“My agricultural background is planting peas and stealing peas from my grandfather’s garden growing up,” says Phil Hatcher with a laugh. After 18 years in the film industry, he’s switching gears and getting back to the land. Sort of. This summer Hatcher will launch Very Local Greens, a farm that lives inside a repurposed shipping […]
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Get ready to take it all out on Halifax’s first Rage Room
“It’s just one of those days where you don’t want to wake up. Everything is fucked and everybody sucks.” Fred Durst said it first in 1999, but in 2018 those words are still relevant as all get out. And Terry LeBlanc seems to agree. He’s the manager of the soon-to-be mother of all stress relievers, […]
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Portland Street Creperie is bubbling over this summer
Portland Street Creperie’s dad and son duo has summer on the brain. Neil and Max Cook, who opened the Dartmouth cafe and all-day crepe joint in 2015, are adding a complementary iron-pressed element to their offerings next month when they’ll debut a bubble waffles and ice cream window within their 55 Portland Street location. The […]
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The French connection: a Parisian inspired model home
Robyn Manning is always thinking big picture. With a background in fine art, textiles and furniture, the principal designer behind Bricks & Birches—a design and consultation firm she founded in 2016—has her mind on sightlines, proportions and connections. It’s all about the collective concept, not just beautiful bits and pieces. Her latest feat of design […]
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My favourite room: Rebekah Higg’s green bathroom
The story The green bathroom was a pretty big eyesore, it probably deterred a lot of people from buying the house—a lot of people looked at it and it was on the market for a really long time. It had this custom green square tub, which was really bizarre, a shower and this thick tile […]
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Waverley whimsy: an enviable out-of-town apartment
“My friends call me Lindsay Kijiji because I’m so good at it.” They’re not wrong. Lindsay McMullen’s sunny one-bedroom flat off Rocky Lake Drive wouldn’t have its distinctively Home-Polish-esque pop if it weren’t for her second-hand finds. She scored the city-meets-burbs spot after watching her friends—the house’s owners—completely gut the one-time man cave (complete with […]
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Coffin Skate Shop is alive
Stephanie Coffin and James Parker opened Coffin Skate Shop sort of quietly in September, sharing a space within Octopus Skates (5687 West Street) and filling a void in the local roller derby and roller skating scene. You see, the closest skate shop is Montreal. Considering roller derby is the fastest growing sport in the world, […]
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HopYard Beer Bar taps into Gottingen Street
Charlottetown’s HopYard Beer Bar is heading off the Island. The popular pub will open its first Nova Scotia location at 2103 Gottingen Street (the former Johanna B. Oosterveld Centre) sometime this summer, bringing a bevy of craft beer, super-affordable snacks and hundreds of records with it. Brett Hogan and Mike Ross opened the original HopYard […]
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Binge on The Brood’s hilarious new video for “Munchies”
If you watch (or hate-watch) internet chef shows, you’re going to want to check out the latest from Halifax’s psychedelic sweethearts, The Brood. Yesterday the band released a new video for the jaunty track “Munchies” and it’s a cooked to perfection parody of Vice/MUNCHIES series Chef’s Night Out, which follows Extremely Important international chefs as they eat […]
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Just Baked Potatoes interrupts your usual snack plans
Being from the UK, Sara Kirk knows the power of a good baked potato. But it’s not a nostalgia for home or a craving for a loaded spud that lead to her launch Just Baked Potatoes at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market in mid-January. “I would say it’s more research-informed than passion at this point […]
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Cafe Good Luck strikes gold on Portland Street this summer
just practicing | #summer2018 #loveagoodbrunch #downtowndartmouth A post shared by GoodLuck (@cafe.goodluck) on Apr 4, 2018 at 7:21am PDT From the entrepreneurs who brought you Manual Food and Drink Co.’s doughnuts and the Dairy Bar’s frozen delights comes Dartmouth’s newest heartthrob, Cafe Good Luck, a 1,000 square foot “culinary-powered cafe” opening early this summer at […]
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Forest Child Natural Beauty comes out of the woods
Olivia McMackin grew up in the middle of nowhere, Nova Scotia. With no neighbours as far as her eyes could see, she spent most of her childhood outside with her sister “having a sort of idyllic life running around in the woods.” This connection to the natural world had a massive impact on her life, […]