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It really is, finally, starting to feel like summer. And although there most certainly have been some hardcore golfers on the greens for several weeks now, it sure feels like golf season is here — so if you haven’t hit the links yet, now is the time! What makes a
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When I was about 12 years old, I’d often go to my grandparent’s house after school. I’d walk in the door, throw down my backpack, and grab the $2 bill that was left for me on the table. Then I’d run up Howard Crescent to the Mac’s on the
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The Cataraqui Centre is the largest shopping mall in the Kingston area. In fact, you’d have to go to Ottawa or Oshawa to find one bigger. Since it opened in 1982, it has stayed fundamentally the same, though with a handful of renovations, additions, and reconfiguring. It has outlasted
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Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay. Ernestine Ulmer is credited with what I consider to be one of the most profound quotes to ever get thrown haphazardly around the internet: “Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.” In Kingston, we have plenty of options to eat dessert before or after
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One of the simplest pleasures Kingstonians can enjoy during the Christmas season is bundling up and taking a quiet stroll or drive through a well-lit neighbourhood on a snowy winter night. Some neighbourhoods have really outdone themselves this year so, by popular demand, we asked our readers to let us
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Kingston’s instrument store landscape has changed a lot recently – in fact, almost every store has undergone some kind of transformation. Centre Stage Music is now the veteran on the scene, being mostly unchanged for over 25 years (they moved two doors over in the early 90s and had an
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It was back in the late 80s and early 90s when vinyl was declared dead and that the CD would rule forever. Since then, we’ve had Napster, iTunes, ringtones, Spotify, and the death of Tower Records, HMV, and Sam the Record Man (except the one in Belleville). Now, digital
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What do you know about where to find the best butter tarts in Kingston? Since it’s creation in the early 1900s, the beloved butter tart has become the ultimate Canadian desert thanks to it’s prefect mix of flaky dough and buttery sweet filling. Of course no one could possibly make
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It’s true that Kingstonians have an insatiable appetite when it comes to pizza, and the local business landscape has responded over the years with dozens of much-loved independent and corporate pizzerias, pizza slash wine bars and ‘za joints that serve it all. From as close to Neopolitan as you could
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Sometimes this job is really hard, folks. But we at Kingstonist are dedicated to creating posts that help our readers to find the best of the best in ygk. After many intense discussions about Kingston’s best pizza, pho, steak, poutine, beer, spring rolls, pies and tons more, this most recent
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Regardless of how much you might want to ignore the weather outside, Winter is here! And in spite of your aversion to snow, ice and temperature-related torment, it’s true that a lot of people actually enjoy this season. That’s right, there are those among us in Kingston who savour the
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Skiing is a favourite pastime for most winter enthusiasts, and that includes a whole lot of Kingstonians. Unfortunately, a quick 10 or 20 minute jaunt to a local ski hill isn’t an option in ygk but we do have quite a few places nearby to hit the slopes if we’re
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