After a six-year-long overhaul for its hundredth anniversary, Ottawa’s Museum of Nature is the new kid on the block again.

Ottawa’s annual Wine and Food Show spotlights the world’s best in wine. But while European and U.S. wines regularly take centre stage in the show’s competitions, Ontario wines remain far from the limelight. Is there a good reason why?

Behind the new popularity of body casting, or making moulds of women’s bodies for display, there lies a whole new awareness. The lifelike casts send a valuable message to women about accepting their bodies.

As museums everywhere strive to better engage visitors and community, Ottawa’s city museum now offers occasional modern-day-themed exhibits alongside historical ones.  Behind the venerable space’s recent bold move.

Goodbye, Bud and Blue?  As more and more consumers today turn to beers of local microbreweries, we take a glimpse at the craft-beer upsurge in Ottawa.

Here’s a weekly program that has had hockey and figure-skating fans squeezing onto the couch — without fighting for the remote. What makes this homegrown skating-reality show a success?

If you can fake it, you can make it. A glimpse at the capital’s karaoke craze and the enthusiasts who face the music.

Artist-run centres give freedom to visual artists and have been part of Canada’s culture for over 30 years. Yet in the nation’s capital, they struggle for a footing. Why doesn’t Ottawa have more of them?

Emerging filmmakers in an unstable Canadian market must risk their personal finances for a chance at success. Are they willing to do so, and what is the cultural cost?

A new movement in teen recreation is transforming cityscapes – literally – into playground jungle gyms.

Invigorated by the popularity of TV dance shows, Ottawa’s dance schools are revamping to add new styles and experiences for their students.

Canadian programming traditionally has had a bad rep. But recently some shows are getting great attention, and the old, ‘bad in Canada’ stereotype is starting to fade.

As musicians now launch their careers online, the role played by record companies is shrinking drastically.

Using bikinis and beautiful people, the Save the Boobs video trumpets an important message: that breast cancer isn’t just a worry for older women.

The Byward Market looks more fashionable these days, with a smart array of boutiques sprouting along Dalhousie Street. But for these small, niche shops, surviving in a big-box town isn’t easy.

Slam poetry is one part great poetry, one part performance, and one part competition: verse against verse. It’s gripping, it’s fresh, and it’s taking Ottawa by storm.