NewsletterFebruary 19, 2026

AUS Weekend, Giveaways, and this week's best events

Hey Halifax!

AUS Championship Basketball is back at Scotiabank Centre this weekend, The Offpsring are in town, and it’s your last week to take in some amazing Dine Around menus. Plus a Song of the Week from Wintersleep and all this weeks best events around town.

Let’s dig in.

There’s one week left of Dine Around, which means you still have time to enter our contest to win one of our grand prizes, plus a guaranteed free Halifamous x Burnside pint glass.

Register your passport.
Check in to restaurants all month to earn entries into our grand prize draws.
Earn a free Halifamous x Burnside pint glass after 3 check-ins.

2 Grand Prize Draws:
🍻 Beer For a Year from Burnside Brewing
🎟️ Tickets to the sold out Rankin’s Winter Warmers finale in March

Quick Hits

❤️ Eddie Carvery was a Halifax legend who spent more than 50 years living on the former site of Africville, protesting the bulldozing of his community. He passed away after a battle with cancer on February 14. Read more: CBC | Global | CTV

🏀 The AUS Basketball Championships return to Scotiabank Centre this weekend. StFX X-Men enter on a 12-game winning streak and looking for redemption after last year’s final loss to UPEI. SMU Women are three-time defending champs gunning for a four-peat. Check the schedule and get tickets here.

🎸 The Offspring hit Halifax as the final stop on their Supercharged tour on Tuesday, Feb 24, with support from Bad Religion. Get tickets.

🎶 An incredible all-female lineup hits the Seahorse stage March 7 to celebrate International Women's Day, featuring Moira & Claire, Nicole Ariana, LXVNDR, BETHANY, Quoia States, and Madeline. Get tickets now.

🎧 We’re giving away a free 10-week DJ or music production course from Halifax’s MixAcademy. It’s free to enter, but you can donate meals to Upward Kitchen’s meal token program for bonus entries. We’ve had 48 meals donated so far, and we’d LOVE to get to 100. Enter here!

Wintersleep is back with the first few tracks from their first album in six years. Wishing Moon drops March 27, recorded in the Mojave Desert with producer Nicolas Vernhes (The War On Drugs).

“I Got A Feeling” is classic Wintersleep, and one of the best East Coast rock tunes we’ve heard in years.

It’s about that moment when you know that someone special
you care about, cares about you too.

Paul Murphy

Wintersleep play The Marquee Ballroom on May 15-16. Get your tickets.