For more evidence that we at Shoptalk care about your wellbeing as much as were looking out for your pocketbook, check out the newest way to get fit and stay healthy in Halifax: 80/20 Lifestyle Studio (80 Main, 457-4455) just opened its doors on January 5. “We provide personal training packages with a focus on […]
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Planning and Design Centre seeks storefront
Speaking of creative ideas to improve the cityscape, The Planning and Design Centre is on the hunt for a prominent storefront to set up shop in downtown Halifax. The Planning and Design Centre started as a special project of the Cities & Environment Unit—-a community planning and research group based in the Faculty of Architecture […]
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Halifax Design Plan on Deck
It hasn’t gone away. In fact, its about to come around again: The Downtown Halifax Business Commission is encouraging folks to write their councillors to support the passing of the long-awaited and much-discussed HRM By Design, the $3 million financial incentive package put together to make firm development standards for downtown and reimagine the business […]
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Industry comes out of shell at Sip n’ Shuck
This year’s Sip n’ Shuck at the Delta Halifax featured a celebrity shucking competition. Well…maybe celebrity pushes the envelope. Notable shuckers included Tory ministers Chris d’Entremont and Ron Chisholm (who won first and second place) and councillor Dawn Sloane. It was Sloane’s first time shucking an oyster. She struggled a little onstage with the uncooperative […]
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Shoptalk-Lets
Number two electronic giant Circuit City has announced bankruptcy in the States and is liquidating its assets. The boys and girls at Best Buy (the number one American electronic goods retail giant) must be thrilled. The good news for us north of the border is that Circuit City’s Canadian presence The Source—formerly Radio Shack—is solvent […]
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Now with parsley, sage and rosemary
Since December 11, Dartmouth residents have been enjoying a new cafe in the downtown. Our Thyme Café (98 Portland, 406-7467) has been wowing a busy lunch hour contingent with sandwiches and homemade grub, sweet squares and cappuccinos. With biodegradable cups and Fair Trade coffee, the 20-seater cafe even runs with an environmental bent, and a […]
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Paragon Theatre
The Marquee‘s last hurrah comes February 7 with a 50-musician recreation of The Band’s The Last Waltz concert, and then will be no more. But, fear not! The large north end music hall (2037 Gottingen) has been taken over by partners Craig Mercer, Peter Farmer and Mark Townsend, who will tear down and rebuild walls […]
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Oxford Laundromat getting spruced up
There’s been a change of ownership at the Oxford Laundromat, which has been in its digs at 2983 Oxford since the Capital grocery store vacated the space almost 20 years ago. Staff tell us the new owner is starting a renovation Friday, January 30, with hopes that the updating won’t interfere too much with regular […]
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The Halifax Sexplosion
The 1st Annual Everything To Do With Sex Show pulls down its inaugural drawers at the Cunard Centre, January 23-25. The three-day event has long been a success in cosmopolitan Montreal and Tonronto, but will it fly in conservative Nova Scotia? “We are entertainment, but we are also about education, and knowledge,” writes Sex Show […]
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Treevenge Tree Shirts
To celebrate the invitation to this week’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the guys behind the insanely popular horror/comedy short film *Treevenge* are getting into the merch biz. If you doubt the power of Jason Eisener and Rob Cotterill‘s bloody hit, stop by Pretty Things Boutique (5685 Cunard, 492-8329), and grab one of […]
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Monkey business
The Wooden Monkey is moving. The familiar Argyle location (1685 Argyle) will colse up for good Feb 18, explains co-owner Christine Bower. “We’ll invite all our regulars in that night, and when everyone is done their meal, we’ll have them carry their chairs out the door and up the hill,” to a new, expanded Monkey […]
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The Company House
Halifax is a music city. Some say it’s the Atlantic Ocean, others believe it’s the endless winters, the source or reason doesn’t matter to Mary Ann Daye. She just hopes to foster it with The Company House (2202 Gottigen). “My official deadline is to be open for the In the Dead of Winter Festival (January […]