New Film Celebrates KW Architect John Lingwood
In 2005, The Waterloo Region Record moved office buildings. It moved from its home on Fairway Drive to where it sits now, on King and Scott near the Kitchener M...
Beth Bowles
Editor’s Note: Holidays With My Big Blended Family
At the beginning of every December, I have the same conversation with my older sister, Rachael. I ask her where we’re going on Christmas Eve, who we’re h...
Show Me How You Burlesque
A look into the local Kitchener burlesque scene...
New Magazine Aims to Diversify KW’s Stories
Lifetime Kitchener residents Fitsum Areguy and Andy Myles have recognized a gap in the voices that are telling Waterloo Region’s stories. Certain voices haven’t...
Clothes Were the Days with White Tiger Vintage
When Miranda Campbell returned home to Kitchener in 2011 after working on an organic farm in California, she decided to act on a dream that had always lingered ...
Editor’s Note: Wishing That I’d Turn Around
For as long as I can remember, I’ve clung to nostalgia so tightly that it’s become a trait of my character.
When I was in my final year of high school, I reme...
Editor’s Note: Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
A few months ago, I was grocery shopping at the Zehrs on University Ave. When I was walking out of the store pushing a cart full of food, two men, about 18 or 1...
Guelph’s Holy Smokes Music Festival Creates Space For Those Who Are Often Left Out
This year, a new music festival will be hitting the streets of downtown Guelph. Spearheaded by Guelph-based musicians Charlotte Moore and Alanna Gurr, Holy Smok...
Editor’s Note: Ask The Question, Dammit! Or Don’t. Whatever.
In a recent session with my therapist, she told me something that I’ve been reiterating to anyone who will listen. This isn’t out of character for me; anyone wh...
Beth Bowles
Beth is the Editor in Chief of the Community Edition. When she's not writing, she's usually knocking back too many coffees at Princess Café, searching for new craft beer in the Region or forcing one of her foster cats to love her. Follow her on Twitter @angryelbows.