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Around Town: A full Boy in the Moon crowd at GCTC
Friends and family of the late Charles “Chuck” Dalfen packed the GCTC on Thursday for the much-anticipated premiere of a profound new piece of theatre. The play, The Boy in the Moon, was developed and...
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Around Town: Embassy chefs face off for charity
For, like, the umpteenth time, Irish Ambassador Ray Bassett and his wife, Patricia, have opened up their official residence in Rockcliffe Park for charity. The most recent cause was the 3C Foundation,...
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Around Town: Lumière Gala sets record for attendance, money raised
Ottawa’s party season really did get started with a bang (and a boom and a pow) as the 12th annual Lumière Gala and its unforgettable fireworks show celebrated its most successful year to date. A...
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Around Town: Serena Ryder headlines U of O Faculty of Medicine gala
The circus came to town, and brought with it Serena Ryder to perform at the U of O Faculty of Medicine’s Abracadabra: A Night of Magic and Medicine. The second annual gala, held Saturday at the Westin...
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Around Town: Minister Glover hosts 'mammoth' movie night
Nobody ignored the elephant in the room at the latest Movie Night on the Hill hosted Monday by Heritage Minister Shelly Glover at the National Arts Centre. Rather, attendees mugged it up with the paper...
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Around Town: Top chefs cook for cancer coaching program
Too many cooks in the kitchen? Uh, uh. Not when it’s some of the biggest names on the local culinary scene raising thousands of dollars for folks fighting cancer. The inaugural Taste & Walk...
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Around Town: NAC Gala nets $917,000
Thursday was the new Saturday as the 18th annual National Arts Centre Gala shifted to a weeknight this year and brought big names in business, politics and philanthropy together under the same roof to...
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Around Town: Ottawa Symphony Orchestra celebrates 50 years (and counting)
You only turn 50 once (unless you live in denial), so, rather suitably, supporters of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra got together Monday to celebrate half a century of music making with a season-opening...
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Around Town: NACO tour of UK honours First World War soldiers
In a matter of days, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) will be making the giant leap across the pond for a five-city UK tour that will see its musicians perform and educate while also...
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Around Town: Salmon Federation dinner pulls in a catch of $75,000
Fiona Gilfillan adores fishing. You could even say she got “hooked” after her first time salmon fishing on the Gaspé Peninsula last year at Camp Bonaventure. The fly-fishing lodge is part-owned by...
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Around Town: Upstream rebuilds lives affected by mental illness
When Slyvia Cuhaci looks back, she feels like she twice lost her son, Hayg — first to mental illness in his early 20s and again with his tragic death, at age 29. “He was a normal kid,” Cuhaci told...
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Around Town: Redblacks team up to co-host fundraiser
The Ottawa Redblacks scored extra points at TD Place Stadium on Wednesday and they weren’t even on the field. Rather, the new CFL team co-hosted a charity gala in aid of widows and orphans devastated...
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Around Town: Habitat for Humanity 'a perpetual motion miracle'
Hundreds of gala-goers came together Saturday under the magnificent roof of the Canadian War Museum, all with the common goal of ensuring other less-fortunate families also get a roof of their own....
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Around Town: Art comes to life at Ottawa Art Expo
Artist Christopher Griffin, whose concrete turtle sculptures currently roam the grounds of the Ottawa Public Library’s Beaverbrook branch in Kanata, has been awarded the Lucille Broadbent Award for his...
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Around Town: Ottawa Singers bring music never heard here before
All you need is love, sang the Beatles, but all the Ottawa Singers need is money − about $175,000 of it − to bring Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio to the National Arts Centre next fall. Some 50...
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Around Town: 2014 Negev Dinner honours Dorothy Nadolny
Bill Clinton, Larry King and Barbara Walters are just a few of the household names who’ve come to Ottawa in recent years to speak at the Jewish National Fund’s Negev Dinners. The dinners are a big...
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Around Town: Hope Live heroes Burton Cummings, Rick Mercer save the day
Guess Who saved the day at Hope Live after headline singer Alanis Morissette called in sick and left organizers with a bitter, jagged little pill to swallow? Burton Cummings. The 66-year-old Canadian...
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Around Town: It's schmooze time with United Way
Hundreds of young professionals got their schmooze on at United Way Ottawa’s signature social networking and fundraising combo night, held at City Hall’s Jean Pigott Place on Thursday. Schmoozefest...
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Around Town: Ottawa Hospital celebrates best and brightest
So long hospital gown, hello formal gown. A record crowd of 640 people, all in the mood to celebrate groundbreaking research and community support, came together Saturday for The Ottawa Hospital Gala,...
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Around Town: Getting hip to Jazz Festival benefit
It seems the crowd couldn’t get enough of Alan Neal, who was back to host the 17th annual Live Auction and Benefit Concert for the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, held Thursday at Library and Archives Canada....
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