[Image-1] Say hello to the North End Community Action Committee. The newly-formed group is concerned about the many developments that are changing the landscape of the city’s north end. For around a month now, Kyturera Jones, one of the main organizers, has been facilitating critical dialogue around the current proposals to (yes we’re using […]
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Agricola Street’s Open Mic House shut down by HRM
It’s lights out for Halifax’s humble hideaway for sing-a-longs, impromptu band performances and close-knit shows—at least for the moment. The Open Mic House has run its weekly Monday night open mic from 2539 Agricola Street for the past seven years, but the venue has gone on hiatus after running into a land-use conflict with the […]
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The resiliency of Direction 180
[Image-3] “Morning,” I say to the group of men huddled outside Direction 180 as I walk by. After years in this small city, many of their faces are familiar to me—I note that today is the first time that I’ll ask them how they’re doing. A short man with scruffy grey hair, who is 71 […]
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Stillwell eyes north end for its beer garden
The talk of Stillwell possibly re-opening its beer garden across from the Halifax Common has left the surrounding neighbourhood with mixed feelings. Chris Reynolds, the co-owner of the bar, met at 2223 North Park Street—a proposed location for the Stillwell Beergarden, which spent last summer on the Halifax waterfront—for an informal meeting Sunday afternoon. He […]
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Feel-good fashion coming to Agricola Street
Conscious life, modern style—that’s the tagline of Sarah Andrews’ soon-to-be addition to the north end, SattVa conscious lifestyle boutique. “It’s getting a little bit of a reputation of a yoga boutique, that’s what I’ve been involved with in Halifax but I wouldn’t pigeonhole it as a yoga boutique,” she says of the shop, which will […]
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Plan B has a new plan
Plan B Merchants’ Co-op (2180 Gottingen Street) is opening a cafe as part of its plan to re-organize the shop and stabilize its finances. This week it will begin serving coffee, and over the next month it will roll out its full menu. The grilled cheese, soups and hot mains such as Swedish meatballs and […]
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Halifax’s other health care infrastructure crisis
[Image-1] Rod Wilson calls the building “our Sea King.” The executive director of the North End Community Health Centre says the centre’s home on Gottingen Street is still flying—like the malfunctioning Canadian helicopters—but at the end of its days. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a crash. Two years ago a major roof […]
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Timber Lounge brings axe throwing to Agricola Street
Darren Hudson hit the bullseye when he was delivering some Christmas gifts to a friend on Agricola Street back in December. As he exchanged season’s greetings, the Barrington-based lumberjack (for real, he’s a log-rolling champ and the man behind The Wild Axe Lumberjack AXEperience) mentioned casually that he was looking for a commercial space in […]
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New lease on life for empty Gottingen Street lot
[Image-1] It’s sat empty for years, but there are finally some signs of life from this Gottingen Street lot. The barren location, across the street from the Halifax North Memorial Public Library, is to be the home of a new apartment building planned by Ross Cantwell and other partners of 2300 Gottingen Street Ltd. Cantwell […]
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Tess says goodbye, Chi Bistro says hey
This Monday night, October 26, marks Tess’ final meal. The 5687 Charles Street restaurant announced a week ago that after over six years of serving north end Halifax it’d be changing hands and re-opening with a brand new concept. With owner Kexuan Amy Gong at the helm, Chi Bistro will be a Chinese fusion restaurant […]
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The Carrot co-op to close next week
Gottingen Street’s The Carrot (2063 Gottingen Street)—a community grocer that opened about a year ago, after winning an Aviva Community Fund grant—is closing at the end of next week. The co-op announced the sudden closure in a members’ email sent out this morning, stating: “Unfortunately, we simply do not have sufficient capital to continue operating […]
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Secret to success
“The tried and tested ingredients of food and music are the great cementers of community and relationships,” says Sobaz Benjamin. The executive director of the community group In My Own Voice has been thinking a lot about those key ingredients lately, in planning—along with iMOVe team Kyle Hamilton, MJ Loppie, Delton Colley and Enze Yang; […]
