December 31 Grand Parade square in downtown Halifax hosts Atlantic Canada’s biggest New Year’s Eve party. Festivities begin at 9:30pm, with live entertainment and a spectacular fireworks show at midnight. This year’s lineup includes the Mellotones and Three Sheet. Grand Parade, www.halifax.ca/newyearseve
December 31 Halifax rockers Sloan ring in the new year with two concerts in the Schooner Showroom. Casino Nova Scotia, 451-1221, www.casinonovascotia.ca
Guest blogger Leanne Salyzyn is an insolvency counselor, licensed restructuring professional and trustee in bankruptcy. Post a comment or contact her on Twitter with your personal-finance questions When I think of Boxing Day, my mind drifts to an image of Wilma Flintstone’s cartoon scream of “charge it”! Laugh as you may but Boxing Day is serious business. Retailers discount merchandise to make a profit while …
December 21 and 22 Majestic, awe-inspiring, evocative—there is scarcely a superlative that hasn’t been used to laud this annual performance of Handel’s Messiah. This year, the orchestra presents the critically acclaimed “Dublin version.” Dalhousie Arts Centre, 494-3820, www.symphonynovascotia.ca
Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Is it already that time? Have we really come to our final blog post of the year? Wow, time sure flies when you’re eating your way through the city! It was one heck of a year for …
An unseasonably warm autumn, which appears to be giving way to a mild winter, is likely to delay Nova Scotia’s icewine-grape harvest. Industry insiders expect the harvest to happen around January 4, according to a press release from the Winery Association of Nova Scotia. “Over the past 15 years of harvests, no two years have been alike,” John Warner of …
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has set the electoral districts for the new 16-member HRM Council, which will be elected in the municipal elections in 2012. In public consultations, HRM staff presented two possible scenarios. The URB chose a revised version of Scenario One. The new polling districts average out to 20,476 electors per district. Halifax’s core now …
Looks like that Christmas train’s a comin’ and there’s not a whole lot anyone can do to slow it down. It’s steaming full speed ahead and barreling straight for us. I, for one, have been trying to get all my shopping tidied away so that I can enjoy the simple aspects of the holidays like enjoying yuletide cheer (aka: rum …
Guest blogger Leanne Salyzyn is an insolvency counselor, licensed restructuring professional and trustee in bankruptcy. Post a comment or contact her on Twitter with your personal-finance questions. With less than a week to go before the big event, most of us have completed our shopping and now have the task of wrapping presents to look ahead or to dread. This is always my favourite part …
December 19 The beloved Cape Breton folk family returns for A Barra MacNeils Christmas. Dalhousie Arts Centre, 494-3820, artscentre.dal.ca
Take a stroll along Barrington Street, and you’ll see several prominent buildings sitting vacant. Recently, Halifax Magazine dispatched reporter Jessica …
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