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It might not feel that surprising to hear that Tom’s Little Havana (1540 Birmingham Street) is saying goodbye. The adored Halifax watering hole’s been through a lot of change in the last stretch of time—most notably when it moved from its (loveably) dank hole in the wall on Doyle Street back in 2015. Entrepreneur Deeksha…
If you’re a Yeah Yeahs Pizza fan you’re probably willing to go to the ends of the earth (or at least across the harbour) for your fix, but brilliant news—soon Haligonians won’t have to. Co-owners of Dartmouth’s highly addictive pizza joint, Josh Nordin and Dean Petty, have just started the renovation phase of their new…
There are a lot of reasons why you can go fuck yourself. Let’s start off with the obvious one; why would you leave some obnoxious comment in a newspaper rather than asking the editor yourself why the cover allegedly resembled your art? Not very professional, in fact, it’s extremely childish. But you only get worse…
I have lived in Halifax for almost 10 years now, and every year, housing becomes less affordable, food costs rise, and I descend further below the poverty line. I realize inflation isn’t a Halifax-based phenomenon, but everything is expensive here, and often overpriced for the quality. I have a professional job, a good education, and…
I moved to a seat beside you at the bar to watch the final match of a rugby game on a Saturday afternoon. As time passed and we had a few brief exchanges about the game, you shared a pic of your healing dog Luna and the experiences you have together. You also shared that…
My dear friend and I were walking along to get to a gas station to get a few things and also get a little exercise. It was bitterly cold outside and you, out of the kindness of your heart, came to us and curiously wished my dear friend well with his cane. And, after a…
To the ignorant and thoughtless group that sat behind my partner and I at Captain Marvel at the Dartmouth Crossing theatre: Thank you for your best efforts to ruin movie night for us. Between your kids kicking our seats, your singing along to the songs and ALL of you talking throughout the show, it took…
Rapper and Spring Breakers star Gucci Mane is scheduled to perform at the Halifax Forum on May 15 with guests August Alsina, Merkules and Peter Jackson. Tickets start at $89 and are available now right here.
From an Irish tea party to Gus’ legendary St. Patty’s Puketacular party to drag reviews and a Missy Elliot-themed play, here’s a four-leaf clover of fun. Miss N Me Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday It’s the opening weekend for Eastern Front Theatre’s latest at Neptune’s Scotiabank Stage. The play sees hairdresser Dawna go on “a theatrical…
N SCAD’s 95 faculty and librarians ended their strike on Tuesday after just over a week on the picket line. This came as a great relief of the university’s MFA students who staged a sit-in demanding the administration agree to negotiating an to end the strike. The strike meant that faculty supervisors of three MFA…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PISCES (February 19 – March 20) In 2014, NASA managed to place its MAVEN spacecraft into orbit around Mars. The cost of the mission was $671 million. Soon thereafter, the Indian government put its own vehicle, the Mangalyaan, into orbit around the Red Planet. It spent $74 million. As you plan your own…
W e love change, and the craft beer scene in Nova Scotia somehow manages to bring us joy while at the same time begging to be KonMaried into the sun. There is always plenty to talk about when it comes to beer (we do it exclusively), so here’s our take on what’s brewing in our…
I visited the Unist’ot’en camp near Kitimat, BC, a year ago. The people, led by Chief Freda Huson, are trying to re-establish a sustainable relationship with territory that has enabled them to flourish for millennia. Ever since colonization and settlement, much of that traditional way of life has been lost or seriously constrained. These are…
The Clever Hand screening Friday, March 15, 8pm Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-Operative 5663 Cornwallis Street It all started a little over a year ago, when Maggie MacCormick—the designer behind the colourful, clean-lined fashion label maggie jayne—and a bunch of her pals gathered on the beach for a music video shoot. “It was just so fun to…
N ew legislation introduced last week will repeal the Tourist Accommodations Act and create an online registry for short-term rentals like Airbnb, but the new rules could instead open opportunities for enterprising hosts with a mind to avoid taxes. David de Jongh, former Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia member and owner of Seawind Landing…
L aMeia Reddick is a unicorn. The graceful 26-year old is part urbanist, part-community activist, part-changemaker, facilitator, organizer and soulful artist who channels an Erykah Badu sensitivity about her shit. As the founder of KINnected Leadership consulting firm she connects the Halifax Regional Municipality with startups to improve government, establish new private-public partnerships and translate…
Susannah, Garrison Brewing Co. This IWD imperial pale lager is Garrison’s very first all-female brewed beer is made with wild foraged sumac and sea buckthorn courtesy of East Coast Wild Foods. Fifty cents from each can goes towards an NSCC Women in Trades bursary. 1149 Marginal Road Tea & Honey Nitro, Lake City Cider A…
1 Maritime Express Cider Co. Maritime Express, a taproom a cidery located in an old railway hotel, opened in October thanks to Jimi Doidge and Scott Hearn. It serves up a rotating selection of Nova Scotian craft beers as well as the company’s own Annapolis Valley apple ciders, pressed and fermented right underneath the bar’s…
In the utterly pointless argument of Marvel versus DC, it nonetheless remains worth noting that the dour, self-serious DC got its lady superhero movie out first. It’s also worth nothing that Wonder Woman is better than Captain Marvel, but still not as good as you remember: Like every superpowered outing—led by man, woman or Groot—it’s…
Jay Hildybrant wants you to know that while beer and cider sit in the same category in your brain, the apple-based beverage is actually closer to wine. The head cider maker and partner at Chain Yard Urban Cidery is standing in the cidery’s back room, explaining the “malolactic fermentation” one of his recent barrel-aged creations…
Who he is Ken Greer grew up in Belgium, where having a beer at lunchtime was “no big deal.” Once, when he tried to do this at a restaurant here in Halifax, he was told the draught system was being cleaned. “Who cleans beer lines at lunch?” Greer asked. And then a lightbulb went off:…
Amy Corbett’s been drinking North Brewing’s beer since it was called Bridge Brewing. A graphic designer, web developer, art educator and abstract painter with 20 years of creating under her belt, she’d hustle to the Alderney Landing farmers’ market to grab her swing-top bottles every Saturday. Her official collaboration with the brand started later when—in…
QMy grandfather was a pillar of the community and beloved by his family. He was also sexually abusive. He died when I was a child. I remember only one incident happening to me—during a cuddle session, he encouraged me to put my mouth on his penis, then told me to let it be our little…
I n Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth Century Halifax, author Ted Rutland says that in 1970, the city’s view was that construction of the “dystopian” Cogswell Interchange was slum clearance in the name of urban renewal. A similar official view prevailed about a decade earlier with the relocation of Africville residents. With…
I knew I was right! For older readers, I’d like to bring them up to date on an issue I had with your paper way back when Theo Moudakis was exhibiting cartoons at the Economy Shoe Shop. The cartoons were not published in any newspaper because they were considered too controversial. But this was supposedly…
The premise of the local short Thug comes from real life: Three aspirational actors—Simon Mutuyimana, Emmanuel John and Joshua Schlagenweit—shoot a film in the streets of Halifax. So, too, does the film’s critical story point, when a scene of violence is mistaken for truth. “They’re in a Starbucks parking lot and the cops pulled up…
