Dartmouth Centre councillor Sam Austin sent a letter to The Coast earlier this week in response to writer Melissa Buote’s review of Picnic on March 9. Austin took issue with Buote’s comparison of downtown Dartmouth at night to the old horror movie The Haunting, saying it was an “attempt at a clever analogy taken too […]
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Dîner sans blanc
Started in 1988 in Paris, the fanciest of places, Dîner en Blanc is a dress-coded picnic whose glamourous public location remains a mystery until the night of. Now, people in cities across the world—including Halifax—pay to dress head-to-toe in white and lug their chairs, tablecloths and elegant baskets of food and wine to be part […]
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Assembling a local picnic basket
Sunday August 30 is the Incredible Picnic, the province-wide celebration of local food. At the Halifax location, on the Garrison Grounds, onsite vendors will have samples, but the truly adventuresome will bring their own picnic baskets. You can’t, however, rely on imported picnic staples like watermelon. Fortunately, savvy Maritime entrepreneurs make eating locally easier. Starters […]