Eldon Turner grew up in Happy Adventure, Newfoundland, a small village where everyone was poor, but nobody went without. “If somebody had a turkey, we all had a turkey,” Turner says. “I didn’t realize that we were all poor, because it didn’t seem to matter. There is nothing in this world I would change about […]
Sackville
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Best Furniture Store
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Attica Furnishings Silver Winner Wheaton’s, Sackville Bronze Winner Project 9 Editor’s note: With its 2017 Best Furniture Store win marking at least 10 golds in a row, Attica joins the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Suzanne Saul has a manifesto for Attica, the furniture store she started […]
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Kaiser’s, king of subs
Nostalgia is a force of nature. It can come in a lightning flash and turn into a whirlwind of sentimentality or a tidal wave of longing or regret. It can’t be manufactured in irony or kitsch lest you wind up with a pair of ruby slippers that do nothing but remind you of the home […]
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SappyFest is a small, sweet world
Rolling into SappyFest on Friday afternoon, my heart swelled. The fest is one of Atlantic Canada’s most anticipated of the year, and it fills Sackville, New Brunswick’s main drag with music of all genres for a long weekend, this year taking place from July 29-31. The town’s small size—and its lovely inhabitants—are part of what […]
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Playing the Field: Lots of fun on Shotgun Jimmie’s new album
After a long winter in Brandon, Manitoba, Polaris Prize-nominated rock ‘n’ roller Shotgun Jimmie (Jim Kilpatrick) is back on tour with his new album Field of Trampolines. Produced by Joel Plaskett at his Dartmouth studio New Scotland Yard over four jam-packed days last August, it’s Jimmie’s most fun and upbeat record to date, and the positive vibes are […]
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New ink for Sackville
Get ready to get inked, Sackville! New tattoo parlor Sienna’s Ink— home to Tatu JJ, the shops master tattoo artist—has set up shop at 73 Sackville Drive and is ready for business. JJ has over 18 years of tattoo experience under his belt and is ready to show Sackville what he can do. “I first […]
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I Love You, Shotgun Jimmie
Here’s a secret – I don’t really like music videos, in the traditional sense. I’m usually of the view that unless Chris Cunningham has directed it, it’s boring. But sometimes a video comes along that ideally reflects the personality of the musician, their general vibe, and kind of alludes to the meaning of the song […]
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Sappy Preamble:
What else could you possibly be doing aside from seeing Charles Bradley in Sackville, New Brunny?
Not much, really.
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Sappyfest Day Two
We woke on day two of Sappyfest to a pleasant surprise, the rain had passed and the sun was out in full force. We hung up our soaked sleeping bags to dry and then cruised down to Bridge St. to see what was shakin’. Saturday at Sappy features a world-class zine fair and a craft […]
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Sappyfest Day One
After stocking up the car with weenie supplies we took the Let’s Get Baked mobile (our friends corolla) to the beautiful, Sackville New Brunswick. By 5:00pm the town was quickly becoming a dude central, old friends from across the country pitchin tents and preparing for weekend of unparalleled good vibes. Good vibes in the tent. […]
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Targeting Shotgun Jimmie
If the man, also known as Jim Kilpatrick, says he paddled part of the way in a canoe to play a festival in River Valley (between North Bay and Sudbury in northeastern Ontario), one would believe him. He’s that kind of guy: equally committed, comical, resourceful, sincere. “It was this outdoor stage, like a log […]
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Bogs and frogs lose as suburbia expands
In HRM’s vanishing wildlands, excavators rumble relentlessly across scarred landscapes. The destruction of natural habitat in and around HRM’s sprawling suburbs is so routine it’s rarely even newsworthy. Yet once in a blue moon, a determined citizen can make a big difference. On the weekend of June 6, Sackville resident Marilyn Challis spotted one of […]
