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Once again, walking to work I was cut off in an intersection by someone speeding through in front of me. Had I not stopped walking through they would have hit me. I looked at their faces to see if they might have just missed my presence there, but there were staring right at me, laughing…
I took my dad to get some blood work done this Saturday and it was a few hours wait. They serviced over 1,000 people, and my appreciation goes to the staff, who were very patient and understanding. However, the most thoughtful act came from a young blonde woman with a nose ring. After waiting for hours,…
Apartment hunting in this city is a mess! Reading ads on Kijiji, you can’t even rent a room in this city for under 600 bucks. Now these landlords are getting real choosy. Ads say, “students only,” “girls only,” etc. Sounds like a bunch of perverts. Why does it have to be a student? Students can’t…
I’d like to know what clinical moron invented the standard bathtub, which is a completely subpar invention for anyone above four feet tall who wasn’t born with a super-bendy gooseneck. Poured myself a hot bath to nurse my raging PMS cramps, but my knees, tits and most importantly my gut sticks out a foot above…
When Sloan dropped Navy Blues in 1998, it was after a few tumultuous years of attempted solo side projects and the hard work of cracking the U.S. market. Perhaps the reason why people went so nuts for the record was because it was proof their favourite band had weathered the storm—and still had its same sense…
After seven years and thousands of brunch-time sweet & saltys, EDNA has been sold. Owner Jenna Mooers announced today the sale of the much-beloved Gottingen Street eatery and its building, as well as jane’s catering and events, the next-door catering business and storefront take-away owned by her mother, Jane Wright. But don’t fret—everything is…
I was in a rush last year and just wanted a bottle of wine for company coming, and you offered to let me put your purchase on my Air Miles card. You were so incredibly cute and my gaydar kind of went off. I still think of you and how cute and sweet you were. —…
There’s a special place in hell for “friends” who date their friend’s exes without a care or a second thought. Apparently you’ve never heard of girl code. I guess loyalty is too much to expect in friendships of today’s climate, but would a little common consideration be too much to ask? There’s a whole city’s…
After dropping an album that proved the duo still has lots to say—and still knows how cut a deep groove—in 2019’s Let’s Rock, the Black Keys are coming to Halifax. Hitting the Scotiabank Centre May 5 at 7:30pm, the six-time-Grammy-winning blues rock duo will share the stage with The Sheepdogs and Early James, kicking off…
Since moving to Halifax in 1989, Paul Hannon has been primarily recognized for his paintings of urban and coastal scenes in Atlantic Canada. But in his new show at Chase Gallery, Selected Drawings & Watercolours (co-curated with Coast art critic Mollie Cronin), Hannon’s drawings take centre stage. Dating back to 1994, the show includes swimmers…
He’s been, it feels, a star poised to shoot from the start: Selling out spaces like The Carleton to fellow students to see their favourite indie-folkster sing about love and growing up. Winning prizes like the Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Award for Best New Band and the SOCAN Award For Young Canadian Songwriters. Earning…
Q I’m a 30-year-old bi male. I’ve been with my wife for five years, married nine months. A month into our relationship, I let her know that watching partners with other men has always been something I wanted and that sharing this had caused all my previous relationships to collapse. Her reaction was the opposite…
As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most…
Angel Bat Dawid w/NAT Chantel, New Hermitage Sat Jan 25, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20/PWYC When she was young, Angel Bat Dawid went with her father to watch the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus. It was there that everything clicked for her: she wanted to be a musician. “I remember sitting in…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18) I’m a big fan of self-editing. For example, every horoscope I write evolves over the course of at least three drafts. For each book I’ve published, I have written but then thrown away hundreds of pages that I ultimately deemed weren’t good enough to be a part of the…
Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore Tue-Fri noon-5pm 2177 Gottingen Street Of all the doors lining Gottingen Street, only one is as bright yellow as a banana or sunflower petal. Only one is a secret portal to shelves lined with work by some of the city’s most exciting artists. Only one leads to Eyelevel Artist…
Handmade Film Screening from Coast to Coast Tue Jan 28, 7-9pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Free The Handmade Film Collective is partnering with the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative to organize a free screening celebrating the art of handmade, analogue film. The screening—a much-needed cure to the glut of CGI on view at the…
A year ago, Linda Emberley had dozens of questions about her past. This year, she has a dozen more. In January 2019, Emberley told The Coast that due to laws in Nova Scotia, she had to wait to receive access to her adoption records. Under the Nova Scotia Adoption Act, records aren’t public, but adoptees…
Advocates say that HRM needs to make drastic changes to how it cares for people with substance-use problemsin our city. Harry Critchley, vice chair of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and Leah Genge, a physician with specialty in addiction who works at Mobile Outreach Street Health and Direction 180, urged the Board of Police…
Sub-par bars I feel Vicky Levack’s pain (“There’s nothing spontaneous about a night out in Halifax for someone who uses a mobility device,” Cover story by Caora McKenna, January 16, 2020). I live in the Valley and although I am not as young as Levack, just getting out to a coffee shop that is a…
The vacancy rate in Halifax has fallen to a measly one percent, lower than most cities across the country. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) the vacancy rate dropped to one percent in 2019—meaning that, on average, only one percent of rental units were available at any given time. Availability of two-bedroom…
Almost all of the shelves are bare now. They are so close to closing. The Newfoundland Store has been at the corner of Willow and Clifton practically since before your nanny and poppy were born. And now we are the ones who witness its last days. The shelves. They were built more than 50…
One of Shambhala Buddhism’s most prominent figures announced she’s stepping down as a senior teacher. Pema Chödrön, best-selling author and Buddhist nun, has had a decades-long association with Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton. She sent a letter to the Shambhala board announcing her resignation from her position as an acharya, then shared it more broadly…
If Halifax’s business scene is like a forest, it’s a joy to see new saplings take root (for example, here’s a look at what a batch of newbies are up to on the waste-reduction front). And there’s an existential ache when a towering old-growth tree falls. Sure, some death is useful to foster life…
The Hyde Inquiry. The Wortley Report. The Fraser and Gardner trials. Constable Joseph Farrow’s assault charge. Indigenous, Black, people of colour, trans and nonbinary people have been calling this out forever, but the outrageous violence Santina Rao experienced at the hands of police last week has to be the last straw for Halifax’s tolerance of…
