_ 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/2014/01/01.-2014-01-15-Mousseau-Mosaic-Jackson-Building.jpg) _ The colourful mosaic that greets those who enter the Jackson Building at 122 Bank. ...

[ ](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 Denise Leblanc, the Winterlude spokesperson to talk all about the event that runs Jan 31st to Feb 17th! ...

_ Winterlude 2014. Photo by Luciana Nechita _ Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** Friday-Sunday, January 31-February 2: First Weekend of Winterlude ** Ottawa’s annual celebration of cold and snow begins this weekend. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ When my brother Gary was a young lad attending public school, the teacher called in my mother for a conference. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lolProfile.jpg) Every Saturday 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’s guest is Robbie Lariviere from Fall Down Gallery. He’s an interesting entrepreneur who does amazing art and promotes it in Ottawa and his store. ...

_ ( Andrew King is an Ottawa-based artist and storyteller. Back September, we shared his story and photographs of an abandoned shipwreck in the Ottawa River . Since then, he’s been trying to find out where this boat came from, and why it’s still there. ...

** UPDATE (March 31: ** The station re-launched this morning at 11:00am as Jump! 106.9. ( Official press release here. ) First song on the air was “Animals” by Martin Garrix. Here’s a promo photo that the station sent us, showing their on-air hosts: left to right, Jay Hat (mornings), Jenna Mo, Mr. ...

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. There’s an old joke that goes something like “An official from Public Works and one from the National Capital Commission walk into a bar…” As with any number of establishments in Ottawa’s downtown in the immediate postwar period, by hook or by crook, the federal government’s insatiable appetite for office space shouldered them out of the picture. ...

Shawn Nystrand sent along this panorama of Place d’Orleans shopping centre as it looked in 1979: "I stitched together 2 slides taken of Place D'Orleans around the time of opening in 1979 by matching up architectural markers in Photoshop. I think this is a pretty good representation of the mall as it appeared at that time. ...

Photo by Danielle Donders, from the OttawaStart Flickr Group . ** Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ** ** Thursday, January 23: Book Launch for _ The Four Walls of My Freedom _ ...