Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ November 24, 2005
“Devil’s Broom” is the fourth track off Joseph Arthur’s album Our Shadows Will Remain. It’s a memorable song about hopelessness, alcoholism and homelessness.
“Since you’re gone ain’t nobody else gonna save me/ ’cause I can’t trade a bottle for an empty room/ I just pray that the Lord […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ November 17, 2006
A “Best Of” New York City list comes out in the Village Voice every year, like our Best of Ottawa in the XPress. And boy, can you ever tell a lot about a city-as you can with a person-by what they boast are their best features.
New Yorkers have […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ November 10, 2006
Now that I’ve quit drinking and smoking, let me tell you, socializing at parties is a whole new ballgame. It’s like walking around with a plastic bathing cap when everyone’s let their hair down.
The good news is I always leave the festivities the way I got there — […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ October 27, 2005
Once upon a time, The Rolling Stones made a video called “The Streets of Love” in Ottawa (rollingstones.com/abiggerbang). But it was a fairy-tale make-believe Ottawa, and all the little Ottawans got silly with glee!
A downtown Ottawa nightclub owner, a head honcho at an Ottawa-Gatineau film office, and […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ October 20, 2005
Taking the bus is already a pain in the ass-must OC Transpo rub our faces in it too?
OC Transpo raises fares to the extortionate rate of $2.75 a trip while it is needlessly replacing some of the city’s bus stop shelter huts with newer ones. Now there’s […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ October 6, 2005
Would it be for health or hygiene that you’d cut your period out of your life? And do you think you’d be more independent and self-assured? The makers of Seasonale® (www.seasonale.com) think so.
I learned about Seasonale® through a documentary called Menstruation Suppression that aired a while back on […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ September 29, 2005
I’m not Sean Penn. But I’ll try to be kind like him. OK, so I didn’t help Katrina victims, but I tried to save Ottawans from boredom and disappointment at shitty sex-stores.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many Hollywood celebrities offered their services, like John Travolta who flew […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ September 22, 2005
I’m pretty pissed about something. And yes it’s also my PMS talking, thanks.
Feminists are ragging on the latest Always Have a Happy Period feminine hygiene campaign (www.beinggirl.com) that encourages women to treat and pamper themselves during the cursed Time of the Month.
“It’s like Barbie gets her period,” […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ September 15, 2005
My first boyfriend and me waited almost a year before “doing it” — and it was a blast. Instead of intercourse, we filled our time with tonnes of other sexy stuff and substitutes. But where to get started? The only sex shops I knew of were in Hull […]
Ottawa XPress │ Shotgun │ September 8, 2006
During my vacation last month in Halifax at a Maritime wedding — surrounded by great live Celtic music and friendly types merrily jigging their hearts away in celebration of love and happiness — I found that sticking to my self-imposed four-months-off-the-booze pledge was challenging.
I finally succumbed to an […]