The new year brings new digs for Home Grown Organic Foods (492-1412) , which’ll move its way popular fruit and vegetable delivery service and general store over the holidays, leaving its longtime home on Allan Street for 2310 Gottingen Street. “We’ve grown out of this barn,” says Geordie Ouchterlony, who bought the century-and-a-half old Gottingen […]
North End
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jane’s on the Gottingen
Keep your eyes on 2053 Gottingen Street. It’s officially home to a new location of jane’s next door, the little sister and current next door neighbour of Jane Wright‘s jane’s on the common, which will close up shop in mere weeks. The to-go coffee and snacks shop, which is pretty much identical to its predecessor […]
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New Sobeys development an atrocity
I had my first glimpse of the new Sobeys development planned for north end Halifax in a recent newspaper feature. At first I thought it might have been inspired by Soviet East German architecture, but then I thought perhaps it might have been a project of a kindergarten class. Whatever the source of the inspiration, […]
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Bloomfield plan to go ahead
Halifax council Tuesday night unanimously adopted the Bloomfield Master Plan, which outlines the rebuilding of the oft-contested Bloomfield Centre. The Bloomfield Centre consists of three former school buildings which, over time, have come to be occupied a variety of community, arts and non-profit groups. Citing increased maintenance costs, several years ago the city started evicting […]
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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 […]
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Yo artists! Time to Go North!
The registration deadline for Go North! Studio & Gallery Tour is Friday, August 7. If you want to participate by showing your studio, creating a site-specific installation or exhibition on September 12, do it now. Registration is free and the forms are available at Eyelevel Gallery (2063 Gottingen) or on the website, gonorthhalifax.com. Also, the organizing committee is looking for your bizarro north end treaures to sell at a fundraising auction. If you have something appropriate, send an email to gonorthtour@gmail.com with a history of the object and the location of where it was found, by August 13.
