Gold Winner Woozles Silver Winner Venus Envy Bronze Winner Bookmark Woozles has been a Halifax staple for 41 years, making it the oldest children’s bookstore in the country. “We love what we do and are continually inspired by our loyal customers and the new folks who manage to find us. Working with young eager readers […]
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How to explore your way towards a happier, healthier sex life
In January, it’s common to hear friends and family talking about the ways they want to get healthier: Starting therapy or eating an apple for every slice of pizza. Resolutions usually revolve around physical, mental or emotional health. Sexual health is forgotten, or if it’s not, those of us making sexy resolutions are staying quiet. […]
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Best Independent Bookstore
Gold Winner Woozles Silver Winner Venus Envy Bronze Winner Bookmark “I get to work in a place that my parents dreamed of years ago,” says Suzy MacLean of Woozles. “The two of them started this store, when my oldest sister was just one year old, and there was nowhere in town to buy children’s books. […]
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Venus Envy is turning 20
“It’s pretty amazing for any small business to hit 20 years and I feel particularly proud a business like ours has been able to last so long. It speaks to something special about Halifax, it supports small businesses and people looking for products like ours,” says Marshall Haywood of Venus Envy’s (1598 Barrington Street) big anniversary. […]
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Best Retail Sign
Gold Winner Freak Lunchbox, Halifax Silver Winner Biscuit General Store Bronze Winner Venus Envy A jolt of colour that sweetly sings the praises of high-fructose corn syrup with its intentional-feeling candy hues, Freak Lunchbox’s sign winks downwards at the candy emporium’s striped awning. Its orange, green and purple beckons with the promise of sweet and […]
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Big Mama Lele keeps it real
Big Mama Lele Saturday, October 22, 7pm Venus Envy, 1598 Barrington Street $10 Amelia Merhar—AKA Big Mama Lele—is hilariously honest. This Whitehorse-based musician has a signature in-your-face, take-it-or-leave-it attitude with musical stylings riddled in equal parts humour and eroticism. “Sexually charged folk is how I describe my bit, in the sense that my lyrics have […]
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Venus Envy parties like it’s ’98
As of this weekend, Venus Envy (1598 Barrington Street) has been a resource, teacher and playmate in for Haligonians for 18 years, and in honour of such a momentous occasion, the beloved sex shop/book store is in celebration mode. “We exist because people support us,” says Venus Envy’s Kaleigh Trace. “And we wanted to do […]
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The queer history of tarot card readings
To some, tarot card readings are hokey carnival scams or sleepover activities, but for many LGBTQ individuals unwelcome in traditional religious doctrines, tarot readings were and are an inviting way to express their spirituality. Montreal author and professional tarot reader Oliver Pickle wrote She Is Sitting In The Night: Re-Visioning Thea’s Tarot about revamping a […]
Posted inFood + Drink
Good enough to eat
There are two types of people in the world. One thinks that it’s really sexy when young Mickey Rourke pops olives and strawberries into Kim Basinger’s trembling mouth and drizzles honey all over her body in the dim light of an open fridge. And the other thinks that chugging a glass of whole milk and […]
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Best Retail Sign
Gold Winner Biscuit General Store Silver Winner Freak Lunchbox, Halifax Bronze Winner Venus Envy Biscuit’s been doing the whole curated-shop thing since before the internet was invented, let alone Pinterest. You’ve been marking it your shop-spot fave for nearly as long, loving its carefully selected lines, unique accessories and fun knick-knacks. “This is wonderful news! […]
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What’s open in Halifax?
[Image-1] Yesterday’s snow stomping shut down literally and figuratively everything in Halifax, forcing us all indoors like the wintery mole people we’ve accepted ourselves to be. Thankfully, the sun is shining this Thursday and doors are open again around the city. We’ve collected just a small list of the many bold businesses around town happy […]
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Failure to communicate
In all relationships, communication is key. That’s especially true if the relationship is between local small business owners and the neighbouring construction projects that keep shutting down their street. “It’s been a pretty messy spring and summer, and now fall,” says Marshall Haywood, owner of Barrington Street sex emporium Venus Envy. Haywood’s shop is right […]