Gold Winner Bearly’s House of Blues & Ribs Silver Winner Menz Bar Bronze Winner Oasis Pub & Eatery If Mimi Andriopoulos is the captain of the unsinkable Bearly’s karaoke ship, the loyal, and always entertaining, choir of regulars are its hard working crew. It’s the combination of all of these people that keeps the ship […]
Oasis Pub & Eatery
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Best Cheap Drinks
On a budget? If there’s anything hampering a good time, it’s worrying about the hole being burnt in your wallet. With no one seemingly able to beat Oasis Pub & Eatery’s mouth-watering prices, it is the place to go. Pints range from $2.75 to $5.25 and pitchers from $10 to $15.75. We’re talking domestic and […]
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Best Karaoke Night
It’s hard to imagine a time when karaoke wasn’t a big part of bar culture, reflected in the continuing success of the American and Canadian Idol shows. Here in Halifax, the name Mimi Andriopoulos is synonymous with karaoke, our own Ryan Seacrest and Ben Mulroney, as he has been the ringmaster at Bearly’s Wednesday night […]
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Mom and Dad Went to a Show
The past few months have heralded a regular Tribute Band Explosion in this fair city. This plus the blazing resurgence of grunge (as dictated by newspapers and designer Charlotte Ronson’s runways full of Doc Martens and flower prints) made us think the existence of a Nirvana tribute band was a foregone conclusion.However, Endless Nameless (comprised […]
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World Cup – Hali Style
Yesterday’s highly anticipated match between Euro giants Spain and Germany brought out the best crowds in downtown Halifax I have seen so far for the World Cup. It was a crowd worthy of the biggest game of the tournament. It was considered a ‘final’ in a sense due to the sheer magnitude of the teams […]
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Best Cheap Drinks
A message to students: With $10 pitchers of beer all day every day, this is the place you need to be to kick back and relax and spend some of that loan money. If you don’t spend at least some of your student loan on beer you’re ignoring a longstanding university tradition and your grades […]
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We’ve got the story morning glory: Liam Gallagher is in Halifax
Bring out the champagne supernova, Liam’s here. Two words: white jeans.
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Cole Harbour still stands following Canada hockey victory
Though Canada’s 3-2 victory over the USA in Olympic Hockey Sunday night created spontaneous outpouring of joy across this land of ours, there was perhaps no better place to be than at Cole Harbour’s premier sportsbar Big Leagues (4 Forest Hills Parkway, 462-2721), where CTV had cameras in position to record the unbridled enthusiasm following […]
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Olympic bar run
Elephant & Castle General manager Jennifer Halpin has extended Elephant & Castle’s happy hour for the Olympic run—what normally ended at 7pm now goes to close. So park yourself in front of E&C’s four flatscreen TVs to watch the games and munch away. Canadian flags dot the bar for those of you concerned with patriotic […]
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Party like it’s H1N1
Foods that are finger-lickin’ good might not be a first choice these H1N1 days, but the ever-popular wing strip on Spring Garden Road shows no sign of slowing its pace. Bring your friends (and hand sanitizer) to one of these joints for cheap eats. Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Bubba Ray’s is the king of wings […]
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Best Karaoke Night
“Most people like songs that were recorded before they were born,” says Karaoke King Mimi Andriopoulos, explaining that good karaoke is synonymous with singing the classics, even though he gets a lot of new songs in stock all the time. And what’s the most popular choice at Bearly’s right now? “Don’t Stop Believing,” the early-’80s […]
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Hockey night in Halifax
Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar You have to raise your beer to this place: There’s a high-def TV in the men’s washroom. Thirty-one other TVs adorn the bar proper, with 20 digital boxes to go around. The kitchen’s open until 1am, so you can order up those wings well into overtime play. 5650 Spring Garden Road, […]