I joke about moving back to Kitchener and living in the hood. The shiny, hi-tech minions of Waterloo have typically had a less than stellar opinion of it’s sister city. I know people who won’t venture downtown after 9pm. Then there’s Cambridge which gets lumped together with no regard for the distinct identities of Preston, [...]

When I was a kid this was the absolute shit. Just saying.

Thanks to RQ Magazine and Kitchener-Waterloo Life for twigging me to the Frankenstein!! contest. Take a deliciously random phrase from German poet H.C. Artmann and pair it with an image – mildy disturbing is encouraged. Guess who has two thumbs and won tickets to the Edwin Outwater conducted performance of Frankenstein!! at the Conrad Centre? [...]

One of the classiest joints in town, Verses is the re-imagining of the former New Apostolic Church on Victoria Street. That’s where Chris and I found ourselves after a client won a six course meal at the chef’s table thanks to a recent Chamber event. Kitchener-Waterloo’s sole winner of the CAA/AAA Four Diamond Award it goes [...]