W4M Giant Book Sale Halifax Forum, Saturday, October 9, 8:30am to 5:30pm; Sunday, October 10, 9am to 3pm. Entrance on Almon Street side. Book your appointment here (or take your chances) Back in the ancient times before the great contagion, Woman For Music holds two book sales a year. They are at the Halifax Forum, […]
Jane Kansas
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Fare thee well, Newfoundland Store
Almost all of the shelves are bare now. They are so close to closing. The Newfoundland Store has been at the corner of Willow and Clifton practically since before your nanny and poppy were born. And now we are the ones who witness its last days. The shelves. They were built more than 50 […]
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Eight hot tips to make your life in HRM a little bit better
Victoria Road turns into the 101. Before Catherine Phoenix told me that, every car trip to the Valley began with me fretting over maps online and on the table, trying to figure out the best way to go: Bedford, the 102 to Sackville? Now I zip over either bridge, knowing my path is clear. —JK […]
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Far away from then
When I am a kid in Ottawa, summers are about four billion years long. Not like now, when the seasons and years stream by in an accelerating blur, in a freight train of blinks. When I am eight years old, I feel like I am eight. I feel I have my place in time. Now […]
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Remembering Hal Forbes
Hal Forbes’ house is across the street from the Halifax Women’s Housing Co-op, where I lived for 15 years. Hal’s house is oxblood with hunter green trim (original heritage colour, natch). The co-op building is three blocky stories of baby-blue vinyl siding. So we would run into each other on the street. “Got any juicy […]
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The longest day
On the third anniversary of my mother’s death I borrow a car and drive out to her grave, as I do a few times a year: Mother’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day (her birthday), June 20 (her death day) and maybe an odd spring or fall day. She is buried in the countryside, in a corner […]
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Screaming into the void, to no one in particular.
Most presiding judges are intelligent and humane and fair. Almost all judges, probably. Which is why the tiny minority of judges who are mother-wanking toss-baskets stand out so egregiously. It shocks the sensibility of every decent, thinking citizen when these neanderthal arse-waggers render a decision plumbed from the depths of some hideous stinking cesspool of […]
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On the fringe of the Fringe Fest, Bud Hunter is also its heart
I’M CHE GUEVARA, GOD-DAMN IT! Friday, September 2, 7:10pm Saturday, September 3, 2pm Sunday, September 4, 7pm Monday, September 5, 2pm and 8:55pm Thursday, September 8, 9:20pm Saturday, September 10, 1:35pm Plan B, 2180 Gottingen Street $4, 40 minutes If you can get to Bud Hunter’s Atlantic Fringe Festival show I’M CHE GUEVARA GOD-DAMN IT! […]
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Nauss’ last ride
Dave Nauss is in Canadian Tire. He picks up some rust inhibitor in automotive and makes his way to paint. He needs some varnish to finish a project for his daughter. He scans the many cans and under his breath whispers, “Oh god. I didn’t realize there’d be so many kinds.” Help materializes. Len Russo […]
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On passing time, and days good and bad
If you are reading this on the day it hits the street, it’s June 5, 2014. The Coast is celebrating its 21st birthday and therefore born in 1993, the year I turned 39. And 39 + 21 = OMG. Today I turn 60. Which I cannot fucking understand. Please believe me when I tell you […]
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Hyperbole and a Half
She did it. Brosh’s most excellent blog is now in book form. Hyperbole and a Half is hilarious and heart-breaking. Her writing is great, her illustrations fantastic (with herself in a pink shift and a poof of yellow hair). Much loved: stories about her simple dog and helper dog, described with words not usable here. […]
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Cool Tools
A catalogue of possibilities. Guaranteed you will want 4,000 things from this huge catalogue. The web site is kk.org/cooltools; the book harkens back to The Whole Earth Catalog: everything under the sun. Just as big and heavy. They don’t sell anything—but they do tell you where to get it or how to make it. 3D […]