Grills For Good Tuesday, June 4 Good Robot Brewing, 2736 Robie Street 5:30-9:30pm, $55, eventbrite.ca Everyone knows #BeingHungrySucks, but for Mark Brand and the team behind Vancouver’s A Better Life Foundation it’s more than a hashtag, it’s a call to action: One repeatedly answered through initiatives to help people build upward mobility through increased food […]
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Chips are The Villain’s Theatre’s bag
Black Tie Chip Night Fri, Jan 19, 8-10pm Atlantic Beer Institute, 1496 Lower Water Street $20/$30 You might think you love chips, but The Villain’s Theatre’s artistic producer Colleen MacIsaac and artistic director, Dan Brayr, can probably out-do you. The self-described “chip connoisseurs” have learned a thing or two about the salty snack from the […]
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Friendly Divas wants to buy 500 Diva Cups before 2018
For low-income women in HRM, paying bills often takes priority. Rent, heat and groceries take precedence over hygiene products like shampoo, razors and menstrual products. It’s not ideal, but it’s necessary. When Haligonians donate to community groups, they often don’t think of those items either. “We buy the soup, and the boxed mac and cheese, […]
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Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Spring cleaning brings hope of decluttering to homes everywhere, but all that mess has to go somewhere. Enter Eyelevel Gallery. The uniquely site-less organization is turning trash into treasure with an indoor yard sale cheekily called Kitchen Sink. Eyelevel’s Emily Lawrence says that the goal is to foster a family friendly weekend that can be […]
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How to hit play like The Hitman
Bret “The Hitman” Hart, the Alberta-born pro wrestler and survivor of a major stroke, is a big fan of the March of Dimes charity. So much that he became the face of MoD’s Stroke Recovery Canada program, or as we like to call it, the Hart & Stroke Foundation. The Hitman is in Halifax for […]
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The EAC’s perfect plates
It’s going to be a Perfect World on Sunday. No, Kevin Costner hasn’t escaped from prison. On Sunday, the Ecology Action Centre is hosting its signature annual fundraiser. “As environmentalists, we are idealists,” says Joanna Bull, the EAC’s volunteer and events coordinator. “We’re trying to make the world better; we’re trying to create a more […]
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A singing send-off for Simon Abbott
In 2011, Simon Abbott left his home in Quebec for what he thought was a three-month visit to Halifax. Only now, five years later, is Abbott saying farewell to Nova Scotia. The 27-year-old director of the Phoenix Community Choir is heading out in August on a bicycle trip from British Columbia to Patagonia, with the […]
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Songs to celebrate the life and music of Jay Smith
While on tour with Matt Mays in Edmonton, struggling with depression and addictions, Cape Breton songwriter and legendary Rock Ranger James ‘Jay’ Smith took his own life on March 27, 2013. Musical communities across Canada collectively mourned the loss of one of Nova Scotia’s greatest rock musicians, known as the lead of Sydney’s Rock Ranger, as […]
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The Carleton Music Bar & Grill Needs Your Help
The Carleton Music Bar & Grill needs your help. For years, the elegant Argyle Street venue owned by Mike Campbell has been the setting for some of the most memorable and intimate shows. With a delectable menu, expert bartending, that beautiful patio, attentive sound engineers and the best audio system in Halifax, it’s been a staple […]
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A little Black Sabbath for a friend
Last month, Jim Meade, the bouncer and doorman of Gus’ Pub & Grill, suffered a stroke that’ll keep him off work for awhile. As he recovers, Gus’ is hosting the Black Sabbath Jim Benefit Bonanza on Saturday night—13 bands covering songs from the British gods of dark metal—to help alleviate Meade’s financial costs like rent […]
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Go for the Silver and Gold at Eyelevel’s glam annual bash.
Eyelevel Gallery, the Halifax art and community space since 1974, is hosting its Silver and Gold party on Thursday, a fundraiser at Pacifico. With a silent art auction, a gin-based Eyelevel cocktail special, the dance energy of DJ Mod Lewis (AKA Kate Walchuk) and MC David Dahms, Eyelevel’s director Katie Belcher says “it’s going to […]
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Free Gelato Day is back and as cool as ever
The best things in life are free, and the best foods in life are gelato. So, Humani-T Cafe (5755 Young Street and 1451 South Park Street) probably had you at Free Gelato Day, the third annual fundraiser and positivity dose hosted by both locations of the coffee shop. “When we first opened the cafe, we […]