Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ March 1, 2007
I scream, you scream, we all go to extremes to score the one we want to tease and please. Well, okay, some more than others, and the rest of us only sometimes.
Folks trek vast physical distances or make large leaps in logic to win the ones who make […]
The Ottawa XPress │ January 18, 2007
The Setbacks’ nod to rock gods
If male rockers pushing 40 could get pregnant, I’d believe that Ottawa’s The Setbacks were the product of a three-way shag in the back of a van between Tricky Woo, C’mon and Maximum RNR.
Baptized with Labatt’s 50 and weaned on MC5 and The […]
The Ottawa XPress │ November 6, 2006
BOOK REVIEW
Matthew Firth’s Suburban Pornography (Anvil Press, 207 pp.)
Matthew Firth’s tales of degenerate one-night stands
“Relax, girl. It’s just like taking a big shit. Only in reverse.” These are the lines I recite readily and adoringly when I’m asked about the best in contemporary Canadian pornographic writing. It’s from Mingus […]
The Ottawa XPress │ August 24, 2006
OttawaMetal.com hosts first annual metal benefit concert
For a subculture that gets such a bum rap, Ottawa’s heavy metal scene is lucky to have a solid core of fierce familiars to set the record straight.
“I just want to do as much as I can to diminish the stereotype that […]
The Ottawa XPress │ August 24, 2006
F#@! The Facts are coming to kill you… musically speaking
Ottawa-Gatineau Grindcore band sheds uniformity for diversity
One listen to any track off Stigmata High-Five, the new Fuck The Facts album, and you’ll understand why people sometimes crap their pants when they’re scared.
This multicultural quartet of girl and […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ June 29, 2006
I have an outhouse to decorate. I’m fascinated by cottage outhouses.
My mom has managed to transform hers into a wooden superbooth of hope and “Believe in Yourself!” messaging plastered all over the walls. There among the E.T. poster and dream catchers are watercolour scrolls of the Footprints […]
The Ottawa XPress │ June 15, 2006
Fringe performer Brendan McNally gets set to go the first round with Heads or Tails.
Sleek schooners set sail for Ottawa’s urban theatre world with tales of adventure and intrigue.
With this year’s theme being “X Marks the Spot,” get thee ready, matey, for some swashbuckling action at the 10th annual […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ June 8, 2006
Ever try talking dirty to your lover? How’s that working out?
I used to believe it was enough for ladies to splay themselves out naked on the centre of a cool, white bed, and — presto! — their job was done. For the most part, I think girls can […]
The Ottawa XPress │ June 1, 2006
BOOK REVIEW
Jennifer Whiteford’s Grrrl (Gorsky Press, 252 pp.)
Whiteford’s channels her own rock star dreams through the novel’s riot grrrl
Play. Stop. Rewind. Jennifer Whiteford’s distinctive debut novel, Grrrl, is like a killer mixtape from the early 1990s that you want to play over and over again.
Grrrl chronicles teenaged Marlie’s rock […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ May 25, 2006
Most couples are fearful that infidelity, finances or jogging pants will dissolve a marriage, but there’s a more terrifying monster lurking in the shadows.
It’s giving up who you are and what you want in order to become one. More plainly put, it’s identity loss.
“Marriage has the potential […]