Strange Adventures Comic Bookshop (5262 Sackville) has the exchange rate blues. Instead of tearing up over it, owner Calum Johnston has decided to go by the U.S. prices on all new comics and books and then add the weekly exchange rates. “One week it’s 12%, then 18, next week it’s over 25%. Oh, how I […]
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Rock the ridge
Clayton Parkers listen up: Rockingham Ridge Plaza’s (30 Farnham Gate) own Nenagh Bar and Grill recently changed its name to The Ridge Bar and Grill. Don’t worry, husband and wife team Shelley MacDonald and Sheldon MacDonald are still serving up the same delicious hot plates
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Rock the ridge
Clayton Parkers listen up: Rockingham Ridge Plaza’s (30 Farnham Gate) own Nenagh Bar and Grill recently changed its name to The Ridge Bar and Grill. Don’t worry, husband and wife team Shelley MacDonald and Sheldon MacDonald are still serving up the same delicious hot plates
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Pilates expands
The Pilates Studio (1-1283 South Park) is now offering personal training sessions. Co-owner Michael Harvie doesn’t mind setting up in your work place, home or at the studio. Harvie has been a personal trainer for over 5 years, using corrective condition to help specific issues such as posture, scoliosis, balance, osteoporosis, joint rehabilitation and other […]
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Solace finds urban retreat
Angela MacDonald believes Spring Garden Road is the urban centre of Halifax. She honours this conviction by renaming Solace Massage Therapy (5411 Spring Garden) to Urban Retreat Therapy, as she takes over ownership of the business on November 8. “The name fits perfectly,” says MacDonald. “We have customers walk in through the doors and say […]
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Mariposa market
Mariposa Natural Market & Café (Upper Tantallon) recently opened in the St. Margaret’s Bay area. The business carries local produce, breads and meats. “We are a health-food store/market/café specializing in local, organic, spray-free, free-range, GMO-free, growth hormone-antibiotic-pesticide-medicated feed free food and everything in-between,” says co-owner Steve Myrden, who runs the shop with his wife Cait […]
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Ouro Preto Shares
Ouro Preto Café (5743 University) is hosting Share: Music and Movies Make It Better, a fundraiser for The Lodge That Gives (5826 South Park) November 14. The evening includes a silent auction, screenings by local filmmakers, wine and musical entertainment by Mike Doyle, Matt Dunlop, Jenny MacDonald, Kim Wempe and Christina Martin. The Lodge That […]
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Natural textiles
Tammachat means “natural” in Thai. Based in Mahone Bay, TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles specializes in fairly traded, naturally dyed, handwoven textiles created by women’s weaving groups in rural areas of Laos and Thailand. “We don’t have a shop; we have events,” says Alleson Kase, throwing a wrench into the whole concept of “Shoptalk,” but she has […]
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Crown Diner
Searching for an alternative to the fancy high-ending dining found in the downtown core? Well look no further, as Crown Diner (5171 Salter) has the solution. Feast on fine homemade goods at reasonable prices. “It’s your typical diner food, nothing funky or weird on the menu,” says manager Michele Thompson. “The difference is everything is […]
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Fashioning a scene
Remember when you could heat up a pot of mac ‘n’ cheese and wieners for dinner and you didn’t have to worry about whether the milk was organic, the cheese local or whether the pigs roamed freely? These days we spend a lot of time making appropriate food choices, buying from farmers’ markets and checking […]
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Pictures of you
Photography has evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, and film has almost become a historic artifact. Digital took over and there’s no turning back. Founded in 1942, Atlantic Photo Supply (5505 Spring Garden) might be Halifax’s oldest camera shop, but it certainly isn’t out dated. “Obviously just like everyone else in the photo business […]
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Healthy pillars
Dartmouth will be well equipped health-wise as Pillars of Health (10 Portland Place) opens November 1. Owner Jennifer Petley believes firmly in the basics of health, meaning healthy in mind, body and spirit. The multi-disciplinary wellness clinic is merely an umbrella term, as the Pillars of Health offers naturopathic medicine, clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, traditional […]