Liz Feltham was my Snuffleupagus. Though unlike Big Bird, I was the person who didn’t get to see her. I was sad to learn that she died, succumbing to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis on Monday, October 15. She was living in Victoria with her husband, Mike, and had been blogging about the disease as it progressed. […]
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The fantastic East of Grafton and where to find it
East of Grafton 1580 Argyle Street Tue-Fri 12-3pm & 5:30-10pm Sat 11:30am-3pm & 5:30-11pm Sun 11:30am-10pm East of Grafton probably wishes it was anywhere else, thanks to the nonsensical oversaturation of construction that has basically made Argyle Street the shittiest place to spend time on the peninsula. (“Hold my beer.” —The Waterfront.) We have all […]
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Picnic packs personality
Picnic at Dart 127 Portland Street Tue-Sat 4-10pm Sat-Sun 10:30am-2pm There is a line in the movie The Haunting—the perfect 1963 version, not the terrible one from the ’90s where Owen Wilson is spoilered in a spoiler with a spoiler—that always makes me think of downtown Dartmouth. When Eleanor Lance, the walking goosebump protagonist, arrives […]
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Count on Fresh Twenty One
My mother studied baking and pastry art at NSCC’s Akerley campus. In the late 1980s all of us kids let go of her apron strings, so she took those strings in her own hands, tied them a little tighter and set off to master croissants and cakes, tortes and tuiles. While she was attending NSCC, […]
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A tale of two cities
Gahan House 1869 Upper Water Street, 902-444-3060 Sun-Tue 11am-11pm Wed-Sat 11am-midnight The Gahan House has been in Charlottetown for over 10 years. It’s been in Halifax for over 10 weeks. So why not compare the two? Let me get this out of the way: I find the beer at the Gahan House pretty samey, hoppy […]
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Staggers walks the line
Staggers Pub & Grub 26 Portland Street, 902-406-3661 Tina Turner is rasping her way through one of her hits as we wander into Staggers, a small pub on the Alderney end of Portland Street. It was $7 lunch specials that lured us here. It’s a pretty irresistible price. We sit at a table by windows […]