Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Coburg Social “It’s welcoming, bright, open,” says Halifax Central Library branch manager Kathleen Peverill of the city’s Best Student Hang. “Students may come to Central Library to connect with information, but we see them connect with each other and meet people […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park Halifax’s waterfront is the Best Place For A First Date for lots of reasons. It’s idyllic. It’s romantic. The views are nice and there are enough people to people watch when you’ve run out of things to talk about […]
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Best Trivia Night
Gold Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Silver Winner Celtic Corner Public House Bronze Winner The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse “The very first one we did was Harry Potter trivia—and it blew up. We posted it for one night and we had to do it over three or four,” says Kat Adams, the Board Room’s […]
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A guide to the Halifax Nerdom
Comic Shops First priority: find a comic shop. New Comic Book Wednesday doesn’t stop just because you’re getting adjusted to dorm life. Strange Adventures (5110 Prince Street) is the downtown go-to, and Monster Comix Lounge (2089 Gottingen Street) is a haven for gaming. And a bit further of a trek from campus, but most definitely […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Stillwell Beergarden Although there’s currently some construction going on, the waterfront is still pretty damn romantic, and it doesn’t cost you a dime to take a stroll along the boardwalk. It’s hard to resist spending some cash while you’re there, however. There […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Coburg Coffee House Do my eyes deceive me, or is this year’s Best Student Hang somewhere that does not serve alcohol? Could it be that the students are actually studying? Maybe, but there are plenty of things to do in the […]
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Best Trivia Night
Gold Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Silver Winner Finbar’s Irish Pub, Bedford Bronze Winner The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse The best trivia nights consist of which of the following elements? Ridiculously punny team names that sounded a lot less embarrassing before you had to say them out loud in front of other people. Questions […]
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Major date night ideas
Whether you’re swiping on Tinder or hitting up all the campus parties, the start of the school year is prime time to meet someone new (or maybe actually talk to the person you did nothing but stare at in meal hall last semester, you weirdo). Figuring out where to go on a date can be […]
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Start your engines: RuPaul’s Drag Race takes over Halifax
Between Halifax Pride events and clubCOUTURE’s July event, a whopping THREE RuPaul’s Drag Race favourites will be sashaying into town this month. Add in The Board Room Game Cafe’s (1256 Barrington) RuPaul’s Drag Race trivia sessions (Tuesday, July 25, 7pm/10pm) and you can be thoroughly gagging on the eleganza. Halleloo! Jesus truly IS a biscuit! […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Silver Winner Point Pleasant Park Bronze Winner Tom’s Little Havana Dating is a roll of the dice at the best of times, so why not literally roll some dice on that awkward first date in a place with a relaxed atmosphere and a great icebreaker. “Playing a board […]
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Best Trivia Night
Gold Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Silver Winner Rockbottom Brew Pub Bronze Winner The T-Room Dating is a roll of the dice at the best of times, so why not literally roll some dice on that awkward first date in a place with a relaxed atmosphere and a great icebreaker. “Playing a board game […]
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Game on for a second Board Room cafe
The Board Room Game Cafe (1256 Barrington Street) wants to invite more players to the table. After three years of bringing fun and games—like hundreds of games—to downtown, the city’s first board game cafe/bar has announced it’ll open a second location later this fall, giving Haligonians another place to exercise their brains. “We wanted to […]