Ugh, Burnside. If Dartmouth’s industrial park were to have a slogan, it could easily be something along the lines of “Want to feel like a rat in a maze? Come to Burnside!” A labyrinth of streets walled with a series of squat warehouses and industrial-commercial buildings that have all the charm of a knocked-over stack […]
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Monday’s 5 things you need to know
1 Just in time for those rides to the lake, bus tickets are finally back on brand. The bright-orange tickets of Metro Transit’s past have been replaced by the above blue-and-gold tokens, which neatly match the recently rechristened logos of both Halifax Transit and Halifax the city. Spokesperson Tiffany Chase says the tickets were redesigned […]
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Tuesday’s rundown: 9 things you need to know in Halifax today
1Needing this so badly on this Tuesday-feels-like-Monday-tomorrow-can’t-be-Wednesday-already. Maybe you do too? When Jerry Met Kendrick. 2Our question of the day comes from commenter mira230, who wonders if anyone out there remembers BB King playing Queen Elizabeth High School back in the ‘70s. “I cannot find any record of it online, but it happened. I was […]
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Obladee by Day debuts
The “it’s five o’clock somewhere” sentiment rings true at Obladee (1600 Barrington Street) these days—you no longer have to count down the minutes until 4pm for the doors to open here. After four years in the game, the downtown wine bar decided it was time to make a change, and amping up its menu to […]
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Cheap Eats – Seven Dishes under Seven Dollars
$6.50 – McCoastal breakfast sandwich Coastal Coffee The description of the McCoastal, Coastal’s breakfast sandwich, comes across as tasty but innocuous: two fried eggs, havarti cheese, maple sausage on an English muffin. But the actual physical presence of this delicacy is something else altogether. It is roughly the size of a small human baby. The […]