On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

The Ottawa Comic Jam, an informal gathering of cartoonists and animators - from amateur to professional - has been meeting at this restaurant on Somerset near Bronson for years. Maybe a decade, I think.

Now, this, an image taken by one Fanis Grammenos:



To the photographer, the building is a victim of "adaptation". I was a beneficiary of that adaptation, as a regular visitor/customer and a local artist trying to just...do art. Somehow.

But the Shanghai is capable of providing take-out and delivery service. Or, was. But there's still hope, and an explanation in some detail...at this weblog entry:

https://theshang.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/closed-until-further-notice-for-some-renos-as-we-ride-out-this-ongoing-health-crisis/

I spent more than a few Fridays (when I was between jobs) and Sundays (whether I had one or not) at Patty Boland Pub in the ByWard Market. Most of those Sundays were because of meetings of ByMUG, which is still an ongoing concern for users of Apple gear across Ottawa, thankfully. Patty's in the Market is no more, sadly.

I think this is going to be the first nerd-targeted bar/tavern in Ottawa-Gatineau. Am I wrong? They'll be right next door to this store.

Doing a bit of shilling for my spacing_ottawa friends here.

Seems that during his prairie travels these past few months, my good editor Evan Thornton came across this little operation under the roof of the Winnipeg Free Press.

Here in Ottawa, the Presse Café under the roof of the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre comes close to matching it in terms of atmosphere, although there's enough wi-fi-equipped competition that perhaps it doesn't get used to the extent that it could be. Additionally, Evan notes some other factors in play that I didn't think of.

I wonder, though...CBC could have something really useful there.