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Around Town: St. Patrick's Home celebrates 150 under the big top
Supporters of the St. Patrick’s Home of Ottawa came one, came all under the big top Thursday for the most magnificent, most splendiferous night imaginable — a celebration of the long-term care home’s...
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Around Town: Royal biographer Andrew Morton dished over dishes at literacy...
Author Andrew Morton, known for his best-selling biography on Princess Diana, shared some titillating tidbits from his latest controversial book, 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest...
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Around Town: An Evening of Wine, Food and Art
The music of conversation and laughter wafted through Koyman Galleries on Tuesday as more than 200 hundred people turned out for An Evening of Wine, Food and Art in support of the Thirteen Strings...
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Around Town: Chefs serve up support for homeless at Taste for Hope
An evening of fine food and equally fine people filled Jean Pigott Hall at Ottawa city headquarters on Wednesday for A Taste for Hope, an annual benefit for Ottawa’s largest homeless shelter, Shepherds...
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Around Town: Blue and Green Soirée shakes it up, salt-free
Future chefs and cooks spiced up the night at Algonquin College’s Restaurant International on Thursday by serving entirely salt-free fare to guests of the Blue and Green Soirée, a culinary evening that...
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Around Town: A Vimy Reception worth remembering
Top guns in military, politics and business came together under one magnificent roof for the 2015 Vimy Reception held Tuesday at the coolest Art Deco joint in town — the Embassy of France on Sussex...
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Around Town: What's cooking? How about the Southam Club and NAC Chef John Morris
The social scene was sizzling at the National Arts Centre this week as members of the Southam Club teamed up in the kitchen Thursday night to prepare and plate a gourmet dinner, then sit down to finish...
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Around Town: A Royal Good Time at Commonwealth Dinner
It was a brush with royalty — from the hockey world — for Gregory Evanik, president of the Ottawa branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS.) Evanik was preparing for his organization’s big dinner...
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Around Town: Star doctors hit the dance floor for medical research
There’s been a contagious outbreak within the medical community, leaving 10 prominent doctors displaying early symptoms of dance fever. Drs. Kayvan Amjadi, Rob Beanlands and Alison Dugan were all...
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Around Town: FurBall gives 'second chance' to homeless pets
Animal lovers unleashed their support for the Ottawa Humane Society by helping to raise more than $100,000 at the 11th annual FurBall, held at the Shaw Centre on Saturday night with special guest...
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Around Town: A literary love-in with Sharon Johnston
It was standing room only at the launch of the inaugural novel, Matrons and Madams, written by Sharon Johnston, wife of Gov. Gen. David Johnston. So popular was Tuesday’s event that guests began...
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Around Town: Lawyers hit the stage for annual fundraiser
How many lawyers does it take … to raise more than $100,000 for charity? 21, and that’s no joke. That’s the size of the cast in the current production of the romantic comedy Parfumerie being presented...
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Around Town: Bruyère Does Broadway
Nobody puts Bruyère Continuing Care in the corner. It was front and centre with its Inaugural Broadway for Bruyère Gala that kicked off on the ground floor of Morguard’s modern new Performance Court...
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Around Town: War Museum becomes speakeasy
Honest officer, it was all completely legal. The LeBreton Gallery in the Canadian War Museum may have been transformed to look like a speakeasy, where people used to go to drink bootlegged liquor...
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Around Town: Spotlight on Company of Fools, Third Wall
The birthday of England’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, didn’t slip by without a proper celebratory toast led by British Deputy High Commissioner Tom Barry at a gathering held Friday with...
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Around Town: Signs of spring spotted at Elmwood School garden gala
Elmwood School was bursting with colours, lush foliage and eye-catching blooms on Saturday night because, as we all wait for spring to come, the all-girls private school in Rockcliffe decided to create...
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Around Town: Chefs' dinner cooks up support for cancer survivors
A group of top Ottawa chefs made good on their promise to cook a gourmet dinner for 12, donated to a charity auction last fall to help folks fighting cancer. The gathering place was a private home in...
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Around Town: Lt. Gov. helps launch Ontario Scene arts festival
Ontario’s new lieutenant governor, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, was in town Wednesday for the launch of the National Arts Centre’s Ontario Scene, a biennial festival packed with enough art, theatre, music,...
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Around Town: A Loving Tribute to Gina Lofaro
Gina Lofaro loved going to big gala parties on the arm of her husband, content to quietly watch the rich, famous and powerful. She wasn’t a social climber. Nor was she an attention-seeker. Rather, she...
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Around Town: Children's artwork raises funds for Candlelighters benefit
There were flowers, flowers everywhere at the Spring Blooms art show and auction for Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Support Programs, hosted Wednesday in the light and airy Koyman Galleries on St....
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