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Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe and ex-vampire Robert Pattinson will star in The Lighthouse, a horror film set in Nova Scotia in the 20th century. Unlike Maudie, the movie will also shoot in the province. It’s being directed by Robert Eggers, whose debut The Witch (AKA The VVitch) was a modest hit in 2016. Pattinson, whose…
Ship’s Company Theatre announced its upcoming slate on Saturday in Parrsboro. “This is going to be a season with plays by two women and a young African Nova Scotian,” says Ship’s artistic director Natasha MacLellan. Kicking off the season July 4 will be Hook, Line and Sinner, the final part of the Sister Salter trilogy…
Denim, wool, cotton fleece and Indian silk sarees are just some of the leftover fabrics Anthony Reynolds is using after graduating from the fashion and merchandising program at daVinci College in September. Reynolds, 34, created an Instagram account for his line, åntrēy as a “creative exploration” towards making unique garments. Since January, Reynolds has dedicated…
“I found I was getting sick quite often, and I just wasn’t eating any fruits or vegetables. It was just rice and protein, that’s really all I was eating.” That’s how Adam Savory was eating before Halifax’s Mobile Food Market came to Spryfield. These days, he gets his veggies in by ordering one of the market’s…
Fox Hill Market & Deli 2760 Robie Street Before owning El Gallo Mexican Cuisine, Ivonne Rand was a tailor at Winchester’s (now Chester & Felicity) Bridal. She moved to Halifax in 1998, and her daughter Carolina Quintana-Kohut followed her a year later. Tucked safely in her luggage were 12 pounds of corn tortillas—a Mexican staple…
After yet another in-camera debate about Matt Whitman’s conduct, mayor Mike Savage is eager to explore hiring an integrity commissioner at city hall “I’m prepared to revisit that,” Savage told reporters after Tuesday’s council meeting. “I think it may be something we need to do so that we can get an impartial person to give…
We base our arguments about environmental issues on sound research and evidence. Sometimes people challenge us—which is often positive, as informed debate leads to greater knowledge. But many challenges come from people with suspect motives. In comments, letters and opinion articles, people spread nonsense from the likes of Ezra Levant, Tim Ball, Tom Harris and…
An inspirational figure who spent several decades fighting for peace around the world has passed away. Betty Peterson has died at the age of 100. The American-born activist, who served as a role model to a generation of women in Nova Scotia, leaves behind a lifetime of work battling inequality. “She’s been a familiar sight…
The majority of people agree that gun culture in the US is insane, and it seems a change may finally be underway. However, one company has officially refused to stop delivering special benefits into the bloody hands of NRA members: FedEx. But even if you don’t care about guns, maybe you care about endangered species,…
Matt Whitman walked away from an in-camera discussion on public complaints held Tuesday, refusing to take part in a debate on councillor conduct largely centred on his own words and actions. It didn’t go his way. After a two-and-a-half hour discussion behind closed doors, council voted 12-3 that Whitman was guilty of breaching the municipal…
Your playing is lovely and your smile is sunshine, I can hardly keep my eyes from wandering back to the viola section. This month has been extra tough for me, and I’m feeling especially grateful that we have an amazing orchestra here. —Under 30, 16-dollar Seat Related Stories
Yes, I will marry you. Love you forever and take care of too. We will be friends and it will never end. Nothing needs to change, no need to re-arrange. My heart beats only for you. —Avocado
I just finished eating a foot-long, cold cut sub with cheese, thinking I was being healthy. I just decided to look up the nutritional info to give myself a pat on the back, but wait – this fucking thing I just at was 900 calories and a whopping 50 grams of fat. Holy shit! I…
When you left, I never thought I’d never be happy again. Three years later? My career is taking off, my girlfriend is gorgeous, and you’re getting old doing the same stupid nonsense you were always doing. Even if we never talk again, I got the last laugh. —JD
Soon you might not need a patio to party downtown. A staff report headed to city council this week wants to make it easier for outdoor events to allow public drinking on Argyle and Grafton. The proposed amendment to the Municipal Alcohol Policy would create a new category of “HRM Streets Where Alcohol is Permitted When…
Get it together. Your broke-ass, drunk as fuck self isn’t charming any more. Ditch the booze, ditch the men, and start loving and respecting yourself. Do whatever it takes so that you can be happy again. You have been sabotaging yourself for far too long. Boom. —Your Life
Nova Scotians are spoiled for choice when it comes to protesting their government. In what’s practically become an annual tradition, this week hundreds of people will once again gather outside Province House demanding change and voicing their opposition to a growing portfolio of disappointments. The Nova Scotians Rise Up event—scheduled for noon on the 27—will…
I swear to fuck this city is one festering pile of fuck. Garbage everywhere you look. The street is not a land fill for fuck sakes. It’s not just coffee cups, it’s big fucking piles of fuck. How many times can I say fuck? —Argh!
To the cute guy who I let in front of me this morning, just over the MacDonald bridge—wonder if you’ll ever see this? Thanks for the morning smile. —Girl In The Chevy
To the dudes at a north end cafe blasting mostly shitty hip hop remixes on their laptops. I don’t go blasting my music/ tv shows/ movies what have you in cafes and restaurants…know why? Because it’s rude. Not everybody wants to hear your music blasting throughout the cafe. Don’t think so? How would you like…
So what is up with these second-hand/thrifty stores and their ridiculous pricing? The items in these stores were donated to them. A lot of the donations coming from the very people who shop there. Clothing items are priced as much as if bought in a retail store. In a retail store I do not have…
Two top Cancuk DJs spin new beats, a graffiti-infused art show lands at The Dart and the F.A.M.E. Fashion Show brings some swagger to Spryfield for a weekend full of hip hop-esque energy that’ll have your brain firing faster than Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther soundtrack. F.A.M.E: Fashion, Art, Music, Eat Sunday The annual celebration featuring haute…
“A s a young boy people called me Mr. Food,” says Dwayne Green confidently, discussing his role as chef and owner of the newly-opened restaurant, Jamaica Vibes. “By the time I was seven I was making Sunday dinner for the family, and I don’t mean simple things, but complicated dishes like lights”—pork, goat or sheep…
Sally Potter’s fierce and funny The Party, shot in sharp black and white with a total run time of 71 minutes (bless), moves and feels like a one-act play. Its stars an international slate of actors, as many films do, but the members of this small cast—Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall and Emily Mortimer (British),…
Stephen McNeil’s government is looking to railroad Nova Scotians into an overhaul of school administration based only on some thinly supported recommendations from a partisan education consultant. We should all be worried. A report from the Commission on Inclusive Education is due back in March. So why are changes being rushed based only on the…
For the past three years, Nicholas Kingsland has made his income sharing hyper-partisan news stories about American politics on social media. His livelihood involves spreading polarizing content across multiple Facebook pages to an easily riled, mostly right-wing audience—generating revenue by sharing links and driving high volumes of traffic to other websites. But Kingsland isn’t mining this…
In front of a Westin Hotel ballroom full of Atlantic Canadian business leaders and politicians, a panel discussion on minimum wage quickly became about how—not if—Nova Scotia could hike its wages to $15 an hour. The event, held last Friday, was facilitated by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council to help flesh out the local complexities…
It’s torture watching this loop play over and over again: Public money filling the already-deep pockets of the corporate elite, while they hypocritically tout the mantra of the free market economy. Last week the feds announced that Ocean Supercluster, a consortium claiming to be Atlantic Canada based—including big names like Emera, Clearwater, Petroleum Research Newfoundland…
In the middle of winter, it’s tempting to do everything possible to escape the cold. What would it look like, though, to embrace winter’s icy grip? To find warmth and community in the deep freeze? It might look something like the Nova Scotia Icewine Festival, an annual event in the Annapolis Valley that showcases for…
African Nova Scotian Music Association awards show Saturday, February 24, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $15-$59 902-494-3820 People across the country celebrated as Toronto-born artist Alessia Cara won a Grammy last month. This month Nova Scotia will celebrate one of our own who was integral in that accomplishment, Cara’s music director Dean Jarvis.…
Willow Cioppa’s KREAM residency February 19-24 Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis St. Poetry reading: Fri Feb 23, 6-8pm Collective Care Among Marginalized Communities workshop: Sat Feb 24, 2-4pm Willow Cioppa understands care the way some of us might understand the ocean—elemental, necessary and deeply inspiring. Cioppa, a Montreal-based writer and poet, has just…
Stella’s Antiguan Cuisine Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market 1209 Marginal Road It’s been about 20 years since Stella Thomas introduced a lot of Haligonians to the flavours of the West Indies at Starlite Cuisine, a bright and cozy cafe that was tucked onto Cornwallis Street for just over a decade. After taking some time off to…
Art star Wonderful and motivating story on your New Art issue cover subject (“Emmanuel Nwogbo,” New Art feature by Morgan Mullin, Feb 15). I’m proud of Emmanuel Nwogbo. Nigeria is also. Cheers. —posted at thecoast.ca by Azeh Praise Our water’s safe We are writing in response to “Is our water safe?”—the letter from Dana Landry…
Nothing irks Jamaicans more than the miscategorization of jerk. (Well, that and people randomly shouting “irie man” as a primary greeting and asking “Have you seen Cool Runnings?”) Jerk, as a stand-alone term, is not a seasoning blend but rather the process by which meat, poultry, fish, seafood and vegetables are seasoned and cooked—it’s a…
Q I’m an 18-year-old female. I’m cisgender and bisexual. I’ve been in a monogamous relationship with my cisgender bisexual boyfriend for about a year. I’m currently struggling with a lot of internalized biphobia and other hang-ups about my boyfriend’s sexuality. I don’t know if I’m projecting my own issues onto him or if I’m just being bigoted…
Caribbean Bliss 3619 Novalea Drive Elias Fathallah hates cooking. “But I love to clean,” he says with a laugh. Luckily Caribbean Bliss has Rickey Smith, a chef who has been in the kitchen since before Fathallah bought the business in September of last year. Only a few minutes later he’s putting rice on the stove…
When Paul Hill moved to Halifax in 1994, he missed Montego Bay’s food more than its sunshine. With the aromas of jerk chicken and pork a recent memory, he started experimenting with his own sauce recipe, playing with ingredients on a quest to strike the right balance. “Two years ago I went back to Jamaica…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20) In her novel The Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in…
Jamaica Lee Style various locations streetfoodapp.com/halifax Ludlow Lee learned everything he knows about cooking from watching his mother work her magic in the kitchen. “Every time she cooked something I would like, I would try it and then I would go try and make it,” says the co-owner of Jamaica Lee Style. But he’s come…
Name: Anita Cenac Age: 25 Spotted: West Street Wearing: Jacket, King’s PIER Curated Collections; sweater, Zara; pants, Saks Off Fifth; shoes, Aldo How would you describe your style? Kind of all over the place? I dressed based on mood so it changes frequently. Who/where do you derive inspiration from when putting together an outfit? Recently…
