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If you’re wondering why the Canadian Brewing Awards are such a big deal, consider the numbers. Over six days earlier this year, 48 judges weighed in on 55 categories and nearly 2,000 entries representing every province and territory (save for two) to land on the winners of the 16th annual industry awards. Those 48 folks…
Last week, Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax came under fire for assigning a white professor a course about the residential school system that housed Indigenous children for forced assimilation. The university picked a knowledgeable and well-meaning ally. And I am not here to discredit her. But I have long been a proponent of Indigenous…
Ted Coldwell, Colours from the Earth To June 3 ViewPoint Gallery, 1272 Barrington Street This is perhaps the easiest time of year to appreciate nature’s beauty. After spring draws itself out for as long as possible, we finally see our neighbourhoods settle into their summer skins, noting every day and relishing the smallest changes to…
“I get pretty obsessed and nerdy with everything I get into,” says Jake Foley, half of up-and-comer on the craft scene, Sourwood Cider. “I stumbled on some apple trees in Ottawa and took my first stab at it in 2011. The tree I found, it was this cool old tree with red flesh and small…
“People’s taste buds evolve and the trends evolve,” says Jeremy Taylor, head brewer and co-owner at 2 Crows Brewing. “A few years ago it was all about the super big IPAs that have a billion IBUs, and then in the past year or so it’s more on the juicy IPAs with less IBUs and people…
1. Mojito Kettle Sour 
 Roof Hound Brewing Co. (4.3% ABV, 17 IBU) Available now “We have made it before, but it has been reinvented with a new souring technique and a warm fermenting Norwegian yeast strain that creates citrus characters,” Roof Hound owner Les Barr explains via email. This beer is kettle soured, dry-hopped…
Halifax’s celebrity plant is pushing up daisies. The agave inside the Public Gardens has been killed by Nova Scotia’s chilly spring weather. Like so many of us in this town, it will never blossom. Municipal spokesperson Erin DiCarlo says gardeners haven’t seen much new growth from the plant since putting it outside and some of the…
It’s standard practice elsewhere in the world, but government officials say it won’t be happening in Halifax. The Halifax Convention Centre has no plans to offer financial incentives to attract business, promises Events East spokesperson Erin Esiyok-Prime. At least, not any more than has already been spent. The Crown corporation paid out just over $1…
Why is it, So hard to speak in person? Face to face, Or side by side? Did we not have, A better understanding, Of one another through that simplicity, And found logic, humanity and empathy. For the reasons, We wear our masks? Why do either one of us, Have to be so savage? Nothing has…
You can’t fault the customer service. 
City council voted on Tuesday to move forward for the second time with a public hearing for the controversial Willow Tree development at the corner of Quinpool Road and Robie Street. The decision was made after a last-minute scramble to once again rewrite HRM’s planning bylaws in order to…
After years of waiting, supporters of the old Khyber building can finally begin to rebuild. During a public hearing Tuesday night, Regional Council approved the sale of 1588 Barrington Street—the former location of the Khyber—to the non-profit 1588 Barrington Street Building Preservation Society for a nominal price of one dollar. The vote was met with…
According to an African proverb (and the Dalai Lama), “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.” The saying implies that even when we feel insignificant and powerless, we can create a buzz. But mosquitoes and other tiny critters can literally have a huge…
Hey stupidhead, Stop posting your ads under “jobs” saying you’re looking for work. We are all looking for work! These people need to apply to the jobs posted, like everybody else. No employers are going to go to them after reading their crappy misspelled one-liner ads. They are wasting the time of people who are…
“White teachers taught in residential schools, why shouldn’t white profs teach about its history?” It’s a satirical headline from Walking Eagle News, written about the recent controversy at Mount Saint Vincent University and the lack of Indigenous voices in academia. But the joke also speaks to the uneasy and ongoing tradition of white Canadians taking…
I’ve luckily made it halfway across the country with no rain. In Oklahoma, an almost tornado-level storm passed through, but I had already made it into the city and snapped this photo of its near-constant lightning. Leaving Oklahoma, I noticed this huge structure that looked like a waterslide—turns out it was a non-profit outdoors centre…
Thank you for letting me pet your tiny dog while you ordered coffee…just because I said I was sad. Thank you for asking why I was sad. I was unprepared for my own outburst of crying as I said “my best friend just died.” Her death was a long time coming (cancer), I just hadn’t…
I don’t like dogs. There, I said it. Most stink, they are animals after all, they shed, drool and use the outdoors as a bathroom. But what’s worse than dogs are idiot dog people. People who bring dogs into malls, doctors offices and around my children. I don’t want your stinky, dirty dog sniffing my…
I miss you. Every day. I’m just trying to do right, act right, be right. But sometimes I miss you so much it hurts. I hope you’re OK. —Fake Sean
It’s been two and a half years since I packed up my life and moved to Toronto—but Halifax, know that you’re missed greatly! I still find myself on the coast website from time to time, living vicariously through those who call the ocean’s playground their home. Maybe i’ll be back someday, but until then, know…
If you would like your bus to be on time, don’t be a part of the problem that causes delays! There are clear instructions posted everywhere in the bus to EXIT AT THE REAR DOOR. Each time a passenger exits at the front, it makes the people wanting to get on the bus have to…
Dive into summer head-first with some brand-new, locally made swimmers. Tonight Makenew (2698 Agricola Street) is summoning warm weather by hosting a Summer Swim Pop-up (Friday, May 18th from 8-10pm) with jams from DJ T-Woo, seasonal refreshments and special guests. Meet the designers behind Girl On The Moon—a line of hand-crocheted bikinis from Alison Durning—and Sueno…
While Meghan Markle cinches her princess status, we’ve got a host of ways to feel like a royal this Victoria Day holiday weekend—from traditional tea at the Lord Nelson to witnessing art rock queen Jasmyn Burke and her band Weaves at The Seahorse. Read on to make the most of the best days of the…
The annual Screen Nova Scotia Awards were handed out at the Casino last night, with Cory Bowles’ Black Cop, opening in Halifax June 1, winning Best Feature and the recently renewed Pure nabbing Best Television Series. The late actor John Dunsworth’s family was on hand to help announce the John Dunsworth Screen Actor’s Fund, in support…
At its core, this essay is an act of healing. I have written it for myself, as a reflection on my time with the western canon, and as an assertion to myself and to the world that my voice has value. I draw from my memories and my lived experience. I posit myself as the…
For the past four years, the Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS) has been making its way into local schools, encouraging junior high and high school students to create homemade commercials about mining and enlisting political leaders to award cash prizes for the top submissions. Sean Kirby, MANS’ executive director, says the “Mining Rocks” video…
Robert Bea is a professor emeritus at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California Berkeley. He has five decades experience in engineering and management of design, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning marine systems including offshore platforms, pipelines and floating facilities. He was also one of several experts to provide analysis at…
The large dump trucks of construction waste thunder by my Schmidtville window with a downshifting growl on the grade outside my house. One every six minutes, by my count. It’s not warm outside so my windows are closed. But just wait for the warm days when I have to open them. When this round of…
“A challenge is not the challenge itself, but how you respond to it,” Anna Gilkerson says, eight years after starting her curated thrift shop. She says her responses have evolved since the beginning of Makenew, knowing that no matter what challenge she faces, she is contributing to the ever-growing sustainable fashion movement every single day.…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Taurus (Apr 20-May 20) A chemist named Marcellus Gilmore Edson got a patent on peanut butter in 1894. A businessperson named George Bayle started selling peanut butter as a snack in 1894. In 1901, a genius named Julia David Chandler published the first recipe for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. In 1922,…
QHi Lucy,I live in Nova Scotia, and would like to get a medical prescription for cannabis. I do not have a family doctor, nor have I had one for almost 10 years since the previous one retired. For the past six or seven years I have been on disability support due to chronic pain (and…
Weaves w/Chudi Harris, Like a Motorcycle Thursday, May 17, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $10 When Jasmyn Burke teases that the next Weaves album could either be totally country or bubblegum pop, it’s hard to not believe her at least a little bit. Since the beginning, the work of the Toronto art-rockers—singer and…
J Paul Getto w/Lebaron James, The SHH Friday, May 18, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $12.50tickethalifax.com World-renowned house music DJ J Paul Getto (AKA Tony Saputo) makes it clear his Marquee Ballroom set this Friday is about one thing: “My whole mission is for people to party—it’s all about the party.” A quick…
Q I enjoyed a great sex life with many kinky adventures until my husband died suddenly two years ago. I have insurance $$$ and a house to sell and a dream of using the proceeds to become a sex-positive therapist. Crazy idea? Or something the world needs more of? A Judging by how many people…
Just don’t look I would like to declare a Metro-wide, Canada-wide, news fast. A news fast is a conscious decision to ignore all news—on TV, in print, radio, internet, human conversation, etcetera. Many people would find a complete news blackout hard, almost an impossible task, but I have done it, so I can assure you…
Approaching the brave new world of regulated recreational cannabis, it’s becoming clear that most of us may not understand as much about the plant as we once thought. But even if we don’t completely understand it, what if modern cannabis brands understood us? With whispers of legalization tickling our ears, Canadians are intrigued about new…
Landline: Halifax to Victoria visit halifaxfringe.tickethalifax.com for time slots and instructions May 17-19 How much would you open up to a stranger? What if you were given a phone number, an audio track and knew nothing about this stranger except that they were listening to the same thing as you, at that very moment? This…
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