This is happening Thursday from noon till 1 p.m. over at https://t.co/fDmQeXSTyp. Why not pop by and try to stump yours truly?

Want Ottawa restaurant recommendations? Hit me up today from noon till 1 pm at:

Come out tonight and please say hello!

I'm playing online concierge today, doling out Ottawa restaurant recommendations at noon via the link below. Why not pop by and pose a question? https://t.co/caeTcE7vlW

Ek Bar, which opened last month on Preston Street in Ottawa, served me the tastiest, prettiest and most interesting modern Indian food I can recall having. If there's another resto like it in Canada, please let me know. Further details: https://t.co/DDJOm2jDnf

Ottawa musician cancels Kennedy Center concert to protest Donald Trump https://t.co/r1xfrs0y0G

Ottawa has taken a piecemeal approach toward fixing the ByWard Market. But the whole city has to be involved, writes Sylvie Bigras. #ottcity #ottnews @OttawaCitizen

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Thanks to @alannealottawa and @cbcallinaday for having me in yesterday to talk about my recent trip to my ancestral village in China, which led to my story in Saturday's @OttawaCitizen. Here's the link to the radio interview:

Last fall, I made a life-changing trip to my ancestral village in southern China - a journey that I’d long thought was impossible. Here’s the @OttawaCitizen long read that I wrote as a result:

This Ottawa-area entrepreneur wants his big new venture @AiRDistillerie and its smoked maple whisky to break into the Ontario spirits market: https://t.co/OATRtwNSpd

After a 20-year-run under two owners, Oz Kafe in the ByWard Market has closed. Here's why the NCC terminated its lease: https://t.co/2xztXI9UBX

I edited Gay Cook's @ottawacitizen column, more than 15 years ago. She was a lovely person and such a champion for Ottawa's culinary community. Gay passed away last week, after 93 exceptional years. My obit: https://t.co/aN2NRtRwz4 PS: watch the video of Gay making dinner rolls!

Why not make this story of mine your long read for the weekend? In part, it's about the man who crawls around inside the multi-storey guts of massive pipe organs to fix and tune them, and his job is extremely cool:

Carp residents decry far-right event Saturday night local hall https://t.co/PZixQUTZGH

This January

The six shows at @OttawaJazz that I'm most keen to see are.... https://t.co/t8Gfshi7G9

My colleague @lynnsaxberg writes on why @laufey is such a crucial booking for this year's @OttawaJazz Festival: https://t.co/WKI1mCFtlh

Here's my @ottawacitizen review of the JFUSE, the new upscale sushi spot on Main Street: https://t.co/r6gBKfZQbc

Here's a just-posted @OttawaCitizen story of mine that's kind of like S02 E04 of @thebearFX:

Thousands of first-time homebuyers purchased a home this year thanks to our HomeReady® mortgage. Find out how.

That set of mini-reviews feeds in turn into this omnibus post:

I think I might have to change my business card to read: Pizza Correspondent