The Grawood Beer Bar & Eatery Dalhousie University Student Union Building, 6136 University Avenue This student-union-run beer bar pours up 16 draught taps, featuring local faves and domestics, and also is a fully functioning restaurant, serving lunch daily and hosting Wednesday night burger nights and Thursday wing nights. Though there’ll be plenty of opportunities to […]
The Wardroom
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner Halifax Central Library Silver Winner The Gorsebrook Lounge Bronze Winner The Wardroom What sort of book-loving nerds want to hang out in a library instead of the more convenient and beer-stocked on-campus pubs? It’s almost like they want to…learn things. Like, better themselves by studying. Yuck. Maybe it has something to do with […]
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Justin McGrath (Walrus) interviews Kurt Inder
Today for The Scene Blog, I’ve asked Justin McGrath (Walrus, The Age) to interview Kurt Inder, the frontman of the Halifax pop-noodle band of the same name. Indebted to the lo-fi jazz-jizz sounds of Mac DeMarco and beyond, I first saw Kurt Inder last summer at The Khyber, featuring one of our favourite drummers Bianca Palmer (Vulva Culture) and […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner The Wardroom Silver Winner Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner The Gorsebrook Lounge
 The University of King’s College doesn’t have the money or acclaim of the city’s other universities. Too often, King’s is lumped in with Dalhousie or dismissed as some liberal arts carnival. Look, even if all the worst criticisms about King’s […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner The Wardroom Silver Winner The T-Room
 Bronze Winner The Boardroom Game Cafe Chilling out is not optional at the University of King’s College’s clubhouse-meets-watering hole The Wardroom. Carpeted for your comfort, The Wardy has a distinct basement hangout vibe to it—that is, if your basement features local beer on tap, regular performances from […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner The Wardroom Silver Winner T-Room Bronze Winner The Gorsebrook Lounge
 Somebody at The Wardroom did their homework because, damn, the beverage selection here rules. But apart from the Garrison, Bridge Brewing, ShipBuilders Cider et al, this pub’s chill vibe goes a long way. And the live music doesn’t hurt either. “We have lots […]
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Best Student Hang
Gold Winner T-Room Silver Winner The Gorsebrook Lounge Bronze Winner The Wardroom Engineered for optimum fun, the gold-winning T-Room always seems to come out on top. And how could it not when, as one voter so aptly points out, it has “cheap drinks, good live shows and award-winning trivia? How can you get much better […]
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Summer school
Instead of ditching class for a few bevvies in your campus pub, it’s time to start ditching your summer job. Here’s a look at what’s on tap for university bars this summer. The Grad House Seasonal hours are 2-10pm (Mon-Tue) and noon-1am (Wed-Fri). Watch out for power hours 1-4pm and again at 7-10pm. If you’re […]
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Student and campus bar round up
The Grawood and the T-Room Both watering holes are Dalhousie hangouts, and both accept non-Dal students who have a valid student ID and proof of age. The Grawood sports a restaurant, but the T-Room doesn't (you can bring in snacks if you’re hungry). Renowned T-Room trivia starts September 11—I hear there are chocolate bars and […]