Today’s guest post is from Kyle Smith , an Ottawa television producer and severe weather watcher. He’s been in the weather industry for over seven years, including work at the Weather Network, and he’s seen it all – from winter blasts to super cell storms. ...

Video posted by gastorch997 (embedding may be disabled for this video - click here to view ) The main stage at Bluesfest collapsed tonight during the Cheap Trick show. Various news outlets and people on the scene are reporting multiple injuries. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhanschke/842197082/) Hill sitters. Photo by [ nicholas h ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhanschke/842197082/) It’s that we have a 2-week festival of rock, blues, hip hop, comedy, cowboys, dj’s, noise, weed, beer, poutine and guys in inflatable hamster balls … and it all happens _ ** around our national War Museum ** _ . ...

_ We’re on hiatus this week, so instead of new blog posts we’re re-publishing some fun content from the past couple years. Remember this from July 2009 ? _ I’ve been enjoying all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the police search today for an unidentified object (it may or may not have been flying) on the Ottawa River. ...

We’re on hiatus this week and re-posting some fun content from the past few years. Here’s a post that originally appeared in July 2010 … Here’s a photo snapped yesterday by Stuntmant Stu at St. James the Apostle Anglican Church in Manotick. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/weekly-event-roundup250.gif) ** ** We’re on a short summer hiatus this week, so in lieu of our regular list of contributor picks, here are a few sources of info for events in Ottawa this week: 1. [ Bluesfest Guide ](http://ottawastart. ...

_ OttawaStart is on summer haitus this week so we’re posting some “best-of” posts from the past year. Here’s one from last August : _ _ _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/douchebag01.jpg) Greenboro resident and Ottawa blogger [ Dan Awesome ](http://twitter. ...

_ We’re on summer haitus this week & re-posting some good content from the past few years of our blog. Here’s one that originally appeared in June 2010 . _ ** ** Yesterday morning, Ottawa was smothered in smoke from forest fires in Quebec. ...

_ OttawaStart is on a short summer haitus this week, so we’re re-posting some of our favourite posts from the past few years. Here’s one from August 2009 , featuring a find by the now-defunct (and much-lamented) Ottawa Ephemera blog. ...

It’s always great to see people doing non-Parliamentary things on Parliament Hill . Like watching a big July 1 rock concert, or checking out the Mosaika light show, or playing rugby , or doing yoga. Here’s a great photo from John W. ...