For all the ladies who aren’t into football, The City Grill is hosting an evening just for you. On Sunday, February 5, 2012, the downtown restaurant is hosting a ladies night to help you get away from all the football hoopla and enjoy an evening …

In today’s UP: two new exhibitions, Transmission Lines and People People, open at the Cooper Cole Gallery; COBA’s new work Les Rythmes de la Forêt opens at the Fleck Dance Theatre; and improv show About an Hour returns to Toronto.

EXHIBITION: Two exhibitions open at Cooper Cole Gallery this evening: a group exhibition, Transmission Lines, featuring American artists Ryan Wallace and Chris Duncan, and a solo exhibition of paintings by Anders Oinonen, People People. Both Wallace and Oinonen will be in attendance at tonight’s opening. Cooper Cole Gallery (1161 Dundas Street West), 6 p.m.–10 p.m., [...]

Last week, a few of my blogger friends and I hit up the Bloor Street Roots store to check out their Spring 2012 goodies. And as you see, we all found something to love. Though I’ve always been a fan of Roots’ leather accessories, the preview made me re…

In today’s Urban Planner: a photo exhibition takes shots of your favourite bands; get the inside scoop on the film industry in a talk with actor Pam Grier; and prepare for spontaneous laughter with Comedy Bar’s Improv Show.

PHOTOGRAPHY: There’s a certain joy in being able to take photographs of your favourite bands without having to pay any copyright fees (and boo Apple for attempting to take that away). “Sound Image” is a photography exhibition that gathers images like that—amateur snaps of concerts and crowds. The curators whittled down the entries to the [...]

[ Saturday, February 4, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm. ] stars on 45 presents

the reggae dancehall edition
with special guests

wide-eyed sound system

the coldest month of winter brings the hottest of riddims as Stars on 45! keep things warm and heavy with a night of Jamaican 7″s!

Things spin faster on Sat. Feb. 4th with sounds from rocksteady to dub to ska to dancehall and all the reggae [...]

[ Wednesday, February 8, 2012; 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] It’s that time of the month again.
This February, heat up the cold with a fabulous feature performance from new-to-Ottawa poet, playwrite, and performer Abby Paige.

As always, our two-hour show includes an all-women open mic (feature YOU, so bring your favourites and your new experiments to our stage – open mic performers get in free).

Here’s [...]

[ Sunday, February 5, 2012; 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] A FREE community dinner and night of bilingual story sharing from the forefront of some of Ottawa’s current worker struggles.
ALL ARE WELCOME but space is limited!

5:30pm ~ Feb. 5
Jack Purcell
Community Centre
Near Elgin and Lewis

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With artistic performances by:

Three Little Birds & Poetic Speed

http://www.myspace.com/threelittlebirdstheband
http://komiolaf.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfG0I0_oeQ&feature=related
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With Stories from the workers of the:

Museums of Science & Technology, Aviation and Agriculture

Novotel [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The BC Sports Hall of Fame has finally re-opened after closing in April of 2010, post Olympics, while BC Place was being remodeled. The Hall opened its doors in November and they’re [...]

This past Saturday, Mettawas Station, located in Kingsville, Ontario in the historic old train station, held their annual Winter Wonderland dinner. What makes this event so unique, and in my opinion fun, is that the entire feast is served outdoors in t…

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Adera Developments, who brought Zen to Surrey and Breeze to South Surrey, are hosting a Valentine’s fundraising event for a local cause. On Sunday, February 12, 2012 you can bring your beloved [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. It’s been five years since CKNW was inspired by the story of two students from Nova Scotia (David Shepherd and Travis Price) who took a stand against bullying by wearing pink shirts [...]

Today in Toronto: Say hello to February with a trip to the Brockton Writers Series, TIFF kicks off its new Science on Film series, Sam Shepard’s production of The God Of Hell hits the stage at Unit 102 Theatre, and brush up on your French at Théâtre français de Toronto’s presentation of Zone.

LITERATURE: Get your February jump-started with a trip to the Brockton Writers Series to see readings by four authors. Today’s edition includes Koom Kankesan talking about his first novella, Maria Meindl sharing her essay from an anthology on death, Jeffrey Round speaking about his newest book, Lake on the Mountain, and Suzanne Sutherland reading from [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. This Friday I am very excited to attend my first Hobiyee, which is the Nisga’a new year celebration presented by the Nisga’a Ts’amiks Society and Social City Networking. Organizers have informed me [...]

Monday’s “Coldest Day of the Year Ride” was neither very cold nor very long, but it was fairly well attended.

We hopped on a Bixi bike yesterday to head to City Hall for the the Bike Union-organized Coldest Day of the Year Ride—on a day when …

In today’s Urban Planner: Close out the first month of the year by checking out a panel on design and the media; attending a fundraiser and CD-release party for a compilation album that’s raising money for War Child Canada; and seeing Daniel Stolfi’s new comedy about bad theatre.

DISCUSSION: How does the role of design change alongside an evolving audience and new forms of media? RGD Ontario and the Design Exchange will examine that topic tonight—as part of Design Week at the DX—at a panel discussion called The Evolving Visual Consumer. Panellists will include Bev Forster, John Furneaux, Adrian Norris, Kaye Puhlmann, and [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Next weekend the NFL and Bud Light are hosting Vancouver’s Official Super Bowl XLVI Party, showing the big game live from Indianapolis. The event at the Commodore will kick off with a [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Earlier this month the Rio Theatre obtained their liquor license so that they could host 19+ events (performances, comedy, concerts) with bar service. The celebration was short-lived as they soon realized that [...]

[ Saturday, February 4, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Off the Beaten Track and Pretty Bad Records Presents . . .
The Johnnies 7″ Release Party with:

The Johnnies
www.myspace.com/thejohnniesloveyou/
&
The Polymorphines
http://www.myspace.com/thepolymorphines
&
The Shakey Aches
www.myspace.com/theshakeyaches

Doors at 9:00 PM
Music starting sometime around 10:00
5$

Both The Johnnies 7″ and The Shakey Aches 7″ on Pretty Bad Records will be for sale, along with a bunch of Polymophines goodies (their EP RIPS!), Pretty [...]

Jeremy is inviting the public to join him and co-show bill performer Chris Velan for a cross-country ski on Saturday Feb 4 at 11:00 am. They”ll be meeting at P 17 near Wakefield and skiing up to the Herridge Cabin for a bring-your-own picnic lunch. Even if folks can’t come to the shows, they want [...]

Jeremy Fisher is an exceptionally talented solo artist and he’ll be playing Ottawa on February 3 and 4.
He’s toured North America on bicycle, he creates incredible video’s not only for himself but in the last year has done animated vid’s for Rah Rah, and Imaginary Cities as well as Hannah Georgas.
Here’s a clip of Jer’s self [...]