Dear Coast, OK, I can’t take it any more. Every 12 months or so The Coast runs an article about a non-existent repertory cinema in Halifax and reports on how they’re not doing (like Shayla Howell’s September 1 feature “Tarnished rep”). Why isn’t there a repertory cinema in Halifax? The answer is simple: there isn’t […]
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Blues, brother
The name is a storied one in Halifax, but the latest incarnation of Scoundrels (beneath Club 5171 at 5171 George Street) is less homage and more mnemonic device. “The bar that used to be there was called Scoundrels,” says general manager Gary Demone, “and we kept the name again so that people will know where […]
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Crappy daily troubled: expert
It’s depression time at the Green Toad, the glass building that squats on the Halifax waterfront near the foot of Sackville Street. Journalists who toil in the Toad’s Daily News offices worry “the people’s paper” is going down the tubes. Shaune MacKinlay, one of its best reporters, recently departed to the greener pastures of PR. […]
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Week six: Lockout night in Canada
It’s week six and frankly, it’s hard to believe we’re still out there. Do I start every entry like this, or does it just feel that way? I haven’t been to the picket line yet this week. I’ve done a bit of clerical and committee stuff, but not nearly enough to earn my $350 lockout […]
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Save-the-world tour
After nearly five months and thousands of revolutions of their bike pedals, the group of young activists who comprise the Otesha Project Coast2Coast Tour is wheeling into Halifax. The team hit the road in Vancouver on May 2, with 15 riders, and has since visited nearly 100 cities and towns across the country, speaking to […]
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Getting it together
How can the benefits of living in a co-operative be communicated to today’s youth? That’s the question facing organizers of this week’s Halifax Co-operative World Café, an event designed to inject some new blood into the city’s many co-ops. “There are very few young people under age of 30 who start co-ops or are involved […]
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Whose spirit are you calling fat?
To the editor, In regards to last week’s article “To have and hold on,” in grade 7 I moved to a southern Ontario city and took so much crap for being from NS—from peers, parents and teachers—it scarred me for life. I used to wonder how much shit these people could get into if another […]
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We heart McNab’s
Dear Coastals, Sunday was my first wedding anniversary. After waking up to the realization I really may be an adult now, my wife and I had an incredible breakfast at a swanky downtown restaurant (name witheld to avoid the image being one of those consumerist trendsetter types). Following that, we took the ferry to Alderney […]
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Hell hath no fury like Quinpool scorned
To whom it may concern, I’m a member of the Quinpool Road Mainstreet Business Association. I speak for many of the merchants along Quinpool Rd. when I say I was angry and hurt by the horrific article in last week’s Back to School edition (“Neighbourhood watch”). Many of us are regular advertisers in your paper […]
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Stairway to heaven
Well, not exactly, but the new staircase connecting the Seahorse to the Economy Shoe Shop is now operational, with a grand opening scheduled for later this month. “The Seahorse will become more of an extension of the Shoe Shop,” says Argyle Cobblers general manager Gord Lapp. “It will be yet another place to wander when […]
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Artist depreciation
I spun Mozart’s Greatest Hits recently as I perused a lengthy discussion paper on the development of the SuperCity’s new cultural policy. A Cultural Advisory Committee composed of two city councillors and an assortment of citizens, artists and kulturcrats released the paper in June. To the foreboding strains of Mozart’s famous mass for the dead […]
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Air supply
The slow throb in your left temple radiates down the back of your neck and into your shoulders. For the past couple of months you can’t seem to shake that low-grade flu and you’ve lost your appetite. No one understands why you’re so sick. Some have suggested it’s all in your head, but the symptoms […]
