International Women’s Day Craft Fair and Panel Discussion Thursday March 8, 5-9pm Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $2/PWYC Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Ladies Beer League are teaming up to make bars safer for women. “Alcohol is the most commonly used substance to facilitate sexual assault,” says Dee Dooley, regional capacity co-ordinator at Avalon. “Bar […]
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Best Sports League
Gold Winner Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Silver Winner Axe throwing at Timber Lounge Bronze Winner Halifax Sport and Social Club The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is a bit of a misnomer, because not every team is from la belle province. A key part of the league is, of course, the Halifax Mooseheads—which was […]
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It takes a Villages
Villages w/Laurenn Marchand, Sarah Jane Scouten, Justin Rutledge Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $20 “We didn’t want anything to do with it,” says Matt Ellis, who sings and plays guitar in Villages and grew up in Cape Breton. “Our siblings played the fiddle or the pipe—we wanted to play something loud. […]
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Yoga with Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm w/Megan Nash, Dan Misha Goldman, Jim Bryson Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $25 Friday, January 20, 8:30pm w/Daniel Walker Good Robot, 2736 Robie Street $15 Julie Doiron is best known for making broken hearts feel better through song, but she wants to relate to the whole self. “I’m always […]
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Quiet Parade’s holiday playlist
The industrious elves in Quiet Parade are putting out a Christmas EP, Christmas Through the Fog, on December 2, and celebrating this fact with a release show December 3 (7:30pm doors, 8pm start at the Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street. $7. With guest Norma MacDonald). You may be only three advent doors in, but the […]
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Best New Business
Gold Winner Timber Lounge Silver Winner New Scotland Yard Emporium Bronze Winner East Coast Bakery In celebration of your favourite new business—Halifax is usually many tree-rings behind the trends, whatup frozen yogurt—here’s a forest of puns: Axe anybody, hurling a blade at a target is a grain stress reliever, a good way to get a […]
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Food Wolf adds a new truck to its pack
If you’ve been howling at the moon, hoping for the Food Wolf’s answer, here it is. After setting up a permanent, semi-retirement home at the Timber Lounge (2712 Agricola Street), serving up street eats to the bar’s axe throwers, Halifax’s food truck pioneer is welcoming a second vehicle to its pack. “We went to Taiwan […]
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Timber Lounge brings axe throwing to Agricola Street
Darren Hudson hit the bullseye when he was delivering some Christmas gifts to a friend on Agricola Street back in December. As he exchanged season’s greetings, the Barrington-based lumberjack (for real, he’s a log-rolling champ and the man behind The Wild Axe Lumberjack AXEperience) mentioned casually that he was looking for a commercial space in […]