Shotgun / February 2006

Ottawa Rocks!

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – February 23, 2006 Winterlude or Bluesfest? Long johns or lawn chairs? Would you consider these among the cultural symbols of Ottawa, the icons that epitomize what makes Ottawa Ottawa? I’m going to say “yes,” Alex, for $30, the price of my Hawksley Workman ticket at the Bronson Centre on March [...]

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Love, Love Me, Do Me

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – February 9, 2006 People go to great lengths to get sex, either keeping their efforts between themselves and God or with all of New York City. That’s right. Flippin’ through the New York Post last month, there it was in the popular Page Six column. John Lennon’s 30-year-old son, Sean, [...]

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Can You Spare Any Change?

Ottawa XPress – Shotgun – February 2, 2006 A lot of change going around these days. Angelina Jolie changed the last name of her two children, Zahara and Maddox, to “Jolie-Pitt,” and will make Brad Pitt their adoptive father. Here in Canada, over at CBC Radio, my favourite announcer, Anthony Germain, is changing offices and [...]

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