Leather wallet, Victoria Brumwell Your hard-earned cash will seem much more valuable crammed in one of these hand-painted wallets, made using up-cycled scraps of 100 percent leather. Find Brumwell’s creations at Big Pony’s Holidze pop-up on December 13 (Art Bar,1873 Granville Street, 5-10pm). $30 Oland ornament, Jana Wicha If your pal’s Christmas tree is looking […]
Oland Brewery
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Oland’s bottle debacle
If there’s a hoarded pile of empty two-fours in your basement doing nothing but collecting dust and smelling like must, listen up: the Oland Brewery needs you. It’s not a complete crisis (“We’re not going to run out of beer,” assures Labatt Breweries of Canada’s Wade Keller) but the Oland bottle shortage is an interesting […]
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Oland Brewery open house
Head up to The Oland Brewery (3055 Agricola Street) in the north end today between 4pm and 8pm for a tour of the brewery and a barbeque. Tours go every hour. Besides getting a better sense of what happens at a working brewery, the company is also planning to focus on its environmental initiatives, from […]
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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 […]