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Busk a Move

Kingston plays host to numerous notable festivals throughout the summer, including last weekend’s hugely successful Limestone City Blues Fest.  These events not only pack the streets, restaurants and stores with paying customers, but they also create an unmistakable buzz and elevate the spirit of the entire community.  In between the Blues Fests, Busker’s Rendezvous, [...]

31Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 0 comments | Continued
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Weekly Poll: Clear Garbage Bags

In March 2009, the City of Kingston launched the highly anticipated organic recycling program in an effort to reduce the amount of recyclable material ending up in landfills by 65 percent. About a month later, city officials announced that 35 percent of Kingstonians were using their green bins. You can interpret that number as [...]

23Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 17 comments | Continued
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Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

It’s not a secret that Queen’s University is under served by their performing arts venues, as Grant Hall, Theological Hall and Harrison LeCaine are simply lacking in too many key areas to be effective.  Since coming to Kingston, I’ve attended more student musicals and drama performances elsewhere in the city, than those that were hosted [...]

18Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 3 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

It’s been a busy week for protesters in Kingston between the controversial Poker Run and the Prison Farm cattle removal.  It’s incredible to see people who care so much about our city and who are willing to put themselves on the line to show it.  Prison Farm protesters, we are behind you.  Keep on keepin’ [...]

13Aug2010 | Danielle Lennon | 3 comments | Continued
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Dear Prison Farm Supporters

Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day, which is a day of mourning, remembrance, advocacy and protest for those who’ve lost their lives while serving their sentences. With that in mind, yesterday’s scene involving citizens from all walks of life attempting to block the removal of the remaining livestock from the Collin’s Bay institution seems fitting. [...]

10Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 11 comments | Continued
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Weekly Poll: The Wireless City

In late July, New York Transit announced that they were finally moving forward on a plan that would see wireless Internet be made available on the subway.  It’s not necessarily revolutionary, as ViaRail has been offering shoddy wireless Internet to riders for a few years now.  That said, the move in the Big Apple represents [...]

9Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

It always seems to happen like this.  I take off for a few days and all of a sudden things get exciting.  In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, which is understandable given the heat wave this week, Cirque du Soleil has announced that they will kick off their upcoming tour with not one, [...]

6Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Weekly Poll: The Future of the Poker Run

If you were to list the top 10 things to see and do in Kingston during the summer, chances are the Poker Run wouldn’t make the cut. It’s not a question of whether or not this annual event is entertaining, rather there’s only so much excitement one can expect when watching speeding boats roar [...]

3Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 20 comments | Continued
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Princess Street Promenade

When New York City announced that Broadway would become pedestrian friendly and go car-free, I wondered why the Limestone City wasn’t trying the same thing out on Princess Street.  It’s far from a new concept as select downtown streets are closed off during large summertime events such as Canada Day, Buskers Rendezvous and Blues [...]

29Jul2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 18 comments | Continued
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Summer Reading, Kingston style.

Ah, Summer Reading Club. I don’t know about you, but those words conjure up some intense childhood memories. Walking to the library in the hot sun was one of my favourite vacation activities as a kid.  The stickers, the prizes, the book reports…okay, maybe I was the only one who enjoyed the book reports. Regardless of whether [...]

27Jul2010 | Caitlin Fralick | 2 comments | Continued
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