If you’ve ever wanted to own a bar, now’s your chance: The Brewery by Quinns is on the market. The Quinpool Road brewpub—right across from Preston Street—is listed for $400,000, boasting a “turn key operation” with a “huge kitchen,” a 750-hectolitre brewery and an “amazing outdoor patio.” The Brewery opened in 2022, a year after […]
Martin Bauman
Martin Bauman is an award-winning journalist and interviewer, whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Capital Daily, and Waterloo Region Record, among other places. In 2020, he was named one of five “emergent” nonfiction writers by the RBC Taylor Prize. As host of the Story Untold Podcast, he has interviewed some of Canada's most notable figures, including Paralympian Rick Hansen, cave diver Jill Heinerth, and Juno Award-winner Shad. A passionate speaker and mental health advocate, Martin has been a youth panellist for the Canada-wide Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Partnership and bicycled solo across Canada to raise funds for services in his hometown of Waterloo, Ont.
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UPDATED: Lake City Cider eyes new brewery in spring 2025
Things are afoot at Dartmouth’s Lake City Cider. The cidery and perennial Best of Halifax favourite is in the midst of renovations to its Portland Street taproom, where it formerly shared a space with Brightwood Brewery. The latter closed its taproom in late March, citing “personal circumstances” and a need to restructure the business after […]
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Here are your Best of Halifax 2024 winners for Music
Joel Plaskett’s brimming trophy cabinet just got a little fuller. In his 30 years of recording music, the Lunenburg-born rock troubadour has amassed a slew of honours, from East Coast Music Awards to Juno and Polaris Prize nominations to Best of Halifax gold awards. But this year marks a first for the 49-year-old who now […]
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Here are your Best of Halifax 2024 winners for Shopping + Services
Make that seven Best of Halifax gold awards for Spring Garden Road’s Bookmark. In its 35 years downtown, the indie bookstore has survived a change of ownership, two years of COVID-19 lockdowns and Jeff Bezos’s ever-expanding tentacles to bring Haligonians the latest titles from authors big and small. That’s not a small thing, says manager […]
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Tim Baker brings Full Rainbow of Light tour to Halifax
Growing up in St. John’s, Tim Baker’s winters were coloured by two sounds: Wind and snow plows. It was all you could hear some nights, whispering beyond the crackle of a fireplace or the quiet of a bedroom, as a blanket of white covered the foggy city. It was a “comforting feeling,” the former Hey […]
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Avril Lavigne is coming to Halifax in 2025
One of Canada’s biggest pop-punk exports is coming to Halifax in the New Year. Eight-time Grammy nominee Avril Lavigne is bringing her “Greatest Hits” tour to Atlantic Canada in 2025, with stops in Moncton on May 18 and Halifax on May 20. The “Sk8er Boi,” “Complicated” and “I’m With You” singer will be joined by […]
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The Wanderer Grounds podcast: Who’s in and who’s out this Halifax Wanderers offseason?
Halifax Wanderers head coach Patrice Gheisar is not, generally speaking, the type for drastic measures. “Never too high, never too low” has become akin to a mantra at the Canadian Premier League soccer club during his two years at the helm. It will be interesting, then, to see how Gheisar and the Wanderers’ front office […]
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Every big show happening in Halifax (and beyond) in December 2024
December is on our doorstep, and with it comes a packed slate of holiday concerts. But that’s far from the only thing coming to town, with enough sweet offerings to fill a Quality Street tin—including shows from Jenn Grant, Reeny, Joel Plaskett and Adam Baldwin. As always, The Coast has you covered with what’s happening. […]
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Halifax’s best cheap eats that are actually cheap—and tasty, too
This economy… it damn sure ain’t easy. With Canada’s inflation rate up 2.9% in March from the same time last year, a good number of Haligonians are finding it harder to scrounge up extra cash of any kind these days—let alone for a meal out. Bars and restaurants are feeling the pinch of higher costs, […]
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Jenn Grant, Morgan Toney win big at 2024 East Coast Music Awards
After an album to remember, Jenn Grant just had a weekend for the books as well. The Lake Echo-based singer-songwriter is coming home to Nova Scotia with a pair of 2024 East Coast Music Awards, for “Song of the Year” (“Judy”) and “Songwriter of the Year.” She won both over the weekend in Charlottetown at […]
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The Wanderer Grounds podcast: The Halifax Wanderers are down bad right now
The Canadian Championship, like all good cup competitions, is a thing of magic: On any night, a plucky David is ready and eager to take down a Goliath. Potential Cinderella moments abound. Stars are born. Remember-where-you-were-when memories are etched in soccer lore. Last night at the Wanderers Grounds, in front of a crowd of 4,500 […]
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Mother Mother announce Halifax show in 2025
Twenty years on from their origins in Heriot Bay, BC, indie rockers Mother Mother are still packing a punch. Back in February, the five-member band fronted by siblings Ryan and Molly Guldemond dropped their ninth album, Grief Chapter—and to mark the occasion, they’re embarking on a worldwide tour that stops in Halifax next March. On […]