Nov 13-20, 1997

Nov 13-20, 1997 / Vol. 5 / No. 23

Worst Job In Halifax

Cleaning up after drunks, especially on pizza corner Camera operator on Breakfast Television Pre-movie greeter at Park Lane Cinemas

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Best Food Court Kiosk

Ray Khattar is the king of the Scotia Square food court, tirelessly serving hordes of hungry Haligonians from his Ray’s Lebanese Cuisine kiosk. Although his shop sells several tasty treats—barbecued chicken sandwiches, the combination plate, homemade baclava for dessert—the falafel is the jewel in Ray’s crown. It starts with chick peas (also called garbanzo beans)…

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Best Falafel

Ray Khattar is the king of the Scotia Square food court, tirelessly serving hordes of hungry Haligonians from his Ray’s Lebanese Cuisine kiosk. Although his shop sells several tasty treats—barbecued chicken sandwiches, the combination plate, homemade baclava for dessert—the falafel is the jewel in Ray’s crown. It starts with chick peas (also called garbanzo beans)…

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Best Local Actor

Anyone whose ambition is to work with Dudley the Dragon has to be ok. That’s what Mercer was finally able to do this year on ytv’s children’s show of the same name, which, if you think about it, isn’t a far cry from some of the political interviews he has done on This Hour Has…

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Worst Dramatic Performance By A Restaurant Server

Come on. You know who it is. It’s Alan. You know Alan—the smarmy guy. Tallish, with the totally shaved head, rumoured to be an opera singer. He’s the one who pursed his lips, cocked his head, blinked too long and said “You’re welcome” when you thanked him for the soup and bagel, except you had…

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Favorite Local TV Personality

Anyone whose ambition is to work with Dudley the Dragon has to be ok. That’s what Mercer was finally able to do this year on ytv’s children’s show of the same name, which, if you think about it, isn’t a far cry from some of the political interviews he has done on This Hour Has…

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Best Cinnamon Roll

Like most people who are experts in a field, Dale Beazley thinks what he does is easy. “There is no secret,” he says about making Metro’s best cinnamon roll. “They’re simple.” Beazley’s been on the payroll for nine years at Mary’s Bread Basket, the 14-year-old bakery in Hollis Street’s Brewery Market, producing dozens of the…

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Best Bagel

Bagel Works, 5475 Spring Garden Road, 6112 Quinpool Road, 271 Lacewood Drive (Bedford)

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Best Pool Hall

Breakers Billiard Club, 1661 Argyle Street, Woodlawn Mall (Dartmouth), Mill Cove (Bedford) Dooly’s, 1657 Barrington Street, 5686 Argyle Street, 3129 Kempt Road

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Best Magazine

Shambhala Sun Jane Neon (In previous years, this question and the next asked for the best and worst magazines besides The Coast. This year, with The Coast more a weekly newspaper than a biweekly mag, such instructions were left out. As a result, The Coast received an embarrassingly large portion of the Best Magazine votes—as…

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Worst Demi Moore Film You Saw All Year

GI Jane Striptease (The question did not specify films released this year, although it should have, since opening up the Demster’s back catalogue is like cracking the lid on a Pandora’s box of bad flick dish.)

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Best Cappuccino

Steve-O-Reno’s Cappuccino, drive-thru location in the Piercey’s parking lot, 2854 Robie Street

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Best Jazz Release

Lauded as much for her smouldering good looks as for her piano and vocal virtuosity, Diana Krall continues to cut a wide swath in the world of jazz. Comparisons have been made to some of jazz’s best singers and players. Critics, in publications from DownBeat magazine to the New York Times, have heralded Krall as…

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Best Professor

Herb Gamberg, Sociology at Dalhousie Peter March, Philosophy at Saint Mary’s (and at free, public meetings, 12:30pm Wednesday at City Centre mall)

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Best Pizza Pie

Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria, in the Hydrostone Market, 5541 Young Street Thomasino’s Pizza, 5173 South Street

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