Stealing my recyclables
I put half a blue bag full of recyclables in my private back yard, and the next day they are gone. The recyclables are mine. My yard is private property. I am having to buy more blue bags than I need to, which is an added expense, and can’t be good for the environment. The…
I am a human being, too!
I work at a certain restaurant on Spring Garden Road (the one with the giant yellow “M”). I also happen to be one of the backshift workers, meaning that my shift is 11pm to 7am, which means that every time you get drunk on the weekend and decide to go to my restaurant, I am…
South end snob
To the cranky old bag who felt the need to yell at me while I was running: I don’t care how big your house is. I don’t care how nice your car is. I don’t care that you live on the swankiest street in Halifax. Contrary to what you oh so rudely expressed to me,…
Crazy dog at Point Pleasant!
First and foremost I should get out that I’m possibly one of the biggest dog lovers out there. That being said…there is a certain expectation of how your dogs should be controlled when in an off leash area. I was at Point Pleasant last week in the off leash area walking with my boyfriend. I…
Goodbye Rita MacNeil
Working men and women everywhere, dig out your wide-brimmed hats and throw on Born A Woman in memory of Rita MacNeil, who passed away April 16 from complications after surgery. You’ll be missed.
Here we go again…
Pardon me for assuming you had a solid idea of what you were talking about SINCE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. It is the height of both arrogance and ignorance to seat yourself on a moral pedestal with regards to a concept you can’t even clearly define, going completely apeshit on anyone who doesn’t conform…
Keep your BUTT out of my face!
To anybody who is at all, even remotely, likely to flick your little saliva soaked and tar stained cancer stick filter out your car window or on the ground or any damn place your little smoked screened head feels like it; don’t. Just don’t. I’m disgusted by the amount of these little toxic nibs that…
Hippies are dead so stop calling me one
The hippie movement is dead, there are no more hippies so stop calling me one. Sure I might have long hair, take mind expanding plants and chemicals, care for the environment, and meditate but that doesn’t make me a hippie. I also hunt, fish, drink beer and love hockey. Why not call me a red…
Apparently he left me because I couldn’t cook?!
Ok, so here we go with another online dating weirdo. Conversation was going ok, seemed like a nice guy then he has this huge obsession with the fact that if he and I were to connect and move forward, I’d apparently be doing all the cooking? ‘Cause you know, that’s the only way he will…
Video of the day: Old and Weird, “All Of My Friends”
Local rock band Old and Weird and local video divine being Heather Rappard have made the funniest video I’ve seen in probably four years. Let your heart fill up to the maximum amount and have a watch. Old and Weird will release a new album recorded by Nigel Chapman early this summer. Old and Weird–…
Third of seven
I thought I was clever, cool, ahead of the curve. So subtly I had maneuvered us into a position where I thought you might become interested in a potential relationship with me. As it turns out, unbeknownst to me, I was being manipulated into a position where I would think of YOU in that light.…
Man hits car
The intersection of Joseph Howe Drive and Dutch Village Road is definitely one of the worst thought-out by our incompetent city planners. My bitch is addressed to the driver who could have very easily run me over last Tuesday if I hadn’t been on my best pedestrian behaviour. You had just come off the highway…
Lesbian crime in Halifax
Hey, your girlfriend’s pretty cute! Oh yeah, I had one like her once – but she got stolen. I guess crime is pretty relevant in Halifax now. So tired of the same lesbians floating around this city, grabbin’ everyone up. The COHO isn’t the in lesbian scene. It’s a goddamned clique. Reflections is a dank,…
Sprucing things up
Born and brewed in Cape Breton, Big Spruce Brewing has been concocting its two varieties of craft beer since the beginning of March. After selling it’s first beer in house on April 1, the company has been spreading the love throughout Cape Breton ever since. Now, this brewery newbie is kicking things up a notch…
Moksha Yoga opens in Bedford
Bedford is about to get a whole lot hotter. On April 22, Moksha Yoga will be opening up its second HRM location at 65 Dellridge Lane. The studio will keep with the Moksha mission of helping customers stretch, strengthen and tone their muscles —all in a studio cranked up to 37 degrees. The idea to…
Don’t pass bicycles making left turns
Cyclists are to ride on the right side of the road in the direction of traffic, but may move towards the centre of the lane when safer in order to avoid hazards or maintain a regular traffic flow – including when riding through a roundabout, turning left, or passing another vehicle. INCLUDING WHEN TURNING LEFT!…
It’s the little things
I have a secret, somewhat shameful love of my new office – the heater doesn’t work right and its always kind of cold, so I never ever sweat. I smell great.—Lover Of The Kind Of Gross Little Things
Not living your lifestyle
To the generous entrepreneurs that kept my voice against their corruption silent: even if your intentions are genuine, you have to reconsider what you’re doing. If you want to help the poor, you should change the root cause of the problem which is capitalism itself. Your business is capitalist. Period. Your business campaign hides the…
Pedestrian crossing
10…9…8…7…6…5….4…3…2….1….DON’T WALK! WTF? I am only half way across the street. I had to wait a full cycle before walking again. Cars and buses honking at me. —Embarrassed
Protestors put focus on sexual assault
Approximately 50 people stood across the road from the Halifax RCMP and Halifax Regional Police headquarters on Sunday afternoon, protesting what they call police inaction in the case of Rehtaeh Parson’s alleged sexual assault. Rehtaeh died April 7, after she was pulled off life support. She had tried to take her own life three days…
Constant comment is a tea by Bigelow
At tonight’s concert a well-known doctor and her friend found it necessary to frequently lean over and chat in one another’s ear. Perhaps they considered it whispering but it was plain inconsiderate for those around them, including us a few rows back. Hey doctor, have you considered writing yourself a prescription for mouth glue when…
Floyd
Thank you for saying what you said. It was sad and angry and true and incredibly brave. Thank you for letting me thank you. The one thing I wasn’t able to tell you was that you need never question your own courage ever again. Have a long and wonderful life. —The Guy Who Made You…
First world problem
Stop shrink wrapping your boats in plastic every year. I’m sure it protects them, is cheaper than a custom cover and probably feels like you’re opening the world’s largest Christmas present every Spring but it’s a heck of a lot of plastic being thrown out (hopefully recycled) every year. —Wish I Had a Boat To…
Afghanistan
I’m sorry I had to appear when you got back from your tour. You needed the woman you loved when you left but I ravaged her system before she even knew I existed in her. I left her unable to properly care for you when you needed her the most. She beat me, but she…
Moosehead cougars
I watched as 3 ugly cougars went to the game on Saturday. They were sitting in front of me and my son and they never watched the game just talked about how many affairs they had. These must have been poor desparate men as I wouldn’t even look at them twice. Anyway, they spill a…
Oh how the years have passed
When I met you, you were perfect. Level, sorted out, good looking, funny, great career. A catch. I didn’t care that I just got out a bad relationship and had no business chasing you. But I got what I wanted anyways. Our time together was amazing, and despite all of your heart ache and disbelief,…
Still available
Holy cripes! If I get one more email from someone who saw my furniture on a certain free classified site asking if it’s ‘Still Available’ and then doesn’t reply after I say ‘Yes it is’ I’m gonna snap hotmail in half. If you ask if it’s still available does that not mean that you want…
Wino forever
Nothing is worse than a warm glass of white wine on a hot day. Luckily, Oprah has found a solution: the Corkcicle. Listed as one of her favorite things in 2012, the Corkcicle is kept in the freezer and can be inserted into any bottle of wine to keep it at perfect drinking temperature. Unlike…
Pony boy
South Park Street between University and Morris, Thursday, approximately 7:45pm. I spotted you from a car. That high and tight stubby pony stole the show. So handsome. Maybe it was a bun. Either way, I’m in. —Top Knotted Admirer
Six Metro Transit buses have caught fire since July
Wednesday afternoon, a Metro Transit bus caught on fire in Bedford. Two passengers and the driver escaped the bus unharmed, and firefighters extinguished the blaze without further incident. That fire is the sixth time a bus has caught on fire since last summer. Additionally, Metro Transit has experienced three “stack fires” in bus exhaust systems…
To the demonstrators outside of a certain coffee shop
Thank you for caring. If more people actively participated in their communities and exercised their democratic responsibilities, this world would be a better place. Please don’t lose your passion. Keep participating! However, this is where our paths diverge. I find your target confusing and your energies misplaced. Take a look at the bigger picture. Look…
Bad game of phone tag
Ugh, I fucked it up. We had an off and on thing that was silly & fun but then my circumstances intervened. I thought that was okay. I never anticipated how much I would care about you (totally not my type) but I do. now your circumstances are intervening & I’m unsure if you feel…
Quiet Parade “Edge of the Ocean” live at the Coast
Watch Quiet Parade perform “Edge of the Ocean” from Old Haunts on a grey day in the Coast lobby. Read more about Quiet Parade here.
Denial of service attack interrupts provincial website and email
A denial of service attack took down the provincial website for about 10 minutes this morning, confirms Brian Taylor, a spokesperson for the Chief Information Office, which oversees all IT operations for the province. Starting at about 9:50am, all provincial websites were inaccessible, and the provincial email system was down as well. A denial of…
ALTEREDegos
Welcome to Extreme Makeover: Cafe Edition, in which inspiring entrepreneur Michelle Strum’s cafe and hostel Alteregos (2193 Gottingen Street, 431-3170) gets a serious facelift. Thanks to some hard work (by an entirely north end crew) the already homey-feeling hangout has become ever more inviting, with a bright and expanded space, a new chef and summer-ready…
I love ukeleles
My love goes out to the ukelele players who frequent my place of employment once a month. It was my first time serving you, and I was touched by the kindness given to me by everyone… despite my foul mood upon arriving at work. As soon as the music started my mood lightened. THANK YOU…
Spooky love playlist just for you
Accompany our cover feature “Strangelove” with this spooooooky playlist and fall in love with a demon immediately. Thanks to all the valuable input from my pals on that popular social networking site.
Stop blaming the police for societal issues
It’s a very tragic and disturbing situation with the alleged rape and subsequent suicide of a young girl. But why is everyone pointing the finger at the police? There was no rape kit done, no witnesses, no confessions, no statements. Our justice system requires evidence, without that, the police can lay no charges and the…
Lampposts on a bender
There’s rowdy behavior on Halifax’s waterfront boardwalk, but it’s not the usual culprits. Artists Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg have installed three disorderly, personified streetlamps on South Battery Pier, near Bishop’s Landing. The installations—”Fountain” and the diptych “Got Drunk, Fell Down”—are part of a series entitled The Way Things Are. They are nakedly honest portraits…
Urban coyotes want your cat
Scot Jamieson was walking home in west-end Halifax the evening of January 25, one of the coldest nights of the winter, when he saw a coyote on Vienna Street. “I saw a dog running fast across the street and I wondered if it was aggressive,” he recalls. “I heard it bark once. It saw me…
Baristas serve up labour complaint
About 100 protesters chanted outside Just Us! Cafe on Spring Garden Road Sunday, holding pro-union signs. Inside, managers seemed tense. Three police officers stood watch. The conflict was over the alleged dismissal of Shay Enxuga and Elijah Williams. The pair says they were fired on March 27 for organizing a union. Enxuga and Williams have…
I ain’t scared!
So your mom offered to buy us a house if we JUST get married already. Your dad thinks my tui shou skillz are mad. He doesn’t speak English but I can read his thoughts. And I’m sitting here in a San Francisco hotel room because I suddenly thought I’d be happier here… eating stale pretzels,…
Good First Impressions
As first impressions go, Anne Bastedo has a good one, warmly welcoming me to Viewpoint Gallery and explaining the various ongoing exhibits. It’s a brightness that’s easily reflected in her photography, most recently with First Impressions—Central American Light—photographic evidence of her travels through five countries and arranged by her special eye for pattern and light.…
Home sweet Home Grown
Geordie Ochterloney built Home Grown Organic Foods from the ground up 14 years ago. The local, organic food delivery business got its earliest beginnings in a one-bedroom apartment on Hollis Street, from which he’d walk to the farmers’ market to pick up and borrow friends’ cars for drop-offs. Eventually, Home Grown found more suitable digs…
Scary Movie 5
[IMAGE-1] A franchise continues in Scary Movie 5. The latest approximation of an actual movie that spoofs and goofs whatever’s lying around the house. This time around, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Benny Hill, Paranormal Activity, Evil Dead, Mama, Snoop Dogg, The Cabin in the Woods, Morgan Freeman, Black Swan, Heather Locklear, Rise of the Planet…
Gianna Lauren
On Personhood’s six tracks have the density of a much longer album. Gianna Lauren’s beautifully captured second album, recorded over five days last June in a reconverted horse stable, is understated indie-rock existing between the meticulous and spontaneous. On “Threads,” Lauren sings “Not much foundation/flimsy construction” before concluding the song with a phrase that could…
All fired up
When Jeff Overmars and his wife lived in Toronto a few years ago, a Sunday potluck at Dufferin Grove Park’s bake oven was part of their routine. The weekly event made a community hub out of the winning combination of public space and good food. When the pair moved into a yardless condo, they took…
42
Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball’s colour barrier in the routine, but charismatic 42. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (a blubbering crank of a Harrison Ford) decides to stir the pot by hiring a negro player, against the advice and threats of his league, his advisors and most of the baseball-attending public. Playing in the…
Orchid’s Curse
Halifax’s metal ambassadors Orchid’s Curse’s latest, Words, reads like a dissertation from the heavier side of the tracks. All the traditional metal motifs are here, from the pseudo-religious iconoclasm of the cover art to the sort of lyrical symbolism that goes best with double kick drum. In the tirade against consumerism, “Indifferences,” Hogan screams “Apathy…
Letters to the editor, April 11, 2013
HEADS AND HEARTS I can tell you from first-hand accounts of trying to help more than one friend through mental health crises—the health system here has no idea what to do if you go into the emergency room in crisis (“Remembering Alex,” Reality Bites by Michaela Cavanagh, April 4). We had to leave and call…
Revolution
Junior high biology lessons are passed off for life-changing revelations in the ecological mess Revolution. This follow-up to his 2006 film Sharkwater, finds Canadian conservationist Rob Stewart refuting his entire previous movie, as it’ll be impossible to save the sharks if the entire ocean dies off from climate change. Stewart travels to several locales (admitting…
Berry treasure
Some businesspeople talk about their work in a manner that speaks of self-interest. Logie Cassels has a tendency to speak quickly, but his interests aren’t strictly his own. “Nova Scotia is an amazing place,” he says. “And it’s worthy of more than just the paltry lip service it gets.” Cassels is the managing director for…
Back to our roots
Never has a cold, dark, damp basement seemed so appealing. Thanks to the revival of the root cellar, the usually unfavourable qualities found on the bottom level of many old homes in town are actually ideal for those seeking fridge-free cold storage, and perhaps a little springtime project. Traditional cold storage can take many forms,…
Graham Parker & the Rumour
A caustic, key performer in 1970s UK pub rock that begat punk, Parker has never really stopped. He’s managed to reassemble the sextet from his best early albums, such as Howlin’ Wind. The playing on Three Chords Good is less fierce, as are his vocals. The songs are another matter. Parker skewers the military disconnect…
Strangelove
Lily is a teenage girl trying to make sense of her past. Luc is a fallen angel looking for redemption. They fall in love. In an apocalyptic future, a Demon Slayer tracks down Airie, a half- human/half-goddess and soon they face an epic battle with demons. They fall in love too. Meanwhile, Jamie, a female…
Beauty clean
Halifax Seed 5860 Kane Street, 454-7456 All Ways Us Bath Bomb It’s amazing how much a little cube can change your tub-time experience. These hand-crafted bath bombs are made using natural ingredients and packaged using eco-friendly materials. Talk about clean. Pete’s Frootique 1515 Dresden Row, novascotiafisherman.com Nova Scotia Fisherman Soap This hand-poured bar is 100…
Gianna Lauren’s On Personhood of interest
Do you believe in magic? On Friday at Gus’ Pub, Gianna Lauren releases On Personhood, her enchanting new six-track album. Recorded at The House of Miracles, a converted 1860s horse stable in Cambridge, Ontario, Lauren says the experience was charmed. The CKDU staffer can’t wait to show off her new studio band, Justin Nace, JJ…
Reading list
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Gracia and Margaret Stohl. A New York Times bestseller about a young teenage girl battling between good and evil forces. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. A modern story about demon hunters that is currently being adapted into a film. Bitten by Kelly Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld series). Get a…
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! Aries (March 21-April 19) Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting. I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you’re ready to shed the disguises that have been…
Psychic potential
“Everybody has the potential to be psychic.” It’s not quite the opinion you might expect to hear from a reverend, but Carmen Dugas-Mattatall is not your average religious leader. She first fell in love with the Spiritual Science Fellowship in the early-’90s when she tagged-along with a friend and ended up getting a message from…
Fine vines
Why was making organic wine a priority for you at L’Acadie? I was a winemaker in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in the beginning of my career and saw many conventional vineyards use synthetic fertilizers for greedy, higher crop yields and then have to spray many dangerous pesticides to react to diseases in their artificially high-vigour,…
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Imagine your life punctuated by strange talismans—taxidermy, a narwhal’s tooth— illustrated by forgotten items of clothing—an old cardigan, a slip—set in motion by an antique opal found on the ground. Imagine your life in footnotes. Now imagine you are young and sent to live in Paris against your will. Imagine you get there and do…
For Zuppa Theatre Co., size matters
If you’re looking for a big ticket show chock-full of drama, romance, magic and exotic destinations…you might want to head next door to Neptune’s Fountain Hall. Set in present-day Halifax, The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions follows Francis, a military translator coming home from Afghanistan after receiving news of a family crisis. “The whole play takes place…
Paranormal primer
Young adult: The teen subgenre covers a wide range of titles that deal with romance, drama and triumph over adversity. This category is one of the most popular in entertainment—from the beloved TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the recent Twilight film franchise. For the latest hit, check out Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s The…
The Art of Sufficient Conclusions
“The desire for facts and the need for fiction are often interchangeable….” And that is exactly the attitude Sarah Dearling takes in her newest novel. I have difficulty calling it a novel because the ever-tenuous genre does not quite apply. Half-memoir, half-fiction, The Art of Sufficient Conclusions follows a young, troubled teacher who stands in…
On Parade
Quiet Parade, a five-piece lyrically driven band who won your vote for three years running in the Coast Best of Music readers’ survey for Best Band To Enjoy Quietly, wears its heart on its sleeve. The band releases its new EP, Old Haunts, on April 12 at The Company House. Old Haunts deals with the…
Advice from a gay bishop
Q I’m a gay man who has been seeing a devout Christian gay guy for one year. We have a great relationship. We have many of the same interests and respect each other’s feelings and beliefs. However, I am a Catholic who is not that religious, and he is an Orthodox Christian. Some of his…
Go Berserker
Get unplugged this month with Berserker Lion. On April 12, 19 and 26 the music collective will be hosting shows at Rockbottom Brewpub. Showcasing groups like The Stogies, The Lucy Grays, Willie Stratton and Minus World, the acoustic-themed event aims at bringing artists of all styles together. Creators Bethany Fulde and Justin MacPherson Wiles started…
Love Water Memory
When Lucie Walker comes to, she’s knee-deep in the San Francisco Bay with no recollection of how she got there. Lucie, now an amnesiac, is quickly claimed by her former-fiance—a stranger she now has to try and fall back in love with—and, as it turns out, is not much of a likable person. As she…
I’ve seen so much litter that even the worst dump sites don’t surprise me
“I can’t believe that people litter like this.” I’ve heard variations on this phrase repeated so many times. Sometimes by people who are angry at ‘litterers’ (as if they were some definitive sub-class of humans). Other times by folks who are genuinely confused by the lack of care that others show for their surroundings. And…
There’s something in the water
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time,” Sue Goyette offers up this quote by André Gide as a good summary of the feelings behind her latest collection, aptly titled Ocean (Gaspereau Press). Goyette readily states that she would never have written Ocean if…
Natural selection
Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road Earth Elementals Laundry Soap Make a clothes call and use this locally made, toxin, cruelty, dye and fragrance free, biodegradable, fair trade and organic detergent. Super Natural 5755 Young Street, 454-9999 Seventh Generation Dish Soap Essential oils and botanical extracts are the only things making this detergent smell so…
Shotgun Jimmie is Everything all at once
When Shotgun Jimmie rolls into Michael’s Bar & Grill on Saturday, he’ll probably be the happiest guy in town. The Sackville-turned-Manitoban one-man rock ‘n’ roll band releases Everything, Everything, 16 diverse four-track recordings on clear vinyl with special guests like Julie Doiron and trombones. He reunites with Jon McKiel and Old & Weird, also joined…
The new normal
If there was a time and a place to feed your hungry child, when and where would it be? For most mothers, it’s far from that simple. Entrepreneur and mother-of-three Hannah Gibson is one of them. A restaurant owner of five years with three sons under six, there aren’t many hours in a day that…
Legally Blonde: The Musical
Don’t judge a book by its cover. That’s the message of the romantic-comedy musical Legally Blonde, and also my advice to anyone who is thinking of missing it. It may not be Shakespeare, but it is sharp, stylish and sexy. It’s a non-stop parade of jaw-dropping dance numbers (choreographed by Chad McNamara), eye-popping fashions (by…
All roads lead to home
You’re both really well-travelled. When did your focus shift to exploring locally? Gillian Wesley: It’s something that happened naturally. Drew has lived all around the province, Pictou County, Clare, East Hants and Halifax. For the past five years his work has taken him to almost every region and town in the province, and whenever possible…
Built to last
Building a renewable energy source sounds kind of complicated, doesn’t it? It’s probably the type of project that would take a team of experts, right? What do you think would happen if a group of people, who only sort of knew what they were getting themselves into, went for it and embraced any challenges or…
The grace of God
Hawksley Workman first strode upon the Canadian music scene in the death throes of the last century, a furs-and-feather-boa swaddled, sexually ambiguous, cabaret-loving rock star, as if David Bowie and Liza Minnelli had a keening, bastard son. In recent years, though, he’s shirked much of that theatricality in both his music and performance. Now a…
Sew it goes
Laura Walton has a thing for rescuing used clothing. Her little home-sewing room houses stacks and stacks of various-sized, brightly-coloured cotton t-shirts just waiting for new life. A love of fashion and second hand duds lead Walton to start recycling and re-imagining used garments, and eventually her needle and thread lead her to Cinderella Sew.…
Common grounds
Being on one of the city’s busiest corners, what kind of response were you getting from passersby? The vast majority of the city never got out of their cars, but on the other hand we’ve had I’d say thousands—hundreds for sure—of people coming through the site. In the height of the summer I would say…
A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time Being is an original and powerful story that blurs the lines of reality as it alternates between the diary of sixteen-year-old Nao, a Japanese girl who is heavily bullied and planning to commit suicide, and a struggling novelist, Ruth, living on a remote island in British Columbia who finds the…
Milking it
Patience is a virtue definitely held by the members of the East Coast Organic Milk Co-operative. It’s been over seven years, and a ton of hard work, since a bright-white idea cropped up among a small group of green-minded farmers who saw a void and knew just how to fill it. “They realized that there…
Water works
In a city where it feels like it’s always raining, an issue we could all stand to be better informed on is stormwater. Monsterous downpours, awful sideways rain, perfect snowfalls washed away within days—sure, these common occurrences are irritating, but the unpredictable precipitation around these parts is putting a beating on water treatment facilities, and…
Quake Matthews
On Halifax rapper Quake Matthews’ third full-length album, Corrado, Fairview’s favourite son drops knowledge rivaling rappers twice his age. Starting off with the atmospheric “Feel,” Matthews swiftly attacks 14 tracks with Illmatic-era bravado, unleashing positively charged Beatles shoutouts (“Let It Be”), Marxist-levels of financial disillusionment (“I Hate Money,” “Lucy”) and heady trip-hop (“Old Ghosts”). Deploying…
Something Totally Wicked this way comes
Back by popular demand, The Totally Wicked Music Festival is returning to the Khyber Center on April 13. The event was created in 1999, when a couple of friends decided to turn funny band names into real bands. Initially names were assigned to different people, who were then responsible for putting together a band and…
Tiny but mighty
With her mind on the next generation, Jillian Farris is joining the force of small businesses that are helping to paint Gottingen Street green. She spent the winter patiently awaiting, and plotting the arrival of her eco-conscious child care centre, A Tiny Lab, which will move into the work-in-progress 2172 Gottingen Street—the same building that’ll…
The Rehtaeh Parsons story in context
As the Rehtaeh Parsons tragedy becomes known, Halifax suddenly finds itself on the world stage, being called “Canada’s Steubenville.” Is that a fair characterization? In terms of the general outline of events, as we know them now, probably. Allegedly the victim of a rape by four high school students, and then secondly victimized by the…
Kate Walchuk’s kitsch party
Kate Walchuk is in pretty good shape. After graduating NSCAD in 2011, the young artist spent a year as a self-proclaimed roadie, travelling around with friends whose bands were touring. Amidst the parties and performances, Walchuk fell in love with something most people consider to be a scam: souvenirs. With that came the inspiration for…
Onelight Theatre’s mise en move
Get thee to a ferry! It’s officially time to make the trek across the harbour with Onelight Theatre’s move to Alderney Landing. The announcement of the move was made on Monday, April 8. Artists, executives and members of the community filled Alderney Landing, excited to welcome Onelight to Dartmouth. The event featured musical performances by…
NSCAD sticks it to ’em
In a city ridden with universities and colleges, it’s hard for every school to share the spotlight equally. At least this is the view of many NSCAD students and alumni who often watch their school’s triumphs and newsworthy accomplishments get cast aside as the light is shone on bigger, more prominent post-secondary spots. Well, the…
