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Kale Boucher and Jeff Lucas want to make their mark at Fisherman’s Cove. The pair of restaurant vets share 23 years’ experience between them—Boucher as a Red Seal chef, Lucas in both the front- and back-of-house—and have teamed up open Coastal Cook House (16 Government Wharf), a gourmet take-out restaurant on the scenic waterfront strip.…
Today, the one-of-a-kind, musical odyssey that is the OBEY convention announced its full lineup of artists who will be making their way to Halifax at the end of the month. Amongst the names we’re stoked for is Mary Jane Leach, a composer/performer whose mastery of the acoustical sciences can turn playing with tones into a…
Really good ice cream! Visible soil! Cool events! The Coast! Halifax, I missed you so much. No matter how many new buildings have popped up, how many new craters have appeared in the ground, and how many people have up and left for Toronto, you are still the place for me. I am so happy…
I had to leave Halifax because I could not afford to live there. I had a decent professional job with full benefits and pension. I worked in the arts sector and made about $50,000 a year—not bad for mid-level position with a non-profit in NS (my counterparts in Ottawa made $70,000 a year for the…
My neighbours and I haven’t had heat or hot water in three days thanks to our piece-of-shit slumlord who lets the oil tank run dry. I think he does this on purpose every now and then to save money. No tenants can use heat or hot water for a week, probably saving him a lot…
I hope to one day create a soup that you will love more then your 3am pizza slices. Until then buckle up! We are in for a soupy ride.—Can’t stop, won’t stop soup queen
The first time I noticed you was last summer, when your hair was a purple, hot mess. You had held the door open for me. I didn’t thank you because fuck that patriarchal sentiment. I quickly walked past but only after checking you out cause damn you’re good looking. Nowadays I can’t stop looking. You’ve…
Since moving to downtown Dartmouth, I sure don’t find the people to be very friendly here. One day, while walking home, I noticed a man slumped over a wall in front of the drugstore. I wondered if he was okay and looked back to check. My concern was met with an irate woman who was…
Why the fuck isn’t the city doing the road work at night, like all of Europe does?—Fiddler
Use your turn indicators well before your turn and stop wearing your ball caps backwards or to the side.—Walking with coffee
Cruise ship season in Halifax started a few weeks earlier than usual–hours ahead of a late spring #NSstorm. Over 1,200 passengers, aboard the Oceania Cruises’ vessel Marina, docked Monday morning for a crisp, maritime spring day. The first cruise ship of the season arrives in #Halifax while the municipality is under a snowfall warning #Sprinter…
Treat your eyeballs to some awesome art this weekend with a host of new shows, listen to stories from Africa at a dessert-included fundraiser, drop in to the Cannabis Sessions and don’t miss Juice Girls’ epic shoegaze pop. The Cannabis Sessions Saturday The Coast presents this one-day series of discussions that’ll help you demystify recreational…
Council’s work to get more wifi in more places gets a nudge after approving a public transit wifi pilot project, and looking into rejigging the locations of some public wifi locations. The approved pilot project will outfit 20 buses with wifi for 12 months and report back with a plan for wifi hotspots at three…
Myrna Gillis is no stranger to the long haul. Her cannabis company, Aqualitas, finally got its sales license just last week. An exciting step in her journey that began to take shape on paper back in 2015, and in reality much longer than that. For the Aqualitas staff of more than 50—most of them Nova…
The “average” lie Caora McKenna’s story on city council spending decisions repeats the convenient-to-quote fiction that the average home’s tax bill is $1,979 (“Money for tree and old people’s knees,” The City section, March 21). Council just approved a new tax rate which, combined with the province’s archaic property valuation system, will increase the tax…
Housing Nova Scotia is on track to meeting its target of applying an additional 500 rental subsidies to reduce the housing wait list. Last year the provincial government committed to reducing the wait list by 30 percent—almost doubling the number of rent supplements over three years. Rental supplements exist as an alternative to for the…
Both the municipality and the province have been steadily acquiring additional land to incorporate into parks. The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is working to secure more parkland in the Five Bridge Lakes Wilderness Area, just outside Halifax. It encompasses a 100-acre waterfront property along Frederick Lake. The Nature Trust was worried the private owner would…
Sour beer is a growing market in craft beer and brewers, bars and the NSLC are stepping up to meet the demand. A spokesperson for the NSLC says as of March the amount of sour beer sold has risen 125 percent compared to last year, bringing in roughly $8.3 million over the same time frame.…
On October 17 last year, Canada changed when recreational cannabis became legal. In most provinces, people lined the street outside their neighbourhood cannabis store to get their first taste of constitutional weed. But legalization is about much more than the ability to buy cannabis from a store. Our national identity has shifted: We’re now known…
WIth Canada being six months deep into legalization, many longtime cannabis users are finally coming out of the closet, breathing in that sweet sigh of relief. Unfortunately it’s not so easy for all of us. If you thought braving the stereotypical stoner image was tough, try doing it as a mother. For us mothers and…
Sue Siri, Drink Mallow Although Sue Siri doesn’t consume cannabis herself, she had an “a-ha” moment when her friend got way too high from eating edibles for the first time. Hearing of this sparked an idea: There’s an opportunity to help people who unintentionally get themselves in this situation. So Siri did extensive research to…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the US. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of…
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s already been six months since recreational cannabis was legalized and Organigram has learned a lot, says Ray Gracewood, Organigram’s chief commercial officer. “The legalization of this industry is a marathon and not a race,” he says. “Although we’ve come incredibly far, we still have a long way to…
QI’m an adult man, and I have developed a trans attraction after following a particular Tumblr blog. That blog is now gone, sadly, since all adult content has been purged from Tumblr. It wasn’t just porn, it consisted of all the things I really enjoy—images of oil paintings and antique furniture, scenic landscapes, wild animals…
Access to Choice Celebration Monday, April 8, 5:30pm Halifax Distilling Company 1668 Lower Water Street More info at halifax@leaf.ca Six years ago, when Dr. Henry Morgentaler died, many Atlantic Canadian abortion advocates felt disarmed and afraid. Morgentaler’s private clinic in Fredericton had provided most of New Brunswick’s abortions for years, each patient paying $750. The province…
Jean-Michel Blais w/Paper Beat Scissors Saturday, April 6, 7pm St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street $33 adv/$38 doors, sonicconcerts.com It’s early on a weekend morning and Jean-Michel Blais is already buzzing with energy. When Blais first picks up the phone, he’s in the middle of packing up boxes of merch for a jaunt from Montreal…
Omar Gandhi: Defining a Process Thursday, April 11, 7pm Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road, $15-$25, eventbrite.ca Omar Gandhi is a storyteller. The architect treats each building as a blank page onto which he weaves a narrative of time and place. “I want our projects to be an extension of a story,” he says. Before…
Sam Wilson Groundless Apprehensions release Sunday, April 7, 6:30pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $10 The jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, a St. FX music grad, is just 25 but she moves through music like an old soul. Her favourite guitarists are Americans like the octogenarian Kenny Burrell and the late Michael Hedges and Jim Hall;…
I’ve been intrigued by the Centre section of NSLC Cannabis since legalization. The verb conjures the kind of #successfulstoner energy I’m trying to emulate: A mindful dope-smoke inhale that envelopes an overactive imagination, sensitivity/anxiety and hamster-wheel thoughts, whose exhale releases a more present, clarified and laid-back self. As a medical patient, getting baked/blitzed/greening out is…
Social Smokers Club releases The Woods w/No, It’s Fine., Good Dear Good and Sore Loser Friday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8 Social Smokers Club started off as a high school English project about a book. It’s led to songs and booked shows around the Maritimes. When guitarist William Robbins and…
The Coast Cannabis Sessions hit Halifax on Saturday to get people talking and learning about weed. The event aimed to spread of knowledge about cannabis use, what can improve it and other helpful tips that all kinds of pot users may want to know. This included panels on the still-present stigma on pot use despite…
Time and time again the stories are told, and time and time again no change has come. For years, Nova Scotia’s Black community has been recounting stories of pain, frustration and fear in its interactions with police. Now, with the release of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission’s report on street checks, African Nova Scotians…
This Nova Scotian wine perfectly expresses our spring. Its rich, velvety, dark red berry flavours are the soft wool scarf you still need to wind around your throat to bury your chin before stepping outside. Its sweet heat is the wood fire that has been going since November, eating up your now dwindling supply in…
