“Come look at the work and soak up some food for your soul,” says director Bethany Butterworth of Turnstile Pottery Co-op (2733 Agricola Street, 431-2529). She’s talking about their Annual Spring Show & Sale, next weekend, June 9t and 10, 11am to 5pm both days. Butterwworth and the other seven artists of the co-op will […]
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Little Burgundy Shoes comes to town
Halifax shoe lovers rejoice! Little Burgundy Shoes is opening its first shop in Atlantic Canada at the Halifax Shopping Centre this summer. The store carries over 70 brand names, from Miss Sixty to Vans. That’s all we know; but here’s the website.
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Ace Burger Company to open
The burger’s out of the take-out bag: Ace Burger Company will be opening right behind Gus’ Pub (2605 Agricola Street) on July 7. Leo and George Christakos, owners of Brooklyn Warehouse (2795 Windsor Street), have been planning for something like this since 2009, so they took the chance to test their dream burger joint at […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival full lineup announced
At this morning’s media launch, the Halifax Jazz Festival announced their whopping summer 2012 lineup. We are still super stoked about Charles Bradley, the “Screaming Eagle of Soul”, at the festival tent. He’ll take you on an emotional trip back to old school funk and soul, and he’ll be performing with Nova Scotia’s very own […]
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Domestic Train Wreck sets the table
What do you get when you combine a dysfunctional family, a bad family dinner, daytime TV and a cooking show in one? No, it’s not the Kardashians—it’s Domestic Train Wreck. This original piece written by and starring Melanie Bennet celebrates and critiques the role of the housewife by examining three generations of women through excerpts […]
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Cole Harbour Place workers in second week of strike
In rain and shine, maintenance workers at the Cole Harbour Place are up early in the morning to make it to their workplace by 8 am. Except instead of working until 4pm, the 25 workers are striking with the support of local residents, Canadian Auto Workers, bus and taxi drivers, and other workers from the […]
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Jenny Berkel’s haunting folk
Although she grew up in a family of musicians and had taken piano lessons when she was young, Ontario-born folk artist Jenny Berkel grew up expecting to become a writer. She wrote stories and poems on the family’s clunky desktop. It wasn’t until she moved to Winnipeg to try journalism that she realized it wasn’t […]
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Scotia Festival of Music expands the chamber
Many people get the false impression that chamber music is for the rich, old or stuffy. While it’s true that chamber music tends to attract an elitist population, there’s something for everyone to be found in this genre which, contradictory to popular belief, is quite alive. At the Scotia Festival of Music, you can listen […]
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What Doug Brown does for you
After working 12 years delivering The Coast, Doug Brown has become Halifamous as one of the longest serving—and most public—of the paper’s public representatives. If you’ve been picking up the paper over those dozen years, there’s a good chance Brown himself touched your copy. Or at least the bundle of 50 papers that yours came […]
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InFullBloom Community Festival
Summer’s not the only time for plants to grow. The Bloomfield Centre is about to literally blossom with life on June 3 as it’s the second annual InFullBloom Community Festival, from 1-5pm. “As a community non-profit organization, we saw bare space. [We wondered] how do we make Bloomfield come alive? How do we bring the […]
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Layla Boutique Shop opens
It’s only been about two weeks since her shop has opened, but Layla Summer of Layla Boutique Shop (5181 Sackville Street, 440-0627) says that her clothes are already out of stock. “I didn’t think business would go so fast!” she says. But business had every right to go quickly because no two items at the […]
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BH2 Salon opens
Tucked away on a downtown corner, BH2 Salon (5189 Sackville Street, 406-3131) might be a little hard to find. But this barber shop is definitely worth the search. While many salons advertise the trendiest cuts and styles, Brian Hart, owner and stylist, is determined to find the cut that’s most you. No wonder their motto […]