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, […]
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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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A few local hiking trails
A summary of an article called Walk The Line, first published in The Coast Hot Summer Guide, June 2007, researched and written by Tim Bousquet BLT Trail Buses 21, 23. Off Highway 3 or St. Margaret’s Bay Road, turn into the Lakeside Industrial Park to the trail parking lot next to the Coca-Cola building. The […]
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Grand slam
On the small porch outside of Steve-O-Reno’son Brunswick Street, Andrew Abraham recites his tongue-twister of a poem, St. Bullshit College. Two minutes in, he pauses. “See, if I choke like that at the slam I’m fucked,” he says, before continuing with his poem. The slam—a competition for spoken word artists—is one highlight of the Canadian […]
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blind faith
Michelle Butler Hallet shows great empathy for her characters in her short stories and in her new novel, Double-blind, which she’ll read from at Word on the Street this weekend. Psychiatrist Josh Bozeman narrates the story of his own work with a secretive research group, the losses that plague him, the damage he’s done in […]
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Outdoor swim guide
LAKE BANOOK Getting there: Turn right after crossing the Macdonald Bridge to Dartmouth, then left up Thistle Street past Dartmouth High until Maple Street. Turn right, then left onto Ochterloney, which becomes Prince Albert Road. Turn left on Hawthorn, and then make a sharp right onto Banook Avenue, which ends up behind the clubhouse. Bus […]
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Fresh Paint
A recent issue of Good, a new American magazine dedicated to the “merger of capitalism and idealism,” contains an article about a project in New York called Gardens in Transit, which will cover 13,000 city cabs with 14 football fields worth of flowered decals, painted by more than 30,000 children and adults from schools and […]
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Hiking the line
BLT TRAIL Getting there: Head out St. Margaret’s Bay Road, turn into the Lakeside Industrial Park to the trail parking lot next to the Coca-Cola building. Alternatively, access the trail via Silver Birch Drive in Hubley, or any of the several cross streets along Highway 3. Buses 21, 23. What to do: Hike/bike/run/wheelchair. Dogs on […]
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Going places
If you saved a few pennies this year, or own a credit card with room to burn, it’s time to skip town. Wondering where to go? Tuck this handy guide into your fanny pack—and if you’re flying, calculate how much you should donate to environmental projects to offset the greenhouse emissions: www.greenmyflight.com. ARTS Bring your […]