Reading Time: 4 minutesBuilding a writing life can feel like venturing into an uncharted fantasy realm: exhilarating, lonely, and vaguely terrifying. Consider this your quest log: a curated, physical map of Ottawa’s literary ecosystem designed to take you from a soft, fledgling writer to a battle-tested author.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe rise of fanfiction isn’t just about people becoming less embarrassed about reading stories on AO3. It is about a generation of readers becoming more comfortable with the idea that stories don’t have to end when the book does.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Girl Who Leapt Through Time showcases Hosoda’s ability to address the emotional challenges of growing up through extraordinary scenarios.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEven if you’re strapped for cash at the moment and can’t swing the ticket, there are still ways you can meaningfully engage with the festival and get those connections going.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The greatest musical decade ever,” claims one attendee when referring to the 1970’s era of rock, during Ottawa’s CityFolk final festival night. This past Sunday, I was most fortunate to attend my first concert featuring some of the founding members of punk rock.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong the hustle and bustle of the Ottawa CityFolk Festival last week, the Busker Series brought the real essence of street performances to the forefront: fully acoustic and fully real.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMembers include Max Trepanier (lead singer), Jack Gunn (bassist), Christian Lascelles (drummer), Aidan Morris (guitarist), Phil Hulan (guitarist), and Phil’s yellow socks (socks).
Reading Time: 3 minutesRest assured, price and distance did not deter many. Students showed up for CityFolk as they always have, including on my bus which resembled a mosh pit more than an easy-listening lounge. I did have the pleasure of being able to eavesdrop on a heated conversation about “challenging your sensei.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“You could see one of these shows at the NAC, and you could see one at Chamberfest, and you could see another one at Pride, but it’s all happening at Pique,” says director Rachel Weldon.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQueue up Nicolas Pellerin & Les Grands Hurleurs at your next family gathering and I guarantee you’ll catch your aunties getting down.
Reading Time: 8 minutesProducer of indie hits like Uncut Gems and Good Time, Oscar Boyson, brings his directorial debut to ByTowne Cinema as part of the film’s tour. Hear about the film’s themes and extraction from real-life events now that it’s resuming screening at major cinemas.
Reading Time: 5 minutesExploring Lebreton Flats before sunset is the perfect way to discover new music.
Reading Time: 4 minutesSandy Hill Community Centre is home to Ottawa’s longest-running and least expensive life drawing sessions. For over 50 years, volunteers have kept the weekly sessions running and fostered a space that humanizes models, normalizes nudity, and confronts the objectification of bodies.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRather than distancing herself from the meme, Larsson embraced the renewed interest, allowing the moment to exist without over-explaining it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile his lyricism is powerful, it doesn’t take centre stage in Revelation. His use of interplaying piano, guitar, strings and drums is a hypnotic journey which showcases the full breadth of Vollebeck’s multi-instrumentalist talent.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen a crisis becomes content, the people living through it risk becoming abstractions — reduced to symbols, backdrops or punchlines in someone else’s joke. In a culture that turns everything into something shareable, the real challenge may not be learning how to laugh, but learning when not to.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Voice of Hind Rajab provides the public with a false sense of understanding about Palestinians and their suffering, allowing them to remain comfortable in their sympathy, and effectively demobilizing them from taking any real action or stance towards the dismantling of Israel’s actions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat a treat it is to the ears hearing Bruno Mars pour his soul into his new album.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThere’s flagrant preferential treatment going on – someone needs to be fired.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor fans of the Mean Girls story, musical, or the original movie, the law students’ production will feel familiar, with some funny Canadiana changes that elicited a handful of laughs.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere definitely was another choice, and it wasn’t murder. But who am I to say anything?
Reading Time: 3 minutesInstitutions such as these continue to uphold harmful systems, while simultaneously clinging onto a facade of diversity and social progress.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo crack something is to break it open, to claim what is inside, and to permanently destroy the shell which the object of your desire was contained in. Sorry, body, not shell. Hold on, are we talking about sex or making breakfast?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Winterlude 2026 is packed with something for anyone who’s trying to beat cabin fever. Grab your friends, and don’t miss out on the winter fun!
Reading Time: 3 minutesCompared to the $6,000 budget of UOTCs first play The Great Gatsby, Carrie: The Musical’s $25,000~ budget is a testament to the club’s quick establishment as a campus institution.
