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Nominations have opened for the 2024 Capital Music Awards.

Categories this year are:

• Solo Artist of the Year
• Group of the Year
• Newcomer of the Year
• Songwriter of the Year
• Single of the Year
• Album of the Year
• Video of the Year
• Sound Engineer of the Year
• Best Production and Arrangements
• Live Music Venue of the Year
• Music Educator of the Year
• Live Music Curator of the Year
• Community Impact Award

Click here to make a nomination. Winners will be announced at Bronson Centre Music Theatre on May 16.

– Martha and Darren

TODAY’S LINE UP

•  More Valentine’s Day Experiences and Gifts
•  Ottawa Stats
•  City Hall Agenda
•  What Ottawa is Talking About
•  Events
•  Deals of the Day

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VALENTINE’S DAY

More Valentine’s Day Experiences and Gifts

1. La boīte à bon bons’ Cold Winter Nights box will warm the hearts of you and your love with candy, a candle, and a chocolate bar. You can also select a locally crafted card to go with it. $45.95
    
2. Spend a romantic evening at the theatre. The Gladstone presents the Bent Sisters production of Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna’s 1982 comedy It Had to be You (February 7 - 17).
    
3. Red Apron combines celebrations with the Dragontine’s Day Menu (referring to the Lunar New Year the Dragon). Order for pickup or delivery, and share it with love.
    
4. Make it a classic Valentine’s Day date with dinner and a show. Biagio’s has prepared a romantic menu followed by comedy with Byron Bertram. You can choose skip the show and just concentrate on gazing into each other’s eyes across the antipasti, if you prefer.
    
5. The Wax Studio handcrafts beeswax candles in imaginative shapes or classic tapers. Purchase online and pick up in central Ottawa.
    
6. Kallisto’s menu is a choice of Grilled Chicken Breast, Salmon Filet, or AAA New York Stake plus Greek sides. To finish: the ultimate Valentine’s treat of chocolate covered strawberries.
    
7. Book a place for yourself, your pals, or your person on the Beads and Booze: Valentine’s Day Edition, for an evening of DIY jewellery making and cocktails at Driphouse (3408 Parkdale Ave).
    
8. Little Jo Berry’s plant-based Valentine’s Date Night Meal is a comfort meal dream with fried seitan chicken, Cashew Cheese Alfredo Pasta, a kale salad, one City Seltzer, and one treat, which you choose from the display cart. You’ll reheat the meal at home. It’s available February 9 to 14 during regular shop hours.
    
9. The extremely limited, dinner-sized Valentine’s Charcuterie for 2 boards from Piggy Market include a locally made board that you get to keep once the cheese, meat, and accompaniments are gone.
    
10. Dinner and dancing: a classic Valentine’s Day evening. Sala San Marco’s Valentine’s Day Dinner & Dance on Saturday February 10 includes a three course meal, cash bar, and dancing all night long. Call 613-695-5980 or email Michelle@salsasanmarco.ca to reserve.
     
11. Enjoy a romantic six course dinner at Grounded Ottawa's Centretown location.
     
12. Give your honey some very cute Québec-crafted chocolate goodies from Rochef Chocolatier.
     
13. Book the three course meal at Ridge Rock brewing in Carp. $50 per person. Call 613-470-2337 or email heather@ridgerockbrewco.ca
     
14. Overflow Brewing’s Beer Lovers Dinner on February 14 is a six course menu of beer and food pairings.

OTTAWA STATS

Sports

• 🏒NHL Ottawa Senators 2 – Boston Bruins 3 last night

CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

No more meetings this week.

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

🛻 Convoy News

•  The lawyer stickhandling the proposed class action against the Convoy says the Emergencies Act ruling is helpful. Paul Champ says the Federal Court’s ruling that Federal government overreached in invoking the Emergency Act shows that the conflict was real and centred in Ottawa but how it was dealt with is irrelevant to the case. (Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen)

🏠 Property Tax

•  Thirty two years after the creation of the public Internet, the City has made assessment value and the property tax values available online as of today. The new tool lets you look up any address in the City and find out its assessed value and the various taxes levied for the current and previous year. (Toula Mazloum at CTV) (City Look-up Tool)

🏗️ National Capital Commission

•  The National Capital Commission has selected a developer for four acres of land at LeBreton Flats, across from the Canadian War Museum and the LeBreton Flats Park festival grounds. Avenue 31 Capital and Cogir plan a series of 12 to 20 storey highrises, resulting in 900 apartments. The Commission anticipates a lease with the developers by the end of the year. (Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen)
  
  ➕ Related The former Chapters on Rideau Street purchased by the Commission may become an event centre.
  
  ➕ Related The Commission has given the Ottawa Senators until August to make a decision on an arena at LeBreton Flats.

🏫 Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

• Ottawa-Carleton District School Board Trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth has filed for a judicial review of her breach of conduct punishments. The Board barred Kaplan-Myrth for one meeting and declared her not eligible for any committees, after a report by the integrity commissioner on her conduct against other trustees. A hearing date has not yet been set. (Joanne Laucius in the Ottawa Citizen)

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EVENTS

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All Weekend

•  Eliza Faulkner is bringing all sorts of fashion goodies to the Sample Sale at Victoire (Friday January 26 through Sunday January 28). Meet Eliza herself on Saturday from noon to 4:00 pm.

•  Greely Winter Carnival runs through Sunday January 28.

•  On Saturday visit a dairy farm, watch Hockey Night in Canada on a big screen, and dance the rest of the night away at the Pakenham Winter Carnival (on right now, until Sunday January 28).

•  It's difficult to choose one event but the Flintstone curling bonspiel could be the highlight of the Carlsbad Springs Winter Carnival. 

•  LA-based Troupe Vertigo joins the NAC Orchestra for performances combinging circus, dance and live music in Cirque España. Through Saturday January 27.
   

Today

•  Road trip: It's $5 Bin Days at Johnie's Vintage in Arnprior. The bins are full of tees, jackets, jeans, and more.

•  Tonight and tomorrow (Saturday January 27) are the final opportunities to try Fraser’s Bubba Gump or Meat Me By Fraser pizzas, before they’re gone for good.

•   Comedy Instagram account turned live show @canada.gov.ca debuts at Brigid’s Well, 310 St. Patrick Street, 5:30 pm. $25.
  
  ➕ Ashley Newall at Apt613 explains what it is all about.

•  Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch brings his one-man show Tales of Bravery and Stupidity to Algonquin Commons Theatre.

•  Go for the beer, stay for the poetry and music as Beau’s Brewing celebrates Robert Burns.

•  Let the moon guide you as you Snowshoe Under the Stars in Gatineau Park on Friday nights until March 29. These evening excursions are guided by experienced nature interpreters from Friends of Gatineau Park, and no snowshoeing experience is necessary. $20 for Members, $25 for non-members.
  
  Gigs

• The Barrow Gang. Atomic Rooster

•  Women’s Comedy Night. Yuk Yuk’s

•  Friday I’m in Love Indie Pop Dance Party. The 27 Club

•  Ryan Begin. Broadhead Brewery

•  80s Dance Party. House of TARG

•  Teenage Fiction, Hannah Big, Touch Grass, Zeelle. Rainbow Bistro

•  Sing a Sea Shanty. Beyond the Pale Brewing

•  Wonderstruck - Ottawa’s Magic Experience. The Prescott

•  CHEO Concerts! Rock 4 Kids Saturn Sunrise, The Vice Parad, Parliament of Owls. Cafe Dekcuf

•  The Playlist. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Claude Munson, Crop Circle Catalysts, Chime of Wrens. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Valvehead, Galaxy Brain, Vulcan GPO. LIVE on Elgin

•  Afrobeats. Mavericks
   

Tomorrow

•  There's a brand new brunch in town: Katha Ottawa's weekend treat runs Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Call 613-600-9201 to book or shoot them a DM. 

•  Historian Dave Allston talks about the decision-making process that led to much of the Ottawa River shoreline, from Mechanicsville through LeBreton Flats, being built from our garbage. Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch Auditorium. 1:00 pm. Free.

•  Calabogie Peaks Resort’s Authentic Southern BBQ Lunch promises delicious ribs, chicken, and pulled pork, plus coleslaw and baked beans at the bottom lodge deck between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm.

•  Mayfair Theatre screenings: Godzilla Minus One, Enter the Drag Dragon, Saturday Night Sinema.

•  ByTowne Cinema screenings: The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, The Teachers’ Lounge, Under the Skin.

•  More than 60 vendors are taking part in the Robert Plante Greenhouses 1st Annual Winter Market. Wander the greenhouses, shop from the craft vendors, enjoy a tipple from Stray Dog Brewing or Vignoble Clos du Vully, and maybe even get a knife sharpened. 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at 4228 Navan Rd in Orléans.

•  D’oh! It’s Classic Simpsons Trivia night at Whiprsnapr Brewing. Reservations are required. 14 Bexley Place, Bells Corners. info@whiprsnaprbrewingco.com

•  Coconut Lagoon and Thali’s Joe Thottungal pops up at Dominion City for one night only (4:00 pm to 8:00 pm). There are no reservations so get there when you can for an evening of delicious curry and beer. 

•  Toronto’s Kelvin ‘Bacardii’ Bacani leads the ‘Waacking Workshop & Mini Dance Battle with Bacardii’, presented by Moov Ottawa Dance.

•  The Carleton Cup aims to use skating, running, and drinking (alcoholic or otherwise) to raise $10,000 for the Ottawa chapter of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Organisers say the event will go ahead without the skating component if the Rideau Canal isn’t open.

•  Young String Performers Foundation’s first concert of 2024 covers classical and contemporary pieces. First Unitarian Church of Ottawa, 30 Cleary Ave.
  
  Gigs

•  J.A.N.K. Atomic Rooster

•  Jamie Fine. Bronson Centre

•  Pony Girl. National Arts Centre

•  Jeremy Fisher. Red Bird

•  Sorry Snowman, Madfolk, February Hate Club. House of TARG

•  Salem Trials, The Sink, Premeditated, No Hope X Mankind. Dominion Tavern

•  Latin fiesta. Mavericks

•  Eru-Era. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Knights of the Roundtable: Dirty Doc, Dev’L, Ruckus, Puffalina, Nova, Miss McLeod, J.V. Rainbow Bistro
   

Sunday

•  Get stocked up for the week at Ottawa Farmers’ Market, where more than 75 local farmers, producers, bakers, butchers, cheesemongers, florists, candle makers, chocolatiers, coffee sellers, pie makers, brewers, apiarists, and distillers will have everything you need. 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion.

• Today’s winter carnivals:

1. Sandy Hill Winter Carnival
    
2. Trend Arlington Winter Carnival noon to 4:00 pm
    

•  Celebrate the starman at Wellington Gastropub’s Strung Out in Heaven’s High…A Bowie Celebration brunch. Bowie tunes will be playing from noon to 5:00 pm. Tickets support MIND, the Mental Health Charity.

•  Ottawa’s Newfoundland and Labrador Choir, Atlantic Voices, will be performing Road to the Isles: songs from Newfoundland, Cape Breton, PEI, Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides, and Maui) at Centretown United Church at 3:00 pm. Warning: they say tickets are selling fast.

•  KingDom Theatre’s 15th Anniversary show, Magic of Light, involves 56 actors aged six to 16. 4:00 pm at Kailash Metal Theatre, Carleton U.

•  Bring the gang to Ottawa Pinball Arcade for Family Fun Day, where it’s unlimited play from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. $15 per person 12 and over.

•  ByTowne Cinema screenings: Banff Mountain Film Festival (SOLD OUT), The Teachers’ Lounge, The Zone of Interest

•  Mayfair Theatre screenings: Love-Streams, Cry-Baby. 

  Gigs

•  DJ Jon Deck. The Laff

•  Acoustic Coffee House. Red Bird

•  Mike Meunier. Hunter’s Public House

•  Sunday Blues: Wicked Grin. Atomic Rooster

•  Dan Bern, Orit Shimoni. LIVE on Elgin

•  The Radicals. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

Monday

• Mayfair Theatre Screenings: The Iron Claw, Godzilla Minus One, Love Streams

• ByTowne Cinema screenings: The Zone of Interest, Banff Mountain Film Festival (SOLD OUT)

•  The Ottawa Trivia League visits Bar Robo for an evening of trivia challenges and prizes. Tonight and every Monday night at 170 Queen St.
   

  Gigs

• Open Mic. Art House Café

• The Telegrams. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

• Bluegrass Mondays: Concession 23. Red Bird

• The 5-Star Monday Band. The Laff

Just Announced / Now Booking

• Register for one of Moov Ottawa Dance’s February workshops for six weeks of Hip Hop and House moves.

• Calabogie Peaks’ Spring Break Programs are now booking.

• Ferme Agricola Farm is now selling Spring, Summer, Fall, and Flower Shares of its 2024 CSA program. They’re also offering Organic Bread and Organic Egg Shares to add to your basket. Agricola also has two summer season positions to fill.

• Register now for the NAC’s Summer Camps, where creative kids get to learn about dance, theatre, and music. Available in English, French, and Bilingual sessions.

DEALS OF THE DAY

BUT, ONE MORE THING ...

• The state funeral for Ed Broadbent will be held Sunday at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre at 4:00 pm. Algonquin Elder Claudette Commanda will give an Anishinaabe Prayer of Honour, music will be performed by members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, cellist Julian Armour, Choir of the Theatre of Early Music Concert organist Matthew Larkin, and soprano Andriana Chuchman.
  
  There is a limited amount of seating for the public. Those interested in attending can register here.
  
  The service will be broadcast on CPAC and CBC and the Canadian Heritage YouTube channel.

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Comment of the week: ‘Fabulous. All sorts of weird and wonderful information from the library job to the Valentines cards to the Just Announced. Love the variety of interests. Thanks!’

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