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Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson have cancelled their appearance, according to The Sun. The Citizen has no mention of Lou Reed in their Jazzfest story and instead says Zorn and Anderson are closing it out. So we'll see what the real story is soon I'm sure.

Ottawa's newest player should be on the cover of GQ very soon.

Any idea on who will be broadcasting Saturday's game?

Like the flu

No, Bayfest. Hehe Did you see Scorpions at Lebreton last year or the year before? I wish I had gone to that.

The kid's dad was a guest on Q Thursday April 1 last week and explained his position very coherently. The show is available via podcast or streaming if you want to check out the interview. Lots of comments here too: http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2010/04/the_david_after_dentist_viral.html

All songs considered the moth fresh air CBC radio 3 CBC r3-30 this American life age of persuasion wiretap stop podcasting yourself

Most of us in Ottawa know that Denis Armstrong from the Sun can be pretty off-base (to put it mildly), so here's a collection of his latest blog posts that mention Bluesfest. I added some commentary. Pearl Jam is in Europe until the 10th of July. Peter Frampton and YES are touring together and are in the western USA for the whole run of Bluesfest, unless they get out of Washington really quick and makes it here for the last day. Keith Urban is possible, he's only announced gigs in PEI, Ohio and Sarnia during Bluesfest. Eagles haven't posted a tour schedule that goes into July. Dixie Chicks haven't posted any dates for July yet, they're touring with the Eagles though. Neil Young hasn't announced anything for July yet. Bon Jovi starts a tour in Calgary moving east across Canada on July 14, so perhaps a one-off in Ottawa or a few as-yet unannounced dates in the east could happen in the first week of Bluesfest before they go west. Lady Gaga (who almost sold-out Scotiabank Place in November - great fact-checking / memory) is in the neighbourhood with free dates during Bluesfest so that's a possibility. Clapton and Winwood are in Europe until July 13, so Bluesfest is an outside possibility. Rufus Wainwright is playing Toronto, Ste-Foy and Montreal the last week of June, then is back and forth across the pond a couple times around Bluesfest so a show here is possible. Might make more sense during Jazzfest though, to fit with his other Canadian dates. And style. Blue Rodeo, other places have said they're not playing this year but I have no clue, so we can say that's a possibility. The Hip - it's been widely reported that the Hip aren't touring this summer and Gord is, makes sense given his new album coming out. A Gord Downie show is much more probable than a Hip show.

Also in that area is a top-3 burger place, Chez Lucien. A pub / restuarant that serves amazing burgers. Off Dalhousie at Clarence (?).

If you're staying across the street from the same place that Meggo is talking about at Rideau and Charlotte, then you absolutely must go to Yre's Chicken BBQ at Charlotte and Rideau - best chicken in the city, hands down.

Civic Shawarma down by Lansdowne Park is excellent. And across the street is Kettleman's Bagels. House of Georgie Sorento's is indeed the gravy pizza joint - One block east of Colonnade Pizza, just 3 doors west of Elgin Street on Gilmour. I have to give a shout out to Calabria Pizza at Bell and Gladstone. Delicious. There's no reason to go to this part of Centretown sadly. But the pizza is good. DiRienzo's off Preston at Beech is indeed a delicious deli, as is Luciano's, further north on Preston. Where are you based out of while in town?

I used to, it was OK when connection idle but call quality really suffered while I was downloading or uploading anything. That said I have friends and used to work at a company that used VOIP exclusively and no problems at all. Sorry I couldn't be definitive, hehe.

A song with the same name as the Ween song.

The majority of Sloan's new stuff is great! And always a fun / sloppy show. I think I might change my plans and go to this...

Pretty sweet!! Now if they'd only move the festival to a weekend I'll be in town. Grrrrr....

i love how it's advertised as "Concert / Comedy"

After a quick look at that list I can only see one overlap (Helm). So....

I'm a bit pissed nobody caught my lauzon / white rhino reference.

Thanks for your suggestions, Jake and Rossolee. As for you others, I'm pretty disappointed. Will report back about my haul once I find out what's in it.

The latest CBCR3 Sessions podcast features a Patrick Watson show from Montreal.

yes, I missed that sentence. Oh well.

Excellent. No, I didn't remember that (I don't pay much attention to Burke) but at least that shows he's a little bit sensible and realistic. Carry on....

would love to see the quote of him saying that despite his best intentions, the team will be garbage and golfing by the second week of April.

everyone who read the Toronto star article on the game noticed that yes. It was the top story on their website for about 12 hours.

I made it to track 5 before I turned it off. Lots of driving this weekend though so I'll give it 2 more tries.