The heart of downtown is in this bike store, where you can pick up a new or reconditioned bicycle for $100 and up. With a 90-day warranty you can put the thing through its paces and bring it back if it doesn’t meet your standards. The store accepts donations of bike parts, and as their […]
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Best Audio Store
Everyone knows that Peak Audio is where you go for your high-end audio systems. These days a chunk of their business is concerned with home-automation. We’re talking recessed panels hiding controls for everything from lights to audio-visual equipment to hot tubs. Drop by their showroom for a demo and turn your home into a sexy […]
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Best Visual Artist
A locally based designer, White loves “all things colourful, retro and metal” and has worked with Toyota, VH1 Latin America, MTV, Wired magazine and Armada Skis. He’s currently working with Reckless Love, a hard rock band from Finland, developing their identity and CD design for their upcoming album on Universal, and has also been approached […]
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Best Male Theatre Actor
After a lot of moving around, Webb has decided to stay put in Halifax. “I love it here. I love performing and creating. Why the hell would anyone want to be anywhere else?” The multi-talented creative hypheante won a 2008 Merritt Award for playing Iago at Shakespeare By The Sea. He also wrote and produced […]
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Best Female Theatre Actor
In the past twelve months LeBlanc-Crawford has seen her theatre company Zuppa put on the widely adored Poor Boy, a short play called Very Secret Ceremony and she co-directed (with Alex McLean and Ben Stone) The Fairy of The Lake at Dalhousie’s Theatre Department. In 2010, expect to see a new work from Zuppa tentatively […]
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Best Movie Theatre
Whatever complaints Halifax cinemagoers might have about the local monopoly enjoyed by Empire Theatres—including the peculiar choices to restrict certain movies to the suburban screens instead of bringing them downtown—that Empire’s kept the Oxford going deserves a lot of kudos. The last single-screen cinema in the area, the Oxford has retained the quality of a […]
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Best Website
If a hunk of code could blush, it would. We very much appreciate that people like the website. It went through a rebirth early in 2009 and came out bigger and better, with more information and plenty of places for readers to comment on everything from our stories to local businesses and restaurants. And it’s […]
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Best Short Film
Jason Shipley’s Blood Shed is a gory horror/comedy short film that has played in festivals around the world. An abridged list: Adelaide, Huntington Beach, Varazdin, Lisbon, Barcelona, Cleveland and Strasbourg. It will finally screen here in January with Peter Jackson’s Dead/Alive as part of the reborn Thrillema genre cinema program. Watch The Coast for more […]
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Best Radio Show
“Being vital and interesting and of-the-day is what we’re all about,” says Diane Paquette, producer of Radio One’s*Information Morning,* hosted by Don Connolly and Elizabeth Logan. “We explore the topics people want to hear about.” That includes hard news stories of interest to both Haligonians and the rest of the province, as Information Morning is […]
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Best Newspaper Writer
“It’s been a crazy year,” says the ever-popular arts and entertainment reporter for the Chronicle-Herald. He rattles off a list of festivals and shows he enjoyed—In The Dead of Winter, Stanfest (“to see Sarah Harmer come out of hibernation”)—movies—Inglourious Basterds, District 9 (“It was a good year for genre movies”)—and indie releases—York Redoubt, The Got […]
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Best Filmmaker
Jason Eisener Eisener is armed and ready, with the full-length Hobo With A Shotgun, set to shoot in April. “Starting to realize this is actually really happening, which can make me very nervous at times,” he writes in an email. “But we’re shooting it here in Dartmouth and Halifax and the tremendous support of my […]
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Best Film
Given the huge Canadian success of the first TPB movie, it makes all sorts of sense that a sequel would be in cinemas. You have to give them credit, Countdown to Liquor Day is one of the best sequel titles of all time, and any movie that unleashes John Dunsworth is OK by us. His […]