On May 16 and 18, several of Ottawa’s major museums are offering free admission as part of Internional Museum Day. For a great round-up, check out Apartment613 . And for more about Ottawa museums, check out our Ottawa Museum Guide . ...

My new favourite Ottawa web site is OttawaTrash.ca . It’s ** ** a very simple but incredibly useful web site, created using data from the City of Ottawa’s website. The creators describe it as “born out of a need for a garbage scheduling app for Ottawa that doesn’t inspire acts of rage … using carefully hand-made iCal files for the city’s trash schedules”. ...

Here’s a cool wine-matching widget created by Natalie Maclean, who’s probably Ottawa’s best known wine expert. Natalie emailed us a few weeks back with details: You can search the matcher for drinks to pair with meat, pasta, seafood, vegetarian dishes, pizza, take-out, sauces, herbs, cheese or dessert; or you ...

Liz from the Ottawa Dog Blog sent along this note, to tell us about a new Dog Park Finder feature: I wanted to email to officially tell you that the Ottawa Dog Park Finder has FINALLY been launched! It was created by Ottawa Web Developer, Thomas J Bradley ( [ http://thomasjbradley. ...

Just went to update our Festivals Guide with info about the Capital Hoedown , a new country music festival that announced its line-up today. The first result that came up was for the similarly-named O-Town Hoedown , also a country music festival. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/os-screen-shot-may-9-2010.jpg) Earlier tonight we launched a new look for OttawaStart - check it out here . It was about time - our last major upgrade was back in 2005, and since then our site has expanded and internet technology has changed quite a bit. ...

Just got this note from Beverly Charles at Mountain Road Productions, a local video production company: We are currently looking for Ottawa's next big TV stars!! Our latest show in development is called All For Nothing. The concept is getting homeowners who are looking to sell, provide them with expert advice from a realtor and stager on how to get it ready for market on the cheap (beg/barter/borrow/steal), film them rolling up their sleeves doing the reno's themselves and whoever does the best with the advice given, gets free representation from the realtor to sell their home. ...

I’ve noted before the large number of restaurant blogs in Ottawa. There are also a lot of restaurant review sites as well. I recently came across InfoGlutton , an interesting “meta-review” web site that tracks customer reviews from around the web. ...

The best links & notes from OttawaStart’s Twitter feed over the past week. * Checking out InfoGlutton - a web site tracking web reviews / comments re: Ottawa restaurants [ http://bit.ly/9sNksX ](http://bit.ly/9sNksX) [ ](http://twitter.com/ottawastart/statuses/10801239539) * More Bluesfest rumours: Tom Petty, Iron Maiden [ http://search. ...

Apparantly the theme this week on the OttawaStart blog is reality tv show auditions. Here’s a casting call for All For Nothing, a real estate reality show looking for families or couples who are planning to sell their home but need to fix it up a bit before they sell. ...