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A brand new and free festival in the most sought-after locations in Ottawa to live, eat, work, shop and play, will “ignite” Richmond Road between Golden Avenue and Island Park Drive, June 10-12. Fire up with the MEC Westboro Mile; soar down a 400 foot zipline; take in the best of the PC SuperDogs; look for the Aeriosa dancers as they leap through Westboro’s skyline and move your feet to the funky beat of The Peptides and the HiFi Showband. ...

[caption id=“attachment_26428” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Mr. Loaf by Andrew King[/caption]

As the space used to bring some of the world’s top musical acts to Ottawa, Festival House has come a long way from its humble beginnings as the Westboro United Church. While it might not be an Ottawa landmark just yet, the recently renovated building located at 450 Churchill Avenue North has certainly made its mark. ...

_ ** Editor’s note: ** This article was originally published at The Kitchissippi Museum. _ A pub like Whispers is exactly what makes Westboro so great. While I’m not a big drinker, I can’t appreciate enough that a place like Whispers has been able to survive for so long. ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at The Kitchissippi Museum. Fraser Avenue is in the McKellar Park-Westboro area of Kitchissippi. This is a street which may have a lot more history in it than you can imagine. Part of this street was once a golf course. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/POPUPsignfinalpink.jpg) Ottawa’s had a pop-up restaurant and a pop-up beach patio, and now three local artists are planning to open a pop-up art gallery later this month in the Wellington West/Parkdale Market area. Katherine Jeans , Alison Fowler and Andrew King launched a web site today at ** popupgalleryottawa. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/westborobeach.jpg) _ Westboro _ Westboro Beach sunbathers will be treated to a special sand between their toes after Kitchissippi Ward Councillor Katherine Hobbs approved the use of specially imported fair trade organic sand trucked in from Kenyan and Ethiopian sand fields. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/kayaktrench.jpg) _ Westboro _ Flooding of the OC Transpo Transitway trench that runs from Westboro Station to Bayview Station began yesterday after residents of the area successfully lobbied City Hall to convert the 4 km stretch of trench into a kayak commuting canal. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/HIPSTER.jpg) _ Westboro _ Lego has announced plans to release a new line of “Westboro” themed playsets for an early Summer 2012 launch. The popular children’s building brick manufacturer is using Ottawa’s trendy Westboro neighbourhood as the basis for its latest themed playsets. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stroller2.jpg) _ Wellington West _ A dramatic discovery was made earlier this week when archaeologists uncovered an almost perfectly preserved 9,000 year old baby stroller in a condo development construction site near Harmer Ave. The discovery of the primitive Neolithic stroller is in keeping with the area’s rich, baby-centric reputation, and furthers the concept that not much has changed in the area over the last 9,000 years. ...