Soup’s On!
As days shorten and temperatures fall, our appetites crave heartier, more filling food. It’s time to bring out the soup pot.
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Dec 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Soup’s On!
As days shorten and temperatures fall, our appetites crave heartier, more filling food. It’s time to bring out the soup pot.
Dec 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
If you write an obituary for Halifax-born Joe Purcell who died last week, it’s not complete unless you also mention his best buddy, famed marine artist Jack Gray.
Dec 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Marine and landscape artist Joe Purcell, who died recently at age 90, captured a romantic period in the 1940s and ’50s of schooners fishing on the Grand Banks.
Dec 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Don Mills is touting rare wines as part of a fundraiser for Feed Nova Scotia, called Case of Compassion.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Gerald Doucet, who died this week at age 80, was the first Acadian cabinet minister in Nova Scotia’s history when then-Premier Robert Stanfield appointed him as education minister in 1967, 50 years ago.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Editor’s Note: The Macdonald Notebook from now until Christmas will feature Atlantic Canada products that would make novel and neat gifts to loved ones.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
In the last couple of decades, brunch has become a standard feature of urban life. The idea of a light, weekend noon meal is said by culinary historians to have originated with Englishman Guy Beringer whose only claim to fame was a hangover that inspired him to write a brief article Brunch: A Plea that was published in 1895 in the now equally obscure Hunter’s Weekly.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
For almost four decades, Nova Scotia has sent a balsam fir to the Boston Commons to help that city celebrate Christmas, and as a thank-you for Boston’s tremendous help following the Halifax Explosion in 1917 that claimed 2,000 lives.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Monday morning, I participated in a classroom panel at Saint Mary’s University with former cabinet minister, political commentator and author Graham Steele, and Global News journalist Marieke Walsh.
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Carlton Munroe, a giant promoter of the East Coast music scene, is being remembered as a fun loving family man — a devoted husband and great father of three children — and a friend to many.