Friday, October 14 features the grand opening of the Designer Craftshop, where collections of the work of members of the Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council will be exhibited, all inside the Mary E. Black gallery (1061 Marginal Road, suite 140, 492-2525). The opening will be from 4-7pm on Friday, with artists attending, refreshments, all that […]
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Gold Island Bakery starts fall bread subsciption service
Jessica Ross is providing the city fresh bread once again. She runs an organic bakery in the city called Gold Island Bakery (halifaxsourdough@gmail.com). She has a table at the Historic Farmers’ Market (also known as The Brewery Market) and runs a bicycle-powered home delivery service through the fall and winter. This week (October 12) she […]
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Mahone Bay Trading Company opens in Park Lane
For the past couple of years you may have known the store fronting Spring Garden Road in the Park Lane Mall as Geox, the fancy Italian footwear company. But did you know that the Geox franchise was run by The Mahone Bay Trading Company (which also has stores in the Historic Properties and in Bayers […]
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Oddjects open in Halifax Shopping Centre
Last week Oddjects (1717 Barrington Street, 405-7007) opened a location in the Halifax Shopping Centre (7001 Mumford Road, 407-4666). When co-owner Eric Claus opened Oddjects on Barrington last year he said he had plans for expansion to Toronto and elsewhere. The business currently has five stores in Toronto and two in Singapore, so things must […]
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All the Pretty Things have a birthday
This Saturday October 8 is birthday number four for Pretty Things Boutique (5240 Blowers Street, 492-8329). It takes place from 11am to 7pm. All day is a tax free sale, free food, cupcakes contests, product demos, and more! For more information click here.
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Rock Island Bistro is closed
But the question is, for how long? An “Opening Soon” sign is prominent in the Rock Island Bistro (6293 Quinpool Road) window, but no word yet on when it’ll reopen, or what else might open in the space. The restaurant ownership changed hands last year when it went from Rock Island Cafe to Bistro.
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Grit Town debuts at Carbon Arc
Carbon Arc (The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) is screening Grit Town on Friday October 7 at both 5pm and 7pm, a film by Halifax filmmaker Tim Tracey. It’s “a cautionary tale which explores the connections between greed, poverty, and violence.” Cover for the show is $10 and will be used to help fund the post […]
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Adrenalized Senna
A documentary look at the unearthly talent of Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian Formula One driver who sustained one of the great motor sport rivalries with Alain Prost in the 1980s and early ‘90s. Assembled using period footage and media interviews (voices are often heard but no talking heads) Senna himself winds up narrating much of […]
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12 movies in the 12 weeks left in 2011
12 George Clooney in ruffled everyman mode suits some, though the real star of The Descendants is director Alexander Payne, who has given the world Sideways, About Schmidt and Election. His bang-on American realism is the reason to check this out, the story of a man dealing with his daughters, and his wife’s infidelity, which […]
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Diversify Film Festival to happen this week
The Communications Nova Scotia Diversity Film Festival happens this week, Thursday, October 6 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street Halifax, running from 9:30am to 4:30pm. Admission is free. Shorts, features and documentaries are the order of the day, with titles including Tulku, Seeing Different, The Fiddler’s Reel, Long Road to Justice: […]
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Women’s Pre-Loved Clothing Sale
Be at Rockingham Community Centre, 199 Bedford Highway from 6:30pm – 8:30pm on Thursday evening for the Women’s Pre-Loved Clothing Sale . A number of shopaholics have gotten together to clean out their closets of brand name and/or high style items for your shopping pleasure. This is a buy, trade, name your price—type of sale. […]
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Young Adult Cancer Canada sponsors 50/50 screening
Young Adult Cancer Canada is offering free tickets to a screening of 50/50, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Seth Rogen dramedy based on screenwriter Will Reiser‘s fight with cancer in his mid-20s. The screening is at Park Lane, 7:10pm on Wednesday, October 5. Survivors can get tickets here: giveorget.ca. The site also allows people to donate money so […]