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Rock Plaza Central: Handsome Men

The Toronto-based band Rock Plaza Central is self-described as Canada’s best alt-not-country-orchestra. I recently caught wind of the band after stumbling across a new video for their song titled (Don’t You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men, which was created by Josh Lyon and Lenny Epstein. These local creative types are the same minds [...]

Harvey Kirkpatrick | February 8th, 2010 | Continued

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Friday Foto

TGIF!  It’s been hectic week around the Limestone City thanks to Reelout and a slew of events associated with Feb Fest.  Earlier on in the week I wrote about my encounter with the Stanley Cup, which is the only Feb Fest event I’ve made it to thus far.  Luckily, some other folks posted a few [...]

Harvey Kirkpatrick | February 5th, 2010 | Continued

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The Art of Distraction

While walking to and fro over the last few weeks, I have noticed a disturbing number of commuters whizzing by in their automobiles with cell phones attached to their heads.  A new provincial law banning this distracting behaviour came into effect on the 26th of October 2009, while the three month grace period officially ended [...]

Harvey Kirkpatrick | February 4th, 2010 | Continued

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Lord Stanley Comes to Town

Lord Stanley’s Cup is considered to be the ultimate prize by professional players, minor and pond hockey hopefuls, as well as friends of the frozen game all around the world.  There are a few superstitions associated with the Cup, while the most prevalent dictates that players should refrain from touching hockey’s holy grail until [...]

2Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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PS I Love You: Facelove

Back in March of ‘06, we wrote about and gave away a copy of the Friends of Skeleton Park CD. This compilation album has logged some serious hours in my car’s CD player, and while I thoroughly enjoyed tracks by Kyra and Tully, Chris Brown and others, I was particularly taken with P.S. I [...]

1Feb2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Friday Foto

Last Friday I marvelled at how amazing, albeit unseasonal, the weather was. What a difference a week makes. Today the city awoke to bone chilling temperatures that were estimated to reach minus 30 thanks to the wind chill.  Is it too much to ask for some snow to go along with this [...]

29Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | Please comment on this post | Continued
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ReelOut 11 is Burning

There was once a time not so long ago when people thought supermodels were la crème de la crème.  Supermodels were idolized!  Like little plastic dolls, they were everywhere and could be scene everywhere.  If you walked by one, you knew her name.  If you saw one, you knew her name.  Iman, Elle, Linda, Naomi; [...]

28Jan2010 | Tyffanie Morgan | Please comment on this post | Continued
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Six Questions for Coffeeco

Back in November 2009, the Limestone New Media Group hosted their monthly meetup at Coffeeco, specifically at the Kingston Centre location. During that meeting, Coffeeco’s owner, Rich Ottenhof, stepped out from behind the espresso machine to talk briefly about his business as well as his experiments with social media. Rich left me thoroughly [...]

27Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Local Trends on Twitter

In light of tonight’s Limestone New Media Group (LNMG) meetup, the first session of the New Year, I thought that today’s post should focus on an aspect of social media.  Just before Kingstonist’s first birthday, we caved and joined the tweeting masses.  While we’ve been on Twitter for less than a year, @kingstonist has already [...]

26Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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The State of… Upper Princess (Part 3 of 3)

Late last December we launched a three-part series which documented vacant storefronts, recent relocations as well as new businesses in downtown Kingston.  In part one we combed lower Princess Street from Ontario to Division, highlighting unfortunate closures such as S&R and Downtown Kingston Sports, as well as positive growth including Urban Outfitters and Sima Sushi.  [...]

25Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 17 comments | Continued
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