In honour of the Premier Basketball League’s All-Star weekend at the Metro Centre, here are some slam dunk beverages—one kind of booze, inside another kind of booze, for a perfect combo of grace and taste. Nothing but net. PBL All-Star weekend, May 1-2, Halifax Metro Centre, Brunswick at Duke Streets, $20/$15 ($25 weekend pass), 451-1221, […]
Club 1668
Posted inArts + Music
Part of the Weekend Never Dies
i love fuck montreal’s photos. LOVE THEM. How are you all doing? Laughed out/drunked out from last night’s various comedy/music shenanigans? If you’re like me, this weekend was the most magical thing ever and you don’t want it to stop just because of things like “dates” and “work”, so why not stretch out the good […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
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. […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
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. […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
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 […]
Posted inArts + Music
Fresh live music spaces
The Company House 2202 Gottingen Street, 404-3050 This singer-songwriter venue opened its doors at the end of January. Between musician bookings and Retro at the CoHo with DJ Motlette, owner Mary Ann Daye says it’s been a busy seven months. Keep an eye out for Amelia Curran, Kev Corbett, NQ Arbuckle and Justin Rutledge this […]