Gold Winner Robyn Ingraham, Sailor Bup’s Barbershop Silver Winner Phat Luong, Phat’s Barber Shop Bronze Winner Jeremy Naugler, Oddfellows Barbershop “I guess what I’ve been working towards with my career is giving people an experience more than service—making them comfortable, training myself with new ways to do haircuts so they grow out properly so they […]
Oddfellows Barbershop
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Best Barbershop
Gold Winner Phat’s Barber Shop Silver Winner Sailor Bup’s Barbershop, downtown Bronze Winner Oddfellows Barbershop On Saturday mornings, the lineup at Phat’s Barber Shop often spills out the door. Amid the rise in beard-butter-bro-barbers, Phat’s has managed to keep things simple. Each evening the place gets swept, sometimes a day’s work catches the wind and […]
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Best Barber
Gold Winner Phat Luong, Phat’s Barbershop Silver Winner Jeremy Naugler, Oddfellows Barbershop Bronze Winner Ashley Hawkes, Lucky Cat Barbershop Try to avoid a conversation once you walk into Phat Luong’s barbershop. You’re in for a fight if you don’t like talking. Luong dances a fine line between hairstylist, stand-up comic, therapist and life coach. His […]
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Best Barbershop
Gold Winner Sailor Bup’s Barbershop, downtown Silver Winner Scallywags Barbershop Bronze Winner Oddfellows Barbershop “It means we’re still relevant,” owner Mark Peyton says of Sailor Bup’s Barbershop’s latest gold win. In addition to being a BOH voter favourite, the shop is also home to the two runner-ups for Best Barber, Jeremy Naugler and Robyn Ingraham. […]
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Best Barber
Gold Winner Jeremy Naugler, Sailor Bup’s Barbershop Silver Winner Joel Martell, Oddfellows Barbershop Bronze Winner Jesse Resk, Noreast Barber For Jeremy Naugler, it’s more than “just a haircut—sometimes it’s a chance to escape all the stress people have in their life.” An escape, yes, but also a chance to laugh, as both Naugler and Sailor […]
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Best Barbershop
Gold Winner Sailor Bup’s Barbershop, Halifax Silver Winner Oddfellows Barbershop Bronze Winner Saint Lou’s Gentlemen’s Barbershop For Jeremy Naugler, it’s more than “just a haircut—sometimes it’s a chance to escape all the stress people have in their life.” An escape, yes, but also a chance to laugh, as both Naugler and Sailor Bup’s owner, Mark […]
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Check out all this cool shit at Pro Skates this weekend
Haayy, you hear the new Lil Wayne mixtape yet? Man, Wayne has gone off. That Hotline Bling remix? lol. Anyway, it’s Friday and our dogs down at Pro Skates have some sweet shit lined up this weekend, if you feel like chilling out and buying nice stuff, which you probably should. TONIGHT At 8:30pm, catch the screening of Bath […]
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Best Barber
Gold Winner Joel Martell, Oddfellows Barbershop Silver Winner Rob Oxner, Saint Lou’s Gentlemen’s Barbershop Bronze Winner Phat Luong, Phat’s Barber Shop “Honestly, when I opened the shop, winning Best Barber in Halifax was in my three-year business plan,” says Joel Martell. “And I hit it on the first year, so you can imagine how stoked […]
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Best Barbershop
Gold Winner Sailor Bup’s Barbershop, Halifax Silver Winner Oddfellows Barbershop Bronze Winner Saint Lou’s Gentlemen’s Barbershop Just below the Halifax Citadel, there’s an old-timey barbershop that offers old-fashioned razor cuts and sleek hair fashions in a 137-year-old room. But since Sailor Bup’s won Best Barbershop, and since owner Mark Peyton nabbed Best Barber last year, […]
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Halifax’s pinball wizards
“It all started with a wrestling belt,” says Danny Baldwin, owner of Halifax Vintage Arcade in his corner store, Daily Sweets (2860 Oxford Street). Two years ago, he traded his WWF belt on Kijiji for a videogame, which turned into a pinball machine, which turned into a small business. Now he’s one of a few […]
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Oddfellows short film to screen this Friday
Hold up, there’s a pinball machine, a puggle, a WWE wrestling belt, cult movie references and skateboarding? Halifax filmmaker Dave Hung has tapped into my deepest fantasies with his new short, Oddfellows, which screens this Friday at the Oddfellows premiere party at Pro Skates (6451 Quinpool Road). Produced by Our Dynasty, Our Destiny (ODOD), the […]