Little Italy

The Irishman vs. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Its Scorsese vs. Tarantino. DiCaprio vs. De Niro. East Coast vs. West Coast. Extended movie running times vs. tragically weak bladders. For the moment at least, this years Oscar race for best picture appears t…

Happy Wednesday, friends! Right about now, I’m making my way home from a FANTASTIC few days in Boston with my girlfriends.  When Manda died, we all agreed that we needed to start making a big effort to get together once a year for a trip.  Life is so short, …

Martin Scorsese is trending on Twitter for denouncing superhero movies as being more like theme parks than films because Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. And yet the directors The Irishman proves that the expected can have its cinematic p…

Schenectady wins $10 million in state money for downtown projects

Ottawa police homicide detectives continue to search for a motive in the slaying of a 62-year-old construction worker inside his Little Italy apartment last week. Coworkers continue to mourn Brian Blondin, who was found stabbed to death inside his home on Si…

The extension of Herb & Wood opens today Herb & Sea, the North County counterpart to Herb & Wood, Brian Malarkey’s warmly-received comeback in Little Italy, has arrived in downtown Encinitas. This time around, the Puffer Malarkey Collective, the chef’s partne…

As the decade ends, more of the conversation seems to be about how people watch movies (Netflix vs. theatres) than movies themselves. So we're going to bring it back to the actual films over the next few days as the writers of RogerEbert.com reveal our staff …

Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver after a pedestrian was struck on King Edward Avenue early Sunday morning. The incident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of King Edward and Somerset Avenue East, said Staff Sgt. Scott Fenton of th…

Ottawa police detectives were busy on Saturday, working two homicides. The suspect in one case turned herself in Friday at Elgin Street police headquarters with a defence lawyer at her side. Nichole Hover, 44, surrendered just past suppertime after contactin…

Family and friends of the man stabbed to death in Ottawa's ByWard Market Thursday night say he was a "loving father" who "had a big heart." Austin Simon was stabbed outside the Shepherds of Good Hope shelter on Murray Street near King Edward Avenue around 10…