Arts

About 300 family, friends and followers of the late Ottawa-based independent filmmaker Frank Cole, who was murdered during his second voyage across the Sahara Desert in 2000, packed an auditorium at Library and Archives Canada on Saturday, Oct. 3 to celebrate the launch of a book and an award-winning documentary about the career of the enigmatic artist.

Book: The Death of Bunny Munro
Author: Nick Cave
Published by: Harper Collins (2009)
Rating: 2.5/5

It is fitting that The Death of Bunny Munro, the first novel in 20 years by Australian post-punk musician and writer Nick Cave, wades through its protagonist’s tectonic downfall in a winding river of obscenity.

In 2005, when Ottawa musician Ana Miura’s friend’s mother died of breast cancer, she said to herself, “I’ve got to do something.”

Miura founded Babes for Breasts to benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation in 2003. It began as a single solo concert and has grown into a nation-wide tour with women across the country.

Last Friday Tara Holloway, Amanda Rheaume, Jill Zmud and Miura performed at the Library and Archives Canada.

American comedian Louis C.K. has had enough of his “fat, gross, farting country.” He’s also totally honest about the fact that he’d never even heard of Ottawa before his show Oct. 2 at the National Arts Centre as part of his Canada-wide tour.

“It’s a beautiful little town you got here. . . . I had no idea it even existed,” C.K. said.

This self-admitted ignorance didn’t seem to bother the Ottawa audience, as the crowd was in stitches for nearly the entire show.