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Now, a brief but exhaustively researched timeline of successful public art projects in Halifax, including all notable projects of the past quarter-century: The Wave is unveiled on the Halifax Waterfront: 1988. There is much grafitti tagging and climbing. Many children summit The Wave. Some children fall and hurt themselves. The more intelligent, coordinated children do […]

Another quick update, as council lends some attention to something that actually needs attention: Barrington Street—or, as we call it around the office, Urine Alley. With all those empty storefronts, there’s been so much public peeing! It’s the secret shameful symptom of abandoned buildings. Put that in your urban planning forums and address it. In […]

A quick update on the Chebucto Community Net’s wireless project: This week, after working through some technical tomfoolery, the Chebucto peeps started testing new software that will manage and stabilize their wireless nodes—basically, the user-hosted, on-the-ground radio antennas that will pass a wireless signal along the ground, originating from Fenwick Tower. If you’re around Fenwick […]

Watch closely: We’re about to cram three crucially important city projects into one digestible blurb. And, we’ll make it engaging. Tabloidy, even. First up: COGSWELL INTERCHANGE TO BE DEMOLISHED! …That is, if the downtown portion of HRM by Design has its way. Last night, staff presented their Preferred Downtown Scenario at the World Trade and […]

Oh, the things we say when on the phone with Rene Angelil. We found ourselves asking strange questions of Celine Dion’s husband/manager; unfamiliar questions; questions that sounded, even as they passed our lips, utterly foreign to us; righteous, indignant questions, like, “Isn’t this an unfair punishment for Celine Dion’s loyal fans in Halifax?” Who is […]

And finally, as a nod to the long-suffering jocks, who must constantly put up with our arty indie, alt-weekly-y, skinny-jeaned, Chuck Taylored hipster-quirk nonsense: your day has come. Thursday night. The Halifax Rainmen. The Boston Blizzard. The Metro Centre. The American Basketball Association. Sources confirm, it’s about to get all crazy up in hurr. Even […]

The Chebucto Road saga comes to head next week, provided council pulls heads out of their collective—hey, hey! Connaught-Quinpool councillor and 2008 mayoral candidate Sheila Fougere presented a 3,000-name petition to council on Tuesday night, on behalf of the Chebucto Neighbourhood Association. The petition asks council to delay the road-widening project by one year while […]

Peter Kelly’s round table on violence starts on Wednesday, November14, with closed panel discussions that you’re not invited to. Sorry, all. However, you definitely are invited to participate in The Coast’s online violence forum, taking place right now. Tell us where, when and how you’ve been attacked in Halifax: We’ll collect and present your stories […]

I mean, seriously? Celine Dion?

Dubbed “the bravest woman in Afghanistan” by the BBC, Malalai Joya speaks tonight, November 8, at the Scotiabank Memorial Auditorium (6135 University). If you’ve never heard of Malalai Joya, you haven’t been following your Canadian news feed this week. Joya has been making her way across the country to speak about Canada’s role in the […]