Like Bank Street, the major thoroughfare is impassable. Like Bank Street there is the constant clatter and crash of construction machines digging and filling in holes. Like Bank Street, business is down across the board. Unlike Bank Street, few Preston Street merchants are complaining.
Geoff Ives, Centretown NewsLuigi, the Preston Street mascot, welcomes visitors
Month: August 2009
Community group launches tenant voting campaign
The Ottawa chapter of a community-based international organization started a campaign Wednesday to have more tenants voting in the 2010 municipal election.
Chinatown to get archway
The Chinatown BIA announced Tuesday that there is to be a traditional paifang, or archway, built at an entrance to the community by next summer.
Geoff IvesA mural on the wall of a building on Somerset Street gives an idea what the archway will look like
Film Review: G.I. Joe
“I've been thinking,” says Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) near the beginning of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, to which his friend and comrade-in-arms Duke (Channing Tatum) replies, “I warned you about that.” Clearly director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, its sequels, Van Helsing) took this to heart: in the first five minutes, a squad of sinister but anonymous super-soldiers led by a literal supermodel (Sienna Miller as “the Baroness,” formerly Duke’s fiancée, Anna) seize a top-secret weapon from a U.S. military convoy “with extreme prejudice,” as they say in these sorts of movies, setting the tone for everything that follows.