Rhythm + Beets Latte Lucky Penny Coffee Co. 6440 Quinpool Road The thought of bright pink frothed milk was excuse enough for the coffee lovers at the Lucky Penny to experiment with a beet-inspired latte. What started as a joke between a barista and owner Barb Kaill is now regular menu item at the highly […]
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Chicken Curry
Chicken Curry Little India Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road (Saturdays and Sundays), Halifax Forum Farmers’ Market, 2901 Windsor Street (Saturdays) Elakkia Priya Sakthikumar is very used to people asking her for her recipes. The owner of popular farmers’ market stall Little India says she gets requests every weekend. “People ask me, ‘How do you […]
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A “tender poet” takes the prize for rising theatre stars at the 2017 Merritt Awards
“A tender poet, sharp playwright, present actor, vocal feminist and ally” who shows “great integrity, and bravery” in work that is “personal, political, studied, careful and poetic.” This is how nominators described Meghan Hubley and her work, as they put her name forward for the city’s prize for an emerging theatre artist, selected by Theatre […]
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Billy Talent w/Monster Truck and The Dirty Nil at the Scotiabank Centre: A Love Story
You know how people always say “when hell freezes over I will do such and such,” well, that kind of happened to us in a manner of speaking. I had been dating my best friend for about two years and I felt the time was right to ask her to marry me. She was never […]
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The new Discovery Centre opens Sunday (but here’s a sneak peek)
Just how awesome is the new Discovery Centre? We’re about to find out. After five years of planning, fundraising and building, the giant $20-plus million waterfront science showcase opens this Sunday, February 12. (Check the slideshow below.) “We are delighted to finally open our doors to the public,” says Discovery Centre president/CEO Dov Bercovici via […]
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Phoenix marks 30 years of helping youth across HRM
The idea actually started in 1984, with a meeting to discuss the problem of homeless youth, but the Phoenix organization considers its founding as happening three years later. Those early years were a gestation period, time for a small group of committed people to coalesce around a concern and put a plan into action, rallying […]
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All-you-can-build buffet in the urban core
[Image-1] Think of it as a really, really, really expensive Christmas craft fair. On Wednesday proposals for 18 developments in the urban centre will be presented en masse to the public at two planning information meetings (held from 12-2pm and 6-8pm) in the Atlantica hotel. It’s a way for HRM’s planning department to tie off loose […]
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Nika & Matt
“It basically played out like, we met one night and ended up talking on the phone until 4 or 5 in the morning,” says Nika Booker-McVey, thinking back to the 15-year-old versions of herself and now-husband Matt Booker-McVey. Even though they didn’t have their first date until 17, that close connection had been impossible to […]
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Rajean & Leroy
The love story started via text message, but Rajean Boudreau and Leroy Willis were destined to be family eventually—their grandparents were friends, their parents went to school together and a cousin introduced them. Five years after first meeting, Rajean came home to find a trail of flowers leading to a massive heart—and her man on […]
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Kailee & Pearse
“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride…so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep,” reads a poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, describing a love of no surprises, just connection. A love like Kailee Joudrie and Pearse McCarron. It was the perfect choice, then, for a reading at their intimate, 150ish-person wedding, […]
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Warner Vineyards—Nova Scotia’s grape god
It’s been a dry summer. As John and Anne Warner walk around their vineyards, the grass crunches underfoot like gravel. Leaves and fields are tinged with yellow and dust picks up on the country roads with each breeze. Cereal crops planted in between the grape trellises struggle to make their way through the cracked dirt. […]
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Feast mode: behind the scenes at Italian Weekend
It’s a seemingly sleepy Friday at the Italian Canadian Cultural Association’s home base on Agricola Street. The main ballroom is empty, save for some scattered tables and chairs, and most of the lights are out. It’s so quiet you’d swear the place was already abandoned for the long weekend, until a wave of laughter booms […]