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Around Town: Snowsuit Fund's Bash Noir is elegant and edgy
A collection of tough guys and femme fatales crossed dark and shadowy paths Saturday night but not for sinister reasons. They were among the 500-plus attendees of the film noir-themed Bash Noir charity...
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Around Town: Kyle Turris gets a chair for being chair of charity golf classic
Crohn’s and colitis, two chronic and complicated diseases that often get benched — from public conversation – were positioned at the centre of a charity golf tournament with honorary chair and Ottawa...
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Around Town: Meet 100 Men Who Care … A Lot
The scenario — a group of guys in a pub during after-work hours — doesn’t present itself as particularly noteworthy until you examine the common cause bringing the friendly blokes together: quiet and...
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Around Town: Artists donate to QuickStart art auction
Nary a guest was seen leaving empty-handed from the Art for Autism sale held Sunday afternoon inside the home of Dr. Len Chumak from Centrepointe Orthodontics and his wife, former high school...
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Around Town: Singing astronaut, idyllic setting make for perfect Vintage...
Everyone was flying high (aircraft not required) at the big party that Vintage Wings of Canada founder and former high tech executive Mike Potter hosted Tuesday in his private backyard paradise with...
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Around Town: Fourth of July bash at U.S. ambassador's residence
U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman and his wife, Vicki, invited 3,500 or so of their closest friends over to their official residence in Rockcliffe Park on Saturday to help them celebrate the Fourth of July...
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Around Town: Sens coach Dave Cameron does pizza party for charity
Ottawa Senators head coach and pizza cook for the day Dave Cameron was holding up just fine Sunday against the high temperatures coming from the fiery oven at Fiazza Fresh Fired in the Byward Market....
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Around Town: Can't rain on Opera Lyra Garden Party parade
It was really so thoughtful of our fine feathered friends to provide musical accompaniment to the 20th Annual Garden Party for Opera Lyra Ottawa, held Wednesday in Gatineau at the official residence of...
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Around Town: Chinese embassy opens doors to Friends of NACO and music education
After so many years of walking past the Chinese embassy, National Arts Centre Orchestra principal clarinettist Kimball Sykes finally got to see what the Lowertown building looks like on the inside. He...
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Around Town: Jewish Federation gets a helping hand from its budding leaders
Between starting families, building careers and paying loans, you can’t expect the so-called Millennial Generation to be the driving force behind philanthropy at such a critical point in their lives....
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Around Town: Feeling the magic at UofO Faculty of Medicine gala
Doctors responded to a different kind of emergency Saturday by following this action plan: kicking up their heels and having some fun with the Joel Plaskett Emergency band at the University of Ottawa...
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Around Town: Fifteen parties later, public still hungry for Appetites for...
A local charity group that welcomes and values people with disabilities whetted the appetite of some 40 friends, associates and neighbours invited to a private reception hosted Tuesday by James Wright,...
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Around Town: Brookstreet's Lumière gala passes $1 million mark
Terry Matthews knows how to throw a great party. The self-made tech icon and all-around fun-loving guy welcomed some 670 guests to his Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata on Wednesday night for the sold-out...
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Around Town: NAC Gala with Shelley, Lang sets new record
You gotta love a guy who brings his mom as his date. Maestro Alexander Shelley and Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang took to the red carpet at the National Arts Centre on Saturday with the women who’ve...
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Around Town: Oom-pah and ale at Oktoberfest bash for Heart Institute
German Ambassador Werner Wnendt was out on the town Wednesday to do the official tapping of the keg at an Oktoberfest-themed benefit that netted $81,972 for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute....
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Around Town: SoHo, So Cool at bash for Dave Smith treatment centre
Don’t starting pouring the concrete just yet but Dave Smith’s dream to build a new 30-bed residential treatment facility in rural west-end Ottawa to help young people struggling with drug and alcohol...
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Around Town: A night at the opera with everyone's favourite hairdresser, The...
If there had been a toast made Saturday at the National Arts Centre to the cast and crew of Opera Lyra’s The Barber of Seville, it might have gone something like this: “Shears to you”. Pembroke native...
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Around Town: Huge crowd shows its face for Philip Craig's portrait benefit
With or without booze, guests were seeing double as they flocked to Von’s Bistro on Sunday to check out Philip Craig’s new portrait show, attended by many of the folks whose faces now grace the walls...
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Around Town: Welcome to the club, as in the improved Boys and Girls Club
Nobody wanted to stand in the way of kids and their cake, so speeches were kept short at the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa’s joyous celebration of its newly renovated clubhouse in Vanier. Donors,...
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Around Town: St. Pat's night of Shamrocks & Shenanigans
The year-long celebrations of St. Patrick’s Home and its 150 years in Ottawa enjoyed a special wrap-up party filled with festive Irish music, food and drink at the official residence of the Irish...
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