Hot Summer Guide

Summer is made for fancy iced drinks, picnics, sunburns and fresh music. This season’s hot new releases cover the entire musical gamut, everything from those impromptu dance parties to the quintessential folk album best accompanied by marshmallows and a campfire. June 22 brings the Chemical Brothers’ album Further, Danzig’s Deth Red Sabaoth, Cyndi Lauper’s Memphis […]

Choose a month: [ June | July | August ] June 25 Buffy Sainte-Marie There’s not much Buffy Sainte-Marie can’t do. As a pioneer, Sainte-Marie has crafted 18 albums, won an Oscar for her song “Up Where We Belong,��� spent five years on Sesame Street, helped found the music of aboriginal Canada Juno awards category, […]

For some, summer breaks are a time of ambition and self-improvement. We all know people who embark on cleanses and yoga regimens to fit into their bathing suits, while others strive for that perfect low-fat summer salad recipe, laden with revitalizing vegetables. And then there are those people who vow to read massive, life-changing, cerebrum-expanding […]

I remained undaunted by every dense, dreary summer reading goal I set for myself until the summer I decided to read Gravity’s Rainbow and gave up after four pages; try checking out some slightly shorter recent and upcoming Canadian releases instead. Local writer Anne Emery’s Children in the Morning (ECW) is a Halifax murder mystery […]

Choose a month: [ June | July | August | September ] June 9-26 Dartmouth Players presents The Cover of Life It’s 1943 and a hard-hitting correspondent heads to Louisiana to discover the real story behind a seemingly picture-perfect family that has seen three of its young men sent overseas. Expect fireworks aplenty from the […]

Ann Pocket (Jewellery Designer) I work from home as a studio jeweller and as operations administrator for Imagine Bloomfield and for PAL Halifax, so when the sun is warm I look forward to getting out of the house for lunch, sitting on the Citadel with my dog, Pichu, and eating a sandwich-to-go from jane’s next […]

Erin Costelo (Musician) Scallop burger at Fran’s. It is a chip-truck-type place. Located on Wentworth Street in Dartmouth, I think. Means summer has arrived!

Jennie Dobbs (Restaurateur) I just picked up my CSA box and was oh-so-happy to find a pint of local strawberries. I’ve been dreaming about making my grandmother’s strawberry shortcake ever since it started feeling like summer. So that’s what I’ll be making, with the freshest, ripest Nova Scotia strawberries I can find.