Here’s some business news to get pumped about, the fresh-faced Mills (5640 Spring Garden Road, 429-6111) announced today that it had acquired Spring Garden and Queen’s ladies’ footwear funhouse Kick Ass Shoes (5475 Spring Garden Road, 444-7527). Lisa Gallivan, one-fourth of Mills’ ownership, says it was a very “natural decision” to take over the already […]
shopping
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Biscuit’s golden tickets
Boxing day at Biscuit General Store (1661 Argyle Street, 425-5436) can get a little crazy, in a good way of course. With a selection of clothes, shoes, accessories and quirky little house wares at a whopping 60 percent off, can you blame people for channelling their inner Veruca Salt? Well, this year the Biscuit team […]
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Go local in the South End
Paper pleasures Before there was the internet, there was Atlantic News (5560 Morris Street, 429-5468), full of newspapers and magazines from around the world. The legendary newsstand remains a destination for your periodical needs—often going directly to the publisher to get titles you’re looking for—and more besides. Co-owner Michele Gerard shows us the new stationery […]
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Go local on Spring Garden Road
Strolling down the most popular shopping district in Atlantic Canada, from Robie down to Brunswick—including side-streets bristling with boutiques—the sheer number of vital businesses provides an embarrassment of riches for Shoptalk. More than anywhere else in our fine city, we slam up against the limitation of space on this page. A street that provides a […]
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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 […]
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They’re back….University students return
We’re all about to get hit. No, not with a hurricane, necessarily—even though we have seen a couple of tropical storms already in August. We’re talking about the storm of the student body, Hurricane Academe. Most businesses in town will be boosted by the sudden increase in the local population, either directly or indirectly. Some […]
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Go local on Agricola Street
Stretching down from the north end, Agricola Street is a series of pauses, movements and environments. North of Young is the largely residential energy of the Hydrostone, but points south you’ll encounter the dominating presence of the Oland Brewery (3055 Agricola, 453-1867), then the distinguished formality of the antiques district just around Almon. Further south […]
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Ants that can shake a picnic
There will be plenty of happy picnic faces, thanks to One Hundred 80 Degrees fire ant salt and pepper shakers ($24.95). Pair them with a set of melamine “I am not a paper plate” washable plates (four for $23.95), and you have the beginnings of an al fresco meal that won’t bite your ankles or […]
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Go local in Bedford
For people confined to peninsular Halifax, the myth of Bedford is one of a strange suburban village in the sky—a commuterville with lovely Basin views. But Bedford is fairly easily accessed—by buses numbered 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89 and 185—and, of course, by car, the most direct way to reach the businesses strung along […]
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Go local in the Hydrostone
The big news in the tony Hydrostone Market is that the delightful Rogi Orazio Pasta & World Cucina has closed. Hamachi Kita, now at 5543 Young, will be moving into the Rogi Orazio space at 5537 Young this week. Hamachi Kita will move one door over and a casual bistro, called Little Europe, will be […]
