Papa Mario’s (1283 Barrington at Morris, 457-7272) is there for all your late night donair/pizza/wrap needs, but look out for the eatery to get a liquor licence this summer and add a patio to its stretch of sidewalk.
Carsten Knox
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Bubble Tea Shop opens on Inglis Street
Bubble Tea Shop (5385 Inglis) has opened. It may be hard to imagine that a tapioca-filled fruit beverage is a tasty refreshment, but trust us, it is. It really, really is.
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Paderno Closes Temporarily
Paderno Factory Store (201 Chain Lake, 450-1885) is closed from now until the second week of June for a renovation and expansion.
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Wood Chuckers Chuck New Wood
Craig and Dawn Humphreys, owners of Wood Chuckers Limited, have expanded their operations to become retailers for Eastern White Cedar lumber, a non-pressure-treated wood milled in the Maritimes, thus limiting the environmental impact by minimizing transportation distances. Wood Chuckers Limited, located at 961 Lucasville Road in Hammonds Plains, offers a variety of home and property […]
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Jeans and Gents Reopens
In March Shoptalk reported that due to changes going on at the corner of Windsor and Almon, new and mildly vintage clothing retailer Jeans and Gents Clothing Company was having to pack up and find a new location after two decades in business. The good news is that the new location now has its doors […]
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Farmers’ Market News
[image-1] Stephanie Janssen is back at the Halifax Farmers’ Market (1496 Lower Water Street) in the main courtyard beside Walter and Leona Penner from 7am to 1pm on Saturdays. The Rug Lady, as she is known—and was at the market for 12 years but spent three away working with US clients—offers cleaning and restoration to hand hooked rugs, Persian rugs and other textiles. People are welcome to bring their damaged hooked and Persian rugs to the market for evaluation, to visit her online at theruglady.ca or call her at 466-5987. And Smile Tree Halifax, another former Farmers’ Market regular, has
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Shoptalk Correction
Jay Wells Salon‘s new location is, in fact, at 1673 Barrington Street, third floor, above The Hub, and not the address that was reported in Thursday’s print edition of Shoptalk. The phone number is 422-3532 and the salon’s website is jaywellssalon.com, where you can find more information about their services. The Coast regrets the error […]
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Shoptalk, May 14
Joanne David gets busy In Joanne David Accessories (1276 Barrington, 404-1276), things are heating up for the summer. “We close at seven but sometimes we’re here until nine,” says David. The store is full of shoes, but there’s plenty of bling, too, in the form of handbags and fashion accessories. Really hot right now is […]
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Donkey Punch
A brutally violent, well-made exploitation drama, Donkey Punch showed up at the Atlantic Film Festival last year but never got a theatrical release, which is too bad. Given the increasingly inane and repetitious torture porn pictures getting wide releases and spawning sequels, there’s no reason this picture couldn’t drum up some attention from cinema audiences. […]
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PJ Harvey and John Parish
In 1996 PJ Harvey collaborated with friend John Parish to release Dance Hall At Louse Point—songs with Parish providing the music and Harvey the lyrics and vocals. It was a discordant, occasionally vicious record—a side-project that fit nicely into Harvey’s body of work. This new album has the same division of labour, but is a […]
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Charlie Ross is solo Star Wars play’s only hope
Charlie Ross was in the middle of an ordinary childhood, growing up in British Columbia, when Star Wars encased his life like Han Solo was encased in carbonite. “You remember when they first came out, there was no geeky stigma attached to the movies, everybody just loved them,” he says, on the phone from his […]
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Shop local: business profiles along Barrington Street
The historic area of Barrington Street is buttressed by the towers at Scotia Square at one end and the Maritime Centre on the other. It’s a busy thoroughfare for transit, local workers and shoppers. Sure, there are pockets of fallow storefront, but all it takes are a couple of key retailers to create a little […]