10 Halifax Greek Festival Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday One of the things we’re most excited about is chowing down on the fest’s delicious, authentic eats—from savoury souvlaki to sweet halva. 9 Marine protected areas: For whom? Thursday This Oceans Week lecture includes whale songs, live streaming from the first UN Oceans Conference […]
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A helping of VIMANA
A new artist collective helping to propel artists and musicians by providing resources and networking opportunities is one of the latest positive additions to Halifax’s creative scene. It’s called V I M A N A. MC Darren Pyper (AKA Ghettosocks) is one of the nine founding members of the collective. “The collective was formed out […]
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Going way Underground
Staying Underground residency Friday April 13 & 20, 9pm Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street RHONDA, Pleasure Forever, All Black Everything with Alfalfa Brown Friday April 7, 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street Pop-up shop with Alfalfa Brown Tuesday April 11, 6-8pm Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street “The best comment I heard was that […]
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Daniel Walker talks the folk
How often does Owen Meany’s Batting Stance’s Daniel Walker have to explain his band’s name? “Ninety percent of the time,” he estimates. “People either aren’t familiar with the book”—John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany—”or recognize the name but don’t know why.” While his band will be playing Friday at In the Dead of Winter […]
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Squad up: volunteers needed to make hip hop history
I’m calling in a favour, my dogs. The peeps behind Confiscated Records, the RAW Cyphers and Creative Action are looking for male and female emcees, beats, extras and helpers for the All Souls Cypher Video Project, which will be filmed at Alteregos Coffee House (2193 Gottingen) on Saturday, October 10 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm. With the videography support of Kim […]
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Find you in the cypher
Last March, Martez Wiggins, AKA Woozy Blanks, looked around the cozy space of Alteregos on Gottingen Street and realized it was the perfect spot to bring together HRM’s hip-hop communities through freestyle rap events known as cyphers. With DJ and producer Lindell Smith, an engineer at Centreline Studio in Uniacke Square, the duo’s monthly R.A.W. […]
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ALTEREDegos
Welcome to Extreme Makeover: Cafe Edition, in which inspiring entrepreneur Michelle Strum’s cafe and hostel Alteregos (2193 Gottingen Street, 431-3170) gets a serious facelift. Thanks to some hard work (by an entirely north end crew) the already homey-feeling hangout has become ever more inviting, with a bright and expanded space, a new chef and summer-ready […]
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On the Fringe
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 […]
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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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Cuppa brew
If the new library has a cafe, wouldn’t it be nice if it could have a bar, too? Wishful thinking, we know, but there are spots in the city where you can buy a coffee for one hand and a beer for the other. We took a sip out of the coffee-holding hand (honest) and […]
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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, […]