Nov 29 - Dec 5, 2012

News + Opinion

• City

  Recount confirms Bill Karsten's District 3 victory

  Dartmouth South - Eastern Passage finally has a city councillor.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• News

  Provincial Council of the Disabled has met just six times in 10 years

  Accessibility advocate Gus Reed uses the Freedom of Information Act to illustrate how government ministers are failing disabled people.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Nov 28, 2012

  
• News

  Wayves goes digital-only

  LGBT publication gives up print edition

  By Shannon Webb-Campbell

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• News

  Naming those lost

  World AIDS Day is December 1.

  By Kaleigh Trace

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• News

  Seaport Farmers Market investors may be “toast”

  THe Port of Halifax needs to think of moral responsibilities, says Frank Schwartz, chair of investors' group.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• News

  Government tendering gets outsourced

  Deloitte, working in "partnership" with IBM, now controls all bids on provincial tenders.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Dec 4, 2012

  
• News

  Ten Halifax councillors wanted to be on Trade Centre Limited board of directors

  There are still lots of unanswered questions about the new convention centre.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Dec 5, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  Happy chocoversary

  One year of the Choco Cafe=sweet deals

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 28, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  Kitchen party

  Gottingen's Ratinaud French Cuisine plans for Kitchen Table dinners in 2013

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  The Holiday Planner is here

  Shopping! Drinking! Mall Santa! It's a special package, just for you.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  Get a slice of Piazza

  Bishop's Landings' Piazza retailers celebrate 12 Days of Christmas

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 30, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  More Fruition

  Those who like it raw, locally-made almond milk and delish meals are waiting for you

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 3, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  Friday night lights on Spring Garden

  Round two of Shopping Under the Stars brings deals and steals downtown

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 6, 2012
• Shoptalk

  Benjamin Bridge takes it to the limited

  The Nova Scotia winery releases rare, limited edition wines to members only

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 3, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  It's Frye-day, Frye-day

  Crimson & Clover celebrates the beauty of Frye boots at its Christmas shopping party

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 6, 2012

  
• Shoptalk

  It's turkey time

  Durty Nellys' celebratory buffet is coming at ya

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 4, 2012

  
• Opinion

  We must protect our wild sides

  Will the City rise to the challenge of conserving this iconic wilderness or will it become more suburbia?

  By Chris Miller

  Nov 29, 2012

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Eye of the beholder

  Elizabeth McCarthy’s one-woman play, Scopophilia: Into the Eye of the Sun, explores voyeurism, feminism and a cultural icon.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Elf yo' self

  Beat the bah-humbug blues with a trip to Neptune Theatre’s Elf: The Musical.

  By Kate Watson

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Silver Linings Playbook

  Bradley Cooper pulls it out, Jennifer Lawrence kills as usual

  By Tara Thorne

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Bidding for LovE

  The For the Love of Art auction brings you art for a good cause.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Fashionable fete

  Join Fashion East for a very bloggy birthday at Lost & Found.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  This Hour Has 20 Years

  Celebrating two decades of sharp political satire made in Halifax, This Hour Has 22 Minutes is still going strong.

  By Jacob Boon

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

  Available on PS3 (SuperBot)

  By Justin Hartling

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  My Heart is an Idiot

  By Davy Rothbart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

  By Whitney Moran

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race

  Episode 5: “Dynamic Drag Duos” (Logo)

  By Stephanie Johns

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Peace, Love and Misunderstanding

  Directed by Bruce Beresford (ifc)

  By Tara Thorne

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Killing Them Softly

  An engrossing tale of greed and instability, just in time for the holidays

  By Jacob Boon

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Talaash

  Too much seriousness borders on parody

  By Molly Segal

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Anna Karenina

  Sure it's long, but not long enough to do justice to complex characters

  By Molly Segal

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Scopophilia: Into the Eye of the Sun

  Voyeurism and violence in the lives of women

  By Kate Watson

  Nov 30, 2012

  
• Music

  The Mill on the Floss

  DalTheatre attracts wide audience with high-quality productions

  By Kate Watson

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Soulful sister

  Laura Roy’s powerhouse vocals grace the city’s hip-hop stages, catch her Thursday at The Company House

  By Jeff Lawton

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Stacks of Wax

  The Wax release a new album of electronic-rock on the city, Friday at the Marquee

  By Matthew Ritchie

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Hot for teacher

  Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin’ Daddys celebrate decades of good blues with a new album

  By Adria Young

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  USS enthusiasm

  It's not a ship, it's a positive dance-party explosion.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Talking Tutte

  A pre-concert talk by Dr. Jennifer Farrell balances Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte opera presented by St. Cecilia.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Kontravoid

  Kontravoid (Pretty Pretty)

  By Matthew Ritchie

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Kyp Harness

  The Wrong Way and Can a Poor man Get a Fair Trial? (Independent)

  By Doug Taylor

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Stop Motion Massacre

  Beneath The Lost Vault 1977-74 (Independent)

  By Stephanie Johns

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  Stupid Brain:

  An East Coast Punk Rock Compilation (Poor Sport)

  By Mark Black

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Music

  And the ECMW showcasing artists are...

  Celebrating 25 years of sweaty shows, salty air and east coast music, in Halifax

  By Allison Saunders

  Dec 4, 2012

  
• Music

  Stereophonic Music Festival sets the bar high for lineup announcement videos

  And you can't even step to it

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 5, 2012

  
• Comics

  Hey You Guys

  By Paul Hammond

  Nov 29, 2012

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  Chasing the Carrot

  A quarter-century after Sobeys left Gottingen Street, a community group aims to open a grocery store in the north end.

  By Jordan Whitehouse

  Nov 29, 2012

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Get all your nectar, Cancer.

  By Rob Brezsny

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Savage Love

  Wanting for none of it

  I am not interested in relationships and that’s OK by me. How do I explain it to other people (and should I)? Plus: Used sex-toy ettiquette.

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  Mall Santa secrets

  Dressing up in red, choking on a fake beard and trying not to terrify small children for money---it's all in a day's work.

  By Jack Scrine

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  It gets sweater

  The days of the dreaded holiday sweater are long gone. Here are six warm and cozy options we’d love to unwrap.

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  Gifts that give

  Stuck trying to buy for a friend that's got it all? Think outside the gift-wrapped box and shops for seasonal skill-building.

  By Michaela Cavanagh

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  Bottle service

  Good things don't just come in finely wrapped packages, they come in bottles, too. This year give the gift of liquid love.

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  Wrap star

  We've bundled up five creative and sustainable alternatives to shiny, glossy, compost-unfriendly gift wrap.

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 29, 2012

  
• Buy Local

  Handmade for the holidays

  Twelve days of shopping that’ll have your (cloth) bags bursting at the seams with local, handmade goodness.

  By Allison Saunders

  Nov 29, 2012