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The Love Machine says it’s time for Sweater Weather! Win their new CD.

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Samantha
on Friday, August 27, 2010
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Photo by Jamie Kronick, courtesy of The Love Machine.

Photo by Jamie Kronick, courtesy of The Love Machine.

So you may see Justin Bieber wearing a Love Machine t-shirt in the future, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking out their new album, Sweater Weather. Ottawa indie rockers The Love Machine have been together since 2004, and have played enough local shows that you, or your mom, should have heard of them by now. The band that released their first album some five years ago would probably have a hard time recognizing their new music. Allan Gauthier, guitarist and vocalist explains, “We just grew up.” It’s been three years since the last record and having that time to perfect the songs allowed them to transform their hooky pop-melodies into more mature rock anthems akin to Kings of Leon or Thrice.

Old fans won’t feel alienated however; three songs have been re-recorded to be included on the latest album (including ‘Squirrels,’ and ‘A little Cursive in all of us’). They will notice a huge difference in vocals and the moody and dark take of the sound. ‘The album is essentially about the last three years of our lives. We’ve all dealt with deaths, break-ups, etc. It’s not like I’m writing a diary, writing about life is the easiest thing I know.” Gauthier adds, “We just love being together and playing.’’

Unique to The Love Machine is that the guys all write as a collective force and that means that sometimes songs can take up to a year to complete, like ‘Be a Path’ (check spooky video here). What they are are perfectionists, feeling out and adding to the 15 new songs in live and jam settings under careful guidance of Jonathan Chandler from Amos the Transparent. ‘Those guys have been like big brothers to us,’ says Gauthier, saying that it was them that introduced them to their label 45 Records (an independent based out of Toronto).

The Love Machine are headlining the i(heart)music Festival on Saturday, August 28th at Mavericks. Apt613 hooks you up! We’re Ggiving away one copy of The Love Machine’s new album! Tell us your favourite Love Machine song by emailing editors@apt613.ca Contest ends this Sunday. Winners will be contacted by email.

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Swimming in the Shallows at Arts Court provides an intimate look at Man/ Shark love

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saxby
on Friday, August 20, 2010
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Sharks are awesome. Swimming in the Shallows - part of the new Arts Court Summer Fling theatre series - explores the intricacies of human relationships (including man/ shark love) through a humourous and well-constructed series of characters.

A couple facing transition in a troubled (but loving) marriage, a lesbian wedding, and a man jumping from one guy to the next (until eventually to shark) - all showed the audience something about how complicated and tedious our relationships can be.

Overall, Swimming in the Shallows is a successful production. I particularly enjoyed watching Margo MacDonald (from Fringe Fest fame with her production Shadows) try to quit smoking. The dream sequences were certainly a comedic high point and Bob, the somewhat-clueless husband played by Richard Gelinas, portrayed honestly and movingly the middle-aged husband who just doesn’t get it.

Swimming in the Shallows runs until Aug. 22. Full details and ticket prices are online at www.artscourt.ca.

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Choose your own ARTventure

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diane
on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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Marie-Josée Laframboise. 2010

Marie-Josée Laframboise. 2010

Get ready for some serious art-hopping happening all over the city this week! Here are some highlights…

Starting at 5:30 on Thursday evening, the Ottawa Art Gallery (2 Daly Avenue) is hosting the opening of their fall exhibitions:

Network Installations (August 13-October 24)
Montreal-based mixed-media sculpture artist Marie-Josée Laframboise weaves a variety of materials (including nets, rope, thread, fabric, and twine) to create large site-specific installations that invite us to engage in, with, and around the work. Playing with geographical and topographical 3-dimensional forms in space, the artist calls into question the territorial relationships that exist between art and audience. Note: The artist will be speaking about her work at the OAG on Friday, October 1 at 12:30. Mark it in your calendar!

Avaaz (August 13-October 24)
In Punjabi, “avaaz” is a word used to describe both sound and voice. Multi-disciplinary artist Dipna Horra works with everyday domestic objects and sound (recorded conversations between the artist and her father and songs sung by the artist when she was a child) to evoke narratives that describe personal histories about travel, immigration, and the collective memories that exist within families.

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Tonight: The Father Returns!

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diane
on Friday, August 6, 2010
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Courtesy of Fieldtripp from the Apartment613 Flickr Pool

Photo courtesy fieldtripp on Flickr.

Tonight, Canteen Art Shop + Gallery will be hosting the opening reception of the work of Mexican-born, Ottawa-based artist Guillermo Trejo.

Currently an instructor of printmaking and drawing at the Ottawa School of Art, Trejo writes that the prints included in The Father Returns are a result of his experimentation with a 1935 Vandercook letterpress machine that was sitting unused and gathering dust at the school. From the artist’s statement:

For several years most posters and printed information were done with these kinds of presses. This technique even with its ‘limitation’ is the Father of the contemporary graphic design. There is something in the flatness of the colors and the ‘mistakes’ in the registration and impression that makes the letterpress printing unique, embodying a classic style.

I find my inspiration in vintage and protest posters and at the same time I would like to pay respect to the graphic printers and designers that made some of the most memorable posters of all time using these machines.

The Father Returns run from August 6-22 at Canteen, located at 238 Dalhousie Street in the Byward Market. Tonight’s opening reception takes place from 7-10pm.

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Ottawa Lebanese Festival

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Katie
on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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The Ottawa Stilt Union presents The Girl Who Was Eaten by the Dark

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on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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The Ottawa Stilt Union performs The Girl Who Was Eaten by the Dark along the Ottawa River at Remic Rapids on Saturday, July 17 th, 2010, at 11:00am.

Grace is a little girl who is afraid of the dark. One night, she goes to visit her grandmother at her cabin in the woods. A cabin with no lights, in a place with no street lights. As she tries to sleep, she is visited by frightening creatures from folk tales around the world. As she outwits and conquers each of these creatures, she becomes stronger. W hen it’s all over, she is stronger than her fear, and has new insight into darkness as the source of imagination.

The Ottawa Stilt Union and designer Lou Hayden create marvelous, magical creatures and before-your-eyes theatrical transformations from actor to monster and back again. With a sound tapestry created by Geoff Cross and Timothy Mott and performed by the company, The Girl Who Was Eaten by the Dark is a rich experience on all levels.

Audiences and critics in Ottawa have already been charmed by the company’s performances last summer. One
Ottawa Fringe Festival blogger wrote: “A lovely, lovely piece. W onderful characters, costumes, and music.
Entertaining stilt work. Magical! Don’t miss it!”

After performing all over Ottawa and in the Catskills, NY, for the North American Cultural Laboratory, in the
summer of 2009, the Rideau Award nominated company will amaze the capital region’s audiences once again
with acrobatics, folk songs from around the world, creatures from legends, and a girl who conquers all! The
Girl W ho W as Eaten by the Dark is a theatrical presentation for everyone to enjoy, designed to be
thrilling and empowering for children of all ages.

Ottawa Stilt Union invites audiences of all ages to attend the performance of The Girl W ho W as Eaten
by the Dark, on Saturday, July 17 th, at 11:00am , on the rocks at the Remic Rapids, along the Ottawa River.
The show is a pay-what-you-can-event.

For more details or if you are interested in booking the company, please contact Guy Marsan at
613.600.6241 or guym arsan@gmail.com, or visit www.ottawastiltunion.ca.

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Poutine crawl this weekend! Reserve your place fast!

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apartment613
on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Photo courtesy of Alisha Hill on flickr

Photo courtesy of Alisha Hill on flickr

I’m actually not kidding and this has nothing to do with university frosh. Paola St-Georges of C’est Bon cooking classes is organizing a poutine crawl this Saturday, July 17, from 1:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The group’s poutine outing is a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society. (It supports a local athlete, Isabelle Rivard’s effort to raise $10,000 to bike from Vancouver to Austin for the Livestrong challenge.)  The $25 entrance fee not only comes with a tax receipt, a chance to win a trip to Toronto or a short haul flight within Canada and the U.S., BUT also a poutine tasting at seven restaurants in the ByWard Market.

“The restaurants are very generously donating the poutine,” organizer Paola St-Georges told Apt613.

“Poutine is something that catches young people’s eye. It is something that people can afford no matter what their income level,” she said. “(We thought) it is something that is fun and light… well, not the food!”

St-Georges will be leading the walking tour where participants will get to try “creative takes on the classic poutine.” Stops will include Murray Street’s spatzle poutine with shredded mariposa duck confit and roast duck gravy; as well as the Courtyard Restaurant for another duck gravy poutine; Zak’s dinner and Garlic Corner for a traditional take on the classic; Dunn’s smoke meat poutine, Island Flava for a jerk chicken poutine and D’Arcy McGees for a Guinness gravy poutine.

You can reserve your spot for the afternoon outing here. The group will meet in front of Cafe 55 at the ByWard Market Square and the entrance fee is payable at the door.

There is only room for 30 people so reserve fast!

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Win tickets to Abstract Rude

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Francois
on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Coming off the same label as Atmosphere and Brother Ali, SoCal’s Abstratct Rule has been around the rap scene for over a decade. He began his career in the early 90s in L.A. where he notably performed at the open mic at the Good Life Cafe (where a number of rappers, notably Jurassic 5, got to cut their teeth). His West Coast flow caught the ear of Mike D of the Beastie Boys and his Grand Royal label who later published three of his songs on the 1994 mix tape Mix Drink.

The versatile, soulful rapper called by some as “hip hop’s most accessible healer” has been part of numerous bands and collaborated with the likes Fat Jack and DJ Vadim but it’s his solo work that is bringing him to Ottawa. To celebrate the release of his newest album, Rejuvenation, Ab Rude is stopping at Ritual Nightclub for a special night of music this Friday, July 16. He’ll be accompanied by Mindbender, Nilla & partyboobytrap.

For those that love his flow, Apartment613 will be giving out two pairs of ticket to the show. All you have to do is send an email to editors@apt613.ca before Wednesday, 9pm with Abstract Rude in the title and we will draw two names on Wednesday evening.

For more info on the show, please check the Facebook event page.

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Rideau Canal Festival

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Francois
on Monday, July 12, 2010
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A Celebration of the Rideau Canal as a UNESCO World Heritage Site via heritage, environment and active living activities, including Rideau Heritage Village, Colonel By Day Celebration, heritage walking tour, Flotilla – Day and Night, Environment Fair and bicycle parade.

Locations: Various spots along the Rideau Canal from Hog’s Back to the Ottawa River Locks

For more information, go to http://www.rideaucanalfestival.ca/

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Ottawa Storytellers present: The Last Chapter - Stories of the End Times

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Francois
on Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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The Last Chapter - Stories of the End Times
Marie Bilodeau and Robert Collins
Stories and Tea
The Tea Party, 119 York St.
7pm-8:45pm
Pay what you can

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