The last thing Cindy Dean thought she’d find at a work event was her soulmate. But after an incredibly long day, through a sea of networking strangers, there was Graham Mann—looking right back at her. After falling fast and hard, the pair became an item, roommates and then—as they excitedly peeked into the windows of […]
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With a little help from their friends
When Jason Currie and Kyle Levesque met online in 2006, Kyle was the first guy Jason had ever spoken with online. When they finally met in person, it sealed the deal and five years later St. Pete Beach, Florida was the perfect place for a surprise proposal. In the heat of the moment, Jason’s excitement […]
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ECMW in pictures
Presented for your pleasure: a few choice snaps from a few of the many, many ECMW 2013 showcases in Halifax this weekend. Make up a little local playlist and enjoy.
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In the Noble
Jenner Cormier holds a lit match to a slice of orange peel and squeezes. The peel’s oil sparks a mini-fireball, leaving the smell of birthday candles in the air and the taste of toasted citrus in the drink. It’s the Depth Charge: Ice crushed by hand with a 1940s Ice-O-Mat, fresh mint, raspberry, almond liqueur, […]
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This Hour Has 20 Years
Twenty years is a long run for any television show. It’d be unheard of for Canadian political satire if it wasn’t for a handful of Newfoundlanders, a cramped Halifax studio and 22 minutes. Six years before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would hit the air, This Hour Has 22 Minutes was ambushing politicians and carving […]
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Top 3 restauants of 2012: Ace Burger Company
There’s an almost elegant simplicity to what father and son team Leo and George Christakos, are doing with Ace Burger—the bar burger joint feels retro, but is also very forward-thinking. While the other new burger shops in town have all taken on the hip fast food models of chains like Five Guys and Shake Shack, […]
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Top 3 of 2012: Edible Matters
“We want to evoke nostalgia,” says Chris Burton, executive chef at Edible Matters. “We try to mix traditions of old with some of the flare of the new, and capture what Nova Scotia is really about.” Edible Matters is like your mother’s kitchen, if your mother was Alice Waters. From family dinners to casual lunches […]
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Top 3 of 2012: Jincheng Chinese Cuisine
Yaeko Kawabata and Michelle Zou are blowing around the dining room of Jincheng in the tailwind of a lunchtime rush. Spicy sauces left in drips and splashes on now empty plates, scattered remnants of a birthday party that hunkered down at one of the big, round tables in the bright dining room, are still floral […]
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Florals are forever
Erica Barry and Kevin Weerahandi have an atypical boy-meets-girl story—in fact it almost sounds like an urban love myth. They met through a friend of a friend at Dalhousie University and with a little bit of (not-creepy, she swears) stalking, an “Is this a date?” dinner and four roses, four days later, their romance was […]
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Nautical nuptials
Living on the opposite side of the country, away from your family and oldest friends, can be really hard. So when Nova Scotia natives Reigh Foster and Tracey DeBaie met in Yellowknife, they didn’t just find their soulmates in each other, but a little piece of home, too. It was thanks to the wonderful world […]
