🏏 Three Ottawa restaurants have received permission to serve alcohol early this coming Sunday morning in anticipation of watching Team Canada’s gold medal match against Finland. The restos are:

• Lowertown Brew Pub on York Street
• Pubblico Eatery on Wellington Street West
• Boston Pizza Barrhaven on Greenbank Road

The pint and the puck both drop at 8:00 am.  – Josh Pringle at CTV 
 

🏏 To avoid a sticky wicket, the City wants your opinion on building a new cricket pitch. The City is proposing a full-size, 100-metre by 125-metre pitch at Beryl Gaffney Park on Rideau Valley Drive. Rideau-Jock ward councillor David Brown says ‘cricket is one of the fastest growing sports in Ottawa’.  The City’s Engage Ottawa page is asking for your opinion here.  – Ted Raymond at CTV 

🐿️ Mayor Mark Sutcliffe unveiled the City’s vision for ByWard Market at the Downtown Ottawa Forum yesterday. Plans include:

• Rejigging the ByWard Market Building into a ‘modern space with food-focused tenants’. 
• Building underground parking to replace the 70 Clarence Street parkade and change the parkade into a ‘destination hub’.
• Change York Street into ‘a big plaza that could host family events, cultural programming, winter activities, and major events’.  – Marissa Galko in the Ottawa Business Journal

↪ The 70 Clarence Street parkade will immediately change to three hour maximum parking in a bid to ‘encourage turnover’ in the area that the City desires to promote as a destination.

🛷 The Green Eggs and Hammers ultimate frisbee team have serious  spirit. The Green Eggs and Hammers flew to the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics to cheer on their ultimate frisbee teammates Mike Evelyn O’Higgins and Jay Dearborn in person. O'Higgins and Dearborn competed in two-man bobsleigh last weekend, coming in 23rd. – Keiran Gorsky in the Ottawa Sports Pages

🗳️ Tobi Nussbaum, the chief executive of the National Capital Commission, participated in a Q & A about his Capital favourites. His ‘best kept secret’ is the ‘walk to the Chaudière Falls viewing area via the bulkheads behind the War Museum and along NCC’s Pangishimo Park’.  – Marissa Galko in the Ottawa Business Journal

FRIDAY

• Jazz quartet the Peter Cancurra Group plays Ottawa's newest venue the Robo Lounge. Tickets $20. (The Glebe)  

• The City of Ottawa Lansdowne 2.0 project team will be hosting a community pop-up to keep people informed about the latest developments 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Horticulture Building,  1525 Princess Patricia Way (Lansdowne).

• Learn from the best at Whisky Wonderland’s Friday Masterclass Sessions. The Stadium at TD Place (Lansdowne). 

• Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch (These are the Daves I know I know, Kathie with a C, and others) comes to Algonquin Commons Theatre on his The Dark Purple Slice Tour.  

• Complete the Making Paper from… Wool! Two day course from Ottawa School of Art. 

• Gamers, bring your own or select from the Wizard’s Tower collection of Board Games and Chess boards at the meet-up tonight from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.  

• Get ready for the warmer months with the 50th Anniversary Ottawa Boat & Outdoors Show.

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Hamnet, The Love That Remains, Kokuho, Sirat 

• Mayfair Theatre: My Father's Shadow, Hamnet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show 

Gigs

• 80s Dance Party. House of TARG

• Queers & Beers: February Chill. Queen St. Fare

• The Maple Blues Band. Babs Asper Theatre, National Arts Centre 

•  Zero State, Mortality Mirror, Moldead. Dominion Tavern

• Pimienta (spicy jazz). Art House Café

SATURDAY

• ✳️ Canada’s ‘Queen of R&B Soul’, Jully Black, performs at National Arts Centre's Babs Asper Theatre, with guest Raquel Ra Brown. (Downtown). 

• After you've filled up at the Fitzroy Firefighters Pancake Breakfast, check out the Snowpitch Tournament, the Outdoor Hockey League, and the live entertainment at the Fitzroy Harbour Winter Carnival. 

• 🆓 Drop in to the RCMP stables for the Musical Ride Open House and Ottawa Food Bank Drive (Manor Park). 

• Rooted in Heritage, Rising in Unity: Experience vibrant performances, soul-stirring poetry, authentic African cuisine, and inspiring speeches from community leaders and elected officials at African Day On the Hill. (Cyrville) 

• Support the amazing community of Black micro-business owners at Bring it Black - Black Future Market at Next Door (Little Italy) 

• Celebrate the Year of the Horse in the Lunar New Year parade. (Chinatown)  

• 🆓 We’re in the middle of False Spring, so why not engage in some False Spring cleaning? Bring your broken small appliances, hole-y socks, jewelry with broken clasps, and any other sad little thing that needs some love to the Ottawa Tool Library Repair Café. The items will fixed by volunteers (or recycled if they're beyond repair). (Britannia Village) 

• 🆓 Get on your bike and meet at Whiprsnapr Brewing for the legendary Phat Fest through the Greenbelt.(Bells Corners). 

• Musicians: check out Making YouTube Work For You (The Glebe) 

• Raise a world-class dram at Whisky Wonderland, where the weekend menu includes top shelf whiskies from around the world alongside poutine and nacho stations, gourmet hot dogs and charcuterie, sushi, fresh fruit, baked treats, and more.(Lansdowne)  

• Shop with local farmers, pantry item producers, and sugar bushes at the Ottawa Organic Farmers’ Market, 3191 Riverside Drive (Riverside Park) 

• Get ready for the warmer months with the 50th Anniversary Ottawa Boat & Outdoors Show. 

• Catch a glimpse of more knees than you’ve seen all winter at the Great Canadian Kilt Skate. Bring a donation for Ottawa Food Bank. Kilts are optional, but ... why wouldn’t you? (Lansdowne)

• Road Trip: Follow Bank Street south to the Greely Community Center for the February Fresh Farmers' Market. 

• The Cumberland Winter Market brings farmers, food vendors artisans, and shoppers together at the RJ Kennedy Arena (Cumberland) 

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Love That Remains, Kokomo, Tone Cluster’s Cabaret Singalong & Fundraiser, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie 

• Mayfair Theatre: My Father’s Shadow, Hamnet, City on Fire 

Gigs

• LMAOverflow comedy concert series. Overflow Brewing

• I, The Mountain. Stay Dog Brewing

• Emo Night. The 27 Club

• The Low Profiles. Night Oat

• Highway Sunrise. Hard Rock Ottawa Council Oak Stage

SUNDAY

• The 2nd annual Robert Plante Greenhouses Book Fair will unfold where last year's inaugural event took the bibliophile community by storm: in a tropical greenhouse on Navan Road (Orléans)  

• Sens Skills gives the players a chance to compete in fun skill events in front of an adoring crowd.  All tickets are $20 and under. Canadian Tire Centre (Kanata) 

• Ottawa’s longest-standing drag brunch is back at the Vanitea Room. Expect scones, bacon, performances, and a choice of mockmosa or mimosa (or make them bottomless for an extra charge).(Centretown)

• Stretch and flow with Yoga On a Dime aka Cheap Yoga at Next Door (Little Italy). 

• Heroes on the Air is a live old-time radio performance featuring stories from the RCAF, set inside a 1940s radio studio. This immersive theatre experience invites audiences behind the scenes of a live broadcast, blending powerful storytelling with live sound effects and music. Presented by the Royal Canadian Airforce Foundation.  Admission is included in your ticket to Canada Aviation and Space Museum. (Rockcliffe Airport)  

• Hear historian Andrew King tell the story of the tragic 1957 crash of a B-25 Mitchell Bomber in Manotick. Manotick Legion Branch 314 (Manotick). 

• 🆓 This introductory Women’s Self-Defense Seminar by Gracie Jiu-Jitsu will demonstrate why the Brazilian martial art and combat sport BJJ is growing in popularity around the globe.(Nepean)  

• Hypatia’s Voice choir performs at their annual fundraiser concert and auction. Bid on $3000 worth of items donated by Ottawa businesses.(Downtown)

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Golden Age: Black Narcissus, Kokohu, Sirat, Drawn In: Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)  

• Mayfair Theatre: Hamnet, A Mighty Wind, My Father’s Shadow, City On Fire 

Gigs

• Lauren Spencer Smith. Bronson Centre

• The Roo’s Blues Jam (afternoon gig). Atomic Rooster

• Bonecat. Atomic Rooster

• Church of Trees, Thomas Simon, Saddier Trio. Avant-Garde Bar

• CA & Sonny and Kathleen Johnson and Sally Thompson. Wesboro Masonic Hall

• Sun Temple, Paradise Sprites, Sir Kingfisher. Rainbow Bistro

MONDAY

• Hear community radio direct from one of Ottawa’s coolest local businesses this morning as CKCU broadcasts from Art House from 8:00 am to 11:00 am. (In person in Centretown West or online)  

• You love D&D but you don’t have time for a weekly campaign; the King’s Gambit one-session D&D game at Level One Game Pub is for you. 

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Love that Remains, Kokohu 

• Mayfair Theatre: My Father’s Shadow, A Mighty Wind, Scum of the Earth  

Gigs

• Karaoke. Atomic Rooster

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• 🆓 Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communications presents an evening with Canadian journalist and author Theresa O’Leary, whose new book Race to the Cape: The Daring News Chase, the Birth of the Associated Press, and the Journalist at the Heart of It All, recounts the founding of the news organization in 1846. Wednesday March 4. (Carleton Campus) 

• Support the work of the Canada Ukraine Foundation and register for one of two Pysanka Workshops (March 14 or 21). Places cost $45 and include your egg, all wax, dye, and tools. Ukrainian Orthodox Hall. (Carlingwood)

• Put on your green threads and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Club SAW with The New Hires, Guest Room Status, Saturn Sunrise, and Motherland. Saturday March 14 (Downtown)