Video Difference is holding a too-good-to-be-true sort of contest that you’d be foolish to not do. How’s that for a sell? It goes like this. Open your Hotmail, AOL, whichever your chosen platform for email is and send videodiff@eastlink.ca your name, address, organization name—which can be your office, glee club, auxiliary guild, ultimate frisbee team, […]
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More Morris East
Morris East is heading north. Wayyy north. The popular downtown restaurant will be opening its second location at Nine Mile Circle on the Larry Uteck Boulevard in August. Restaurant owner Jennie Dobbs, who grew up in Bedford, is looking forward to bringing Morris East to one of the fastest growing areas of the province. “We […]
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Mother’s hits the Hydrostone this fall
Mother’s is coming to the Hydrostone (5710 Young Street, the old Tanner Supply building location) this fall. With a successful Turks and Caicos location that specializes in pizza, owner Tyson Wachter thought it was time to bring its locally sourced, comfort food to Halifax.  And by local, the owners really mean local. “We are […]
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Nova Scotia Music Week: Part 1
Nova Scotia Music Week, we are at you! After a three and a half hour drive through some undeniably pretty parts of Nova Scotia—and one stretch of what Tara Thorne was calling “a human centipede of traffic”—we arrived at the Rodd Grand Hotel feeling a little ill from reading on our phones while in the […]
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These Kids Wear Crowns
These Kids Wear Crowns are impossibly young and upbeat and they’re coming to town tonight (Thursday, October 13, 6:45pm, $20, The Pavilion, 5816 Cogswell) to sling their emotional pop. But first, they stop by the Coast’s Rat Room to answer the most pressing questions of the day. Q: Who are you? A: We are These […]
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Back to School Rules with Bad Vibrations and Friends
PIZZA IS NOT FOR SCHOOL adam o’reillywe quite like this poster, it’s like 3-D FRIDAY NIGHT IS LOOKING STACKED. Bad Vibrations, Duzheknew, Quivers, MicroorgansSeahorseFRIDAY September 17$710:30pm *Note – I said this show was on Saturday in the paper. I LIED.
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Get Eclectic
The second installment of CKDU’s monthly dance party Eclectic Avenue is TONIGHT and there will be enough genres present to satisfy all of your friends’ discerning tastes. The station’s DJ Anderoc and DJ Megabrain will do you for reggae and funk respectively, Jenocide will pummel your face with electro beats and Duzheknew provides a sweet […]
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Gonna Walk Down Thru Eclectic Avenue
hey, look, it’s DJ Pizza! CKDU is kicking off a new monthly fundraiser tomorrow night (Wednesday May 5) at the Seahorse called Eclectic Avenue. The first edition is happening tomorrow with DJ Bumpsie, DJ Zack Shave, the First Aid Kit and a “surprise guest” whose name rhymes with Itch Ow Loin. Think about it for […]
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Beer and food
Bob and Doug MacKenzie. Those toque-wearing, Rush-worshiping hosers are arguably the classiest part of the image cultivated by the beer industry. It’s sad, but even though advertising executives may suggest that the entire beer-chugging market is made up of frat boys and gyrating girls, it simply isn’t true. Whether you went for a beer on […]
