Here’s a great blog for Ottawa music and art fans: Ottawa Gig Poster _ s _ , a collection of work from Rocket 57 Illustration . The man behind Rocket 57 is Marc Audet , an illustrator and animator based in Gatineau. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. In this episode: We meet with with Janak, Kirill, Karissa and Khaled from the innovative non-profit hub PrototypeD Urban Workshops which you will be hearing about a lot in Ottawa in the future. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ _ _ _ _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/01.-Rupert.jpg) _ When you see them, you can’t unsee them . ...

[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lazyartist/13549657934) _ Smokin' / by J. Michel from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** ** ** ** ** Thursday-Sunday, April 10- 13: Ottawa Guild of Potters Spring Pottery Sale ** ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . _ [ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/xiaozhuli/11090394584) _ First Snow Storm of 2013 / Photo by Zhu from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every week we publish a link to the Lunch Out Loud podcast, a weekly show produced by Nick Bachusky and co-hosted by Andrew Miller. This week we meet up with Ottawa and Gatineau home inspector, Eric Ayotte to talk about what new home buyers should be looking for, new technologies in the industry, the cold winter and problems he has seen lately and more! ...

The entrance to the Park Square apartments, November 2013. A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. It would be safe to suggest that Ottawa, at the national capital, experienced the depths of the Depression differently than much of the remainder of the country. ...

_ “spring dreams crossed by lines” / photo by Christiane Wilke, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** Thursday, April 3: Celebrate National Poetry Month with the A B Series ** ...

Seen on the Canadian Civil Defence Museum Association web site : “Ottawa Atom Mushroom Cloud Model Used in Canadian Civil Defence Course”. Yikes. [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ottawa-Ground-Zero-web.jpg) ** ** (Thanks @koolie62 for the tip!) ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa History Guide ...

_ “Tulips and snow in our front garden” / photo by Ross Dunn from the OttawaStart Flickr Group _ _ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . You can read her previous columns here . ...