“I‘ve been cooking since I was eight years old,” says Clara Frances Dadin-Alli, AKA Frances Ally, owner of online-only Nigerian take-out and catering business Franyz Kitchen (instagram.com/franyzkitchen). Now Dadin-Alli is 28, and has been cooking in Canada since 2010, when she moved here from Nigeria. Her food—dishes like jollof rice, ofada stew and goat-meat pepper […]
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Reid K. White and the art of the everyday
We’re all familiar with tourist tchotchkes—those mass printed trinkets you suspect have the city names swapped out all over the eastern seaboard, lobster beer cozies, “Grandma went to [insert town here] and all I got was this t-shirt” t-shirts. These staples will always have their place, of course. But for a truly unforgettable piece of […]
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How the Mighty is rising
Haviah Mighty w/Just John x Dom Dias, Hua Li, Yohvn Blvck Sat Oct 26 The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street, 9-11pm $15/$20 “T he past year has been a bit of a blur,” says Brampton, Ontario’s Haviah Mighty—and if you’ve been paying attention to Canadian music in 2019, it’s abundantly clear why that might be […]
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Cassie Josephine is Only Half Blue, but all brilliant
Driftwood People w/Alexandria Maillot, Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s Fri Oct 25, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 C assie Josephine—the eponymous leader of Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s—has a record both lovely and vulnerable in 2018’s Only Half Blue. Written in the months preceding her […]
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Fiends finds a home on Agricola
Fiends 5775 Charles Street, second floor Opens Thursday, October 31 F orest Eden Greenwell’s new shop, Fiends, is a one-stop shop for folks interested in leading an intentional lifestyle. Linking self care to our own unique rituals, whatever those might be, Greenwell wants to elevate the little moments we give ourselves. A poet and a […]
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La Femme Fatale brings plus-sized bodies more than monotone basics
La Femme Fatale Sunnyside Mall, 1595 Bedford Highway Like many folks, Warna Downey found shopping as a plus-sized woman supremely frustrating, if not downright impossible. Downey, who comes from a STEM background, recalls going into a Pennington’s in Fredericton (“we weren’t cool enough back then for an Addition Elle,” she says) and thinking: “These clothes […]
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Radstorm forever
Some places are so special, an entire community forms around it. Radstorm is one of these places. A volunteer-run, not-for- profit all-ages community space, Radstorm has hosted wild and wonderful music, comedy, art and activist events—highlighting queer and youth-centred creative programs—for the past 15 years. Its resources include over 7000 zines in the Anchor Archive Zine Library […]
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The fantastical Nicole Raufeisen
Nicole Raufeisen, manager and sommelier at Little Oak (recently named one of Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants for the second year in a row) and The Ostrich Club, sure can sell a person on wine. Her enthusiastic, unexpected fantastical or pop-cultural descriptors can bring the mere idea of a drink to vibrant life before a drop […]
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So, who did let the dogs out?
Who Let the Dogs Out Fri, Sep 13, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $13.50-$15, finfestival.ca For the amount of time it’s been living in our heads rent-free, each and every one of us should have made a documentary about “Who Let the Dogs Out” by now. And yet, it took one obsessive […]
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A roommate’s guide to loading the dishwasher properly
I have a friend for whom loading a dishwasher is serious business. If anyone decides they’re going to throw a few things in, he freezes and looks on with a terrified half-smile plastered to his face, practically quivering as he restrains himself from running over and intervening. As soon as the interloper finishes “helping”, he […]
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A guide to being a good room mate for Halifax’s university and college students
Q Learning how to be a respectful roommate (and practising the skill) is the gift that keeps on giving. Learning how to respectfully cohabit is something that will serve you for the rest of your life—in relationships, work environments, really any time you need to share a space with other humans. Mastering it can be […]
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Jazz Fest: Sheila E.
On Friday, this city has a rare chance to see a living legend: The great Sheila E. Sheila Escovedo, queen of all things percussion, has had more extraordinary experiences in her life than seem possible to fit into her 61 years. From first stepping on stage with her father, famed musician Pete Escovedo, at age […]