Heritage Minutes: If you lived in Canada in the ’90s and had a TV, you’re probably familiar with them. Closing with the tagline “a part of our heritage,” the Minutes’ subjects include the invention of basketball, the origin of the word ‘Canada,’ the Halifax Explosion, the Underground Railroad and many more. Historica Canada began to […]
Megan Wennberg
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Table Tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, doesn’t spring to mind when you think of quintessentially Canadian sports. As such, the Halifax Table Tennis Club has a relatively low profile: It meets twice a week in a church hall, the membership counts only eight full-time and eight part-time members and the club is not currently accepting […]
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Target Shooting
Fancy yourself a sharp-shooter? Test your skills against the best at the Atlantic Marksmen Association’s target shooting range in Dartmouth. A number of AMA junior members will be competing in the Games. Beyond air guns, members can also shoot pistols and rifles, but they require the appropriate government licences. Membership is $150/year for anyone over […]
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Wheelchair Basketball
Basketball players have been wheeling around local courts since the ’80s, but the past nine years have been the sport’s most active. The Nova Scotia Wheelchair Basketball Association currently has three competitive A teams, two of which—the Nova Scotia Flying Wheels and the Halifax Heat—are based here. The season runs from September to March and […]
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Boxing
If the cold, dark days of winter leave you feeling punchy, take your fists down to Palooka’s Boxing Club and ask for Tyson Cave. Cave is the head coach at Palooka’s and teaches over 200 classes a month. Classes range from beginner to advanced boxing and also include women’s boot camp, Muay Thai and jiu […]
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Glorious gift-giving and other wonderful holiday stuff
For the fantasy nerd It’s a fair bet that most local nerds will want to catch the release of the new Jim Cameron science-fiction feature Avatar later this month. Help them do it by giving an Empire Theatres Gift Card. Until December 24, if you put $30 or more on a gift card, you get […]
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The Hangover Guide
One sunny November morning in fourth year I woke up and I could see. For the first time since elementary school I could make out details on the far walls of my room. Before I could begin to understand or enjoy this newfound gift of sight, my brain was clamped in a hot vice and […]
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A world of hurt: Hangover cures from around the planet
Prairie oyster This North American cure is made of tomato juice, Worcester sauce, black pepper and Tabasco sauce, topped with a raw egg yolk. As with real oysters, just swallow—don’t look or chew. Tripe soup A common cure in Romania, Turkey and Mexico, tripe (AKA cow’s stomach) soup is made by boiling the edible offal […]
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Sex, lies and later
It’s that nowhere time when Friday is Saturday but no one acknowledges it, and the bar’s pulse is drunk and sluggish. Dance music throbs like a building-sized headache and the place reeks of stale air and deflated expectations. Even the underage girls look haggard, their face paint drooping, their hair ratted. A cadre of guys […]
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The Santa Industry
I experienced my first Christmas hangover when I was seven years old. It had nothing to do with alcohol. It’s the feeling I got after I’d opened all my presents and sat surrounded by them, knowing I should be ecstatic but instead feeling hollow with disappointment. The mood seemed totally unreasonable and my sense of […]
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Going home
In 1988 a teenaged boy from Dartmouth named George Stamos won the MT&T award for choreography. It’s all been uphill from there. Not necessarily for the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone company (which merged to form Aliant in 1999), but for Stamos, who has since performed throughout Europe, US and Canada, working as both a dancer […]
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Soles for sale
Active Underground opened September 1 at 2642 Agricola in the basement of the building formerly home to Factory 21 Used Cars. Owned by Gregg Curwin of Curwin Heath and Sport in the QEII, Oh My Sole on Young and Spring Fitness Centre on University, Active Underground will specialize in footwear. “It’s what our business is,” […]
