Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake The first-ever Best of Halifax poll—then known as “The good, the bad and the ugly”—didn’t have a Best Newsstand/Magazine Store category. The next two Best ofs, in 1996 and 1997, saw Daily […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake Newsstands are a dying business in North America—you’ll be hard-pressed to find one at all, even in Manhattan—but Halifax’s Atlantic News, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last month, continues run strong. The secret to its success? “Halifax […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner Chapters, Bayers Lake Print media is alive and well on the corner of Queen and Morris Streets! With walls of every friggin’ magazine you could possibly need and the capacity to print over 2,000 newspapers from across the planet, the […]
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Best Newsstand / Magazine Store
Gold Winner Atlantic News Silver Winner Blowers Street Paper Chase Newsstand & Cafe Bronze Winner The Daily Grind “Tons of local, national and international magazines, and a staff that is friendly without being too annoying,” comments a reader. And by tons, they mean a selection in the thousands. It’s also open late, for when you […]
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Seven under $7
$4.99: Pulled Pork Sandwich Boneheads BBQ 1014 Barrington street, 407-4100 “Succulicious,” that’s the only way staff at Boneheads BBQ could describe their pulled pork sandwich in one word. The fresh Kaiser bun is paired with a heaping pile of slow-cooked pork. The meat, which cooks for an average of eight to 10 hours, is smothered […]
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Everywhere’s a sign
Local artist Scott Saunders was walking down a street in Halifax when he passed a man with a sign that read “Will accept verbal abuse for spare change.” Saunders did his best to ignore the man and kept walking. “When I got 15 feet down the street I thought, ‘What a curious thing that was.’ […]
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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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Food for thinking
With an absurd amount of places to dine out in Halifax, the best spot of all to eat is actually right in your kitchen. But with assignments, social life and dating, it’s all too easy to get fast or processed foods instead. It isn’t easy balancing a student’s hectic lifestyle with their body’s needs and […]