For six seasons (1997 to 2002), LEXX was the biggest show in town, a sexy science-fiction TV series with an international pedigree (a Canadian co-pro made with British, German and US support) shot in Halifax. Writer/actor/director and LEXX co-creator and head-writer Lex Gigeroff was a big part of the success of the show. Gigeroff died […]
Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar
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Best Chicken Wings
You should have been at Bubba’s for game seven of this year’s Habs/Bruins series. Every single seat was filled; baskets of wings, cups of their dozens of multi-hued sauces and glasses of beer filled every available surface; eyes glued to the dozens of giant flat-screen TVs. Then the Penguins/Lightning’s seventh game started, and it got […]
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Best Place To Watch The Game
You should have been at Bubba’s for game seven of this year’s Habs/Bruins series. Every single seat was filled; baskets of wings, cups of their dozens of multi-hued sauces and glasses of beer filled every available surface; eyes glued to the dozens of giant flat-screen TVs. Then the Penguins/Lightning’s seventh game started, and it got […]
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Bubba’s gets bigger
American Thanksgiving football drew the fans in droves on Thursday night, and many were surprised by what they found at popular sports and wings destination Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar (5650 Spring Garden Road, 405-4344). As Shoptalk reported recently was in the works, Bubba’s has busted through the wall separating its original space from the former […]
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Go Local: Spring Garden
You know this place. It’s the busiest strip of shopping in Atlantic Canada, with plenty in the way of whatever you’re looking for. What might surprise you is in the presence of great restaurants, bars and high-end retailers, both local boutiques and national chains, there are many sales and discounts ongoing, if you know where […]
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World Cup – Hali Style
Yesterday’s highly anticipated match between Euro giants Spain and Germany brought out the best crowds in downtown Halifax I have seen so far for the World Cup. It was a crowd worthy of the biggest game of the tournament. It was considered a ‘final’ in a sense due to the sheer magnitude of the teams […]
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Best Chicken Wings
For the second year running Bubba Ray’s has held the mantle of Best Chicken Wings in Halifax, those delicious fried treats that go so delectably well with big-screen sports and beer. It would be hard to argue the bar, decorated with 30-plus multiple flatsceen monitors, skimps on variety, with 60 wing sauces to choose from […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Place To Watch The Game
For the second year running Bubba Ray’s has held the mantle of Best Chicken Wings in Halifax, those delicious fried treats that go so delectably well with big-screen sports and beer. It would be hard to argue the bar, decorated with 30-plus multiple flatsceen monitors, skimps on variety, with 60 wing sauces to choose from […]
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Cole Harbour still stands following Canada hockey victory
Though Canada’s 3-2 victory over the USA in Olympic Hockey Sunday night created spontaneous outpouring of joy across this land of ours, there was perhaps no better place to be than at Cole Harbour’s premier sportsbar Big Leagues (4 Forest Hills Parkway, 462-2721), where CTV had cameras in position to record the unbridled enthusiasm following […]
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Party like it’s H1N1
Foods that are finger-lickin’ good might not be a first choice these H1N1 days, but the ever-popular wing strip on Spring Garden Road shows no sign of slowing its pace. Bring your friends (and hand sanitizer) to one of these joints for cheap eats. Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Bubba Ray’s is the king of wings […]
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Hockey night in Halifax
Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar You have to raise your beer to this place: There’s a high-def TV in the men’s washroom. Thirty-one other TVs adorn the bar proper, with 20 digital boxes to go around. The kitchen’s open until 1am, so you can order up those wings well into overtime play. 5650 Spring Garden Road, […]
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How to make a Halifax Bucket List
You have one summer left to live. The world ends after Labour Day. Now is the time to do it all, to suck the marrow out of Halifax. Start working on that bucket list. That’s the challenge we put to The Coast’s Twitter and Facebook friends and we received a pile of must-do activities. In […]