Update December 28, 2010:The contest is closed, and Pamela Gray won the bottle of Taittinger in the random draw from all the entries. Congratulations Pamela and thanks to everyone for entering. The booze. The food. The stress. The fun. We’ve all been there, which is we all love New Year’s Eve stories. Good, bad or […]
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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Top 5 iPhone apps for gifting
Apple made a welcome change to the iTunes Store earlier this year when it allowed iPhone and iPad apps to be paid for and sent as gifts the way music long has. This opens up a world of giving opportunities—there are over 300,000 apps—but also creates some dillemas since 300,000 is a lot of choices. […]
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Who’s who on our Halloween cover? contest
The cover of our Halloween issue, by local artist Geordan Moore, is sure to thrill all you nerds pop culture fanatics. Inspired by this weekend’s inaugural Hal-Con, ummm, convention, Geordan created an assembly of costumed characters where the Halifamous mingle with superstars like Darth Vader and that guy from the YouTubes. But more than an […]
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We knew Jessica Paré back when
Before she became a “breakout star” thanks to her role on the just-ended season of Mad Men, Jessica Paré was a Canadian actor with over a decade of work under her belt. Last year The Coast’s Carsten Knox had a chance to talk with her because she was in two movies showing at the Atlantic […]
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Full Atlantic Film Festival events guide
To get all the 2010 film fest events in one place, just click here. That list includes parties and whatnot, plus a bunch of Team Coast film screening picks. If you’re interested in the exhaustive, somewhat exhausting, schedule of movie screening times, check out the film fest’s box office here. Related Stories
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Hurricane Earl prefers Nova Scotia after all
There’s a good news/bad news thing happening with the Earl forecasts. Friday night at CBC, he he was a hurricane on track to cruise up the Bay of Fundy and hit New Brunswick. Saturday morning, he’s been downgraded to a tropical storm, but his projected track has moved smack dab over Nova Scotia. According to […]
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United breaks family reunions, too
The Chicago Sun-Times has a story about United Airlines taking five days (and counting, presumably) to get some stranded luggage from O’Hare International to United flyers visiting Nova Scotia. The story quotes Jill Erickson, who came here for a family reunion. “I bought a $5 dollar shirt, and I’m wearing my grandmother’s shorts and some […]
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Apology to Corporate Research Associates Inc. and Don Mills
A recent blog post, written by Tim Bousquet and published at thecoast.ca May 26, was unfair to local polling company Corporate Research Associates and its president, Don Mills. The bulk of the blog post repeated excerpts from a press release from the citizens’ group Save the View. That press release claimed that a CRA poll […]
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Watch the Pride parade slideshow
Saturday’s Pride parade was a gay old time, indeed. It featured a beautiful sunny afternoon, thousands of people lining downtown streets to watch and around 200 floats—including a Coast/Hillcrest Volkswagen team effort that featured Windom Earle playing for nearly 2 hours on the back of a flatbed truck. (After the parade, a cop who was […]
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Just watch it
Normally I’d be embarrassed to blog a YouTube vid that’s both old (it went up a month ago) and popular (15 million views). But this three-minute Nike ad, starring a bunch of soccer greats plus other celebs including Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer and Homer Simpon, is so amazing it should have 15 billion views. […]
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Game on
The World Cup finally started today—you might’ve heard—and Team Coast is there. Not there in South Africa. There watching live webcasts on our computers at work, trying to figure out what the hell is going on in a sport that can have offsides without a blue line. Soccer may be the biggest game on the […]