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After 17 years in the same downtown location, jewellery-making supply emporium The Bead Pod (1567 Grafton) is on the move. The store will close up shop in its current location the weekend of June 8 and reopen in its new location—on Logiealmond Close in Dartmouth Crossing—a month later. Why such a big move? “It’s just […]

Sick of listening to lame, piped-in restaurant music? So is Mike Campbell. He’s got big music-related plans for his new business, The Carleton Restaurant (1685 Argyle). “We’ve got lots of speakers, so it’s not too loud in one place and not loud enough in another; I can control the sound everywhere; I can make different […]

Rest easy, surf enthusiasts (and fans of shopping at the corner of Morris and Queen): new surf emporium If Only (1300 Queen) is on its way. The shop’ll carry top-of-the-line equipment for surfers and windsurfers, as well as nifty apparel and flip-flops from old school surf apparel line Katin, funkier lines like Factor 54 and […]

Do you work from home? Are office politics getting you down? Perhaps you are only in town for business and need a meeting space for the afternoon. The Hub might just be the answer for you. The Hub Halifax sells time, not space. Their flexible membership works like a cell phone plan (without the life-long […]

The first week of June is National Environmental Week and what better way to flex your green thumb than to join the 14th annual Clean Sweep event. The Downtown Halifax Business Commission (DHBC) has created an opportunity for business members to get outside and clean up the downtown core. “Clean Sweep is a fun way […]

According to Coburg Consultants Ltd. change is the foundation of good business. Incorporated in 1982, the core group of contract consultants changes annually, but don’t fret as this is mostly due to the fact that the company is operated by senior Dalhousie MBA students who sell before they toss their caps at their spring graduation. […]

CUT Steakhouse & Urban Grill (5120 Salter Street) may be the only location in Eastern Canada to dry-age its beef in-house for 35 days (to develop flavour intensity), but it’s their poutine that is truly one of a kind. For the old fashioned Montréaler in you there is the standard poutine beefed up with with […]

Hollywood’s classic film noir period stretched from early 1940s to the late 1950s. Halifax’s stylish revival arrives this week in the form of Mills Noir, a customer loyalty program featuring a radio, print, billboard, web and direct mail campaign that will be decorating the city. “Mills Noir is another way to make sure Mills customers […]

Like a diner, only more closed: Quincy’s (6273 Quinpool), the first place I ate out after moving to Halifax, is no longer with us…After 12 years in business, both locations of The Cookhouse (at 1512 Dresden Row and at 85 Hector Gate, Dartmouth) have also closed…Somebody tell Bill Cosby: Freeman’s Little New York has opened […]