🧒🏻🧒🏻🧒🏻🧒🏻 Ottawa ByLaw made a local record store cancel its homage to the Beatle’s iconic final rooftop performance. The Record Centre planned to have local tribute band Capital Beatles play their rooftop last Saturday, while also collecting money and food donations for the Parkdale Food Centre. The Blue Meanies at Ottawa ByLaw were having none of it and the performance was relocated. – Instagram

🔥 The Ottawa Fire Service has issued a burn ban. This is not surprising news, and most municipalities in Eastern Ontario have done the same thing. – Ottawa Fire Service

🚌 Flixbus has added a Gananoque stop. Flixbus will stop by Gananoque City Hall twice per day, in both directions, on the Ottawa – Toronto route. – William Eltherington at CTV

🚊 Ottawa Transit Riders are asking the public to sign Horizon Ottawa’s letter of protest over the hike in youth transit fares. City councillors voted to replace the $99 monthly fare for 13-19 years olds and free transit for 11 and 12 year olds with the full adult fare. – Ottawa Transit Riders

⛪ Thieves have taken a Virgin Mary statue and brass crosses from a small church in the Ottawa Valley. The statue itself would have required at least two people to carry out. Ottawa Provincial Police are asking for any tips about the theft from the First Lutheran church in Palmer Rapids, 140 km west of Ottawa. – Rachel Morgan at CityNews    Donate here

TUESDAY

• St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival’s musical ode to the Bard, Play On! A Shakespeare Inspired Mixtape returns tonight and will run for just one week. It's always a smash hit, so come and see what the fuss is about. 

• 🆓 Ventanas play original music in any of 20 languages on the Wood Terrace outside National Arts Centre. If you miss them tonight they’re back tomorrow for a second show (Wednesday August 13).

• Ottawa Craft Beer Week passports at ready: visit your favourite brewery (or suss out something new to you) and savour the best in home-grown flavours. Get a stamp from each brewery you visit, for a chance to win prizes. #ocbw

• We hear that there are just a few tickets left for Cornerstone’s Young Professional Advisory Board Tea Party at Tartelette. This intimate fundraiser features a guest speaker, silent auction and, of course, delicious teas and treats. 

• Weather permitting, A Company of Fools’ The Comedy of Errors plays Brantwood Park in Old Ottawa East from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. 

• Hamilton continues at the NAC. You have until Sunday (August 17) to see the award-winning musical.  

• Odyssey Theatre’s The Girl With No Hands, a world premiere that retells the Brothers Grimm folk tale, plays under the stars in Strathcona Park Tuesday through Sunday until August 24. 

• Kids 12 and under don't requite a ticket to the RBC International 5* 2* Horse Show at Wesley Clover Parks. 

• Florence Y’alls travel all the way from Kentucky to play the Titans in front of an Ottawa crowd.  

• ByTowne Cinema: To a Land Unknown, Restoration: Throne of Blood, 28 Years Later

• Mayfair Theatre: Sorry, Baby, Eddington, Thief 
  
  Gigs

• Peyton McNamara. Night Oat

• Mimi O'Bonswain. National Arts Centre

• Trivia Tuesday. Overflow Brewing

• Macro Micro Art Vernissage. Atomic Rooster

• Clyde McGee. Dominion City Tavern

WEDNESDAY

• ✳️ Bring your doggo to Overflow Brewing’s Puppies & Pints from noon to 3:00 pm. Pups get to frolic in a splash pool, and you can enjoy a cold craft beer. 

• ✳️ At 5:00 pm, Broadhead Brewery’s Pints, Pups, and a Patio (Ottawa Craft Beer Week edition) will keep you and your canine friend cool through the evening. 

• Tonight’s spectacle at Les Grands Feux is brought to you by none other than Canada. 

• Break the monotony of the week with a visit to Parkdale Night Market (5:00 pm to 9:00 pm). 

• Ottawa Rapid FC takes on AFC Toronto at 7:00 pm. 

• Florence Y’alls play the Ottawa Titans in the second of a three game matchup.  

• 🆓 Ventanas play original music in any of 20 languages on the Wood Terrace outside National Arts Centre. 

• Where are you taking your Ottawa Craft Beer Week passport today?  

• Weather permitting, A Company of Fools’ The Comedy of Errors plays Laroche Park in Mechanicsville from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. 

• Hamilton continues at the NAC. 

• ByTowne Cinema: My Mother’s Wedding, 2025 Cat Video Fest, Detour: True Stories  

• Mayfair Theatre: Eddington, Sorry, Baby, Magnolia  

  Gigs

• Jazz Jam: Beeched Wailers. Irene’s Pub

• Chloe Boulianne, Illiyah Rose, OK Naledi. Akoustik at St. Charles Market (135 Barrette St.)

• Marie Claude Trio. Bar Robo

• Lulu Lamontagne, Bella Donna, Sun Dried Flies. House of TARG

• Rabi Houtie. Avant-Garde Bar

• Rare Groove Wednesdays. Atomic Rooster

• Lives Like Skyscrapers, August Darula. Art House

THURSDAY

• 🆓 Enjoy sounds from CH20 et AKA Big Sam, and JS runner at the Shed (Sparks St). 

• 🆓 The uOttawa Summer String Academy perform solo and chamber works at Rossy Pavilion, NAC. 

• A drink is included in the $10 entry fee to Saunders Farm Trivia Night. 

• 🆓 Metcalfe Plaza’s Opening Party will showcase this pop-up ‘open-air social hub’ (141 Metcalfe St.) with a DJ and dancing. 

• 🆓 Watch as top rated athletes from Indigenous communities around the world compete in the Masters indigenous Games (today through Sunday). The opening ceremonies run tonight from 6:00 pm.  

• Performing at Overflow Brewing Co’s Shadow Karaoke Edition is almost like being on the Masked Singer: You stand behind a curtain to sing.

• Make it an evening of art, shopping, and food at Urban Art Collective's Hintonburg Night Market. 

• One of the fave foodie festivals, Ottawa Greek Fest, turns 50 this year.  

• Florence Y’alls play the Ottawa Titans as the three game series wraps up. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Ghost Almanac Summerween Spectacular 

• Mayfair Theatre: Sorry, Baby, My Mother's Wedding, Magnolia 

  Gigs

• Thursday Blues Sessions with guest host Lyle Odjick. Irene's Pub

• Organ Trail. Dominion Tavern

• Lulu Lamontagne, Bella Donna, Sun Dried Flies, GRFN. House of TARG

• Big Trout, Nolan Hubbard, Sun Dried Files. Rainbow Bistro

• Rabie Houti band. Avant-Garde Bar

• John Wort Hannam. Red Bird

JUST ANNOUNCED / NOW BOOKING

• The buffet at the Farm to Table Dinner, Pig & Corn Roast at Saunders Farm offers the best in local produce and meat (and jackfruit if it’s a vegetarian experience that you're after). Saunders Farm brings back a fan favourite on August 24. As if that's not enough, there's a Dessert Bar, too.