Vol. 21, No. 8
Mayor Mike Savage is chasing the stadium dream
Talks with CFL commissioner Mark Cohon about bringing an expansion team to Halifax.
By Tim Bousquet
Halifax's urban chickens are liberated
City staff stops prosecuting chicken owners on the peninsula.
By Emily Hiltz
Children at Shubenacadie Residential School were used as Guinea pigs by government nutritionists
Double-blind nutritional study from 1948-1952 uncovered by Guelph researcher Ian Mosby.
Name the ferry!
The Coast is hosting a contest to name the new ferry, and we won't "vet" your suggestions.
This week at city council: Death by a thousand cuts
How Halifax council makes lots of tiny rational decisions that add up to one whopper of bad policy-making.
Rocky Jones has died
Civil rights activist spoke with The Coast soon before his death.
Strange brew from OddBottle
And by strange, we mean delicious
By Allison Saunders
Second Fiddleheads
Eco-friendly kiddie gear grows Bedford's Nine Mile Circle biz district
Calling all heroes
Video Difference wants you to impress all your friends
Sleep Country cozies up on Spring Garden
Mattresses downtown, what an idea!
There aren’t any instruction books about how to be gay, so I had to find my own way
By Abby Crosby
Taking Names
By Andrew Patterson
Room for squares
The Polly Greene retrospective Bedclothes and Cloths at the Mary E. Black Gallery takes well-worn works of art from the bed to the wall.
Forever Plaid
Even if cornball comedy isn’t your thing, the music in Chester Playhouse’s Forever Plaid is worth a visit.
By Kate Watson
Caught
By Lisa Moore (House of Anansi)
By Whitney Moran
The Interestings
By Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead)
Upside Down
Directed by Juan Diego Solanas (Millennium Entertainment)
By Carsten Knox
Orange is The New Black
Created by Jenji Kohan (Netflix)
By Tara Thorne
The Wolverine
See, now I just want soup
By Jacob Boon
The To Do List
High school sex at its funniest
Rad Pride on the side
Rad Pride aims to be an alternative to mainstream events, by remembering the rebellious attitude of the past.
By Tamar Eylon
Anything but a drag
St. FX prof Christopher Frazer, aka C. Leah Cruise, is tracing the history of Halifax’s drag scene.
By Adria Young
Found in trans*lation
The province says it will pay for sexual reassignment surgeries, but details have yet to be finalized.
By Simon Thibeault
Gay play
The newest collection of sex toys is putting the “ride” back in Pride.
Rich Aucoin
By Simon Thibault
WetSpot
By Lizzy Hill
Parade of respect
timeOUT for Pride
Eyes on the Pride
Pride week 2013
Tegan and Sara’s pop cult
Their dance floor-ready new album may be a shock to your system, but the twins are getting closer to where they want to be as a band.
Mr. Marmalade
New theatre company's first production is dark and timely and very, very good
The inner Classified
On the brink of massive fame, the “Inner Ninja” creator tells us that he’d rather be in the studio than touring the world.
By Jeff Lawton
Safety dance
In-Flight Safety is going ’80s/new wave after throwing out an album’s worth of songs.
Buskers: a musical round up
The musical acts are where it’s at for the Halifax International Busker Festival.
Roberta Bondar
Hiss (Bruised Tongue)
Gypsophilia
Horska (forward)
By Doug Taylor
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Woman Child (Justin Time
Lemuria
The Distance Is So Big (bridge nine)
Hello, Kurtis Blow
Welcome to Hugo's!
By Stephanie Johns
Hey You Guys
By Paul Hammond
Haligonians
at Newcombe's Ink, Sackville Street
By Russell Jackson
The Dock side
The killer view and salty breeze make Boondocks tempting for more than just tourists, and the food is “just good enough.”
By Melissa Buote
Free Will Astrology
Walk into the flood, Aquarius
By Rob Brezsny
Boys on the side
Otherwise good relationships marred by bad or non-existent sex: Is it fair to stray? Plus bonus advice from a reader to a reader.
By Dan Savage
How a Dartmouth speed change exposes HRM council’s political failures...
By Matt Stickland
Aysanabee’s long, winding and wild road to the JUNOs
By Martin Bauman
Every big show coming to Halifax (and beyond) in 2024
By Team Coast
'Don't let anybody tell you you can't,' says panelist at Black women in politics event
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter