The Fringe Festival descends this week, and while the plays you choose to see can be a coin’s toss away from confusing or brilliant there’s no need to take chances with your meal and drink choices. Keep yourself well-fed by checking out one of these four places, all surrounding the festival’s venues. –Holly Gordon The […]
Alteregos Cafe
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Street Market Sunday
A summery thing to do withy your Sunday would be to wander down Gottingen, near the corner of Cunard and outside Alterego’s Cafe (2193 Gottingen Street, 431-3170) from noon until 2pm. There you’ll find the new Gottingen Street Market, featuring a live DJ, art, clothes, crafts and lots of food. Make Gottingen Street part of […]
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Big Gottingen Street News: Backpackers hostel, Alteregos cafe poised for major expansion
[image-1] There’s yet more big news on Gottingen Street, as a stalwart business owner prepares to take on a major expansion Two weeks ago we reported on plans to build two 100+ unit low-income apartment buildings on Gottingen Street, one on the site of the former Diamonds bar, the other at the much-neglected Mitchell’s Environmental Treasures building. Between the two sits Alteregos Coffee Shop and Halifax Backpackers hostel (2193 Gottingen Street), both owned by Michelle Strum. Most business owners would be horrified by the prospect of major construction taking place on either side of her, but Strum seems entirely nonplussed.
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Alteregos offering one-of-a-kind gifts
You might know it as Alteregos Coffee House (2193 Gottingen Street, 431-3170) or as Backpackers hostel, but either way, you know they’ve got a place for travellers to stay and a lot of great food. They’re also carrying a series of one-of-a-kind gifts for the holidays, including locally made sock monsters, hand-made bowties, photo albums, […]
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Meeting people is easy
The student population in this city is more than half the size of the entire population on the peninsula, making casual run-ins a way of life. So whether you’re crushing on that cute boy in your Dinosaurs and Their World class or swooning over the server at a nearby cafe, the following hotspots will help […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]