upon our studios in the basement of the University of Ottawa for this episode of Apartment613 Live are in the business of harvesting human souls, as... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. It’s the Halloween episode of Apartment613 Live, everyone! So brace yourself for a chilling hour of terrifying, bloodcurdling—er, actually, to be honest, we didn’t include too much in the way of traditional frights last week. (Unless you count a shrieking pumpkin toy we dug up.) Then again, maybe you’re terrified by the idea of dozens of plaid-wearing cyclists taking over the city’s streets, gnawing on the flesh of any drivers or pedestrians they encounter! If that’s the case, commence trembling, because we got Chris Sheppard... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. On this week’s Apartment 613 Live, Ryan is our lonely host for an hour full of local happenings. Last month’s Nuit Blanche was reportedly attended by something close to 30,000 people, and next year’s nuit can only get bigger. The art-filled night’s organizers are already in the planning stages, securing sponsorship and debating layouts. Nuit Blanche 2013 is planned for September 21st. Visual Arts Editor Diane Bond joins Ryan by phone to offer her perspective on these early planning stages. Next, Amie Beausoleil of Unshaven... | Continue reading article

Listen here or on iTunes. This week on Apt613 Live, Karen and Ryan are our guides for an hour of creativity, boxing, and food. First up, Katie Frappier joins us to discuss her upcoming Creative Mornings talk. Frappier is one of the co-owners of Victoire, and she will speak to a crowd of enthusiastic breakfast-goers at The Hub this Friday the 19th with Regine Paquette, the shop’s other owner. For more info, check out the Eventbrite. Speaking of Creative Mornings, Sharif Virani, the man behind the Ottawa chapter of the breakfast/lecture series, is in-studio to... | Continue reading article

This week’s episode of Apartment613 Live features Trevor and Ryan performing a live rock-paper-scissors competition on the air. We also interview Mike Dubue of the Hilotrons, to find out why the band is wrapping things up after more than a decade rocking Ottawa. They play their last show on October 20th at the Blacksheep Inn. We also chat with Rhapsody Blue, a fire eater performing in the Capitol City Cabaret later this week, and we start the show off with an interview with the folks behind this weekend’s Brewery Market,... | Continue reading article