A hands-on Sushi class will take place at Ottawa Chinese Cooking Studio on Monday, January 16, 2012. It will start at 6:00 pm, $85.00 per person. This is also a dinner consisting of dishes being made in class and complimentaries as listed below:
(1) Volcano roll (crab, cream cheese, masago, Japanese mayonnaise…)
(2) Dynamite roll (tempura shrimp, masago, Japanese mayonnaise…)
(3) Mango shrimp tempura hand roll
(4) Crunchy roll
(5) Tempura sweet potato roll
(6) Orange (masago) California roll
(7) Gunkan
(8) Tempura broccoli roll
(9) California hand roll
(10) Vegetarian hand roll
(11) Mussel miso soup
Plus Japanese green tea, wasabi, pickled ginger, soy sauce, chili sauce, fortune cookies, and soft drinks
old ottawa south
Photo courtesy of Ottawa International Writers Festival.
By Alessandro Marcon
A couple of nights ago, I was rollin’ down on Bank, jammin’ B.Blade, thinkin’ on Siggy Freud. Laid back, though pensive I was, with my mind on my Muslims and my Muslims on my mind.
Not two days previous, with hand extended in fistbump position, I had found myself in the midst of cultural clash. “Teacher, I can’t do that” my student told me. “Sure you can,” I responded, while swiveling and fistbumping the chipper Korea woman on my right. “No teacher, I really can’t. I can’t touch you.” My clenched fist still hung in the air, a pathetic look on my face. “In this class, the only man I can only touch is my brother.” Oh yeah, you idiot, she’s a Muslim. How could I have not known? Many times I just don’t think about these things. People have called me tolerant, open and accepting. I call it being trapped in the enigmatic ocean of my own mind.
Today, conversation drifted to the topic of the Quran. One of my students listens to an audio-recording of it every morning on the bus ride to the school. The aforementioned student reads it every night. Another student is eager and willing to get me an English copy. At break, one of the Korean students asked another woman about the hijab she was wearing. She cordially answered; they both smiled.
Islam, I pondered.
Around 6:45, while the sun burnt orange, I arrived at the Mayfair and locked my bike outside. Irshad Manji was going to be there to discuss, among many things, her newest book Allah, Liberty and Love with the CBC´s Lucy van Oldenbarneveld. I grabbed a massive bag of popcorn, moved past four or five police officers and settled into my seat. I had Muslims on my mind, Islam on my brain. After being introduced as a “reconciler between faith and freedom”, as a woman who “takes no prisoners” despite having received numerous death threats, (hence the cops), Manji bounced down the aisle and emphatically took the stage. One thing was for certain: the irrefragable neurons started buzzing.
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Man about town and music blogger Ming Wu captured some amazing images at last weekend’s House of Paint. Ottawa’s only annual free outdoor hiphop jam, House of Paint showcased graffiti, breakdancing, DJs and MCs from across Canada. This year’s event was stellar – as you’ll see in the photos above – and brought frenetic, booming energy to the underpass at Brewer Park. Bboying and Bgirling abounded, set against a backdrop of emerging graffiti art by some of Ottawa’s best urban artists. Check out the slideshow above for photos of the dancing, the art, and Apt613′s first-ever graffiti design!
Photo courtesy Tammy Giuliani
After months of anticipation that had the neighbourhood buzzing, Stella Luna Gelato Café will open this weekend in Old Ottawa South. Armed with her adventurous spirit, her adopted Italian background, and a lot of courage, owner Tammy Giuliani has finally decided to follow her dream and open a gelateria.
“It’s a leap of faith! I’m in my mid-forties, my husband is in his early fifties… to be starting anew at this age… it’s scary!” she said.
This isn’t the first leap Giuliani and her husband have taken. When you ask her how she fell in love with gelato, you get a story to rival Eat, Pray, Love. In 1985, the summer she was 19, she took off to explore Italy. Three days into her trip, lost in Rome without a word of Italian, she bumped into a hottie on a Ducati. After mere days together, he proposed.
“We met, he asked me to the movies, and on the third day on the Spanish Steps, we were having a pizza and he proposed, and I thought, ‘How can I do this? How can I pick up and leave and marry you?’” she said, smiling. “And his comment, in very broken English, I spoke no Italian and he said, ‘You North Americans have your feet planted on the ground. You need to pick up your feet and fly.’ So I flew home, packed my bags and moved to Italy.”
In her years in Italy, she ate plenty of gelato, and when she moved back to Canada with her husband to raise their family, she dreamed of opening her own gelateria. The opportunity came when the Waldorf school she worked at closed during the economic downturn.
Click to continue reading “A taste of Italy at Stella Luna Gelato Cafe”
Party under the stars to a cool breeze off the river Sat. June 11, 7 pm, at the Windsor Park tennis courts in Old Ottawa South. Hot music by Caridad Cruz trio, Nepean Panharmonics Steel Band. Food by Havana Cafe: pig roast, Jamaican patties. Cash bar. Tickets only $40, available online at www.oldotttawasouth.ca, or at Havana Cafe, Compact Music, Ottawa Folklore Centre. BYOC: bring your own chair for relaxing between dances. Proceeds to Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge. Guaranteed to be the event of the season!
Photo courtesy Liz Henry on Flickr.
Survey by Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly
Apt613′s election correspondents election correspondents Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly have continued their investigations into the favourite Ottawa spots of the candidates vying to represent us. They sent out a questionnaire to local candidates in a number of Ottawa ridings, asking them to identify their favourite summer festival, greasy meal, etc. To fill out our survey, we added three meaty questions to the mix:
1) What are your roots in your riding and how have you been involved in the community?
2) Why should our readers vote for you?
3) How would you contribute to the vibrancy of Ottawa’s arts and culture scene?
In our second installment of our investigative survey reports, we’ve got the candidates of Ottawa-South. While most of them, despite several pleasant reminders from our team, chose not to respond, we’ve got the Pirate Party and Green Party candidates answers below.
Quirky fact: Beau’s made it to the favourite things list of three of the candidates. Find out which ones are prone to consuming the local brew below!
Click to continue reading “Apartment613 candidates survey: Ottawa-South”
Seeking warmth this winter without spending a bundle? Do you crave the sounds of surf crashing on long, white beaches and compelling Cuban rhythms? Come to Havana Night, the Ottawa South community Association’s fundraiser for Friends of Lansdowne and their legal challenge! The date to mark on your calendar is Saturday, January 28th from 8 to 11 pm; the venue to remember is the newly renovated Firehall at 260 Sunnyside Avenue in Old Ottawa South.
Havana Night will be an exciting and fun evening of Cuban music, Cuban food and Cuban drinks; the Cuban music will be provided by the trio of Caridad Cruz (vocals/bongos), César Ricardo (vocals/guitar/bass) and Israel Martinez (guitar/vocals) and the Cuban food will be prepared by Oslaide Guerra of the Havana Cafe & Catering at 1200 Bank Street. There will also be dance instruction for those interested!
Caridad Cruz has performed at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, NAC’s Fourth Stage, Casino du Lac Leamy Festival of Sound and Light, and Canada Day celebrations at Major’s Hill Park. ”Havana native Caridad Cruz packs a powerful punch,” pronounced the Ottawa Citizen in 2007. ”She’s an entertainer, a crowd pleaser. With her powerful voice and no-holds-barred personality, she knows how to get people up dancing and singing.” Toronto’s Now Magazine review of her appearance at Harbourfront in 2004 enthused that “…fire-spirited opener Caridad Cruz erupted into life. Stashed in the Latin artist’s arsenal was … a voice that could easily be confused with that of her namesake, elder Cuban music icon Celia Cruz.”
Tickets and information about this important fundraising event are available from www.oldottawasouth.ca and at the Old Firehall (tel 613-247-4946).
THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN
With ROMÉO DALLAIRE
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $15 / $10 for students and seniors
Ticket + copy of the book: $41.95
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
LGEN THE HON. ROMÉO DALLAIRE (Ret) was first confronted with child soldiers in unnamed villages on the tops of the thousand hills of Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. Believing that not one of us should tolerate a child being used in this fashion, Dallaire has made it his mission to end the use of child soldiers. Join us for an intellectually daring and enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as inspiring and concrete solutions to eradicate it.
(Please note: if you purchase the ticket + book package, your book will be held at our book sale table for you.)
For more information and tickets visit www.writersfestival.org or call 613-562-1243.
Burundi Film Center’s 2010 Short Films
The Burundi Film Center teaches youth the basics of film history, theory and production. The first films from 2007 played in over 50 international festivals – be the first to see the premiere of the newest short films created in the summer of 2010!
A silent auction with new images from East Africa in custom wooden frames will also help raise money for the BFC.
Annual community-wide porch sale. Bring out your stuff! There’s a volunteer 10% contribution to OSCA to offset advertising for the porch sale and other OSCA activities. Bring your contribution to the Firehall starting Monday, Sept. 13 at 260 Sunnyside Ave.
