Guides
Guide to Homegrown
In it’s fourth year, Homegrown Live Music Festival will once again be showcasing some of Kingston’s finest musicians all in support of Joe’s MILL and The Partners in Mission Food Bank. On Saturday, May 12th, eleven downtown venues will be taking part, each playing host to one specific genre of music. By purchasing a bracelet [...]
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Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
Today we’re breaking away from local stories of interest to a piece of vital information that could very well save your life one day. While Halloween is just over half a year away, don’t be fooled, the zombie apocalypse is blind to our calendar and realistically, it could hit the Limestone City any day now. [...]
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Guide to St. Patrick’s Day
It’s my favourite day of the year! Although we’re sure all of Kingston’s pubs and restaurants will be partying tomorrow, this year’s guide will focus on the spots that are advertising Irish food and drink specials and Irish music. With the incredible weather this week and the 17th landing on a Saturday, there’s no reason [...]
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Guide to March Break
In case your kids haven’t reminded you, March Break is but a few days away. Kids throughout the Limestone District School Board are presently sitting in class watching the clock, and counting down to a week where they’ll be free from finger painting and standardized testing. If you’re like many of the parents I’ve spoken [...]
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Guide to Feb Fest
It’s that time of year again Kingston, and despite the mild weather, Feb Fest will be going strong this week. Below is an outline of the schedule as it currently exists. Sadly the lack of snow has affected some of the usual events that Kingstonians have grown to love. The 24 hour Snow Sculpture Competition [...]
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Best of 2011: Guide to Late Night Bites
Over the past year we presented guides to everything including local bakeries, Museums, Beaches, Bed and Breakfasts and the list goes on. As a city with three post-secondary institutions and a pretty active bar scene, it’s no surprise that one of our most popular guides was the one that detailed where to get late night [...]
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Guide to Holiday Entertainment
So, as I’m sure you all know by now, Q is not coming to Kingston – at least not this February. Jian announced London as the winning city on yesterday’s show, and deservedly so. In fact, it would be easy to understand if Jian had picked any of the cities running a campaign. Even though [...]
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Guide to Weekly Live Music
We’re very lucky in Kingston to have the opportunity to see countless bands perform pretty much everyday. Thanks to the folks like Kingston Punk Productions, CFRC and Flying V Productions to name a few, there is a constant flow of shows featuring artists of all kinds from small up-and-comers to well-known bands who stop in [...]
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A Guide to Traffic Calming
Over the last decade or so Kingston has seen an emergence of more and more methods to help slow traffic in and around residential neighbourhoods. I’ve been doing my own research on the subject because my street happens to be particularly bad for speeding and missed stop signs. Since I moved into my home three [...]
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The State of… Williamsville’s Main Street (Part 3 of 3)
In our original three-part series that focused on upper and lower Princess Street, as well as neighbouring side streets, we took a snapshot of new development and also documented long-standing vacancies. Two years later, we revisited this topic of conversation, while it has proven to be as divisive as any other contested issue in the [...]
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