After ten years on Agricola Street, Obsolete Records was booted from its ramshackle storefront last fall in the most anticlimactic way possible. “Someone was parking out back, and drove into some support beam,” says Obsolete owner Ian Fraser. “And the building’s owner decided to just tear it all down.” The news wasn’t a total surprise: […]
Matthew Halliday
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First look at Propeller Brewing’s Quinpool Road tap room
If you’ve ever wanted to quiz your brewer on the finer points of mash and hops while downing a pint, Propeller Brewing’s new Quinpool Tap Room and Cold Beer Store has got you covered. When the new space opens—the date is TBD, but within the next two weeks—one of its highlights will be a small […]
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Meet the new Ostrich Club
After a lengthy closure, The Ostrich Club (5529 Young Street) re-opened last month in the Hydrostone with a completely redesigned interior, a more intimate vibe and a slightly more booze-forward focus, “blurring the line between bar and restaurant,” according to owner Rachel Knox. The cocktail list has expanded under bar manager Lindsay Jones, formerly of […]
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Pinball’s bumper year
P inball wizards (and would-be wizards) are invited to Propeller Brewing Company‘s Propeller Arcade Room (2015 Gottingen Street) beginning at 4pm on Friday, January 31, for the arcade’s first birthday party, featuring balloons, $5 beers, $10 t-shirts and lots of ball-flipping action. Since opening last January with a modest collection of pinball and video games […]
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EDNA and jane’s next door have sold to Andy’s East Coast Kitchen
After seven years and thousands of brunch-time sweet & saltys, EDNA has been sold. Owner Jenna Mooers announced today the sale of the much-beloved Gottingen Street eatery and its building, as well as jane’s catering and events, the next-door catering business and storefront take-away owned by her mother, Jane Wright. But don’t fret—everything is […]
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Liberating the missing middle of Halifax’s development
It’s the first rule of city planning: You don’t mess with people’s neighbourhoods without a fight. Minneapolis got a crash course in that reality last year when, in the face of rapid population growth, ballooning housing costs and plummeting vacancy rates, its city council voted for a new planning framework called “Minneapolis 2040.” The new […]
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Saying hello to Nova Scotia, for a reason
In the last quarter of 2013, only two Canadian provinces didn’t lose residents to other regions. Alberta was the big gainer, welcoming 5,663 new residents to Wild Rose Country’s parallel-universe economy. The runner-up was—wait for it—Nova Scotia. Two thousand four hundred and sixty-five people left and 2,736 arrived, for a net gain of 271 newcomers. […]