Nick Wilkinson raises his hand to block fellow guitar player Ross Burns’ beard, and squints. The Gypsophilia boys are picturing what they’d look like with moustaches, only. The new aesthetic is inspired by trumpet player Matt Myer, who shaved his beard to showcase his moustache. Now the three other bearded members have a dilemma: to […]
Angelina Chapin
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Reading Classified’s Self Explanatory
Luke Boyd feels like a regular guy, though some things in his life have changed. While his picture’s being taken for this article, a surly man in a black leather jacket watches. During the interview, the man sits in the room, silently reading a paper. Daniel Robichaud is Sony’s regional promotion manager for the Atlantic […]
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The word is out
Jane Buss is tired. She sits in her dark, cubbyhole-like office, plastered with posters of literary events. “I have six little fires burning here,” she says, pointing to piles of papers on her desk from writers who need her help. “That’s in addition to building a library and running the programs and workshops. I’m never […]
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The word is out
Jane Buss is tired. She sits in her dark, cubbyhole-like office, plastered with posters of literary events. “I have six little fires burning here,” she says, pointing to piles of papers on her desk from writers who need her help. “That’s in addition to building a library and running the programs and workshops. I’m never […]
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Reed Jones: One angry man
Reed Jones stands at the bar, nervously. He stuffs his mouth with cold fries, trying to kill the hour before the filming of his show. Jones seems unsure how to act in the meantime, until his producer, Steve Morrison, suggestively nudges a fork his way. “You think I should use that?” says Jones, amused. “Nah, […]
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Slam dunk
Fresh off the win, Halifax’s spoken word team is now the two-time champ of the National SLAM Competition.
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Sex worker’s rights
“We’re your daughters, your mothers, your aunts and your cousins,” says Valerie Scott, a wavy-haired redhead with a raspy drawl. “Next time someone makes another gratuitous insult about sex workers, challenge them on it. Defend us in public, because that’s how people’s rights start.” Scott is a sex worker herself. A former Haligonian, she is […]
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Empty frames
One Halifax summer, two guys sat across from each other at the Economy Shoe Shop and decided to start a business. “You do your thing, I do mine,” says Michael-Andreas Kuttner, over a beer with his soon-to-be partner, Steven Comeau. “Any conflict, we’ll settle with a coin toss.” Thirteen years later, they’ve never tossed a […]
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Tough tofu biz
At the Soy Deli stand at the Halifax Farmers’ Market, George Pickford points to a sign taped to the counter: “Notice! Our produce is still available at Pete’s Frootique in Halifax and Bedford.” “We just want people to know they can still get our tofu,” he says. George’s wife, Anna Anderson, started Acadiana Soy in […]
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Acadiana Soy tries to keep it fresh
At the Soy Deli stand at the Halifax Farmers’ Market, George Pickford points to a sign taped to the counter: “Notice! Our produce is still available at Pete’s Frootique in Halifax and Bedford.” “We just want people to know they can still get our tofu,” he says. George’s wife, Anna Anderson, started Acadiana Soy in […]
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Westmount’s infected trees
Westmount looks like the perfect place to live. Kids frolic in the field behind St. Agnes School and neighbours greet each other by name. The neighbourhood has a unique design—front yards are the size of backyards—so people see more of each other. There’s just one problem and it’s keeping Lois Beaton up at night: “They’re […]
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Guerilla GayFare takes over
“Excuse me,” says Joe Stewart to the man in the black shirt. For the past 20 minutes Stewart had watched the man hit on a group of frustrated women. “See all of us in the red t-shirts? We’re gay.” Thirty queers gathered at the Split Crow last month to take part in the fifth monthly […]