Gold Winner Strange Adventures, Dartmouth Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics & Collectibles Bronze Winner Giant Robot Comics Hall of Fame Strange Adventures, Halifax The folks at Strange Adventures refer to the Dartmouth location as a sidekick, or as owner Cal Johnston likes to say, “the plucky younger sibling” to Strange Adventures Halifax, which was […]
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Dartmouth 4-pad named after bank
Surprise! It’s a bank. It was announced today that RBC will dump $1 million over the next decade into Halifax’s Dartmouth four-pad arena. As a result, the facility will now be formally known as the RBC Centre. The bank purchased the right to stick its branding all over municipal property by offering up $100,000 per […]
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Algae a blooming problem in Nova Scotia lakes
The headlines are frequent and ominous. A quick Google search summons warning after warning: satellite images of green spiralling across Lake Erie; health warnings plastered along rivers in Alberta; three dogs in New Brunswick, dead. Halifax is not immune. In August, the municipality issued a blue-green algae warning for two Dartmouth lakes, Banook and Mi’kmaq. […]
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Nothing but good vibes
“A s a young boy people called me Mr. Food,” says Dwayne Green confidently, discussing his role as chef and owner of the newly-opened restaurant, Jamaica Vibes. “By the time I was seven I was making Sunday dinner for the family, and I don’t mean simple things, but complicated dishes like lights”—pork, goat or sheep […]
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Work boots and Blundstones: Development in Dartmouth
When I was a kid, they used to just leave stuff to sit and rot in Dartmouth. It has long been ignored as a treacherous wasteland. King’s Wharf was once a rat-infested paradise for pot smoking, rock-throwing ne’re-do-wells. Shannon Park was the flashlight-tag capitol of the Urbanized Maritimes. Now, the developers and entrepreneurs are filling […]
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Gold Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Silver Winner Look Ho Ho Restaurant Bronze Winner May Garden, Dartmouth Hall of Fame The Great Wall Last year’s retirement of The Great Wall into the Hall of Fame made way for Jean’s Chinese Restaurant—which was long on its tail—to take over the top spot in this category. And owner […]
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Best Comics Store
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Strange Adventures, Halifax Silver Winner Cape & Cowl Comics and Collectibles Bronze Winner Strange Adventures, Dartmouth Editor’s note: With this 2017 Best Comics Store win marking at least 10 golds in a row, Strange Adventures joins the pantheon in the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. The cartoon […]
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First Look: inside The Watch That Ends The Night’s cool Canadiana
“Happiness annihilates time,” wrote Hugh MacLennan in his 1958 novel The Watch That Ends The Night, the namesake of Bethany and Joe Gurba’s new 80-seater restaurant and cocktail bar on the second floor of King’s Wharf in Dartmouth. “It’s the idea time can be cruel and arbitrary, but it feels amazing when it dissolves,” says […]
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Dartmouth haunted house offer virtual scream-ality
A group of entrepreneurs is bringing a new dimension of terror to the traditional haunted house experience this month at Mic Mac Mall. The folks behind Waypoint Gamery—an up-and-coming mirth merchant hoping to dabble in board games, escape rooms and virtual reality rentals—is doing some spooky market outreach with an installation at the Dartmouth mall […]
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Sidecar Goods revs up
Joe and Bethany Gurba are pretty into books. The co-owners of Dartmouth’s coming-soon The Watch That Ends The Night (15 King’s Wharf Place)—a bar and restaurant that nods to the 1958 Hugh MacLennan novel of the same name—even toyed with the idea of selling them from inside the eatery. “It’s basically a restaurant that’s aesthetic […]
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Someone ran over the Sullivan’s Pond geese and people are livid
Police say a driver who ran over the beloved Sullivan’s Pond geese Wednesday evening—killing two of the animals and injuring a third—won’t be facing any charges. The incident occurred just before 6pm at the Prince Albert Road crosswalk near Elliot Street. According to a press release from Halifax Regional Police, one goose died at the […]
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10 urban gardens you need to know
Urban gardens have been sprouting up all around the city in the last several years, as Haligonians become more concerned about where their food comes from and the ethics behind it. Each garden faces its own challenges: Some have long waitlists, some are lacking volunteers and some are struggling with theft. Despite setbacks they’re all […]