In most salons you’ll see two prices for haircuts—one for men and one for women. On June 1, Kara’s Urban Day Spa will cut gendered pricing at its three HRM locations (5980 Spring Garden Road, 940 Cole Harbour Road and and offer equitable gender-neutral pricing. Kevyn Martell, Kara’s new artistic director, has been in […]
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Plunge into summer with Mëda Swim
Shopping for bathing suits is the worst, but if sisters Anna and Omeda Swinemar have anything to say about it—it’s about to get a little bit easier. Together, the Swinemars are getting ready to debut their line, and first foray into fashion, Mëda Swim, just in time for summer. “We’re really big into promoting body […]
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Get your butt to the Happy Hour Makers Market
Fresh off shooting a fresh-as-hell new girl-gang-inspired lookbook for her online shop, Nadyne Kasta AKA the designer behind The Girl From Away, is cooking up another cool collaboration. With both local entrepreneurs and shoppers in mind, Kasta, the Maritime Makers collective and Big Pony’s (2168 Gottingen Street) Lindsay Stewart and Emily Ross have planned an […]
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Hooked brings smart seafood to Halifax
Dave Adler is not new to the fair-and-sustainable fish game. If you aren’t either, you’ll recognize his name from his work with the Ecology Action Centre’s Off The Hook community-supported fisheries program—which works to connect consumers with local, small-scale fishers—as well as Slow Fish Canada. He’s the man behind Hooked Halifax and papered-over windows at […]
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Guided Tour – Hydrostone
Nobody knows an area better than its residents, so when it comes to looking for a new home in the Hydrostone area, Edie Hancock is as knowledgeable as it gets. Edie represents the Sutton Group Professional Realty, has lived in the Hydrostone since 1991 and specializes in finding new neighbours. The Sutton Group is 100 […]
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The Dawgfather finds new digs
It’s a dog-eat-Dawg world out there, man. Today, it was brought to The Coast’s attention the Dalhousie University’s celebrity chef, the Dawgfather PhD, has found a new place to sell his street meat. The move comes after the hot dog doc’s court case against the municipality (an effort to halt a proposed bike lane that […]
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Luis Clavel welcomes you to The Table
When Halifax chef Luis Clavel wants comfort food, it’s usually his mom’s pupusas he’s craving. The traditional Salvadoran dish is “like a flapjack stuffed with cheese and then pan-fried,” he explains. Clavel—the chef at Shuck Seafood + Raw Bar— was born in Puerto Rico and raised in El Salvador and Guatamala before immigrating to Nova […]
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FIELD NOTES: Off-Grid Greenhouse Systems
Have you ever wondered how to save irrigation cost when you were gardening? Are you interested in solar energy? Do you have questions about when to start your seed planting? On May 14th, the coordinator of Hope Blooms Community Garden Greenhouse, Peter Wilkinson, hosted a workshop at the Common Roots Urban Farm on Off-Grid Greenhouse […]
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Halifax’s Mobile Food Market launches this weekend
A regular, everyday Halifax transit bus is being transformed into a food market on wheels to bring affordable, high quality, fresh fruits and vegetables to communities across Halifax. The 21-week pilot, known as the Mobile Food Market, launches this Saturday— May 14—making stops to the communities of North Preston and East Preston. North end Halifax, […]
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Stillwell Beergarden set for Spring Garden Road
After a successful inaugural summer on the Halifax Waterfront, and a surprisingly trying search for a new location, Stillwell has was scored a new spot for its open air beer garden on the corner of Spring Garden Road and South Park Street. Come early June, the Stillwell Beergarden will be slinging local craft beers from […]
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Dartmouth Makers are making it happen this Saturday
When Gina Comeau and Rachel Blair-Johns met two years ago they bonded for a variety of reasons, but it was after comparing notes over a coffee that the two jewellery makers (Comeau is Three Oak Jewelry, Blair-Johns is Ment Jewellery) decided Dartmouth Makers had to happen. “We were kind of like, ‘Wouldn’t it be great […]
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Harold MacKay’s Downeast Beer Factory is open
Harold MacKay is back in the beer game. While many Coast readers might recognize his name from a certain concert funding scandal that rocked the city five-plus years ago, beer was his bag way before the Black Eyed Peas. MacKay—who was one of the founders behind long departed Dartmouth brewery, the Maritime Beer Company—opened Downeast […]