Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Common We all know why we love the Public Gardens: great Victorian-era garden, wondrous wildlife, geese, bandstand, cafe, blah, blah, blah. Here’s what we don’t know: lore has it that Griffen Pond is named after Frederick Griffen, who was wrongly executed for a […]
Point Pleasant Park
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk
 We thought about replacing this category with Best Place to Eat Pizza in Your Underwear this year but it didn’t seem to have the same amount of traction. So exercising outside where everyone can see how healthy you are, it is. […]
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Best Place To Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake While a whole whack of you voters decided that Point Pleasant was the best place to run (or secretly avoid running behind a tree) it’s actually the best place to dog watch. This place is like a canine runway, always full of […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Common The Public Gardens is one of those places that makes you feel like anything is possible—everything except walking on the grass. “It’s so beautiful, just make sure you stay on the trails,” warns one voter. “Just beautiful! Wish you could walk on […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook With its maze of trails through the woods and bordering the ocean with its spectacular views, the gold winner Point Pleasant Park is a runner’s delight—and if that’s not enough, Sue Uteck’s unleashed bullmastiff provides added incentive to keep those legs pumping. […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner The Public Gardens Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Halifax Commons “Jolly good!” responds The Public Gardens when we notify it by telegraph that it has won the gold. “I feared I may have let people down with the unfortunate demise of Momma, the goose, so I tried to keep my flora […]
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Arts and recreation
Point Pleasant Park has long been known as a great place to picnic, to go on dates, to break up with someone and to clear your head. This weekend, thanks to the Eyelevel Gallery’s Public Performance Series, it’s also a place to see performance art. The park is no stranger to artistic ventures, from Shakespeare […]
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Searching for the Holy Well
Aimee Brown is looking at our beloved Point Pleasant Park much closer than your average dog-walking, marathon-training, park enthusiast. The interdisciplinary visual artist and research buff has been digging deep into history and “using the park as a little microcosm for performance action” as the artist in residence at the Park’s Gatekeeper’s Lodge since January. […]
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Best Public Space
The Victorian green space remains a gorgeous retreat within the city, from the magnificent wrought iron of the gate at Spring Garden and South Park to the geese, ducks and swans floating through the gentle waterways. Through the summer’s warmer days it’s a popular spot for wedding photos, though we know people who like to […]
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The Bard’s CSI
Good news. If you’re tired of those SVU and CSI summer reruns but really need a fix of blood, sex and madness, Shakespeare by the Sea’s Macbeth is the perfect answer. The production literally drips with blood and crackles with energetic sword fights. Genevieve Steele as Lady Macbeth wields sex as handily as the men […]
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How to have a dog-friendly summer
Jake is 12. His black-lab muzzle has gone grey, his limbs are a little stiff and his hearing isn’t as sharp as in his canine prime. But his master, graphic designer Jamie Sinclair, still takes him regularly to the Halifax Common and Jake loves being out there, where he’s been walked most of his life. […]