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Luke’s Kitchen

Back in March of 2008, Kingstonist published our second food-related post, which featured a well known dining establishment by the name of Luke’s. This local culinary gem is special for many reasons, while it has arguably put Kingston on the map for foodies and critics alike.  As a part of last week’s Kingston Canadian [...]

8Mar2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | 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 | 8 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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The Rise of the Locavore

Like many people, each and every year I make a pledge to better myself, and give back to the local community.  This year, I purposely kept my New Year’s resolution to myself. It’s not as though I was ashamed of my master plan for 2010, rather, I feared that if I put it [...]

20Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 18 comments | Continued
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New Kingston Tourism Videos

While we managed to squeeze in the final post from our Best of 2009 review on New Year’s Day, today’s post is technically Kingstonist’s first of 2010.  One of the most interesting tidbits I came across over the holidays was the Canadian Travel Commission’s new series of video advertisements for the Limestone City.  I [...]

4Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 8 comments | Continued
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Best of 2009 (Part 5 of 5)

Happy New Year, and happy Friday! While it happens to be the first glorious day of 2010, it is also the last weekend of my vacation, and time for the final post in Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review. Thus far we’ve celebrated stories focusing on everything from Google Street View to H1N1, pedestrian [...]

1Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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The State of… Downtown Sidestreets (Part 2 of 3)

Last week we introduced the state of…Lower Princess Street, which sparked an unbelievable debate and received a record number of comments regarding the downtown business-scape.  Kingstonist’s readers weighed in on the cost of rent, the normalcy of vacant storefronts, as well as who owns property downtown.  In episode two, we focus on what’s new and [...]

22Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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The State of… Lower Princess (Part 1 of 3)

With this week’s announcement that Downtown Kingston Sports is set to close up shop after 112 years of dutiful service, the Limestone City’s core is set to lose another iconic fixture.  In this case, high taxes, the recession, as well as competition from big box outlets and online competitors, are to blame.  While this sad [...]

16Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 40 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Last Friday I put out a call for snow.  It’s not as though I miss spending hours on end shovelling the stuff, or dealing with people who forget how to drive after the first dusting, rather I need a bit of the white stuff in order to to complete my picture perfect image of [...]

4Dec2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 2 comments | Continued
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Holiday Gift-a-Way

Our neighbours to the south will soon be enjoying Thanksgiving, and then taking part in the busiest shopping day of the year, which is ominously referred to as Black Friday. While Canadian cross-border shoppers will likely fill the ranks, I am thankful that Black Friday hasn’t really caught on in Canada, yet. That [...]

23Nov2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 12 comments | Continued
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