Amanda Langley is a mother of two and started Twice Upon a Time a few months ago as a means for parents such as herself to buy inexpensive, “gently worn” handmade clothes for their kids. A huge fan of thrift stores, she hand-picks top-notch used clothes from around the city, washes, repairs and alters them to create one-of-a-kind pieces of her own. Interested buyers can find her online store at etsy.com/shop/langleal. For those who don’t know, Etsy.com is a global community of self-employed designers dedicated to crafting incomparable handmade goods. Clothes, buttons, belts, jewellery, books, toys and more are uniquely
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Happy Sushi offers a la carte all-you-can eat
Hungry? Really, really hungry? Hit up the all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet at 362 Lacewood Drive. Their $13.99 lunch buffet has almost 100 options to drool over, while their $21.99 diner menu features 150 selections. Both run Monday to Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the price goes up a buck. Unlike traditional buffet presentation, they have order forms for guests to fill out their meal requests. Every item is made fresh to order and gets delivered by a waitress to your table. You can choose as much as you want. And they’re not kidding, ask for a new order form to keep
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Zac Crouse lets his paddle be his guide
Two years after coming up with the idea, Zac Crouse is packing up his banjo, video camera and buddies to promote his debut solo record, You Plan To Do Nothing. Crouse and fellow Caledonia bandmate, Steve Gates will be VIA Railin’ it to Ottawa and from there they’ll film their documentary Paddle to the Ocean […]
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Brenda Longfellow at Carbon Arc
[image-1] Tonight at the Carbon Arc Cinema in the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street), filmmaker and York University film studies professor Brenda Longfellow will be showing three of her many films followed by an audience Q & A. On the docket will be Our Marilyn (1987), the very short Carpe Diem (2010) and Tina in Mexico (2002). The latter has done well critically, winning multiple film festival awards in Canada and the States. Tina in Mexico is an hour-long documentary chronicling avant-garde photographer and silent film star Tina Modotti. The setting is Mexico in the 20s and includes reenactments and pictures
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Pardis Parker scores again with Afghan and Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns
Comedian, actor, scholar and award-winning filmmaker, Halifax’s Pardis Parker’s career is off to the races. Parker’s short film Afghan took home first place at this year’s Imago Film Festival in Illinois. The movie, along with his second short film Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns, were juror picks at the 2011 Buttered Corn on the […]
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MIX: Fresh Kitchen stirs the pot
[image-1] MIX: Fresh Kitchen (5171 Salter Street, 429-9571) is days away from unveiling a revamped menu, bar and experience. Manager Chris Richards and head chef Ray Bear are in cahoots in the best way possible: serving their guests. From this Monday until the end of the month, MIX will boast a no-corkage charge Monday to Thursday, followed by a “pay what you want” brunch menu on weekends. You’ll be able to order food and decide yourself what you want to pay depending on how you liked it. Richards isn’t worried. He figures anyone who doesn’t want to pay anything probably
