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Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
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Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
I’ll never forget how this show ended…
Could it be that this Fishbone show was my last time walking into Ottawa’s infamous nightclub Zaphod Beeblebrox?
On April 23rd, 1997 I saw moe. for the first time. The show was at Zaphod’s, a small bar in downtown Ottawa. I had been hearing that this was the new jamband-on-the-scene for a while, and though I was unimpressed with their debut album I wasn’t about to take a chance on missing this show…
The Capital Music Hall was a large venue right downtown on Ottawa’s Rideau Street, just across from Maverick’s…
“From square one I’ll be watching you…”
On March 17th, 2012 I went to see the Ottawa Senators take on the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Palladium, though you would never know it by looking through my ticket stub album…
On February 27th, 2001 I slogged through the snowy streets of my adopted hometown to the Parliament Buildings to sit in on Question Period. I am a huge proponent of treating your own city as a tourist might and I make a point of visiting as much as I can of all the splendour this city has to offer…
On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions; The Music Of Queen. It was part of their annual Pops series and despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…
On February 17th, 2015 I went to Ottawa’s National Gallery for a pair of special exhibitions. I don’t quite recall, but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that I skated there from my house about two kilometres down the canal from the Rideau Centre, from where it is just a short walk to the beautiful gallery…