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• In today’s ottawan:

  → 20 local breweries to participate in new Ottawa Craft Beer Week 

  → Ottawa Comiccon welcomes Lord of the Rings actors  

  → Police chief says a recent murder and the wedding shoot-out two years ago are related

– Martha and Darren

WEDNESDAY FOOD + DRINK UPDATE

•  Hot off the wire: Ottawa Craft Beer Week is coming August 23 - 30. Participating breweries are Beyond the Pale Brewing, Bicycle Craft Brewery, Big Rig Brewery, Braumeister Brewing Company, Brauwerk Hoffman, Brew Revolution, Broadhead Brewery, Broken Stick Brewing Company, Cold Bear Brewing Company, Dominion City, Evergreen Craft Ales, Flora Hall Brewing, Kichesippi, Local Beer, Orléans Brewing Co., Ridge Rock Brewing Company, Spark Beer, Stray Dog Brewing Company, Tooth and Nail Brewing, and Whiprsnapr.
•  You’ve picked your own strawberries and raspberries, but have you ever harvested your own local sweet corn? Ferme Proulx Farm has packages for groups who reserve morning, afternoon, or all day pick-your-own sessions that also include farm activities and a guided tour of the corn fields. You can even bring or buy a lunch to enjoy on site. Admission from $9.39; reservations are mandatory. 
•  Road Trip: In Arnprior, the Summer Block Party will celebrate the release of Cold Bear Brewing's 100th brew, Landbier, which is made with foraged elderflower from Castlegarth Farms. (Friday, July 26 from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm). 
•  Savor the fine flavours of the final three Festival of Small Hall’s Chef’s Table events on the NAC patio this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (July 25,26, 27). The food will be expertly prepared by Executive Chef Kenton Leier and NAC Executive Sous-Chef Connor McQuay, with music supplied by Mihail Laxton and Rebecca Noelle.
•  Kiersten Vuorimaki of Apt 613’s Best Bites column eats at Corazón De Maíz (She cannot recommend the horchata and hibiscus iced teas enough) Banh Mi Yes (There is a $10 banh mi special every day of the week), and Chips & Dairy (Not a food truck, but a chinese restaurant with excellent poutine).
•  At Eat the Strip, Ameya Charnalia has discovered a brand new taqueria near the world’s largest Canadian Tire on Carling, Que Pasa?. Noting that the resto has late hours to catch partiers going home, Charnalia asks ‘Who needs a night czar when you have people like Donaldo and Diana throwing a fiesta we all can get behind?’.
•  A double shot from Toronto hipster radio station Indie 88, which is still making Best of Ottawa lists:
  
  🥕 The 5 Best Vegetarian Restaurants In Ottawa: The Green Door Restaurant & Bakery, Pure Kitchen Elgin, Peace-Garden Vegetarian, Govinda’s, and St. Elsewhere.
  
  🍕 The 8 Best Pizza Places In Ottawa For A Slice Of Heaven: The Grand Pizzeria and Bar, Louis Pizza, Colonnade Pizza, Fiazza Fresh Fired, Del Piacere, Isabella Pizza, Cumberland Pizza, and Kouzina Pizza.
  
  Thank you for your efforts, Hogtown.
•  If you are jonesing for a coffee but your long hair is getting in the way, cross the river and head an hour east to Grenville, QC. Caffé La Buona Stella has just opened as a café and barber shop. (The chairs are separate for each service, if you are concerned.)
•  We don’t know who The Montréaler is but the magazine has an opinion on Where to Eat Now in the Nation’s Capital:  Blue Cactus Bar & Grill, Le Mien Craft Noodles, Le Moulin de Provence, Bar Ocelli, 1 Elgin, Aiana Restaurant Collective, and La Terrasse.
•  Ottawa Road Trips went on the $70 Cornwall Food Tour and enjoyed Jamaican-Thai fusion Spicy Pearl, vegetarian Carrots n’ Dates, Euro menu Schnitzels, gourmet bakery Fairy Sweet, classic bakery Riley’s Bakery, and finally Happy Popcorn Co., a resto whose speciality the ottawan could not quite work out. 
•  Zero-waste grocery NU Grocery has found success with its sensory sensitive shopping hours and is pleased that its pioneering work is catching on across Canada. Between 8:00 am and 10:00 am, the store dims the lights and turns off the music to accomodate people who are sensitive to overwhelming environments.

STATS

Number

• 156
• – The number of incidents between 2018 and 2022 in which a vehicle collided into a pedestrian causing death or a major injury. The City euphemizes these as "FMI collisions." (Ken Warren in the Ottawa Citizen) 

Ottawan of the Day

• Claude Giroux
• – The 36 year-old forward with the Sens will be playing at the PGA Tour Americas Commissionaires Ottawa Open. Last year, he ended the tournament with a combined 17-over, while the winning player Stuart Macdonald won with a score of 19-under. (TSN)

Quote

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• It starts with sometimes having a happy hour after work, then hitting a nice restaurant, then going out to see a show, live music. And then if you’ve still got some energy, maybe we can go dance late at night, you know?

• – New Ottawa Night Mayor Mathieu Grondin’s answer to the question, ‘what's your idea of an ideal night out?’. Grodin was Ayesha Roscoe’s guest on the US National Public Radio show Weekend Edition. (National Public Radio) 

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CITY HALL AGENDA

What’s going on at City Hall

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📋 Meetings and agenda

WHAT OTTAWA IS TALKING ABOUT

⚖️ Infinity Convention Centre Wedding Shooting

•  Ottawa Police Service chief Eric Stubbs says there is a connection between the man shot dead in Hampton Park Plaza on July 5 and the wedding shooting two years ago. What that connection is has not been released. Police say that the two people killed in the Infinity Convention Centre wedding shooting were innocent bystanders. (Marlo Glass in the Ottawa Citizen)

🌊 Water Billing Review

•  The City’s survey on the cost of water rates ends on July 31. The City is reviewing how it charges for water and sewage service, stating that it wants to align the cost of providing it with the rates that it charges. (Your opinion here)

🎧 Podcasts

•  We have added Choose Happy with Marie to our Ottawa podcast list. Marie Mota-Lee says ‘I teach listeners how to use affirmations to implement healthy habits, tangible ways to break free from the negative thoughts, and ideas for living a happy life, all on a foundation of self worth’. She releases new episodes biweekly. (Choose Happy with Marie Show) (Our Ottawa-based podcasters list)

🚩 Rue Wellington Pt 2

•  Economist Neil Saravanamuttoo releases part two of what Ottawa can learn from Montréal’s ‘Coolest Street in the World’, Rue Wellington. He has four lessons, but he thinks that pre-cool Rue Wellington reminds him of present day Montréal Road. London’s Time Out magazine deemed Rue Wellington as the world’s coolest street. (Neil Saravanamuttoo in The 613)

💰Merrickville Mansion

•  An 1845 mansion in Merrickville is for sale for $2.249 million. For that, you get six bedrooms, five bathrooms, a pool, and nine acres of land. Pictures! (Josh Pringle at CTV) (Real Estate listing)

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Today

•  This week, Carleton University’s Lifelong Learning Program Summer Showcase offers five days of learning opportunities on myriad topics. Attend for a half day, full day, or 3 days.

•  Mic Drop the Silence, an open mic charity event at Rainbow Bistro, will raise funds for The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. Come for the show, or sign up to perform (you must indicate your desire to get up on stage when you buy your event ticket). $15

•  FestiBiere continues in Gatineau.

•  A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Nault Park, Vanier.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Songs of Earth, Sing-along: Xanadu Mother, Couch

•  Mayfair Theatre: Thelma, June Zero, The Getaway

  Gigs

•  Fruitcake. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  Celtic Celebration featuring JJIG. Red Bird

Tomorrow

•   umberlune plays an acoustic set at Songs from the Shed.

•  Shop Urban Art Collective’s Hintonburg Night Market before stopping for a drink at one of the many Somerset St W watering holes like Spark Beer & Pizza,  Art House Café,  Bar Guapo, T’s Pub, Union Local 613, and Prohibition House, to name a few. 

•  Ottawa Chamberfest’s 30th anniversary festival starts tonight with Art of Time Ensemble, who present Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  •  Related: Ottawa Chamberfest campaign looks to raise $100K 

•  Immerse yourself in Muse, a night of performances by musicians, poets, and other artists. SAW Centre, 67 Nicholas St.

•  FestiBiere continues in Gatineau.

•  A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Greensboro Park.

•  Enjoy good, old fashioned burlesque, drag, and variety performances with Gay Ol’ Time at the Rainbow Bistro.

•  This week, Carleton University’s Lifelong Learning Program Summer Showcase offers five days of learning opportunities on myriad topics. Attend for a half day, full day, or 3 days.

•  Aurora’s Reef and Yacé perform at Reggae Night on Elgin. LIVE on Elgin, 200 Elgin St 2nd floor.

•  Country attire is encouraged every Thursday at the Heart & Crown ByWard Market’s Country Nights. Southbound Boots brings the live music. 

• Norm Foster’s midcentury-set comedy Hilda’s Yard follows the hijinks of a pair of empty nesters whose adult children rush back to the nest unexpectedly. The Ottawa Little Theatre production runs until August 3.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Sisi & I, Songs of Earth, The Crow: 30th Anniversary

•  Mayfair Theatre: June Zero, Thelma, I Saw The TV Glow

  Gigs

•  Crop Circle Catalysts. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  🆓 Sunshine Makers and Amanda Movio perform at Cinq à Sept in the ByWard Market

•  Vaegon, Exterminatus, Thalassophobia, Shrapnel Wound. Cafe Dekcuf

•  PHASEZ, Cardamom Years, Princess Unlucky. House of TARG

•  Belfaountain. Avant-Garde Bar

•  Rocket Science with Stuart Hoopfer. Overflow Brewing

•  Comedy Night. Pour Boy

•  Dueling Pianos. Manor Lounge

Friday

•  Ottawa’s Pony Girl tops tonight’s lineup at Club SAW’s fourth annual Side by Side Weekend, the celebration of indie music from our region and beyond. Continuing until Sunday, the event is all ages, has a staggered schedule across stages inside and outside the venue, and alongside the music it heralds the arrival of Spark Beer’s Palsner Two beer (to be enjoyed only by attendees aged 19 and over, obvs).

•  This week, Carleton University’s Lifelong Learning Program Summer Showcase offers five days of learning opportunities on myriad topics. Attend for a half day, full day, or 3 days.

•  Learn to throw (pottery, that is) at the first-ever Spin the Wheel - Candlelight Edition, at Hintonburg Pottery Shop. Suitable for beginners, there are extremely limited places available.

•  🆓 Capital Pop-Up Cinema is screening Home Alone on Sparks Street.

• A Company of Fools open air theatre is back, this time bringing a fresh take on Shakespeare's Macbeth to the stage. Catch the play tonight in Patterson Creek in the Glebe.

•  Road Trip: Magic, mystery, and friendly ghosts sharing your old house; that’s what's in store at Outerbridge Magic: Mysteries of the Keyhole House. The show runs at the Carleton Place Town Hall and Auditorium until Sunday (July 28). 175 Bridge Street Carleton Place K7C 2V8

•  Actor Pierre Brault brings his touring show Dief the Chief: October ’62 to the Diefenbunker today and tomorrow (the show also plays dates in August). We’re moderately confident that you’ve never seen a play from 75 feet underground, so why not grab your chance. 3929 Carp Road, Carp  K0A 1L0.

•  Hilda’s Yard continues at The Ottawa Little Theatre. 

•  It’s your final Weekend to play Where’s Waldo in Wellington West? A Where’s Waldo prize pack and one of four $100 gift cards are up for grabs.

•  ByTowne Cinema: Widow Clicquot, The Fabulous Four, Drunken Cinema: Deep Blue Sea

•  Mayfair Theatre: Thelma, Ghostlight, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

  Gigs

•  Fever Pitch Hot Jazz. Art House Café

•  Irish Mythen. Red Bird

•  Friday I’m in Love (Indiepop Dance Party). The 27 Club

•  Rachel Beausoleil Trio. Montgomery Scotch Lounge

•  Jimmy Buffett Night. Queen Street Fare

•  Futura Free. LIVE on Elgin

•  Hunks and Punks. Irene’s Pub Restaurant

•  4DAYWKND. Rainbow Bistro
   

Just Announced / Now Booking

•  Octopus Books presents Meet Keisha Cuffie: Emancipation Day event with Parents for Diversity on Sunday (July 28). Cuffie will read from her books D is for Dazzling and Time Keepers: A Journey Through Emancipation Day.

•  Up your skills with a Fall course from SPAO; choose from Studio Lighting and Digital Photography basics, Darkroom Foundation, and more.

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   Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan have been announced as guests at the Ottawa Comiccon, Sept. 7 and 8. The four portrayed the leading hobbits in the Lord of the Rings films.

   

   

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Outaouais scientists are on a quest to save the region’s black bats from white nose syndrome. White-nose syndrome is a deadly fungal disease that caused the decline of bats across Eastern North America and is noticeable by causing a fuzzy white fungus on their noses. (Jodie Applewaithe at CBC) 

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