Venus Pizza (1558 Barrington Street, 425-8882), winner in The Coast’s Best of Food Shawarma and late-night Lebanese dishes categories, has been re-branded as Mezza Lebanese Kitchen. The address, phone number, employee and menu remain the same, however. This is part of a re-jigging of the Mezza operation. The Quinpool restaurant (6386 Quinpool Road, 444-3914) is […]
Tim Bousquet
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Public delusions
Last week, Halifax councillors did something remarkable: they held a public conversation about a controversial topic. And you know what? Nothing terrible happened. At issue was the resolution of the bill for the concert scandal—the last $359,550 of secret loans of taxpayer money to promoter Harold MacKay that was not repaid. City solicitor Martin Ward […]
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Bye, Bye, Peter Kelly Goodbye
Musician Aaron Hartling, who goes by the name Heartbreak A Stranger, sends us the following recording he made, a remake of Don McLean’s Bye-Bye American Pie, with lyrics about our own Peter Kelly: Lyrics: Bye, Bye Peter Kelly, Goodbye (with apologies to Don Mclean) A long, long time ago I can still remember How the […]
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Breaking news: Cobham Tracking lays off 17 more local employees
Dartmouth-based Cobham Tracking and Locating laid off 17 employees last week. Three separate sources told The Coast of the layoffs; the dismissed workers include the vice-president of engineering and the director of product development, the project manager, assemblers, techs, “right down to the janitor and the kids who ran the machine shop,” says one of […]
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Wild surprise as proposed park doubles in size
City staff have startled supporters of the proposed Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park by suggesting a park boundary that almost doubles the size of the original concept for the park. Last Thursday, Peter Bigelow, who is the city’s manager of real property, hosted a public consultation session at a Clayton Park church, where he […]
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White Sails Bakery & Deli retooling
I don’t get to Tantallon much, but next time I’m there I’ll hunt out White Sails Bakery & Deli (12930 Peggy’s Cove Road, 826-1966), which judging by its menu serves up some fine looking Montreal smoked meat and other deli staples. Owner Carolyn Clarke writes to say that the menu is expanding, and that she’ll […]
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Tails to Trails
“Nothing gives me the kind of joy I feel watching my girl run freely out on the trails.” writes Heather Sinclair. Her “girl” is Ella Mae, a rescued dog of indeterminate breed, and the trails are in dog-friendly parks like Point Pleasant and Shubie, and more remote woodland areas in places like Long Lake and […]
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Bedford Electrolysis is moving
Chandrae Bailey, owner of Bedford Electrolysis writes to say that she is moving her business, today, from the Bedford Place Mall to just down the road, at 1350 Bedford Highway, just above the Golden Bakery. She’ll have the same phone number, 835-5386. “The business has been in the Bedford Place Mall for over 30 years […]
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Airport bus, bags and the lessons we should be learning, but likely won’t
Metro Transit’s airport bus started today, which is welcome news. I doubt that many air travellers will use the bus—besides cash-strapped students travelling for the holidays, I think most people who can afford to fly (and all business travellers, who travel on someone else’s dime) can afford the convenience of door-to-door transport that cabs provide. […]
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Halifax council pays $359,550 concert bill
Halifax council Tuesday agreed to pay the outstanding $359,550 left over from city hall’s concert scandal. Readers will recall that mayor Peter Kelly, former chief bureaucrat Wayne Anstey and Trade Centre Limited president Scott Ferguson had conspired to secretly funnel $5.6 million in loans through the Metro Centre to promoter Harold MacKay to put on […]
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Friends come together for Dan Falvey
Update, Thursday, June 28: Dan died peacefully last night. Dan Falvey has been a part of the Halifax bar scene for 32 years, working as a server and bartender at seemingly everywhere: “Jenny’s, Your Father’s Moustache, Split Crow, Peddler’s Pub, Lower Deck, The Seahorse,” he rattles off over the phone. “Probably some I’ve missed.” I’ve […]
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Behind the scenes of city hall’s Occupy NS eviction
I spent four hours Monday reviewing thousands of pages of documents related to the city’s eviction of the Occupy group from Victoria Park and Grand Parade last Remembrance Day. The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information request filed by the Labour Council, which in turn allowed me some time with them. The smaller […]