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On Tuesday, council finally agreed to stop parking their cars on the Grand Parade. And hey, it only took a few years! Council approved the recommendation, along with several others, as part of a sweeping land development plan put together by city staffers. The linchpin of the plan involves a land swap between the province […]

Soooooo, what’s the deal with Barrington these days? The big news came this past week when venerable music dealer Sam the Record Man unexpectedly closed its doors on Tuesday (see “Shop Talk” for more info). Sam’s was famous for promoting and selling local recordings—as news of Sam’s demise spread across the city, musicians everywhere could […]

Forget about April—February is by far the cruellest month. Just ask the Khyber Club. In February of 2006, the Khyber Club (the famous “red room” at 1588 Barrington) was unexpectedly shut down by the city. The Khyber Arts Society, which rents the building, had been operating the space as a licensed multi-purpose performance venue for […]

There is a large circular platform in front of the North Branch Memorial Library on Gottingen Street. For the past year, it has looked conspicuously vacant; like a stage without any actors, or a pedestal with nothing to support. Which is basically what it’s been. Since its installation in the spring of 2006, the platform […]

In 1982, Halifax set out on a journey of mutual appreciation with an adoring sister city in Japan. Separated by a mere 10,000 kilometres (give or take), Halifax and Hakodate were obviously siblings separated at birth—both are port towns, both have distinctive star-shaped birthmarks (ours is called the Citadel; theirs is Goryokaku Fort)… But, like […]

The Nova Scotia legislature isn’t the most diverse assembly on the planet—perhaps not surprisingly, the vast majority of seats belong to white dudes. Of the 52 MLAs currently sitting, only nine are women. And then there’s Percy Paris. When the rookie MLA for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank was elected last June, he was the only African-Nova […]

Last year, the Pep Bro Divas—a group of six women all living in the north end—set out to build a community rink near the George Dixon Centre just off of Gottingen Street. Although it was their first attempt at such a project, and some of the Divas had never skated before in their lives, the […]

It’s 2007, we’re fixing Halifax, and it seemed as good a time as any to check in on one of our favourite disappointments from 2006, the sprawling abyss (slash parking lot) on the corner of Spring Garden and Queen. As you may or may not recall, the lot was discussed last spring in a series […]

Last week, we gave you an update on the talks between Saint Mary’s University administration and the Saint Mary’s University Faculty Union, as the two sides try to negotiate a new collective agreement and avoid a labour dispute that could potentially disrupt classes at the university. Meanwhile, nervous students get to drown their fears in […]

Just over two months since Halifax hosted the Rolling Stones on the Common, the city released a report outlining costs, benefits, spin-offs and the lessons it learned from the big show. If you believe the numbers that are presented in the report, the concert was an unqualified success. In the run-up to the show, the […]

Ayo Aladejebi is helping to give a voice to youth living in the north end—just so long as they can get over their nerves about public speaking. Aladejebi helped to organize a special presentation being given tonight at the North Branch Library by a group of “five or six” young people who live in the […]

Major congratulations are in order for one of Halifax’s favourite adopted sons, Daniel MacIvor, who won a Governor General’s Literary Award on Tuesday. MacIvor was recognized in the drama category for his work entitled, I Still Love You, a collection of plays that MacIvor wrote between 1991 and 2006. The Cape Breton-born playwright has been […]