[  ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6ZhBM0vTiI/UliXRMpCk6I/AAAAAAAASLE/M3nAnnNXkIM/s1600/13i-347___003.jpg) Photo supplied by the City of Ottawa. Remember the not-boring-but-actually-a-roadheader-LRT-tunnel-machine that [ we blogged about a couple weeks ago? ](http://ottawastart.com/ottawa-is-boring-the-ultimate-lrt-tunnel-construction-t-shirt/) ** ** Well now, if you’re a Grade 4 student, you can give it a name. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ My son Stef called to say he’d had a successful trip to Vegas. He won a $2,000 slot jackpot on the first night which basically paid for all his entertainment for the rest of the week. ...

_ Here’s a guest post from Andrew King, artist, historian and storyteller. You can read more on this topic on his web site, Andrew King Studios . _ A restored World War II DeHavilland Mosquito will become the world’s second-only flying example, and it’s from Ottawa! ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BW0jn3bIEAA361B.jpg-large.jpeg) Photo courtesy of [ @foodieprints ](https://twitter.com/foodiePrints/status/391007910731718656) On Thursday night we checked out [ Justin Van Leeuwen's ](http://jvlphoto.com/) new pop-up studio in Hintonburg. (It's only open for a very limited time, until October 29 at 1089 Somerset Street West. ...

A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. This apartment building, named The Gilbert Apartments, is located at 293 Lisgar Street and has lead a lonely life. Surrounded by surface parking lot since the 1970s, and currently boarded up, derelict, it is only a matter of time until it would face the same fate as the surrounding buildings. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadacat/10244161405/) Magical Morning. Shooting into the sun on a foggy morning at Petrie Island. Photo by [ Marelene Thoms ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadacat/10244161405/in/pool-ottawastart) from the [ OttawaStart Flickr Group ](http://www.flickr.com/groups/ottawastart/pool/with/10225479014/) . Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ...

Most people who’ve taken the bus in Ottawa have probably spent some time on their commute dreaming about the ultimate, pie-in-the-sky, never-in-a-million-years Ottawa transit system. You know, subways from Barrhaven to Canadian Tire Centre, rail tunnels beneath the Ottawa River, that kind of thing. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs almost daily over at Rose’s Cantina . _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/rose-garage.jpg) This garage on Othello St. was firebombed last month, causing $25,000 in damage and severely damaging a 1977 Triumph inside. ...

You all liked this morning’s “Ottawa Is Boring” t-shirt so much that I did up another one. ** ** [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/elk-squad-tshirt.jpg) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** See also: ** Ottawa Nature Guide If you liked this post, you should ** subscribe to etcetera , ** our free email newsletter. ...

** UPDATE: ** The Citizen’s David Reevely tells OttawaStart that the machine on the t-shirt is in fact ** _ not _ ** technically a boring machine, but a roadheader. (Boring machines are perfectly round, like this one . ...