Voted Best Free Event 2008 in our Best of Halifax readers’ poll, it’s a sure bet the waterfront’s going to be packed from August 6 to 11 for this year’s Halifax International Busker Festival. There’s only one restaurant in plain view of a busker stage (Stayner’s Wharf at Chebucto Landing), and the chances of seeing […]
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Cocktails to watch Mad Men by
Clicking around facebook recently, you may be wondering where the new 1960s-inspired caricature profile pictures are materializing. Fedoras, sheath dresses, slim suits, pocket squares and a martini or cocktail glass in hand—style aficionados are drooling, writers and ad execs are rushing after work to get home to watch it, and you shouldn’t miss it any […]
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Rush to nowhere: 4 places to drink in Dartmouth
We know you’re going. Nic, Nat, Tiff and Chrys are bringing their baby doll faces to Dartmouth for Summer Rush this Saturday, and you just can’t miss them. So instead of inundating Alderney Landing and leaving it lonely afterwards, why don’t you skip that first ferry back and have a drink at one of the […]
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Yo-ho-ho, a pirate cocktail for me!
Weathering a hurricane in the middle of the Caribbean, a pirate watches water rush through the cracks in the hull. A huge cargo of rum, some ginger beer and cases of lime, are crushed, and leak into the salty water. The pirate, resigned to his doom, cries out. The mixture splashes into his mouth. Rum. […]
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Tears for beers as the Midtown’s end nears
[Editor’s note: This story is one of a package of three of Andy Murdoch’s articles selected for Honourable Mention in the Food Writing category of the Association of Alternative Newsweekies’ 2010 awards. See all three here.] The original Midtown tavern is another icon of an important period in our drinking history that is about to […]
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Draught dodging
Fighting city politics and the smoking ban, the Granite brewery chooses to expand without Halifax.