It’s September in Halifax and that means one thing: frosh. Welcome to all of you, particularly those from away, who are finding themselves in Halifax for the first time. In the interest of being proper hosts, we at The Coast thought to give you, the newbies, some coveted information that will make your transition here […]
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Inside Haliwood
It’s a little bit shocking how many movies have been made in and around Halifax. When you consider the geography, especially: We’re a long way off from the traditional movie-making centres of Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. A Toronto producer used to say, “If it’s being made here, there’s something wrong with it,” and […]
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Music city maniacs
Halifax is, by definition, a transient city. With its fresh crop of academics arriving each and every September, so changeability is ubiquitous—whether it’s in the population, the weather or the music scene. This past spring, Halifax adoptee Jill Barber packed up her things and headed to Vancouver for love. The region’s former night sky greeters […]
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A pedestrian primer
As students, you represent the incoming population wave arriving in this Atlantic coastal city. The outgoing wave: Tourists. You’re here at the beginning of the end of tourist season, so numbers may perhaps not be as great as during the height of summer, but there is enough tourism still happening that you can and will […]
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Fallsy Downsies
Lansing Meadows sat in the back. He pressed the little tab that made the windows go up and down. He pressed it up, he pressed it down, he pressed it up again. Evan Cornfield, steering the car over the rutted road, around roadkill and potholes and the various other detritus of an old highway in […]
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Riding the Paris Metro
It was my first time in Paris—actually, at age 15, my first international sojourn—and after a week of intensive morning French classes and afternoons of negotiating huge lines of fellow tourists and letting my mother do all the talking, I finally rode the Paris Metropolitan on my own. It is a testament to how easy […]
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Zip-lining in Laos
The sun rises over the Mekong River and meets my excitement about the next three days with no rain clouds to accompany it. Excellent. It’s monsoon season in Laos and a rainy day would mean six-to-eight hours of hiking instead of three. My boyfriend Jeff and I are about to participate in The Gibbon Experience—a […]
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Rural culture in the Czech Republic
Two years ago I impetuously joined a group of Dalhousie University history and theatre students who were travelling to a small Bohemian town in the Czech Republic to study Baroque culture. My desire to go to the Czech Republic had nothing to do with the pursuit of higher education, rather it was flimsily based on […]
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Easter in Copenhagen
Here I am, Easter weekend, 2004, stuck in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m a third of the way through what will become a three-month trip through Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Even before I left my home in Vancouver, my mother was fretting over the holiday weekend, that I’d be left out in the cold with nowhere to […]
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Mud Festival in South Korea
At the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul, with a twilight parade of 10,000 paper lanterns making its way down the old temple streets, go figure I would randomly run into a guy I rode the bus with in high school. There are only about 10 million people in South Korea’s capital city after all. He […]
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Skateboard city
For people looking to start skateboarding this summer, or to just dust off their old deck, Halifax is the place to be in the Maritime skateboarding scene. The recently renovated Halifax Common Skatepark is the de facto place in the city to skate. “The city threw down, they built it, and it’s a great addition […]
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Outdoor adventures in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia boasts 7,500 kilometres of coastline, and almost that number of sea-adventure packages for the unsuspecting traveller to choose from. “Canada’s Ocean Playground,” indeed. But what about overland adventure? Head inland from any point along our coast and you’re liable to find yourself rubbing up against 300-million-year-old fossils at Joggins Cliffs, losing your boots […]