She went out almost every day and rode 10 to 15 kilometres, 25 to 30 on the big days. Perhaps you passed her if you’ve driven out of Cole Harbour towards the eastern shore on Highway 207 in the past few months. It may have been a bright, sunny spring day, or even a slushy, […]
Carsten Knox
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Comic blog hero
A lot of commercial websites would kill for 30,000 hits a month. Rachelle Goguen has seen that kind of traffic on her comics blog Living Between Wednesdays, and she’s never done any advertising. All it took was a little controversy. “I wrote an open letter to one of the editors at DC— that got a […]
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Hey Rosetta!
[image-4]Published May 29, 2008.Hey Rosetta!into your lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood)(Sonic/Warner)A listener encountering Hey Rosetta!’s earlier material might have pegged them as the place where Dave Matthews and Matt Good meet, somewhere on the rocky shores of Newfoundland. This new record reveals a complexity and confidence in both the […]
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Top Sayles
Before the Coen Brothers buried alive a vengeful bar owner in Blood Simple, before Steven Soderbergh had James Spader reveal his kinks in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, even before Quentin Tarantino got a job at a video store, there was John Sayles. The undisputed king of American independent filmmaking, Sayles has made 15 feature films […]
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The Visitor
Deftly written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), The Visitor begins as a gradual, simple story of a mid-life cultural awakening but finishes as a scathing indictment of paranoid American immigration policies. Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, the dead dad from Six Feet Under) is a character type familiar from recent pictures such as […]
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Fugitive Pieces
A touching, solemn movie that earns its every genuinely weepy moment, Fugitive Pieces is adapted from the Anne Michaels novel of the same name: the story of Jakob, rescued as a child from the Nazis in wartime Poland by Athos, a Greek archaeologist. Jakob grows up in Toronto, becomes a writer and teacher, but can’t […]
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Proof Positive
Chris Luedecke is a little concerned that his lyrical affection for bacon might be his epitaph. He can imagine the news anchor announcing, “As Old Man Luedecke once said , ‘If I’m not mistaken, the answer is bacon.’” That concern is but one of the inspirations keeping Luedecke writing new material, though he’s not avoiding […]
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Green Revisions
The debut of Green Halifax, the latest edition in The Coast’s stable of City Guides, happened around town on April 3. A directory of local businesses and organizations that are trying, in ways small and large, to make a difference to the environment, the guide offers lists of local organizations, restaurants, grocery stores, alternative energy […]
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All about energuide
The first step for anyone buying a new house is to insulate it and make it as energy-efficient as possible, before you choose solar or what have you. There are two non-profits that serve this part of the province and that do energy audits for the EnerGuide program:EnerGuide assessments are offered by the following organizations:Clean […]
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Recycling in HRM
The HRM currently recycles Two kinds of plastic. If you look on the bottom of your containers, it’s the #1 (PETE, Polyethylene Terephthalate) and #2 (HDPE, High Density Polyethylene), traditionally the make-up of 2-litre beverage bottles, trash bags, milk jugs, etc. The HRM does not recycle #3-#7 plastic: food wrap, yogurt containers, shampoo bottles, straws, […]
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Minimizing e-waste
It began as an idea, of course, says Bob Kenney, solid waste-resource analyst for the provincial department of Environment and Labour, talking about the provinces new e-waste redirection program, the first phase of which began in February of this year. It includes televisions, computers and printers. The second phase, beginning in February 2009, will include […]
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FSC Certified Woodlots & Sawmills
The Forest Stewardship Council is an internationally recognized body that ensures commercially used forests are managed sustainably and responsibly. There are a number of FSC certified woodlots in the Halifax area, and sawmills that use them. Look here for more information: fsccanada.org. Austin Parsons 9041 St. Margarets Bay Road233-3431Parsons Lumber operates a small sawmill, where […]