Sandra Abma

Ottawa soprano Joan Fearnley invented a mask tailor made for vocalists, which has then been adapted for choirs around the world.

A new website aims to help women find affordable housing in Ottawa’s red-hot real estate market by linking them with other women to either rent or own a home.

The National Arts Centre Orchestra launched its new season Friday night welcoming audiences back to Southam Hall with a program of new music, Tchaikovsky and a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

A live music staple in Ottawa for almost four decades, the Rainbow Bistro will close its doors for good in 10 days unless a new owner steps forward.

A late summer mix of laughs, Shakespeare and physical hijinks are guaranteed as theatre troupe A Company of Fools has returned to Ottawa-area parks after a long hiatus.

Early summer rain followed by sunny days and high temperatures has lead to a bumper year for honey-making in eastern Ontario after a tough summer of 2020.

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, House of PainT hip-hop festival and the newcomer, City Sounds, bring music and arts to local neighbourhoods and online starting this week.

Some Ottawa music presenters cautiously plan to reunite musicians with live audiences this summer as they watch vaccination numbers rise, and hope public health restrictions loosen.

Equipped only with paints and brushes, a group of Ottawa elementary school students was asked to create a time machine to whisk them into the future. The world they’ve envisioned has flying cars, space portals — and no COVID-19.

Ottawa’s Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival launches Tuesday, days after the remains of 215 children were discovered on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

A new library is set to open in Ottawa this summer, but it won’t be lending books. Instead, the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library’s shelves will be stocked with used skates and skis, hiking boots and soccer balls — a wide range of recreational equipment for people to borrow, all for free.

Plans to host a live outdoor concert at Lansdowne Park for 100 people in two weeks are forging ahead, amid concerns Ottawa may be going into the red zone.

Stresses and anxieties of the past year have led to more cases of self-harm, opioid use and eating disorders among young people.

TV and movie production is booming in Ottawa despite the pandemic, and all the extra costs facing producers.

See a genius’s vision brought to life, immerse yourself in Canada’s inspirational landscapes or sound off in an air guitar throwdown in Ottawa this weekend.

In 2012, the City of Ottawa approved an action plan to boost arts funding — $5 million over six years — to bring cultural spending in line with other major Canadian cities. Now local arts groups say they’re wondering why that commitment failed to materialize.

Inspired by ‘I Lost My Talk’ by Mi’Kmaq poet Rita Joe, students from five aboriginal communities created songs infused with the same spirit of hope and resilience.