Guides
Guide to Homegrown
Homegrown Live Music Festival is celebrating its 5th year tomorrow, May 11th, at 10 downtown venues. The festival showcases some of Kingston’s finest musicians all in support of Joe’s MILL and The Partners in Mission Food Bank. Each venue will play host to one specific genre of music. By purchasing a bracelet for a mere [...]
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Guide to Patios 2013
Once again, dear reader, I am going to take my chances and allude to the fact that spring is here. Hopefully these words will ring true and won’t jinx us anymore this year. It is that time of year when (on some days) we can toy with the idea of enjoying some time on one [...]
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Guide to March Break
We did it, guys! We made it through February and March Break is finally just a few days away. As someone who is childless and not entirely on vacation next week, I’m just happy to know that spring is on its way. For those of you with kids, have you made plans to keep them [...]
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Guide to the 13th Annual Kingston Canadian Film Festival
The thirteenth annual Kingston Canadian Film Festival starts tomorrow, February 28 and runs until March 3. In addition to feature screenings, the festival is jam packed with various workshops, one-on-one sessions with industry professionals, receptions, Q&A’s, and lots more. In case you missed it, you can find out more about the festival from our interview [...]
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Guide to Reelout 14
The 14th Annual Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival begins tomorrow and is offering up an impressive collection of shorts and feature-length documentaries and narratives over ten days. This year’s festival will showcase films for and/or about LGBT youth from around the world in a special Reelout 4 Teens spotlight. All film programmes and workshops [...]
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Guide to Feb Fest
There are two times a year that I like having snow: Christmas and Feb Fest. So far, Mother Nature has answered my call but now I think we need to start doing some kind of snow dance to make sure we’ll have what we need to make Feb Fest reach its full potential. Many of [...]
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Guide to ArtIgnite
Friday, January 25th marks the beginning of 2013′s ArtIgnite. This wonderful arts festival is a collaboration of efforts between Queen’s University, St. Lawrence College, Downtown Kingston and The City of Kingston as well as numerous galleries and independent artists and musicians. The festival was conceived in 2009 and has grown many times over throughout the [...]
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Guide to Holiday Entertainment
I love this time of year. The snow is still a pretty novelty and the promise of time off and fun with family and friends makes these final busy weeks of the year all worthwhile. This year’s Guide to Holiday Entertainment is full of wonderful musical experiences but also includes some great ways to shop [...]
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Guide to Local Holiday Hosting
The local food movement is strong in Kingston and this year we thought it would be interesting to explore the options when it comes to keeping the holidays local. Of course, not every single thing we’ll want to enjoy and serve will be found in our neighbourhood but we can certainly make a valiant go [...]
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Guide to Writersfest
Kingston Writersfest offers up a wide range of events for book lovers of all types. Join in on live author discussions, readings and workshops that will take place throughout the weekend of September 27th-30th at various venues in downtown Kingston. Most events takes place at The Holiday Inn where you will find the Islandview room, [...]
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