Skating the Rideau Canal
Come along for the ride as I skate along the frozen Rideau Canal (AKA The World’s Largest Skating Rink)…
Tag: Ottawa
081408 Don Ross and Andy McKee/Vieux Farke Touré/Finest Kind/D Rangers, Ottawa, ON
I saw lots of great music over the course of the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival, including a veritable festival unto itself on August 14th, 2008, the first night of the festivities…
080915 Delhi 2 Dublin, Ottawa, ON
One of the great things about living in Ottawa are all the festivals and celebrations that happen all summer long. One of my annual favourites is the Festival of India…
061116 Must Stash Hat, Ottawa, ON
On June 11th, 2016 I rode my bike to Westboro in Ottawa’s west end to see Must Stash Hat in my friend’s backyard…
060716 The Starfleet Academy Experience, Ottawa, ON
On June 7th, 2016 I returned to the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum for another romp through science fiction memorabilia masquerading as a museum exhibit, this one focussed on the Star Trek universe…
051605 Joel Plaskett Emergency, Ottawa, ON
The Tulip Fest used to be an excellent little addition to Ottawa’s wide offering of annual music…
032407 NACO plays The Wizard of Oz, Ottawa, ON
I went to the show, Dorothy and her pals were victorious, that sneaky little wizard learned a thing or two as did that wicked old witch, the orchestra was as great as usual, and of course those flying monkeys freaked me right out…
032219 Reign of Fire; C4 Wrestling, Ottawa, ON
On March 22nd, 2019 I was just sitting around the house twiddling my thumbs and minding my own business when a message came in from a friend:
“Last minute heads up…” it read, “I’ve started going to a monthly minor league “professional” wrestling event…”
And just like that he had my undivided attention…
031120 Angela Hewitt, Ottawa, ON
This is the last concert I saw. Covid was just ramping up when I attended this wonderful show featuring Angela Hewitt playing the music of Bach, and while I enjoyed it immensely I sure am looking forward to seeing another concert sometime soon. Not since I started going to concerts at the age of fourteen have I gone a year without sharing a live musical performance with thousands of strangers, and I’m dying to do it again.
030417 Red Bull Crashed Ice, Ottawa, ON
As part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations Red Bull sent their crew to Ottawa for the first time. They spent a month setting up a downhill ice-skating track on top of the Rideau Canal locks next to the Château Laurier hotel that was nothing short of an engineering wonder. Complete with jumps, bumps, twists, and turns, it looked like a frozen Coney Island roller coaster but instead of two metal rails running it’s length the iced track was painted into four positively suicidal skating lanes…
Todd Man Out 