011319 Saints vs Eagles, New Orleans, LA
The field below us was massive, and it was so well-lit it seemed to glow…
Category: Ticket Stories
011117 Cirque du Soleil: Joyã, Riviera Maya, Mexico
I want to tell you, those Cirque du Soleil people really know how to entertain…
011020 Jamcruise IV
Somehow it took until day four of Jamcruise for me to find the inevitable omelet station among the ship’s large and varied 24-hour buffet…
010920 Jamcruise III
January 9th, 2020 was Day III of that most legendary floating music festival: Jamcruise. I awoke at 9am and, figuring I had enough sleep under my belt…
010820 Jamcruise II
On January 8th, 2020 was day two of Jamcruise and I had been completely, utterly spent when I crawled into my bunk a mere 4.5 hours earlier…
010720 Jamcruise I
By the time 2019 rolled around Jamcruise had been going on for seventeen years…
010696 Bob Wiseman/Velcro Cloud, Ottawa, ON
When I saw Bob Wiseman at The Pit in the summer of ’95 I swooned to every soft, poignant song the acidic balladeer threw our way. Unfortunately my two drunk friends stood by the bar yakking loudly all night…
010497 Moe Koffman, Ottawa, ON
I’m not sure what Generations X, Y, Z is (or was), but as long as they were serving up cool, interesting live shows at bargain-basement prices I had no need to ask questions…
010397 The Dangerous Kitchen, Ottawa, ON
Rather than note-for-note mimicry, a group of Quebecois classical musicians presented intricate neo-classical modern interpretations of classic Zappa tunes and it was awesome…
010209 World Junior Hockey: Slovakia vs Team USA, Ottawa, ON
On January 2nd, 2009 I rang in the new year with my second of two World Junior hockey games…
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