As the rainy autumnal months, I feel I need to extend a big ol' thank you to The Coast. Not for its critique of city's infrastructure, reviews of art exhibitions or its annual Best of Halifax campaign (though I do very much appreciate those as well) but for its utility as an all-purpose shoe dryer. Being a student, I'm poor and don't have the money to replace my many-holed shoes. Because of The Coast's ubiquity around town, I'm able to completely dry my shoes near every night. Though I'd prefer to simply buy new shoes or even be able to find a job that works with the schedule I need to keep because of my field of study, our weekly arts paper's there for me in this time in my life. Sadly, I had to use the paper I usually save for thumbing through during the week along with the lone one I used to be able to distribute between both shoes because of its recently reduced content; I don't know what the future holds for you or your contributors, The Coast, but you'll always have a place in my heart as the paper that introduced me to Savage Love, made me laugh and cry with True Story, helped me find more great stuff to see at the AFF and kept my feet dry. —Penniless Acting Student