For the current issue of Guerilla Magazine, Sylvie interviews Dan Allaston, tattooist and owner of New Moon Tattoo.
He’s been a jack of all trades and a free bird on the open road, he calls himself a procrastinator and a bad employee, but tattoo artist Dan Allaston has combined artistic talent with sound business sense to […]
Read more »The Ottawa XPress │ March 6, 2008
Private faces, public places
Local photographer Ian Flynn McDonald gets up-close and personal with Ottawa’s indie rock scene
Ottawa’s indie rockers and their fans are the focus of Indie 613, an exhibit by photographer Ian Flynn McDonald.
At one time a perennial fixture on the Ottawa music scene, McDonald […]
Read more »The Ottawa XPress │ May 24, 2007
The unapologetic Mr. Menzies
Artist and former member of The Grey defends his decision to move
They say all good things come to an end. But for some, the end is just the beginning. Multimedia artist and musician Hayden Menzies has got everything it takes to conquer the art world […]
Read more »The Ottawa XPress│ May 17, 2007
Roller Girl, See Her Go!
Some men like ‘em quiet, some men like ‘em shy, but give me a girl with some bruises on her butt and that killer look in her eye. ~ Uncle Leon and the Alibis
Roller derby’s resurgence almost skips Ottawa — almost.
Forget cheerleaders and tennis belles. Roller […]
The Ottawa XPress │ April 5, 2007
Jenn Farr is a hot wax mamma
In the April 5, 2007 issue of The Ottawa XPress, Sylvie boasted the buzz around Jenn Farr’s beeswax encaustic paintings.
You can see them at The Manx Pub (370 Elgin Street, Ottawa) from April 3 to May 3, 2007
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After touring topless as part of […]
The Ottawa XPress│ January 5, 2006
HELL IS ‘ROUND THE CORNER
The devil’s in the detailing at Angie’s Ratt Restorations.
It’s easy to mistake Hull for hell sometimes. And where a fresh deer carcass dangles from a tree in the barren landscape that is the front yard of Ratt Restorations, XPress has indeed found the devil’s workshop […]
Get Guerilla Magazine │ Issue #3
In 2001, I self-published a book of spoken word poetry called Hoxton Square Circles: Starfucking Tales of Sexless One-Night Stands. I didn’t have a clue about bar codes and ISBN numbers or anything else about publishing for that matter. I quickly recruited some fledgling graphic designers, sent the book to […]
Centretown Buzz │ April 11, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 9
Come to Where I’m From: shelter residents paint their space in art.
The Mission Hospice in Ottawa is unique to North America in that it happens to be attached to a shelter for the homeless. The Hospice makes it possible for vulnerable individuals in our community to […]
Lola Art Magazine │ Issue #10
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