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A new space inside McPhillips Station Casino opened last week. Loft 180 is a modern, loft-style setting where visitors can enjoy elevated, globally-influenced dishes, enticing cocktails and local craft beer, alongside exciting live entertainment and gaming.

As Festival du Voyageur celebrates 50 years of merry making, revelers are flocking to Fort Gibraltar for one extended kitchen party after the other.

The holidays can be a time when we’re tempted to go a bit overboard. Generation Green’s owner Sherry Sobey shares a few of the items she has in store to help you have yourself a merry little Christmas – one that’s kind to the planet, too.

For Tia Medeiros, inspiration struck when she was watching the Dave Chappelle comedy Half Baked. It might be more accurate to call it a craving. The movie features Abba-Zaba bars, a taffy candy bar with a peanut butter centre.

French, 64, began volunteering with the festival in his early 20s. “I wanted to give back to the community and it happened to be going on at the time,” he said.

This may be the coolest bar you visit all winter. Starting next weekend, belly up to the bar. The Festi-Bar!