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10 International Dance Day Celebration Saturday A full day of all-levels workshops and professional performances celebrate the art of movement. 9 International Street Food Cooking ClassFriday Learn how to make some of the best street eats around the world: Carne asado tacos, bahn mi, falafels and, just for good measure, doughnuts loaded with toppings. 8…
The white wall in my room is always full of coloured sticky notes. Lots of them have new words I have learned in English, and some are notes to self: Do and do not. In the middle of last March, a new red sticky note has joined the others on the wall, it says: “income…
“We are five years in business, and we started the business as a hobby when we were babies and knew nothing,” says Jessie Doyle of Fruition with a laugh. “It’s slowly grown over the last few years, we often say it’s taken a life of its own. It took the lead and we followed.” Just…
Birdie’s Bread Co. 380 Pleasant Street Dartmouth is on a roll thanks to Jessica Best. She is well on her way to opening Birdie’s Bread Co. at 380 Pleasant Street in Woodside. “We’re getting closer. I say that every day, but oh my god there is still so much more to do,” says Best. The…
The DD Goodness Bowl Dilly Dally Eats 6100 Quinpool Road The Dilly Dally is a spot to go slow, sip at a snail’s pace and really zero in on whatever book you’re reading, conversation you’re having or assignment you’re scrambling to finish. The corner cafe is a sunny little box on Quinpool and Vernon, but…
Rhythm + Beets Latte Lucky Penny Coffee Co. 6440 Quinpool Road The thought of bright pink frothed milk was excuse enough for the coffee lovers at the Lucky Penny to experiment with a beet-inspired latte. What started as a joke between a barista and owner Barb Kaill is now regular menu item at the highly…
That’s my jam Black Sheep 1569 Dresden Row If you settle in for a long and lazy late-morning meal at the Black Sheep, chances are you’ll notice a standout supporting character on many brunch plates—jam. The seasonally inspired, housemade blueberry basil jam has recently been added to mix, co-owner Dave Woodley says, and has become…
Za’atar Labneh Veggie Man’ouche Saj House 19 Alma Crescent “It’s pretty special—my dad opened with the hope one of his kids would take it over one day,” says Chirine Issa of the family business, Saj House, which she took over after her father passed away suddenly last year. “I had big shoes to fill, but…
Lamb kofte Efendy 1569 Dresden Row “It’s the traditional Mediterranean way,” says Altin Begolli, of why the charcoal grill plays such a huge role in almost everything Efendy serves. In its just over three years in business, the downtown eatery—owned by Begolli and chef Ali Simsek— has made an unforgettable impression on diners, with its…
Rhythm + Beets Latte Lucky Penny Coffee Co. 6440 Quinpool Road The thought of bright pink frothed milk was excuse enough for the coffee lovers at the Lucky Penny to experiment with a beet-inspired latte. What started as a joke between a barista and owner Barb Kaill is now regular menu item at the highly…
Chicken Curry Little India Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road (Saturdays and Sundays), Halifax Forum Farmers’ Market, 2901 Windsor Street (Saturdays) Elakkia Priya Sakthikumar is very used to people asking her for her recipes. The owner of popular farmers’ market stall Little India says she gets requests every weekend. “People ask me, ‘How do you…
Crab cakes Hooked Halifax 5783 Charles Street Dave Adler is passionate about bringing good, smart, considerate seafood to the kitchens and plates of Haligonians. A longtime advocate for community supported seafood and Slow Fish Canada, he opened a Halifax branch of Canadian seafood shop Hooked in a wee north end location in 2016. Since then…
Tuna poke East of Grafton 1580 Argyle Street Warm wood, exposed brick, moody lighting—there are a lot of things about East of Grafton’s ambience that scream timeless tavern. But the menu? Not so much. Walking the line between challenging and comforting its diners, the restaurant adventure dishes out bar food with a side of exploration.…
To all the “entrepreneurs” on social media selling flameless candles, makeup, adult toys or whatever overpriced junk it is: Nobody wants to buy this shit. If they do, they either pity you or you guilt them into it. If I want to buy a candle, I’ll go to the store and buy it for half…
Anne Hathaway is one of our best working actors, even when the parts don’t deserve it—think of her winking poise in Tim Burton’s messy Alice in Wonderland; her relentless energy in the haggard face of Robert De Niro in The Intern; her, uh, correctly enunciated line readings in the turgid Interstellar—and she’s not been rightly challenged…
Yesterday I was biking home after dinner and feeling like curling up in my bed…when I saw a tall man running full-tilt down the middle of Beech street wearing full length running pants, a sweater tucked into long gym shorts, glasses, and a huge smile! I had a sudden huge rush of feeling—a yearning for…
A staff report coming to Thursday’s meeting of the Transportation Standing Committee is proposing several improvements for passenger safety in Halifax taxis. The report recommends an in-depth review of the city’s taxi industry be conducted by outside consultants to study potential technology upgrades like video surveillance, GPS tracking, car shields, emergency alarm buttons and passenger…
The new health centre in Bayer’s Lake is meant to serve the ENTIRE province of Nova Scotia, not just the downtown core. Just because the location it doesn’t prioritize the commuting of South End and downtown residents doesn’t make Bayer’s Lake a wasteland or Clayton Park a ghost town. Most importantly, remember that flooded decayed…
Halifax cyclists may get a new bike lane on Almon Street. And while Kelsey Lane, executive director of the Halifax Cycling Coalition is happy to see the cycling network expanding, she says the city needs to have safety precautions in place. “Here’s the thing,” Lane says, “it has to be more than just paint on…
While Halifax Regional Council was debating the legacy of Edward Cornwallis on Tuesday afternoon, Rebecca Thomas was following along from the other side of the country. The municipality’s poet laureate is in Vancouver this week, competing in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. So she wasn’t able to attend Tuesday’s council meeting, where it was approved…
Halifax will finally get some truth and reconciliation on its controversial founder, Edward Cornwallis. On Tuesday, Regional Council voted 15-1 to assemble a panel of experts to review and recommend changes on how HRM commemorates Cornwallis. The motion from Halifax West Armdale councillor Shawn Cleary also asks for recommendations on how the city can better…
Grizzly bears venturing from dens in search of food this spring will face landscapes dominated by mines, roads, pipelines, clearcuts and ever-expanding towns and cities. As in years past, they’ll also face the possibility of painful death at the hands of trophy hunters. British Columbia’s spring bear hunt just opened. Hunters are fanning across the…
OK, here’s the scenario: jumpin’ on the #54 from Woodlawn area to do downtown Dartie stuff, mid-afternoon, too early for rush hour. Firstly, Smiling Mild-Mannered Bus Driver: you’re 8 minutes behind schedule. Do you not realize people may want or need to make that departing-on-the-hour ferry to Halifax? Secondly, Middle School Moron strolling down the…
To the very thoughtful woman on the route 9 on Friday who saved my 14-year-old daughter “Ashley” from the really creepy guy. His small talk was clearly making her uncomfortable and you jumped in with “Hey Ashley! Come sit with me,” pretending that you guys were old friends, when actually you had never seen her…
Progress is being made tracking down thousands of dollars that went missing from the police department’s evidence control system. Halifax Regional Police has located over 90 percent of the $104,289 in cash evidence that couldn’t be found in last summer’s drug exhibit audit. In an update to the Board of Police Commissioners on Monday, chief…
The current site for the QEII as proposed by the present government is, while not the worst thing in the world, certainly not ideal. What’s worse is that redevelopment of the QEII Site could accommodate a new Outpatient Wing if we consolidated several surface parking lots into a Multi-level lot, allowing for more parking WHILE…
Last Thursday the provincial Liberal government announced the purchase of land in Bayers Lake, at the exorbitant price of $7.5 million, to accommodate clinics set to be displaced by the upcoming redevelopment of the QEII Heath Centre’s Victoria General (VG) site. The decision to move public services from a central location—highly accessible by public transit—to…
The municipality is hoping a partnership with the Chinese city of Zhuhai will be a great opportunity to increase Halifax’s economic development. Last Thursday, the standing committee for Community Planning and Economic Development passed a motion to move forward with an economic partnership agreement with Zhuhai. According to a staff report, the Chinese city is considered a…
Tonight, BattleApps invites to taste what your Haligonian chefs are made of—in twenty minutes. The Toronto-based chef battle (put on by Underground Chef Company and McCain) is coming to the east coast to serve up some quick dishes at Tempo Food +Drink. Halifax is one stop on an eight-city chef battle tour. Chefs in the battle…
To the lovely lady who stole a blank engineering exam from the Dalplex today, I think I am in love. Please steal my exam again in the future. —Bleary-eyed Romeo
For one night only, special guests Ballet Jazz de Montréal graced the stage of the Rebecca Cohn to present three original works. Kosmos, the first and strongest of the three, is a frenetic piece choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, with a cacophony of people onstage doing impossibly beautiful things with their bodies. The piece was breathtaking…
She smiles sweetly at me. She jokes and slaps my arm. She asks what I think and feel. She pretends she cares. I thought she did and she was my friend. I truly liked this woman until I discovered she was keeping a dairy of me at work. She bought me birthday presents. She complained…
I’m sick of the way a popular coffee chain under-toasts their bagels. I asked for toasted, not a ball of glue. Toast them longer! They suck. —Going back to gas station croissants
A new proposed environmental bill of rights seeks to ensure all Nova Scotians have a right to a healthy environment. The bill, released on Friday, is the first of its kind in Nova Scotia. The 15-page document was produced by the Environmental Rights Working Group; a collaboration between East Coast Environmental Law, the ENRICH (Environmental…
The city has a long way to go to create a healthy, just and sustainable food system. A new report, called Food Counts: Halifax Food Assessment, outlines some problems with food accessibility throughout the city. It was created by the Halifax Food Policy Alliance, which collected data showing that many people in HRM still don’t…
Oh, darling motorcyclists—I do understand your feeling of joy and happiness as you get your bikes out and throw yourselves around the province. What I don’t understand is why you have to rev at dangerously high volumes in residential areas. You’re wearing earplugs, so you probably don’t notice but even a few floors up my…
The retail wilderness of the Bayers Lake Industrial Park “severely lacks” the transit and accessible infrastructure needed for the province’s new outpatient centre, say planning advocates. On Thursday the provincial Liberal government announced it had purchased 15 acres of land in the BLIP as part of the redevelopment of the ageing QEII Health Science Centre.…
“Everyone here just loves animals so much they just wanted to give back and help them out.” Relatable words from Adept Tattoo & Body Piercing Studio’s Lisa Faulkner. She’s talking about this weekend’s third Annual Animal Charity Day, where the studio’s two locations (6267 Quinpool Road and 1274 Bedford Highway) dedicate their entire Saturday to…
The city’s chief administrative officer has apologized to HRM employees for an inappropriate text message he sent to a subordinate. “As CAO, I should have known better and not assumed that I had permission to communicate about a matter unrelated to work,” writes Jacques Dubé, in an email sent out Thursday afternoon to all city…
As Once enters its last weeks onstage, Neptune Theatre shows no signs of slowing down. After the production ends on May 28, Neptune will start up renovations: The first major changes to the theatre since the “New Neptune Project” in the ’90s. On top of that, July will welcome a summer show to kick off…
April has been a big month for Sarah Bannerman Andrews, who recently rang in the first anniversary of her clothing and lifestyle shop Sattva Boutique (2453 Agricola Street). During that time she’s been committed to bringing “conscious consumerism” to the shop, filling it with mostly locally made, ethical brands. “The shop is primarily full of…
10 Starfish Student Art Awards Thursday This glitzy evening celebrating the brightest stars in the NSCAD student scene is one of the hottest art tickets of the year. Peruse the works from the 10 finalists before the award announcement that sees one of them win a $5,000 prize. 9 JonBob Illegal Art album release party…
EAT A pioneer of HRM’s gourmet burger scene, Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie opened five years ago and has changed the way Metro looks at burgers. Bill Pratt’s shops offer a wide variety of burger combinations, including The Legendary CC Porker: A double-patty burger with bacon, cheese curds, fried onion ring and CC sauce. …
“They’re words, goddamn it.” Andrew Vaughan speaks into the microphone before his audience at The Company House on April 11. His routine is part of the weekly Laugh House event: Experienced comedians and newbies alike take the stage in 10-minute segments to work the crowd. Ahead of each event, a live taping of a podcast…
One of the newest members of the Canadian Senate says a criminal case in Nova Scotia perfectly demonstrates what’s wrong with the justice system—even though the process has been fair. Senator Kim Pate is talking about the release of Christopher Calvin Garnier from jail for a second time. The 29-year-old is charged in the second-degree…
On October 1, 1749, governor Edward Cornwallis gathered his council in Halifax to discuss the growing French and Mi’kmaq threat. Cornwallis’ bright successes at the Battle of Culloden and in the Scottish Pacification may have been illuminating his mind when the councillors met in his Parade Square home. The Halifax settlement was small, isolated from…
When politicians ignore climate change, scientists will change the political climate. This Saturday, on Earth Day, thousands of scientists and supporters in cities across the world will be marching against what advocates say has been a war on evidenced-based public policy. The largest event will take place in Washington DC—a mass protest against Donald Trump’s…
Q I’m a queer girl living with a male partner. This weekend, we found ourselves in an after-hours club, made some new friends and ended up at a house with two other guys and a girl. Things were pretty playful with everyone except for one of the guys. We all wanted him gone, but he…
Sushi Shige 1532 Granville Street Omakase reservations:902-422-0740 Omakase is a true statement of trust. When you order omakase at a Japanese restaurant, you put yourself in the hands of the chef. You trust them to feed you and to feed you well. At Sushi Shige, it is without a doubt the best way to experience…
Cornwallis creep Your feature “Called into action” is an informative perspective on Rhonda Britton and her calling as pastor of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church (Cover story, April 6). However, this statement by writer Maggie Rahr may need to be run through the fact-checker: “The church, as the street it rests on, is named for Edward…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Taurus (Apr 20-May 20) Fantasize about sipping pear nectar and listening to cello music and inhaling the aroma of musky amber and caressing velvet, cashmere and silk. Imagine how it would feel to be healed by inspiring memories and sweet awakenings and shimmering delights and delicious epiphanies. I expect experiences like these to…
In order to stand at the front of the line, Shigeru Fukuyama first had to get to the front of the board. It can take a long time to do both. And sometimes you don’t even get to do either. But Shige does it all. And he does it right here in Halifax with Aya…
