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Name: Logan Hawkes Age: 31 Occupation: Barber/co-owner at Lucky Cat Barbershop Spotted: Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth Wearing: Real Tree x Lucky Cat shop tee, Stan Ray painter pants, Thrasher x Vans slip-ons from Pro Skates, vintage Seiko watch How would you describe your style? The culmination of years of trial and error. Who/where do you derive…
Planters Ridge, still a new kid on the wine block in Nova Scotia, has been releasing an array of clean, innovative, high-quality wines since opening in 2014. It seems the winery nails it every season with at least one wine, and in very competitive categories— last year Planters Ridge made my favourite Tidal Bay by…
Craft brewing is hard. Just ask Robyn Warrier. She’s no brewer, but she knows her stuff: temperatures, glycol levels, flavours, fermentation. She knows all about the manual labour, the cost of losing a vat if something goes wrong. Warrier is the CEO of WarrierTech, a data collection company that works with scientists, researchers and engineers…
As part of ongoing efforts to modernize Halifax Transit’s technology and improve the ridership experience, bus tickets will soon be really, really, really big. The city put out a tender this week looking for someone to print the new transit tickets, which will each measure six inches in length by 2.75 inches in width. That’s…
This morning FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival announced its September lineup, which will kick off with Thom Fitzgerald’s Splinters, a film the director called his “most Atlantic Canadian” in a speech at the press conference. Starring Shelley Thompson and Closet Monster’s Sofia Banzhaf, the film is an adaptation of Lee-Anne Poole’s play and is about…
In the midst of worldwide record heat, devastating wildfires, droughts, refugee crises, and torrential rains and flooding, some particular disturbing headlines have hit the news. “Planet at risk of heading towards irreversible ‘hothouse’ conditions” the CBC announced. Similar headlines appeared in other media outlets. As CBC explained, “Scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the University…
UPDATE: Nimbus has issued the following statement about Tillmann’s book: “In August 2017, Nimbus signed a contract with Mr. Tillmann after receiving a manuscript submission from him, which he had written in prison while serving a nearly eight-year sentence for over forty charges, including fraud, theft, possession of property obtained by crime, possession of a…
You’ve probably been wondering W.T.F. or “Where’s The Fun” in New Brunswick? And we’re here to do the ground work for you. Let’s bookend your folk fest-weekend itinerary this August 17 – 19 with a complete island adventure. Run away to beautiful Grand Manan Island, and with its possibility of whales and oceanside views, you’ll…
Knock knock. Who’s there? Cocktails. Yup, thanks to The Middle Spoon Desserterie (1563 Barrington Street and 1595 Bedford Highway) you can now get a bottle of mixed drink delivered directly to your doorstep. The source of sweets and boozy concoctions added delivery to its resume at the end of July, giving folks the opportunity to have…
The National Rifle Association’s ongoing efforts to make guns a totally normal lifestyle choice in the USA have now taken aim at Halifax’s official totally normal lifestyle choice, the donair. An NRA magazine called American Hunter published a recipe for Wild Game Donair on its website this weekend. Apparently meat from moose, deer and elk…
Stephanie Domet is in studio reflecting on censorship scandals at the Halifax Daily News and ethics in journalism. Mary Vingoe also joins us to talk about the day future-premier and fiddle fanatic Rodney MacDonald killed the province’s Arts Council. Then, African Nova Scotian Music Association co-founder Delvina Bernard stops by to tell us how Black musicians fought for…
…room for my balls? WHO is designing men’s underwear?—Bodacious
The rules of the road apply here. Obey them and I will stop crashing into your carts—and butts.—Grave Digger
Why? Why did you hike out to this beautiful, pristine lake and leave behind all your disgusting garbage? It appears you have no appreciation or respect for nature, so why not just do your asshole partying and drinking and fucking mess-making somewhere else? Maybe at home, where your mothers don’t mind picking up after you?…
Dear owner of the app, Just sending a GINORMOUS thank you for taking it upon yourself to support the Dartmouth SPCA. Please know that what you did was appreciated by Haligonians and animals alike! It’s people like you who make me proud to be from here.—fellow redditor
University students are returning to town! Most have no life skills, so taking the bus can be complicated. You’ll find them stuck in the aisle, stuck by the exit door, only concerned with the next text on their smartphone, oblivious to everyone else. Don’t talk at them too loudly—they are easily dumbfounded. I remember those…
Twice in the last two weeks, I had mail delivered to me that was for someone else on my street. Please double check the address. I’m a decent neighbour and I delivered them myself but not everyone is. Last year I didn’t receive my package because you took it up the street. Now I am…
Have you ever been standing on the corner, looking at a person on the opposite side of the street waving at you, and you wave back? Then, you turn around to see that the person they were actually waving at was standing behind you waving at that person? I hope that didn’t happen here.—Cutie
Hello to the guy with the Banff hat, green backpack and flamingo shirt. You have a very nice smile and laugh and style. I hope you had a good weekend.—Good start to my morning
I am so grateful to have you in my life. Thank you for always being so thoughtful. I love all the little things you do on a daily basis. Keep up all the hard work and studying. I’m so proud of you.—Your little bunny
White Stripe and Cape Breton descendant Jack White returns to Halifax for the first time since the Stripes’ 2007 Canadian tour; this round is in support of his latest album Boarding House Reach. In keeping with White’s whole deal, this will be a phone-free show. Tickets start at $55 and go on sale this Friday,…
A Dartmouth billboard reading ‘Canada has no abortion laws’ is turning heads and raising ire. The sign on Windmill Road is rented on a four-week contract and paid for by We Need A Law—a religious advocacy group based in Vancouver and Ottawa. Jennifer Taylor, a research lawyer with Stewart-McKelvey was “fired up and frustrated” when…
In my time living in Halifax, I can say for certain two things: Our poet laureate position is incredibly valuable and our public conversation about heritage is terrible. These two things together make me certain that we need a historian laureate. It’s hard to argue against the impact of our poet laureate. The position has…
Landlords in Halifax are putting their tenants on notice: growing and smoking cannabis inside will be prohibited even after legalization. The announcements have some medicinal cannabis patients worried they won’t be able to find an affordable place to live in the city. “A lot of us exist on little-to-no income. A lot of us are…
By now, you’ve probably heard about the Sobeys pharmacy manager who found herself in hot water after using a provincial drug database to “snoop” on the medical information of friends, relatives and even her child’s girlfriend. This is just the latest embarrassing privacy failure for the Nova Scotia government, following on from two personal data…
Not all Shambhala It’s very upsetting that your article on Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche lists the Shambhala School among the Shambhala institutions in Nova Scotia (“Portrait of the sakyong as a fallen man,” cover story by Stephanie Domet, August 12). I know that sharing a name makes this difficult to discern, however the distinction is critical…
Q I’m a 27-year-old woman living on the east coast. I’ve been sexually active and on birth control since I was 16—almost always on the pill. I recently switched to the NuvaRing, which I had a bad reaction to: I had no libido at all and extreme mood swings/bouts of depression I could not live…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22) You probably gaze at the sky enough to realize when there’s a full moon. But you may not monitor the heavenly cycles closely enough to tune in to the new moon, that phase each month when the lunar orb is invisible. We astrologers regard it as a ripe time…
Nap Eyes w/Surveillance & MTCHCRFT Thursday, August 9, 8pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street, $10 Near the end of “Roses,” the rollicking centrepiece of Nap Eyes’ dense third album I’m Bad Now, Nigel Chapman offers one of his most surprisingly simple lyrics. Earlier, he remarks that “people look for their reflections everywhere/in everyone”—something that resonates…
Nancy Wilson w/Roadcase Royale Wednesday, August 15, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50-$65 After 40 years as a working musician, Nancy Wilson knows how to get shit done. Wilson is best known as half of the powerhouse rock ‘n’ roll duo Heart with her sister Ann. But when she touches down at the Rebecca…
Opens Friday, August 10 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road Beth (Danika Vandersteen) is a young mother, recently widowed, attempting to heal with a retreat in a big beach-side house that looks like it was made out of very fancy Lego—wood and glass, triangles and rectangles. The trip quickly turns creepy—there’s a jarring, ugly…
Bo Burnham is not yet 30, landing his own show on Comedy Central while still a teenager singing joke songs, like if Weird Al was a total prick. “There are many reasons to resent Mr. Burnham,” wrote the New York Times on Christmas Day, 2013, the chief one being (in The Coast’s current opinion) he’s…
