Brunch is one of our favourite meals and a great way to celebrate the weekend and try new restaurants around town. This occasional series, Capital Brunches, will feature some of our favourite hidden gems and surprise brunch spots around the National Capital Region.

The International Downtown Association recently awarded the Vanier BIA its Downtown Achievement Award of Excellence for its work related to the Vanier HUB. This award acknowledges an excellent response to an urban place management challenge.

Author and activist Naomi Klein will discuss her new book Doppelganger tonight at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and the conversation is bound to be a compelling one.

Vernacular is a new online journal, launched in May 2023, that welcomes submissions in all different mediums, including but not limited to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, visual art and multimedia, as long as they relate to the theme vernacular: “anything that reveals a sense of place.”

Following the launch of our Patreon campaign last December, we immediately started to search for new creative minds to add to the Apt613 team to expand our coverage of Ottawa arts and culture.

Hours of fresh local music. Updated weekly by apt613.ca music writers. It’s like Release Radar for #ottmusic. Subscribe on Spotify.

A group of Iranian-Canadians in Ottawa-Gatineau who call themselves “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (meaning “Woman, Life, Freedom”) hope to amplify the voices of protestors through art and photography with an exhibition at City Hall this weekend titled Call it Revolution.

As part of an effort to support truth and reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples, Algonquin College’s Three Sisters garden is having quite the impact.

This Saturday night, enjoy a night of live music by Landon A.R. Coleman at a cool new bar in Hintonburg, all in support of local Ukrainian refugee relief efforts.