Holiday Planner
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Rejected Cineplex holiday trailers
A Holiday DuetTwo best friends, Melody and Harmony, head to the movies on Christmas. One of the girls is too poor to afford a ticket so her BFF grabs her hand and they sneak into the theatre. It’s joyous. MONTAGE: The girls grow apart. Melody gets into college and moves away, becoming a successful businessperson […]
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How to steal Christmas from a Who near you
Christmas is coming, it just can’t be stopped With trappings and trippings and Christmas tree stuff. From Black Friday to Eve, shopping stores in a frenzy Blasting one type of music for two months too many. They want whosists and whatsits, phoneXs and trumpets. Going into Who-debt as tall as Mount Crumpit. Proclaiming that only […]
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10 places that need gifts more than you do
1. The Shoebox ProjectThe Shoebox Project for Shelters began in Toronto in 2011 and the Halifax branch started up the following year. Since then, it’s continued to grow. The idea is to decorate shoeboxes and full them with toiletries and little luxuries women living with low-income or living in shelters can’t always afford. The deadline […]
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Gonna find out who’s noggy or nice: A blind tasting of seven egg nogs
Seven nogs. Many Dixie cups. One completely amateur blind taste test. In the name of holiday imbibing we got to the bottom of the standard egg nog selection and discovered both minor and complex differences in the flavour profiles of the yellow (or supposedly yellow) elixir. The resounding winner? Scotsburn’s classic Holiday Nog. But there […]
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What Christmas means to me
Christmas celebrations and the Christian faith are not exclusive to the western world. Practicing Christians in the Middle East, Africa and India have traditions that don’t centre on egg nog, Santa and shopping. These non-western traditions are widely celebrated, even here in Halifax, yet are rarely considered in the mainstream narrative. Nurse practitioner, poet and […]
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Hack your sub-par holiday treats
Snowballs A strange but wonderful winter-inspired candy, this spongey, coconut rolled mallow ball is a step above the marshmallow Santa, but still basically a blob of pure sugar. Treat hack: Bob one on top of your hot chocolate, slice it up and use it in lieu of tape while you’re gift wrapping or sub it […]
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Give it away now: 10 gift ideas for everyone on your list
For the co-worker who’s always stealing your favourite mug JAW Pottery mug, $38 The Trainyard General Store, 53 Portland Street Sattva Boutique, 2453 Agricola Street For the homesick ex-pat JAMPY baltic birch ornament, $12.50 ($45 for set of 5 designs) jampy.co For the analog lover Keephouse Calendar Tea Towel, $28 Made in the Maritimes, 5527 […]
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Quality Street chocolates, the video breakdown
It was last year around this point in the season that Coasters Stephanie Johns, Tara Thorne and Allison Saunders took their “walk down Quality Street to dissect the residents of the holiday season’s most iconic coffee table treat.” The story they wrote, “The original tin,” became a foil-wrapped flashpoint for debate. This year, our NSCC […]
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Making the case for A Garfield Christmas Special
So you’ve got your typical holiday binge slate—Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty, all the Dunder-Mifflin holiday party episodes of The Office, a month’s worth of Simpsons Christmas (“Shove this up your stocking!”) and splicing together various movies from their multiple cable viewings. And Garfield the Cat, that greedy, pasta-loving, lazy-yet-innovative feline, isn’t really having a moment […]
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Homesick for the holidays
I’m sitting in my room, a sheet of yellow paper resting on my lap with the list of things I need to pack before I go home to Nigeria. I can hear my roommate in her own room, conversing softly in Japanese with her friend over Skype. Unlike me, she won’t be going home for […]