Joining in the relief efforts for Haiti are a number of local businesses. The Hart & Thistle ( Historic Properties, 1869 Upper Water Street, 407-4278) are giving all proceeds from this Thursday’s Trivia Night (January 21, $10 per participant, with additional donations welcomed) toward Haiti relief. The Loop (1547 Barrington Street, 429-5667) is having a […]
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Breakhouse breaks out
Shoptalk has learned that local design company Breakhouse (1096 Marginal Road, 431-3102) has landed a deal to create a chain of retail outlets for Wind Mobile, a new brand of wireless to be introduced in 2010—including in Atlantic Canada—by Toronto-based Globalive. In operation since 1999, Breakhouse is run by Glen McMinn and Peter Wuensch and […]
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Rwandan history channelled through art
When Rwandan artists Bill “Coco” Ruterana and Jean Yves Masengo sit down to talk about their work, it takes only minutes for Masengo to start finishing Ruterana’s sentences, and Ruterana to finish Masengo’s. The two men met almost 15 years ago, just after the Rwandan genocide. “Artists in Rwanda, you can count them on two […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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Go local on Agricola Street
Stretching down from the north end, Agricola Street is a series of pauses, movements and environments. North of Young is the largely residential energy of the Hydrostone, but points south you’ll encounter the dominating presence of the Oland Brewery (3055 Agricola, 453-1867), then the distinguished formality of the antiques district just around Almon. Further south […]
