It was a film-centric show this week on Audio Visual, as Executive Director of the Canadian Film Institute and Carleton professor Tom McSorley dropped by to talk about the CFI’s upcoming screening of Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster. McSorley has written a new critical study of the film, Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster, and the January 28 screening (that’s tonight!) will serve as the book’s official Ottawa launch. Egoyan, a Canadian filmmaker known for both his commercial Hollywood movies (The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies) and his more personal artistic works... | Continue reading article

You can always tell whether a person is interesting if they take you out to see something a little different. Something that shows originality.  Something that demonstrates that they don’t judge and are open to trying new things. No, I’m not talking about taking you to a sex shop and pointing out all the toys they haven’t tried — I mean making date night more than just dinner and a movie. So for all you want-to-be-heartthrobs, here’s our suggestion for a mid-January date:  bowling and Absinthe. Or, in our case,... | Continue reading article

It’s the last weekend of 01/10, and hopefully the weird weather patterns will disappear along with this month. The forecast for this weekend, though, is mostly sunny, so there are no excuses for staying holed up at home. Tonight is the first jam-packed evening – there’s poetry, film, more film, and music of the Latin variety. The rest of the weekend follows in a similar busy fashion. One highlight: Andrew King’s Manhattan Project exhibit will be opening at the Wall Space Gallery on Saturday night, works that came out of... | Continue reading article

By Kym Shumsky, Ottawa trends watcher and blogger at Relishing.ca As the beleaguered nation of Haiti continues to suffer the fallout of the devastating January 12 earthquake, Ottawans continue to open their hearts and wallets. There is no lack of events, fundraisers, and small-change collection jars to drop a few charitable bucks into happening this weekend, but in case you needed some direction, here are just a handful of good ideas:

Can’t let a good thing go to waste! Today we’re recycling two of last year’s Valentine’s day post (with updates of course) to help you get in the mood. But don’t make plans yet: Apartment613 is also organizing an exciting event for Feb. 14th that you don’t want to miss! Details to come soon… Valentine’s Day, the sexiest of all the holidays invented to sell greeting cards, is coming up in a couple of weeks. For those of you stuck on your wooing plan-of-action, Apartment613 is stepping in as your... | Continue reading article

Ever since the Food Network imported Iron Chef from Japan, cooking is becoming more and more like a competitive sport. Just like their non-edible counterparts, culinary sports come in a wide variety of flavours. At the WWF end of the spectrum is the hot dog eating contests, in which ‘reversals’ does not mean a string unexpected of goals. Perhaps more to the taste of the tennis and golf set are events like Juniper Restaurant’s Dueling Chef’s Food and Wine Pairing Event Like a heavyweight on steroids, Juniper is challenging every... | Continue reading article

A quick note before we get to the news. Since we’re getting more and more photos from various contributors on Flickr, I decided to use a different photo for this feature instead of the same old one, starting with this ditty from Rick Carroll. Tell me what you think! While it looks like Bob Chiarelli won’t be running for mayor of Ottawa once more, a new candidate, Jane Scharf has entered the race. An anti-poverty advocate for many years, she ran in the 2006 campaign and received 0.49% of the... | Continue reading article

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. While Apartment613 normally focus on city issues, from time to time the fact that Ottawa is the national capital just can’t be ignored. This weekend, as many as 3,500 people gathered on Parliament Hill to protest the closing down of parliament until March. The Ottawans were joined by at least 7,000 people in Toronto and 500 in Halifax, as well as a number of other groups around the country. The  protests were organized by the people behind the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament facebook group, which now... | Continue reading article

Chivalry is dead and monarchy is out of style, but there is one aspect of the Middle Ages that lives on: the troubadour. Strumming guitars and banjos instead of lutes, modern day singer-songwriters wander the land (or in this case, the bars and cafés of the National Capital Region) warbling their tales of love and loss and seducing the local peasantry. While they often sound decidedly modern, to me the appeal of performers with nothing but a few strings to back them up has all the romantics of an earlier... | Continue reading article