Unfiltered Brewing is launching a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia’s Liquor Corporation over what the north end microbrewery calls an “unconstitutional tax” levied against it. According to court documents filed today, Unfiltered is alleging that NSLC has been unfairly charging the brewery $0.50 a litre for its beer sales since the brewery/bar opened last year. […]
Ashley Corbett
Staff Reporter
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A slice of Heaven For Real
Seven and a half weeks spent in a van driving across the continent, and back. One band member trying to write her Master’s thesis in the backseat. Kanye’s album The Life Of Pablo blasting on repeat. United States border patrollers insistently asking if they’re a faith-based rock band. A dreamy house show in Victoria. Jumping […]
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Salvage, Stephen Maher’s South Shore murder mystery
When Stephen Maher was living in Halifax in 2003, he was perhaps best known to the public as an editor at the Chronicle Herald. But outside of work, Maher had another passion—sailing. In 2003, he bought his second sailboat: a battered fibreglass 1982 Tanzer, which briefly lived in Chester on the South Shore, and eventually […]
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Catching up with Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton has a lot on her plate. Within the past eight months, she moved home to Mabou, Cape Breton from Toronto; received a prestigious Eisner award for her book Step Aside, Pops! A Hark! A Vagrant Collection; and decided to devote full-time work to a new graphic novel based on her experience working in […]
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The Atlantic Film Festival announces its 2016 program
The 36th Atlantic Film Festival’s full program was announced this morning at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. This year’s fest features premieres by many domestic and international established filmmakers, as well as new voices. It also marks a return to screenings at the Oxford Theatre, for the first time in four years. AFF will […]
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The journey of a bad singer
Tim Falconer had always recognized his inability to sing on key, but that didn’t trump his love for music. A few years ago, Falconer decided to pursue a dream to train his vocal chords. After his second voice lesson, Falconer got some testing done, and was diagnosed with congential amusia— discovering he is part of […]
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Universal Soul’s return
On an evening in 2002, Tracey Williams (AKA Tacktishion) had his nap interrupted. His girlfriend woke him up, asking “Don’t you have a show tonight?” Williams rushed down to Hell’s Kitchen, now the Seahorse Tavern, on Gottingen Street, making it just in time to bust a rhyme with his group Universal Soul. He entered through […]
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Cape Breton feature Werewolf to premiere at TIFF
A feature film by Cape Breton filmmaker Ashley McKenzie, and producer Nelson MacDonald will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the fest announced this morning. Werewolf, is McKenzie’s first feature and was shot entirely in and around New Waterford, the filmmakers’ hometown. MacDonald, Werewolf’s producer says he and McKenzie wanted […]
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Tapping into public water
Have you ever been out on the town and had your reusable water bottle run dry? Sometimes it’s awkward, or even considered rude, to walk into businesses and ask for a refill, notes Stephen Flynn, cofounder of a new app called Tap. Flynn and his business partner Mike Postma hope you will swap plastic for […]
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SappyFest is a small, sweet world
Rolling into SappyFest on Friday afternoon, my heart swelled. The fest is one of Atlantic Canada’s most anticipated of the year, and it fills Sackville, New Brunswick’s main drag with music of all genres for a long weekend, this year taking place from July 29-31. The town’s small size—and its lovely inhabitants—are part of what […]
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Argyle Fine Art to host Pokémon Go hunt
On a warm evening last week, the waterfront gleamed with moonlight as hundreds of eyeballs reflected the glare of phone screens. A large crowd was lured to this spot by a treasure hunt to catch creatures. Virtual creatures. If you’ve been hiding under a rock at the bottom of an ocean on another planet the […]
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William Robinson reflects on Spryfield high school arts program
Back in 2012, J.L. Ilsley High School in Spryfield buzzed with dozens of art, special education, technology and physics students working towards a common goal. Six months of brainstorming, precise measurements, paper maché, paint-stained fingertips and road blocks yielded something pretty special. Soaring Wings is the site-specific art installation of an enormous bird, with rainbow […]
