Letters to the Editor
I’m writing to let you know I enjoyed the cover article “On the Road” in last week’s Coast (June 15). I am an avid cyclist and am proud of my choice for environment, economical and health reasons. I can also sympathize with many of the interviewees- I’ve been yelled at, honked at, run off the…
Letters to the Editor
I loved the Special Issue’s piece on day-tripping in NS. However, and I say this not to discourage folks from going, but to correct your writer:there are no sand beaches in Parrsboro where you can go ‘rockhounding’. Mudflats maybe, but not sand as we think of when we say ‘sand beaches’ s. In fact, even…
Letters to the Editor
Bruce Wark’s “Halifax’s Dirty Little Secret” was perhaps a little close to the bone for HRM’s top politico than Wark realized. Hey, it all starts on the homefront. There’s a 15ish year old kid in Bedford- suspended from school (fact), labeled by HRM Police as “evil” (fact), and has been linked to drug use (rumour).…
Letters to the Editor
Well the cats out of the bag and not a moment too soon. I’m so glad people are finally starting to catch onto what most people in our fine city have known for years. Violence and street crime is out of hand in HRM. As a Musician/Bartender the downtown core is where I spend most…
Letters to the Editor
It has come to my attention that the Halifax Regional School Board has an overwhelming surplus of 3 million dollars. I am a Library Support Specialist in the HRM. Last week I was told the devastating news that my position would be cut by 50%. I am currently working at 90%. This is a HUGE…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Where the sidewalk ends
Regarding the article “where the sidewalk ends” can you publish an article on the “young offenders act” please? We need to know what we are up against in Halifax. Does the young offender’s act for instance allow young people to take offense to this, to rise up from their ranks and set a shining example.…
Letters to the Editor
re; T. Crilley’s ‘Screwed on Sunday’ letter to editor question ‘Does no one see the hypocrisy here?’ Yes I see the hypocrisy and it’s only the beginning of the obsurdity that exists in this lost culture, it’s really sad. I was attempting to explain the whole ‘no shopping on Sunday in Canada’ thing to a…
Smith for President
A couple months after Paul Greenhalgh jumped ship for OCAD, NSCAD University has named its new president. David B. Smith is an alumnus of NSCAD and MIT and has been a faculty member at the University of San Diego since 1997. He is currently the chair of the school’s art department, and Special Assistant to…
Sleepless sides
Alt-rock orchestra The Sleepless Nights has returned to Halifax from Montreal with its first EP ready to go. The five-song record, titled Hang Up, was recorded over a few months between the Nova Scotia Community College and a home on Compton Avenue. Aaron Wallace hints the band is ready to blitz the Canadian market with…
A piece of Persia
Shiraz restaurant opened last month in the small, bright purple building near the corner of Hollis and South. Shiraz serves a variety of Persian dishes, including lamb and chicken kabobs, rice dishes, salads and soups. Food is available for both eat-in (there are a couple of stools inside, but space is at a premium) and…
Law flaws
Nova Scotia’s anti-Sunday shopping law: Law, or meekly-enforced suggestion? Discuss. Personally, we’re inclined to go with “suggestion” after the events of last week. The Atlantic Superstore on Barrington Street first skirted the Sunday shopping ban on June 11, and consequently kicked the floodgates wide open—as in, province-wide. Last week, Sobeys responded to the Superstore venture…
Screwed on Sunday
To the editor, It’s frustrating and unfair that business owners now have to resort to loopholes to service the obvious demand for more shopping hours. Can you say double standard? You can go the drug store, you can go see a movie, you sure as hell can go drink and gamble, but if you’re out…
Drunken slugfest
Dear Lezlie Lowe, Thanks for “Slug it Out” (Lowedown, June 15). Slugs are a pain in the ass, especially here in the south end. So, like you: my precious new plants, that I spent a month putting in my garden…eaten. Sure enough, the culprits were slugs and snails. So I put out what is called…
The day the music died
To the editor, The days of “good times and great oldies” are numbered, my friends. The songs you’ve loved to listen to again and again are being reformatted for a new adult contemporary station on your FM dial (as opposed to 96 on the AM). The conversion should be complete between July and August of…
School of corrections
Dear Mike Fleury, I enjoyed your rant about the school board (Reality Bites, June 8). As a substitute teacher, I’ve had a few myself. I just wanted to point out that the survey didn’t “request teachers to anonymously disclose their sexual orientation.” It was not anonymous at all, and that was the problem. The part…
Lunch with Bill
Journalism’s cool club, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, allowed The Coast to join its rarified ranks three years ago. Actually, to be perfectly cocky, they welcomed us with open arms, calling The Coast “the classic admissions-committee no-brainer.” Since then, we’ve gone to AAN’s annual club meeting to rub shoulders and share common problems with our…
The green mile
The greening of the Grand Parade is an idea both promoted and protested—promoted by environmentalists who want to see it turned into a car-free space, such as a skating rink, and protested by some Halifax Regional Municipality councillors who don’t want to lose their parking spots. But a “green corridor,” the result of a study…
Where the sidewalk ends
Giles Oland and his girlfriend Dawn MacPhee discovered what one expert calls “Halifax’s dirty little secret” on a Friday night last October. The couple, in their late twenties, spent a relaxing evening enjoying dinner with friends at a downtown restaurant. They stopped for a nightcap at a bar on Argyle and then, at about 1am,…
Nacho Libre
The shared outlook of Nacho Libre and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is that foreigners are indeed very foreign. The white-centric stance of both movies is unsophisticated, but not uninteresting. By moving away from US soil, these films aim for exoticism, not understanding. Only Nacho Libre, with its good-natured storybook tones, really gets…
Life and times
Full of raw talent, hip-hop and R&B enthusiast Kaleb Simmonds took the country by storm in 2004, infusing AOR radio hits with an aesthetic he learned on the streets and in the churches of Dartmouth. Over two years on after his top-seven placing on Canadian Idol, the 23-year-old artist is finally ready to take on…
It takes a village
It’s a typical early summer rainy day when I hop into the newly renamed and renovated Greek Village (formerly the Greek House). It looks like a diner, with booths, a window through to the kitchen, and the counter displaying desserts, which we later discover are fabulous. The server is quick with an offer of a…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Turn down the lion and turn up the fox, Aries, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage knows what Laura Bush and sane Scientologists share.
Walken talk
The release of Click this week brings with it the annual Christopher Walken summer appearance in a large studio comedy. In Click he stars opposite Adam Sandler as a mad scientist. Last summer had him as the dominating patriarch of a kooky rich family in Wedding Crashers (one could argue that he was the most…
Stop the presses
I hate that feeling—when you think of just the right thing to say five minutes after a conversation ends and you relive it over and over and over. My most irksome what-should-have-been moment in recent years took place during the Halifax protest for the visit of George W. Bush in December 2004. A reporter asked…
