Note: Unless otherwise indicated, these beers and ciders—which are presented in no particular order—should be available at NSLC and/or private liquor stores around Halifax until supplies run out. When in doubt or desperation, check with the individual brewery/cidery. Eight Bells The Church Brewing Co. The newest beer from Wolfville’s newest brewery is rooted in old […]
Kyle Shaw
Loving the arrival of this mysterious climate event people are calling "spring".
Kyle was a founding member of the newspaper in 1993 and was the paper’s first publisher. Kyle occasionally teaches creative nonfiction writing (think magazine-style #longreads) and copy editing at the University of King’s College School of Journalism.
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My favourite room: Robyn Manning’s pink-ceilinged dining room
Robyn Manning’s interior design company, Bricks + Birches, is having a moment. “Things are rocking,” says Manning, “starting to really snowball.” Where she started out doing residential projects—a lot of cottages on Nova Scotia’s rustic north shore or homes for young families in the city, hence the B+B name blending urban and rural—now, coming up […]
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A rising Tidal Bay floats the Goat
The team behind Stubborn Goat Beer Garden is bringing you another reason to head to the harbour. Legendary Hospitality Group was recently announced as the successful bidder forDevelop Nova Scotia‘s idea of launching a waterside wine bar. The new bar, intended to showcase local booze—cider, spirits and the province’s unique Tidal Bay white wine appellation—is […]
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Drink This
Inventing the cocktail menu for a new bar sounds as awesome as you’d imagine. There’s trial and error, adding a little bit of this, taking away a little of that and sampling the efforts to get the taste exactly right. “We probably had three or four sessions trying to come up with these cocktails,” says […]
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The Cheesecake Test
Ideally, the person who slid into your DMs would arrive on the highly anticipated first date ready to provide any need-to-know info you weren’t able to suss out from their social media. With their horoscope’s rising sign or what Hogwarts house they’d be sorted into, you could quickly decide if this situation is more “thank […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Welcome to the new
Editor’s note: Except for the bit at the end about going on a field trip through our Instagram account, this piece is optimized for reading in the print version of The Coast. Pick one up today! Something changed. This Coast you’re reading is different somehow. The fonts and the sections and the layout—they’re still the […]
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Tough times in the retail woods
If Halifax’s business scene is like a forest, it’s a joy to see new saplings take root (for example, here’s a look at what a batch of newbies are up to on the waste-reduction front). And there’s an existential ache when a towering old-growth tree falls. Sure, some death is useful to foster life […]
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2019 Year in review
Dorian and the crane Even before it arrived in Halifax and knocked over that construction crane, Hurricane Dorian made a major visual impact. This was the Category 5 storm that stalled over the Bahamas for a day—huge and strong and ferocious on the weather map—killing at least 70 people. Dorian also lead to #SharpieGate, a […]
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Speaking for The Coast: Pressing concerns
The printing press is a strange, wonderful machine. You take a roll of blank paper called a web—which is sort like a toilet paper roll, only made of newsprint and so big it’s moved around by forklift—and feed the leading edge into the press to begin an elaborate journey. With the unspooling roll trailing along […]
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The Best at 25
There were strange, powerful forces at work that first year. It was 1995, and a couple things happened to put Halifax in the national spotlight. First, popular local politician Alexa McDonough got elected leader of the federal NDP. Then the independent communities of Bedford, Dartmouth, Halifax and Halifax County were formally merged into the Halifax […]
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Speaking for The Coast
In Superman’s origin story, his father is Jor-El, the greatest scientist on the planet Krypton. Through his research, Jor-El comes to believe Krypton is doomed, but the other scientists laugh at his prediction and refuse to take action to save the citizens. Only baby Superman is spared, thanks to his parents sending him away in […]
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SPEAKING FOR THE COAST: Comings and goings in the family
J ournalism thrives off change—variations to the current state of affairs being the “new” in news. Yet some big changes behind the scenes at The Coast have happened recently with barely a mention, and I’d like to fix that now. First off, longtime city editor Jacob Boon and longest-time editorial fixture Tara Thorne left the […]