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The Toronto Raptors’ incredible season could end tonight with the first-ever NBA championship for the team—and the country. And in the city where the Raps played their first-ever game, Jurassic Park Halifax will be the centre of the action. “People are coming from Moncton, from PEI,” says Gab LeVert, one of the people making JPH…
From the Drink Atlantic festival’s celebration of local cocktail culture to big shows by R&B powerhouse Keonté Beals and art-rockers The Drug Rugs, this weekend has all sorts of fun to slurp up. Hook, Line & Drinker: A Blender Bender Saturday The crown jewel of this year’s Drink Atlantic Cocktail Festival, the party to end all…
Don Brownrigg is a busy man. Over the last five years, the Halifax-based musician travelled around Asia as a puppeteer with Mermaid Theatre, worked as a festival presenter and pursued a degree in osteopathy. Not to mention he’s also an accomplished musician on tour for his much-anticipated newly released album. While the last five years…
The history of Black lives in Nova Scotia is oft little recorded and little taught in the traditional channels of textbooks and classrooms, but a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is looking to give space to this illustrious history with Black voices front and centre. Here We Are Here: Black Canadian…
QI’m a 27-year-old, male, adult baby/diaper lover (AB/DL). I’ve been in the closet about my fetish since puberty. As a consequence, I never dated or became romantically involved. I thought if I buried my kink with enough shame, it would go away and I would turn normal. It didn’t work, and for the past year,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it…
Stop the bike hate Upon unleashing the Quinpool Road closure this spring, Halifax has asked its residents to cooperate and find alternate means of commuting into the downtown core. Propaganda has asked us to consider the bus or active transport such as cycling. The flaw with this thinking is the outright hatred among many Haligonian…
After two-and-a-half years the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report June 3, laying out the role that all levels of Canadian government play in the race-and-gender-based crisis that is facing and has faced Indigenous and Inuit women. It calls for immediate transformative legal and social changes to…
On any given Friday night in Halifax, you’ll find Emily Alford in the pub, going up against a group of 20-something guys in a game of darts. She asks if they’d like to play for a drink “of pop or something, of course,” she says. Or, if she has a bit of money on her,…
As proud Nova Scotians if I asked you what the slogan of our province’s license plate was, without missing a beat I’d expect you to say “Canada’s ocean playground.” From the surfers who face the frigid February waters at Lawrencetown beach, emerging with icicles clinging to their hoods or beards, to the couples who sit…
“There are a lot of coming-of-age films, a lot of teen films, but my goal was to have an honest image of teenagerhood,” says the writer-director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. “I really wanted to give them that space and take them seriously.” Dulude-De Celles’ second feature A Colony (Une Colonie) arrives at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’…
For many, National Doughnut Day will just be any other day, but this year nine cafes and bakeries in Halifax are hoping it will be busier than usual. The first Halifax Doughnut Crawl will start and end on June 7, to coincide with and celebrate the legacy of deep-fried dough covered in icing. Organized by…
Drink Atlantic drinkatlantic.com “Even if you’re the best bartender in the world, if you’re a shitty human, no one wants to sit at your bar,” says Evelyn Chick, frankly, over the phone from Toronto. The decorated bartender and boss behind Pretty Ugly (a “chill Parkdale gem” that was recently named number four on Canada’s 100…
Syd Delicious Alderney Farmers’ Market 2 Ochterloney Street Saturdays, 8am-1pm Few things can match the comforting goodness of a warm cinnamon bun, fresh out of the oven. But finding this thrill outside of your own kitchen can prove a challenge. Syd Delicious, the Alderney Farmers’ Market’s newest vendor, is filling that void. “I have something…
