Posts Tagged ‘downtown kingston’

Nightmare on North Street

At first glance it looks like the exterior of a typical daycare, but if you happen to be stopped at the traffic lights on the corner of North Street and Hanover (directly across from The Gleaner building in Downtown Kingston); take a closer look at the cartoon renderings on the white wall of a government [...]

Our Darkest Hours

Every city changes when darkness falls. At night, Kingston is as beautiful as it is foreboding. Flickering lights, empty buildings and hollow, distant voices create an atmosphere that is difficult to capture when the imagination adds so much more.
Things appear and disappear. Old souls mingle with the living, and sometimes, if you look hard enough, [...]

Thursday Night at the Fights!

Photography by Peter Dean Rickards

On a Thursday Night in the middle of the concrete jungle, the Lions come out to play. Already notorious for its garrison politics, this particular downtown community cements its reputation by adding brute sport to its list of attributes. Unyielding to outside authority, its proud residents are often misunderstood by outsiders [...]

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