[ ](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 Tim Van Dyke, founder of Lunch, an Ottawa-based caterer, food truck lunch distributor which many local locations and always growing. ...

_ 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/2014/03/01-Image.jpg) _ 177 Armstrong sits empty today. No doubt another entrepreneurial Ottawan can launch another successful venture from here. ...

_ “Hide-and-go-seek Creature”. Photo by J. Michel from the OttawaStart Flickr Group. _ _ _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** ** ** Thursday, March 13: Radioactive featuring KC Roberts and The Live Revolution ** ...

_ 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 . _ Photo: “Hauling Winter Away” by Zhu, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group ...

A video produced by Ottawa’s Rathana Pen , a producer and photographer. ** See also: ** Ottawa Video Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. Featuring cool Ottawa events, interesting local news and contests and giveaways. ...

[ ](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 tennis sensation Petra Januskova to talk about her college career, the Olympics, how tough it is to get sponsorship in tennis, how she got started, her battles with her sister and much more! ...

_ 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/2014/03/01.-Photo-3-6-14-4-37-26-PM.jpg) _ The Knights of Columbus Hall at 1177 Gladstone began life as the West End YWCA. ...

Ice Lantern by Marcel Regimbald, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group. Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** ** ** Friday, March 7: Talk Purple To Me ** A city wide fundraiser Friday night, to help break the silence on mental health. ...

_ 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 . _ I’ve been brushing up on my politics this week, and I noticed that, aside from the Ukraine and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, everybody is talking about one subject: the plight of the middle class. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140301_164442.jpg) Several issues of _ What's On in Ottawa _ magazine, spread out on my kitchen table. Andrew Tidman recently sent along several copies of a 1960s Ottawa magazine called _ What's On in Ottawa _ . ...