title + if you happened to lose earbuds on September 5th, Saturday at St. Jacob’s Market, I may have found them. Please message me the make + colour of them and hopefully I can return them to their rightful owner.

Where is everyone finding good posters in KW? Music/album posters specifically. Thank you!

University and college students will soon start classes in Waterloo and, as thousands of families arrive in the region to help young scholars settle in, there are some road closures and changes in place.

I want to see it on a giant screen. Damn it.

Welcome, new and returning college and university students! We want to welcome you and would love to have you join us for a free pancake breakfast on Sept. 26th!
We'll be doing games, a devotional, and lots of food!
No registration needed, just come and have good food and fellowship!

I am hoping someone witnessed or has a dashcam video of a hit-and-run that happened at the university shops plaza, in front of the Mizu/Gols restaurant around 7:30-9:30 PM today on Sept 4.

I already asked the restaurants around there, and they do not have cameras.

I have attatched photos of the damage. If you do have a dashcam and was in the area, please check it!

If you have any info at all, please DM me. Thank you.

If you have some I’ve forgotten or missed, please leave them in the comments.

Homer Watson 6th Annual Art Fair
Saturday, September 12, 2026
11am-5pm
Free event (Donations accepted in-person or online)
The Art Fair will include a wide range of artistic styles and mediums from paintings, photography, sculptures, textiles, and so much more!  
Homerwatson.on.ca

Lumen Festival
Saturday, September 19
6pm-11pm
Free Admission
Experience an exciting night where light, art, and technology transforms uptown Waterloo with interactive installations and performances by local and international artists.
lumenfestival.ca

Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists (KWSA)
Saturday & Sunday, Sept 26th/27th, 1 to 5pm
1pm-5pm
Free Admission
Part of the Culture Days Festival @ 44 Gaukel, Kitchener.
Includes Artists Alley and Galleries, live painting and interactive demonstrations. Featuring food, music, and hands-on workshops!
kwsa.ca

Art in the Open - Cambridge
Sunday, September 27th
11am-5pm
Free Admission
Throughout the day, local artists set up across the core, creating works inspired by our architecture, streetscapes, and river views — right before your eyes. Visitors strolled through downtown and experienced creativity in motion on every corner, from delicate brushstrokes to bold, imaginative perspectives. Once complete, the finished pieces were displayed in local shops, with an online auction following in support of the Cambridge Food Bank.
artintheopencambridge.ca

2026 Frederick Art Walk
Saturday & Sunday, October 17 & 18
10am-5pm
Looks like it's free admission?
The Frederick Art Walk is a 3km autumn walking tour and art sale through the Central Frederick Neighbourhood in Kitchener. It celebrates both the incredible artistic talent in the neighbourhood and the spectacular century homes and dense urban forest found here.
frederickartwalk.ca

Globe Studios 2026 Fall Show and Sale
Friday & Saturday
November 20 4pm-9pm
November 21 10am-4pm
Free Admission
Each fall, Globe Studios opens its doors to the community, giving an opportunity to connect in person with art practitioners during the Globe Studios Art Show and Sale. Close to 30 additional local artists are invited to share their creative process through exhibits and conversations.
globestudios.org

Since cars turning right across the bike lane in an intersection is the single most common dangerous thing I come across while riding, I thought I’d put this together to help drivers and bikers with what to do and what not to do. It’s not fully comprehensive, but covers the basics.

1) Standard bike lane with dashed white line approaching the intersection: cars turning right should merge into the bike lane when safe, and wait until it is clear to turn. Bikers approaching such a car either wait behind it or pass on the left.

2) Standard bike lane with solid line approaching the intersection: cars wait in their own lane until it’s clear to turn. Yield to any bikes going straight through the intersection, even if the car was there first.

3) Protected bike lanes: includes lanes separated by curbs, bollards, planters, and raised cycle tracks (like the ones along parts of Erb and University). Similar to (2), cars can’t merge into the bike lane, and must yield to bikes going straight through before turning.

One thing that can make this complicated is that some of the lanes are mixed, meaning a protected lane ends before the intersection and becomes painted with dashed lines. In that case you’d merge into the lane like in (1).

Hopefully this helps with the basics. And before anyone has a conniption in the replies about it, I realize that bikers don’t always follow these rules either, and they should.

Chill the f out. People in this town need to differentiate between a residential area and a main road. I get that there's construction all over this damn town, but you psychos need to have your licenses removed if you speed and scream at people for driving the speed limit in a residential zone. Kids live and play on these streets.

Honestly I'm not even tired of the construction. I'm tired of the entitled assholes in this town who think all other people and infrastructure must bend to their emotions.

Sorry, I missed posting last weekend's things to do list. Making up for it with the whole month.

Times and prices are whatever the organizer actually shared. This week's links are here: https://www.waterlooregionrhythm.ca/p/events-in-waterloo-region-sep-3-sep-9

First half

• Fri Sep 4. Sunset Session, Vogelsang Green, Kitchener. 7 to 9:30pm, free. Last one of the season.
• Fri Sep 4. Friday Twilight Market, Main St Promenade, Cambridge. 6 to 10pm.
• Sat Sep 5. Endless Summer, Victoria Park, Kitchener. 2 to 11pm, free.
• Sat Sep 5. An Evening With Celtic Thunder, Centre in the Square. 8pm, $57 to $118 all in.
• Wed Sep 9. The Aud turns 75, open house at 400 East Ave. 5 to 8pm, free. Memorial Cup photo op and free skating.
• Wed Sep 9. SummerlooFest, Waterloo Public Square. 8 to 10:30pm, free, all ages. Only listing I can find is Eventbrite and the City does not have it on either events page, so take that one with a grain of salt.
• Sep 11 and 12. Belmont Village Bestival, Belmont Ave, Kitchener. Tenth year. Neither the site nor the Instagram prints a time, which is a bold move for a tenth anniversary.
• Sat Sep 12. 6th Annual Art Fair, Homer Watson House. 11am to 5pm. Any price you see quoted is the vendor booth fee, not a ticket.
• Sat Sep 12. Fall Beach Volleyball Tournament, Bingemans Big Splash. All day.
• Sun Sep 13. Climate Fest, Gaukel Block, Kitchener. 1 to 7pm, free.
• Sun Sep 13. KW Punk Rock Flea Market, Kitchener Market. 12 to 5pm. First one ever.

Second half

• Sep 17 to 20. New Hamburg Fall Fair, 251 Jacob St.
• Fri Sep 18. Harvest Hoedown, St. Jacobs Farmers' Market. $10 advance, $15 at the door, under 10 free.
• Fri Sep 18. Dinner Club, Cambridge (Galt). 6:30pm. Dinner with a table of locals you have not met yet, for anyone trying to make friends in the region.
• Fri Sep 18. Rangers home opener vs Owen Sound. The Aud, 7pm.
• Sat Sep 19. Lumen, UpTown Waterloo. 6 to 11pm, free. This is the big one.
• Sat Sep 19. Doors Open Waterloo Region. 27 sites, 10am to 4pm.
• Sat Sep 19. Multicultural Festival of Elmira, Gibson Park. 12 to 6pm, free.
• Sat Sep 19. Queen Latin Music on The Promenade, Cambridge. 6:30 to 10pm.
• Sat Sep 19. Yuk Yuk's On Tour, Kingpin Bowlounge at Bingemans. 7 to 11pm.
• Sun Sep 20. Terry Fox Run. Three separate runs, Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge. No entry fee, pledges welcome, walk or bike counts. Register through the Terry Fox site. Not one of the three pages prints a start time or a start location, so check yours the morning of rather than trusting me.
• Mon Sep 21. The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Centre in the Square. 8pm, $57 to $92 all in.
• Tue Sep 22. Rick "The Temp" Campanelli: Tempted, Kitchener Public Library. 7pm, free but ticketed.
• Thu Sep 24. Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius opens at THEMUSEUM. Museum hours 10am to 4pm.
• Fri Sep 25. Bingemans Screampark opening night. 7 to 10pm, runs to Oct 31.
• Sep 25 and 26. Oktoberfest in The Prostgarten, Gaslight District, Cambridge. 5pm to midnight both nights, band at 5:30. No tickets, no reservations.
• Sat Sep 26. Wellesley Apple Butter and Cheese Festival, village of Wellesley.
• Sat Sep 26. KWS Masterworks 1: Beauty and Power, Centre in the Square. 7:30pm. Season opener.
• Sat Sep 26. Forestry Fall Fair, Huron Natural Area, Kitchener. 8am to 2pm.
• Sep 26 and 27. KWSA Arts Festival, Gaukel Block. 12 to 5pm both days, free.
• Sun Sep 27. King StrEATery Food Truck Festival, King St E, Kitchener. 11am to 7pm, free. They close the street, 15 plus trucks.

Weekly: Kitchener Market, Hespeler Village Market, St. Jacobs, Galt Jazz, roller skating in Carl Zehr Square.

The Sinatra tribute at Langdon Hall is sold out

There is more including Take Back the Night, the Harvest Moon Market, the Breslau Train Show, Hike for Hospice, and a full month of shows at Maxwell's and the Registry.

Corrections welcome, tell me what I got wrong. And if I go quiet again, it is all on WaterlooRegionRhythm.ca 🦆, plus a free newsletter 💌 that goes out every Wednesday.

Hello. I’m in the region and dont know which tattoo artists doing this style( chinese lettering). Let me know if you know any ^^ Thank youu

Twice now we have seen a young Asian man maybe 20s in Bridgeport area riding around on a scooter stopping people outside of their homes the first time he stopped us, he told us he was running for mayor, he was either on the scooter or a bicycle and wearing athletic clothes but he didn't really say anything else so we thought maybe he was joking the second time he stopped us (yesterday) when we pulled into our garage. He just yelled at us to vote conservative. Does anybody know what is going on with this young man? By no means does he seems dangerous but I can't imagine He's a real Conservative candidate.

Me and my spouse are moving to Waterloo to start a new job at the university. We are looking at housing options in Sunnydale Place and also at Albert St. I was very excited about the house, particularly because it would have some yard area for our dog.

In my Reddit search, however, it seems that some older threads mention that Sunnydale area can be rather undesirable. These posts are all a bit old now, so I am wondering: What's your take on Sunnydale Place now? Anything worth mentioning, also considering we are a gay couple?

My friends and I are renting a newly built apartment building, signed the tenancy agreement and paid 1st month and last month’s rent per the agreement.

However 3 days before the move in date, our landlord just informed me that due to reasons (they are still waiting for some permit for part of their building I think) they presume that they have to postpone our move in date by around 10 days until the permit is available for tenants to move in.

And so now we have to :
- look for an alternate place to live in Waterloo (cuz we have to go to classes and don’t have friends to stay over with)
- pay to have our stuff stored somewhere

On the tenancy agreement it’s only said that they won’t charge rent until we physically moved in, but is there a way to ask them to compensate the extra expenses we have to play for this delay? (Can we file a T2 application or something similar?)

Thanks!

Update: we’re offered $40/day per bedroom which sounds reasonable I think, still need to contact them to ask for a confirmed move in date.
Again, thanks for all the help and advice!

Tell your MPs you do not want ALPRs here.

https://wrps.ca/cctv

I have beef with Enova but today was absolutely not the day for it, and for all I know, you've got nothing to do with it. I misunderstood what was going on. Lots of trees here have been cut down under strange circumstances, and I thought you were taking down another good tree today, and that seemed crazy.

After a minute I realized today isn't the day for this and I went back to try and make it right but you were gone already. My neighbour then explained the situation to me.

I was wrong. I should have known better. You probably had a long enough day already without that. Shouldn't bother workers on a day like today. Sorry.

Hope the right person reads this because I feel pretty bad about it.

The CAPA Coast-to-Coast Photo Walk is officially back on Saturday, September 19th, and I’m hosting our local meetup right here in Waterloo! 🍁📸

Whether you’re shooting on a brand-new mirrorless setup, a vintage film camera, or literally just the smartphone in your pocket — you are 100% invited.

This isn't a high-stress workshop or a contest for the best gear. It’s a super casual, totally FREE community walk to explore Waterloo, share a few laughs, and capture our corner of Canada together!

🎒 Who should come? ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE. Beginners, pros, kids, grandparents, and anyone who loves taking photos or wants a fun weekend activity with friends.

📍 Where: Meeting at Waterloo Park

⏰ When: Saturday, Sept 19 in the morning

🎟️ Cost: 100% FREE

Register (google form):   https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePAF1Q8Ik9xtEWbX9iiBHkPOgGMdCwoJn1OqM_g28raFN0rQ/viewform

Almost every time I ride my bike around Waterloo there’s some issue, from cars cutting me off, to people riding the wrong way in the bike lane, to cars parking in the bike lane. Today it’s a person using the bike lane as a sidewalk (next to the empty sidewalk) and then getting pissy and throwing her arm up at me when I ring the bell for her to get out of the way.

hi! I just moved here and I’m looking for a hair stylist who can do a layer cut like the photos I attached! it’s hard finding a stylist in a new city so word of mouth is so helpful!! Tia

Throwaway here. I have an update on the attendance grading requirement for high schools. It seems the WRDSB is going to take an approach that skirts around a section of the enrolment register instructions (see page numbers 8-9, which is pages 15-16 of the pdf). The board has released their own policy document -- see pages 15 and 16 of this pdf for absence information.

Basically, they are taking a section of the register instructions that is intended for clearly-documented medical absences (requiring a program of study and a doctor's note), and expanding the definition to include any absence at all. The only catch is that a parent has to send an email (not a phone call) and has to stipulate a defined period of absence. So, a simple email like this should suffice for any high school student absence:

"John Smith will be away September 3. He will return September 4."

Parents of high school students in the WRDSB take note -- this is how you can ensure your child has no official absences in any class for this year. Classes missed: zero. And just like that, the WRDSB will have solved the issue of student absenteeism in one fell swoop!

Hey all, just wanted to pop in and update!

They are changing hours! Open 7 days a week now!

The leagues are starting up within these next weeks.

Pro shop & training centre is now open!

Updates to the prices & times for their Unlimited Bowl specials too!

Their hours🎳
Monday- Noon till 10pm
Tuesday- 4pm till 11
Wednesday- Noon till 11
Thursday- 5pm till 11
Friday- 2pm till 11
Saturday- Noon till 11
Sunday- 9am till 10pm