Murray Carter is an amazing person. After living in Japan for half his life, and spending six years as an apprentice there, he became 17th generation Yoshimoto bladesmith. Now, with 26 years experience in the field he’s made over 18,000 (very beautiful) knives, he works out of his own shop, Carter Cutlery in Oregon, he […]
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The Dragons’ Den has love for Hope Blooms
It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood for the amazing crew of community farmers—and budding young entrepreneurs—over at Hope Blooms. The community project, started by North End Community Health’s Jessie Jollymore in 2008, has turned an abandoned chunk of land into a flourishing community garden and greenhouse over the last few years. It’s engaged 40-plus […]
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Ol’ School Donuts revs up
What started as a bit of a joke in the Connolly family has quickly become the beginnings of a brilliant new business—an honest to goodness family business, at that. After a 1977 Calgary Stampede tailgate bus they bought in PEI failed them (it looked good, but needed work), eleventh grader Noah Connolly and his dad […]
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SappyFest VIII: You were perfect
SappyFest 8. This year, they said don’t get your hopes up. But I was so excited to see the wind turbines that, by the time we hit Sackville, New Brunswick, I was using my outside voice in the car. Hopes were rebelliously high for the sweetest, most intimate music festival in Canada. And Sappyfest, the […]
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Halifax Pop Explosion FULL LINE-UP!!!!!!!
halifax brain explosion (sorry, gross) This year’s lineup for Pop Explosion has confirmed what everyone already knows anyway: Music in and around Halifax is really really great right now. Pretty much every local band you love is on this list, rounding out the earlier announcements of heavy-hitters like the Hold Steady, New Pornos and Sloan […]