The Henry House There’s no need to turn to Europe for a seriously tar-black brew on St. Patrick’s Day. Choose from The Henry House’s selection of darker beers, priced at $6.25 a pint: Indulge in the Montreal-based McAuslan’s St. Ambroise oatmeal stout, brewed from dark malts and roasted barley and packing a distinct mocha flavour. […]
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Halifax’s beer ambassador
This St. Patrick’s Day, remember how lucky you are to live in Canada. Chuck Gillis wishes he had what we all take for granted: While we sit here in our ivory towers drinking all the Garrison and Keith’s we want, he’s stuck in Texas, unable to get either. And he loves Garrison and Keith’s. Gillis […]
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Kate Beaton’s drawing lessons
Sitting in Uncommon Grounds on Argyle, she is hunkered over a new comic about Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre. Her brown eyes are hidden behind her brown hair as she inks in her pencil drawings of the “celebrated liberator of South America” and his right-hand man. Kate Beaton’s comic, Hark! A Vagrant, covers […]
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NSCAD closes Dawson Printshop
Under flickering fluorescent lights are cabinets with many thin drawers. The labels on them read “Helvetica” and “Garamond.” Here, in the dank bowels of a building on Granville Street, the Dawson collection is housed in more than a thousand of these drawers. Each holds various type—little metal or wood letters that have to be arranged […]
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Bed bugs put bite on tenants
“It’s like getting bit by a mosquito, only it lasts for over a week and is 10 times itchier,” Kris Figueroa says, talking about bedbug bites. “I did my best not to scratch them, but it was almost impossible, really. My roommate scratched all over hers and now is covered in scars.” The tiny blood-sucking […]
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Tattoo you?
Laura Dawe is a stick-and-poke artist. She tattoos out of her apartment with a sewing needle and thread. Dawe says she prefers the sewing needle to the professional tattoo gun, which “changes the experience.” The stick-and-poke is more real, she says. “I don’t have a licence,” she says. “I’m not giving tattoos for money. When […]
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Bandwidth battles
Even the information superhighway has speed limits—limits that are enforced without you even knowing about it. It’s called “traffic shaping” and most internet service providers have some form of it in place. Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, defines traffic shaping as “ISPs limiting the […]