Vol. 17, No. 25
Possible respite for Victorian hotel
Dexel Developments offers Nova Scotia Heritage Trust a chance to move the classic buildings at Morris and Hollis.
By Neal Ozano
May Ocean versus Goliath
By Bruce Wark
Council's secret "public meeting" on tax reform
The meeting on tax reform was public. Council just didn't tell anyone who wasn't a city employee where it was held.
By Tim Bousquet
Video: Katrina Tuttle's spring/summer collection
Halifax designer returns from Toronto Fashion Week as a rising star.
By Sue Carter Flinn
Dio Mio cafe location closed down
Although the Brenton Street cafe closed, owners are working on keeping the Dartmouth Crossing location open.
By Carsten Knox
News of food
New fixed price meal offerings, gift cards, and live entertainment at restaurants in the HRM.
2009 Downtown Shopping Promotion
Downtown retailers offer tax-free shopping and bars and restaurants offer drink and food specials.
Go local in the South End
Halifax’s peninsular south end is more residential area than shopping district. But there are pockets of local business activity if you go looking.
Gift Certificates at Saskia Roch Aesthetics
Roch offers pedicures, soy treatments, waxing, and tinting.
Brussels Beerfest Imminent
Brussels Restaurant is holding a Belgian Beerfest Dinner with live entertainment.
NDP deliver protected wilderness to seal hunters
Environment minister Sterling Belliveau nonsensically opens a protected wilderness area to seal hunting
People should wear both red and white poppies
Red poppies remind us of the soldiers as white reminds us of the civilian victims
By Letters editor
Vaccine article missing some key points
Wondering where Smith-Bakhache's views came from
Offensive comment made in "The Gomer Times"
Hateful and homophobic line becomes a running joke
Critical Mass confusion
Halifax's monthly group bike ride attracts more smiling faces every year, yet occasionally cops, grumpy drivers and yahoo stunt-riders wanna rumble.
By Chris Benjamin
Horatio the swan's last song
Public Garden swan known as "crazy and mean," found dead November 1.
By Lizzy Hill
Slow Food's Edible Schoolyard doc released
Slow Food Nova Scotia shows new documentary at the Keshen Goodman Library Sunday.
Ryan Turner tests What We're Made Of
Halifax author Ryan Turner takes our vulnerabilities and insecurities, turning them into fictional gold for What We’re Made Of.
By Holly Gordon
Dolly Parton and Halifax friends together again
The Book Lady airs Sunday on CBC TV.
Good Hair shines
Chris Rock's documentary Good Hair is a balanced look at the industry of African-American hair.
Atlantic Film Fest director Gregor Ash sets sights on federal politics
Ash to be nominated to represent the Halifax West NDP Riding Association.
Selected Blackouts, John Goldbach (Insomniac)
Debut collection of short stories uncomfortably raw but honest
By Laura Kenins
Dartmouth Players have the pipes
Dartmouth Players has assembled a stellar cast for its production of Anything Goes.
By Kate Watson
Boom-buster business
Has “destructo-porn” gone too far with 2012’s use of 9/11-inspired imagery and lack of sympathetic characters?
By Hillary Titley
Don't You Forget About Me: A Tribute to John Hughes
Directed by Matt Austin (Alliance)
By Lindsay McCarney
O'Horten
Directed by Bent Hamer (Columbia/Tristar )
Impressive and familiar Love & Savagery
You'd better enjoy traditional Irish music because you won't escape it here.
Rebecca Born in the Maelstrom, Marie-Claire Blais (Anansi)
Blais' GG Award-winner is as clear as the Income Tax Act.
By Mike Landry
Inventory, The AV Club (Simon & Schuster)
Play Inventory, the group drinking game
Pirate Radio play
Richard Curtis' latest is a little more literate, a little more witty than most films out there.
Don't be scared by 2012
End of world should be a special effects treat, but it never gets close enough to the destruction.
By Mark Palermo
Smooth sailing for A History Of
Killer rhythms and an indie pedigree sets A History Of on the right course.
By Stephanie Johns
Slayer and Megadeth rescheduled
Tuesday, February 23 at the Halifax Metro Centre
Monotonix give Halifax another whirl
January 16 at the Paragon Theatre
Halifax Scene Recipe Zine gets in the kitchen with some of your favourite locals
See what Dog Day like to eat for dinner!
Onelight Theatre set to take you on a journey
Return Ticket: Halifax-Abadan-Halifax explores the cost of war
The English Beat does not go on
Let the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth begin
CONCERTS! Lots and lots of CONCERTS!
Concerts! Lightfoot, Jill Barber, Blue Rodeo, Rob Base and more.
Theatre Review: Extinction Song is hilarious and frightening
The dysfunctional family never had it so good.
Hawksley Workman at the Rebecca Cohn Friday, April 9
Tickets on sale this Friday, November 20 at 12pm
Switcheroo! Tegan and Sara to perform at the Metro Centre Theatre instead of the Cohn
Because it just got so crazy
The Gideons
Oxford Street (Independent)
By Alison Lang
Tongan Death Grip!!! TOMORROW!!
At Gus' Pub, Tuesday, November 17
A History Of
Action in the North Atlantic (Noyes)
Billy Bragg stays true to rights
In Mr. Love & Justice Bragg keeps on mixing romance and politics in his trademark style.
By Mark Black
Devil Eyes
Devil Eyes (Signed By Force)
No apologies from The Sorrys
These family guys may have a few years on the average indie band, but they know what’s going on.
Kings of Convenience
Declaration of Dependence (EMI)
By Dave Hayden
Toca Loca
p*p (Centrediscs)
By Sean Flinn
True Story by Mark Black
By Mike Holmes
The Gomer Times #24
By Seth Scriver
Party like it's H1N1
Foods that are finger-lickin' good might not be a first choice these H1N1 days, but the ever-popular wing strip on Spring Garden Road shows no sign of slowing its pace.
Fujiyama's wild ride
Halifax's latest sushi house shares its name---as well as some ups and downs---with a Japenese rollercoaster
By Melissa Buote
Domination dynamics
Your husband might have bigger issues then the ones you’re worried about. Plus: Savage Lovecast #160
By Dan Savage
Nova Scotia teachers vote overwhelmingly for strike mandate
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Every big show coming to Halifax (and beyond) in 2024
By Team Coast
Cruise season is back in Halifax—with newer anti-pollution rules. But how much has changed?
By Martin Bauman
Everything you need to know about the 2024 Halifax Burger Bash