Social media was buzzing with well wishes and shopping nostalgia yesterday when quirky lifestyle store Carbonstok (1235 Barrington Street) tweeted out a release stating that it’d be liquidating its inventory, and closing up shop. After nearly five years of making its patrons chuckle and crave a home makeover, Gordon Stevens made the tough choice to […]
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Paint the town red, white and local
The Uncommon Group is dousing the Black Friday spirit in red and white. In celebration of buying local it’s announced that tomorrow, the day of Black Friday bargain bonanza in the US, all Uncommon shops will have a whole whack of deals. They’re call it Red, White and Local Friday. Uncommon Kids offers 75 percent […]
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Best Eco-conscious Store
Gold Winner P’lovers Silver Winner Mountain Equipment Co-op Bronze Winner Carbonstok P’lovers was created by Ann Caverzan and Liz Crocker in 1992, making this their 20th anniversary. Partially in celebration, they moved the store from its long-time Park Lane Mall location south a block to the Trillium building on South Park Street. “We’re completely thrilled […]
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All-Ways-Us goes into Carbonstok
All-Ways-Us—a social enterprise making all natural products like soap and candles, and providing work opportunities to people with disabilities—is the second pop-up store underway at Carbonstok (1235 Barrington Street). “We opened ‘our doors’ December 1 and will be there only until Christmas,” explains All-Ways-Us’s Trina Tucker. The pop-up store is an initiative of the CarbonAccelerator […]
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Quarrelsome Yeti opens Pop-Up Store at Carbonstok
This Thursday evening, November 17 from 6pm to 8pm is the Grand Opening of Carbonstok‘s (1235 Barrington Street, 404-7288) first Pop-Up Boutique. Geordan Moore (aka The Quarrelsome Yeti) is a Halifax-based artist and Illustrator who studied graphic design at NSCAD, produces drawings, paintings and prints in a shared studio in Dartmouth. His work can be […]
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Best Eco-conscious Store
Gold Winner P’lovers Silver Winner Carbonstok Bronze Winner Mountain Equipment Co-op P’lovers’ Park Lane store has a simple recipe for success that seems to have struck a bell with Hali sensibilities: enviro-friendly products like reusable diapers, locally and home made products like clothing and soap, eco sensitive books, etc. The name, incidentally, refers to both […]
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Green clean
1. P’Lovers Park Lane Mall, 5657 Spring Garden Road Citra Solv Concentrate $12.95/$9.95 A versatile citrus cleaner with a “a sweet, juicy and delightfully effervescent scent” that you can dilute for all-purpose cleaning or use at full-strength for the tough stains around the house. A 256ml bottle is $12.95, or a pre-diluted spray bottle is […]
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Best Eco-conscious Store
Did you know that P’lovers’ name is inspired both by the Piping Plover and as a contraction of “Planet Lover?” The store has served as an example to many, being socially and environmentally conscious before it was cool and trendy. Put simply, as they do on their website, “By modifying our lifestyles, using our purchasing […]
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Keep the homefries hopping
1. Karyn McCombe Belgian pendant light, $360, Bellissimo, 2743 Agricola Street, 423-6014. 2. Assorted Umbra clocks, various prices, Attica, 1566 Barrington Street, 423-2557. 3. Vintage Fire-King mugs, various prices, Finer Things. 4. Bodum toaster, $99, Cucina Moderna, Sunnyside Mall, 835-9560, 1535 Dresden Row, 423-9562. 5. Recycled flip-flop welcome mat, $39.95-$59.95, P’Lovers, Park Lane Mall, 422-6060. […]
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Best New Store
Oh, the weeping with joy that was heard around the city when this mammoth international fashion outlet arrived. Next to Ikea, we can’t think of another business so desired here in town. Interesting coincidence that they were both founded in Sweden. Silver: Morrigan LeFay’s Mystical Gifts Bronze: Carbonstok
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Best Eco-conscious Store
So, you wanna buy a gift for your special someone over the holidays and you’re concerned about the environment. How about fair trade Christmas ornaments from Peru? P’lovers has gourds, silk elephants and cotton sheep. How about Canadian-made clothing? Or something from the popular Green Pan line? Or maybe you need to pick up some […]
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Thinking creatively: TEDx Halifax and 4 Days Thinking Forward
Multidisciplinary design firm Breakhouse Inc., the innovators who brought the popular Pecha Kucha nights to Halifax, together with Envision Halifax, is hosting 4 Days Thinking Forward Halifax, from October 21-24, “an open ‘unconference’ of community conversations on the power of design to reshape economies, improve public services and enhance our quality of life.” All activities […]