What makes a great music video? An awesome song helps for sure, but the best videos makes full use of both mediums by combining a catchy tune with eye-popping cinematography. The combination of Juno fever with a bout of crappy spring weather last weekend put us in the mood to go searching on YouTube for the best of what the local music scene has to offer. We also asked the Ottawa twitterati to help us out. The result was our five picks for the best videos to have come out of Ottawa.... | Continue reading article

Originally posted on Kathy Eats – Adventures of a street food geek. Reproduced here with her permission. Anyone who knows me at all knows that I have a small infatuation with tacos.  OK…maybe not so much an infatuation, but rather an outright obsession.  I can’t help it.  And I’m not talking Old El Paso or Taco Bell here…I’m taking handmade soft corn tortillas, fresh ingredients and traditional flavours. My problem started years ago with travel through California and Mexico.  I was introduced to what tacos REALLY should taste like, and... | Continue reading article

One doesn’t expect there to be so many opportunities for laughter at a tragedy about the personal legacy of the Holocaust, but that’s what makes Hannah Moscovitch an outstanding playwright, and East of Berlin a thought-provoking, entertaining play. East of Berlin is a memory play, told from the perspective of Rudolf (Rudi) Klausner (Simon Bradshaw), the son of an escaped Nazi doctor. Rudi grew up in an expatriate German community in Paraguay after the end of World War II, where time seemed to have been halted and the war never... | Continue reading article

Penny Plain is all about the puppets. They’re exquisitely crafted, detailed, and lifelike. Their strings are in the skilled hands of Ronnie Burkett. It would be a tragedy to be unable to see them clearly. Well, I wish I’d brought a pair of opera glasses. Penny Plain, the blind proprietor of a boarding house, is content to wait out the imminent end of civilization with her heretofore faithful canine companion Geoffrey, listening to events unfold on the television. Geoffrey, however, has other ideas—so, too, do her boarders: Wesley Dollop, a... | Continue reading article

Post by Nimali Ramanayake. See more of her writing and photography on her blog, Capturing the Vibe. In this edition of Apartment Crush, I visited Michel Lacroix, an Ottawan bachelor who rents an apartment nestled on a quiet street in between the Glebe and Centretown. At first glance, what I admired most about this boy’s apartment was how he separates his professional life from his real life. As a part-time professor for the School of Media and Design at Algonquin College and part of a freelance studio, there is not one... | Continue reading article

Apartment613 Live March 8 Full show FINAL by saxby This week on Apartment613 Live, Ryan Saxby-Hill and Trevor Pritchard reunite to co-host the show and celebrate International Women’s Day. Ryan and Trevor show their appreciation for the women in their lives and celebrate by bringing in some fantastic women to talk about everything from beer to music and local trivia. Do you love beer enough to put it in your salad? Turns out it’s possible and delicious. Ryan chats with Caroline Isshi from Zen Kitchen to talk about their upcoming... | Continue reading article

Valentine’s Day is a time for lovers, friends with benefits, and nosy bloggers. Once again we asked you to dish the dirty details for our Big Sexy O-Town Survey – our second edition of what we hope will be an annual affair. Over 700 people participated in this year’s survey, which was named Sex in the Capital City. Designed by professional sexual health educator and Apartment613 sex columnist Nadine Thornhill, the survey aims to get the low-down on where, when and with whom. One lucky respondent will receive a Lelo Sex... | Continue reading article

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Take a peak into the apartments and homes of Ottawa with Apartment Crush. Post and pictures by Nimali Ramanayake. If you would like us to feature your place in Apartment Crush, let us know by emailing apartment613@gmail.com Jennifer has shaped her one bedroom apartment in New Edinburgh into a space that surrounds her with everything she loves and a space that operates smoothly. Speakers are connected to one source and installed into every room so she can listen to her favorite radio station (CBC Radio 2)... | Continue reading article

A professional sexual health educator with an alarming lack of tact, Nadine Thornhill is used to airing out other people’s unmentionables. Dirty Laundry runs once each month on Apt613. To ask your questions, or to say hello to Nadine, contact her atdirtylaundry613@gmail.com. Dear Dirty Laundress, Can you please provide me some details about how to break the virginity of girl at first? What is the distance of hymen/virginity from the opening of hymen, please tell me in inches, is it 2 inch or….? How I should deal with a girl... | Continue reading article

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Post and pictures by Nimali Ramanayake. If you would like us to feature your place in Apartment Crush, let us know by emailing apartment613@gmail.com Once you walk through the doors of Emma-Leigh & Jared’s home, it feels as though you’ve entered a art gallery specializing in pieces from Asian history, action scenes from vintage comic books and a 60s-era family home. Their apartment, which is located on the ground floor of a 3-level house hidden on a quiet street in the Glebe, is celebrating its 100th... | Continue reading article