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		<title>Decade in Review: Ottawa theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself grinning madly one morning as I sat at the kitchen table reading this article in the Ottawa Citizen. Peter Simpson writes about the huge leaps in Ottawa&#8217;s music, visual arts, and cuisine culture over the last decade, proud that this city is finally beginning to shake off its reputation of being boring. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1851&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My recent fling with historical fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I pretty much stole the title of this blog from Virginia Woolf, I thought it would be appropriate to write a little something about her work. I read Mrs. Dalloway during my undergraduate (for fun, not actually for a class) and found it very&#8230; familiar in some way. More recently, I picked up Orlando [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1846&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My love affair with haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I created a haiku website and posted a new haiku everyday. I managed to write 101 in total! I love writing them because they can be created in an instant; capturing an image, a moment; much like a photograph. They also make great magnets. Here are a few of my favourites:


She smoothes the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1838&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts &#8211; January 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, arts enthusiasts!
Congratulations, we made it through the decade. Inspired by Nadine Thornhill and her Adorkable Thespian Blog, I recently wrote my own decade in review, going over all the things that have happened to me in the last ten years. And let’s just say, since graduating from middle school in the year 2000, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1825&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts &#8211; December 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings arts enthusiasts!
Last week I was at the grocery store and overheard the song “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” on the sound system. Guess it’s that time again! Now I realize that many people embrace Christmas time and savour every snowfall, while other people despise the very mention of the holiday season. So I’ve divided [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1765&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transplanted prairie lily blooms in Ottawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Torch-folk songstress Jill Zmud launches her debut album at the Black Sheep Inn
Jill Zmud has never robbed a bank. But that hasn’t stopped her from writing about it. She pens and sings songs about bank robberies, late-night rides home in winter, and how a person’s skin can sometimes feel like home. This up-and-coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1759&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This woke me up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Elephant Wake. For some reason, it didn&#8217;t occur to me until the end that this was a funeral reference. But not quite a funeral. This town, this unspoken elephant in the room, never reaches the stage of funeral; holding its last breath because of one last surviving resident.
How long has Jean-Claude been living alone in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1753&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts &#8211; November 2009</title>
		<link>http://jessicaruano.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/ottawa-arts-november-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings arts enthusiasts,
I have some rather exciting news! The Ottawa Arts Newsletter has been nominated for “Best local blog/website” in the Ottawa XPress – Best of Ottawa 2009.
All the nominees are pretty awesome — but hey, if you want to vote for me, then follow this link: http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/dossier/bestof/xpress2009.aspx.Section 4 right near the bottom! Please vote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1746&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Drowsy Chaperone: Far from a lullaby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Review by Jennie Barnes
Sprightly, frenetic, and utterly ebullient, the National Arts Centre and Citadel Theatre’s co-production of The Drowsy Chaperone is certainly not what its wearisome title suggests. Originally conceived as burlesque stag party entertainment by playwrights Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert, Greg Morrison and Bob Martin, this Tony award-winning Canadian show makes its Ottawa debut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1742&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts Newsletter gets nominated!</title>
		<link>http://jessicaruano.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/ottawa-arts-newsletter-gets-nominated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ottawa Arts Newsletter has been nominated for &#8220;Best local blog/website&#8221; for the Ottawa XPress &#8211; Best of Ottawa 2009.
I&#8217;m pretty thrilled! I have been writing this newsletter for approximately 3 and a half years now. Getting to know Ottawa&#8217;s incredible artistic community has been so rewarding, and it seems that the online media has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1739&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arabian Night evokes dreamlike scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Review by Erika Morey
Evolution Theatre finishes off its 2009 season this week with Roland Schmimmelpfennig’s Arabian Night (in an English translation by David Tushingham) directed by Natalie Joy Quesnel. Nominated Play of the Year by six German critics in 2001, this sensual urban thriller tells the intricate tale of five individuals who unwittingly cross paths [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1734&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts &#8211; October 2009</title>
		<link>http://jessicaruano.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/ottawa-arts-october-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings arts enthusiasts!
I’ve been making a concentrated effort over the last few months to restrict this newsletter to only 10 events per issue. However, this month there is so much happening (and I promised so many people I would include their events&#8230;) that I had to raise the limit to 12. I also cheat sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1729&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawafocus: Q &amp; A with Jessica Ruano</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview by Ren Tomovcik   
Jessica Ruano&#8217;s online bio will tell you that she&#8217;s a publicist, publicity consultant, arts journalist, photographer, drama coach, director, spoken word performer, and general arts enthusiast &#8211; but she&#8217;s so much more than the sum of her (numerous) activities.
The University of Ottawa graduate student has become known as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1723&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My next performance: Newstalgica</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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The Newstalgica Poetry Series celebrates the autumn season with performance poet Jessica Ruano and the musicopoetic grooves of Poem de Terre. Hosted by Devin Zane Shaw and J. F. Lafleche.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Open Mic 8:30pm
Featured Performers 9:30pm
Cafe Nostalgica
603 Cumberland Street
Jessica Ruano is a writer of press releases, newspaper articles, romantic emails, blog entries, brochures, academic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1721&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Gélinas quits his day job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled when I heard the news. Not because I found anything particularly offensive about Richard Gélinas&#8217; former day job, but simply because I adore seeing him acting onstage and am glad that he&#8217;ll be doing so more frequently. From now until November, Richard will be featured in 4 &#8211; count them, FOUR &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1709&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arts Smarts &#8211; Fall 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The online arts world goes boom
A huge factor leading to the birth of my Ottawa Arts Newsletter more than three years ago was the scarcity of local arts coverage in the mainstream media. But besides merely informing readers, an important objective for me was to demonstrate to readers how to do their own research to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1703&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Theatre Conference: the results!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Great Canadian Theatre Company hosted a backyard theatre conference to talk about the potential in Ottawa&#8217;s theatre community. The minutes from the meeting are posted below.
Thank you, Nancy Kenny, for posting this on your website! If you want to get more involved and perhaps take part in the committee, please join this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1701&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa Arts &#8211; September 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For previews, reviews, and interviews, check out: www.jessicaruano.wordpress.com/blog
Greetings arts enthusiasts!
Is it just me, or did summer pass us by very quickly? Festival after festival after festival, and suddenly gone. This is an exciting time for me because I am entering the final class-based semester of my M.A. program at the University of Ottawa; after Christmas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1698&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Noises Off&#8217; sans Stage Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stage Manager Tina Goralski announced over Facebook this evening that she has been fired from The Gladstone&#8217;s production of Noises Off:
&#8220;Cat&#8217;s out of the bag. I was fired from Noises Off. It&#8217;s going to be a weird opening but I wish the cast and crew all the best. My heart is with you guys. Merde!&#8221;
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		<title>AUDITION: Plaid Tidings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Plaid Tidings
Holiday edition of Forever Plaid
by Stuart RossDirected by Shaun Toohey
Musical Director Paul Legault

December 1 &#8211; 19, 2009 @ 8pm Sunday Matinee &#8211; December 13 @ 2pm
Plaid Tidings is a heartwarming, nostalgic hoilday special, blending music of the 50s and 60s. The show includes a hilarious tribute to the Ed Sullivan Show as the boys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaruano.wordpress.com&blog=447446&post=1686&subd=jessicaruano&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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