Prairie oyster This North American cure is made of tomato juice, Worcester sauce, black pepper and Tabasco sauce, topped with a raw egg yolk. As with real oysters, just swallow—don’t look or chew. Tripe soup A common cure in Romania, Turkey and Mexico, tripe (AKA cow’s stomach) soup is made by boiling the edible offal […]
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Where the eastern goths are
A strange scene is unfolding in a small dark room adjacent to a downtown Chinese buffet: Fortune tellers, clowns, scantily clad zombie girls, mimes and the devil himself dance happily together and swig cheap beer. Fluorescent lights reflect off skin wrapped in tight latex and leather, while eardrums absorb trance, EBM, goth-rock and industrial music. […]
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Local poetry: For letter or for verse
When it comes to poetry, Halifax slams. And poetry is cool. Really. Don’t think so? Got the structured verse of a long dead white guy rattling your cranium? Been rejected by a now out-of-print literary journal? Whatever might have scared you off poetry, you’re in Halifax now. Halifax is one poetic town. Poetry rings through […]
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Hidden Halifax
Almon Billiards and Social Club 6050 Almon Street, 454-7665 Turn down an alley on Almon Street and with any luck you’ll run into the right kind of outlaws and scofflaws. “Either you know where it is or you don’t,” remarks Dick, an Almon Billards’s bartender, with raised-eyebrow sarcasm on how to find the club. Behind […]
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Become a Haligonian picture puzzle
View Halifax Scavenger map in a larger map Hints Map: Get ye to the highlighted patches of blue; therein will be pointing to a clue for you! 1.This is the start of something, but it’s long gone. 2. If you ask at night, the caged mariner will lead you to Peter Kelly. 3. After six […]
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Important Phone Numbers
Acadian Bus Lines 800-567-5151 Alcoholics Anonymous 461-1119 Bin doctor 462-7468 Clean Nova Scotia 420-3474 The Coast 422-6278 Crime Stoppers 800-222-8477 Dalhousie Student Union 494-1106 Ecology Action Centre 429-2202 Environment Canada Weather 426-9090 Gambling Problem Help Line 888-347-8888 Food Bank Metro 457-1900 Halifax Regional Library reference desk, Spring Garden branch 490-5710 Halifax Stanfield International Airport 873-4422 […]
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The Hangover Guide
One sunny November morning in fourth year I woke up and I could see. For the first time since elementary school I could make out details on the far walls of my room. Before I could begin to understand or enjoy this newfound gift of sight, my brain was clamped in a hot vice and […]
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I love this karaoke town
Like everything else in life, a good bar crowd has several sub-categories. You have the determined drunks, the social smokers, the bored-as-shit designated-driver significant others, the pickup artists and the large dudes who speak exclusively in outdoor voices. There is a special subsection of this party category that is often overlooked, however: the karaoke singers. […]
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Fitness fundamentals
Amongst the many mandatory fees students pay at university, athletic fees are but one. And most students don’t even use the facilities. Yet this perk should be a big part of every student’s life. If the idea of improving your self-confidence, getting stronger, increasing endurance, looking more toned or getting ripped sounds appealing, then you […]
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NSCAD fashions a couture vert
In late April, as the wind blew cold rain in swirls and angular patterns across Granville Mall, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design professor Gary Markle playfully stalked the runway at NSCAD’s Wearable Art Show. He wore nothing but boxers, mukluks and a mask (complete with bunny ears) made out of old shoes, an […]
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What you missed this summer
DARRELL DEXTER On June 9 the NDP won its first majority in Nova Scotia ever and RodMac was sent packing. While we’ve considered this to be good news, a Deloitte consultants’ report is suggesting that the province will be in the hole to the tune of $1.3 billion in three years. What to do, what […]
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Pimp my dorm room
Pictured above is a typical Dalhousie Howe Hall single dorm room. Empty, it’s perfect for minimalist psychopaths. But you deserve a room with personality that won’t scare the neighbours. So how and where do you start? We asked Suzanne Saul, co-owner of Attica Furnishings (1566 Barrington Street, 423-2557), to give us a few design guidelines, […]
