“If Ottawa were a house, then Raw Sugar would be the living room,” says Lydia Gabelmann, one of the baristas at the Somerset Street coffee shop that’s been emerging as an informal Centretown community centre. 
Sarah Everest, Centretown NewsNadia Kharyati, owner of the Raw Sugar Café, hosts performers and community groups.
Author: Centretown Staff
Viewpoint: Sex-show sponsors should reconsider their advertising
Last weekend, the Kapital Kink sex show offered Ottawans kinky workshops, a fashion sexpo, a fetish ball and an “Exploratorium,” all within the cozy walls of St. Brigid’s church in the Byward Market. And the four-day show came and went with zero controversy – exactly the way it should be.
Local artists set out to ‘kill’ Group of Seven
A horse had electric red blood spurting from a neck artery. Zombies stalked between Parliament Hill and the U.S. Embassy. And the bright autumn leaves that had fallen around the trees in the lakeside landscape couldn’t hide the piles of trash. 
Evgeniya Kulgina Centretown NewsPatrick Mills, artist and creator of the "I Killed the Group of Seven" exhibit, at his studio in Hintonburg.
Lisgar students ambivalent about school survey
A controversial survey by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, which has caused concern among students, has been delayed at the request of the Ontario privacy commissioner. 
Sarah Everest, Centretown News Ottawa-Carleton District School Board students, including those at Lisgar Collegiate, will have to wait to complete a survey about their personal life until a complaint about the survey has been investigated by the Ontario privacy commissioner.