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Nova Scotia is known for its breathtaking coastal views, challenging rocky hikes, the thirst-quenching craft beer, and surfing. You can do all of this and more, within a two-hour drive from Halifax. Hop in a car, in a bus, or with a friend, and tour around some of Nova Scotia’s top scenic locations. Lunenburg Welcome…
Name: Anna Sprague Age: 43 Spotted: Paces Lake, Musquodoboit Harbour Occupation: Artist and faculty member at NSCAD University Wearing: Kids overalls, Value Village; nylon shell, Zara basics; white cashmere turtleneck, Ann Taylor (via Value Village); vintage wooden clogs How would you describe your style? Jesus Christ Superstar moonlighting as an amateur carpenter. Who/where do you…
Halifax Greek FestSt. George’s Greek Orthodox Community 38 Purcell’s Cove Road June 7-10 It’s year 33 for the Halifax Greek Fest, an annual celebration of culture where music, dancing, church tours and endless good food work together to make a weekend that’s sort of synonymous with summer kick-off. We chatted with George Kapetanakis—The Armview Restaurant…
Halifax is well-stocked with fun for the active tourist, the history buff, and for the foodie traveler. While visiting both the hot spots and the local spots, mixed in with a few summer events, your time in Halifax is sure to be a traveler’s dream. The Harbour Seaside views and shopping are enough to get…
One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven issues leave a lot of lines for readers to read between. Are Coast writers actually a bunch of left-leaning, pot-smoking, Green-voting, indie-rock-lovers? Is Jacob Boon actually a talking dog? Strap on your tinfoil hat, here are some of the misunderstood conspiracies about this little paper. Best of Halifax is…
J ohn Panter has been rolfing chronic slouchers like me in Halifax since 1998—and advertising his services in a weekly ad in The Coast every week since without fail. The practice, invented by Ida P. Rolf in the 1950s, sees the practitioner re-align the patient’s body by re-adjusting the fascia, a connective tissue enmeshing the…
The year I was born, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 356 parts per million. The safe upper limit was 350 ppm. Since then, globally, we have increased that concentration to 410 ppm. This is a climate changed. When I heard about Justin Trudeau’s decision to buy out the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan, I…
CHRIS MUELLER Coast art director: March 1997-August 1999 Career highlights: Assistant art director at Esquire, art director at Vanity Fair, design director at The New Yorker Now: Creative director at The Foundry at Time Inc. Memorable covers: The one with the present. It was super-fun. Hannah [Thomson] shot it and we were hanging out at…
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The world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits are set to make their east coast debut this week at the first Drink Atlantic Cocktail Festival—and they’re guaranteed to stir up some debate, and great-tasting beverages. But who’s behind all of this and what does it mean for cocktail culture? Established in 2015, UK-based distilling company Seedlip was…
Thousands of tourists will visit Halifax this summer and return home without learning an inkling of its history, all because a statue is locked in storage in Burnside. I kid, of course. If you’re a tour guide or historian who needs a statue to accurately and comprehensively share the story of Halifax, you need to…
Public engagement’s great, but leave the big decisions to us. That seems to be the lesson from planning staff as the city moves forward with a once-in-a-lifetime redevelopment project. Halifax council voted Tuesday to proceed onto the next major steps in redeveloping the Cogswell Interchange, with an added amendment for some robust public engagement before…
Will Canada finally inspire a wave of celebration on World Oceans Day, June 8? Prime minister Justin Trudeau promised to lead G7 nations on global marine protection during Canada’s presidency this year, a welcome change after decades of inaction left just one percent of our oceans formally safeguarded. The government is charging ahead to meet…
The municipality’s top manager and the transit union’s president are both laying the blame on each other for the decades of racial harassment that occurred inside Halifax Transit. Despite the confusion, chief administrative officer Jacques Dubé doesn’t think a public inquiry is needed to find out who should be held accountable. “We’re not considering that…
It’s been a few months now since a 19-year-old Nova Scotian’s family home was raided over a rarely used “unauthorised access to computer” charge, which is a federal offence carrying up to 10 years in prison. There’s a hole in the middle of this whole story that needs to be addressed: civil servants lied to…
A Halifax Transit employee is asking for maximum damages after facing years of threats and racial harassment. The complainant is seeking the maximum allowable damages of $367,000 for psychological injuries sustained over a period of almost 20 years at Metro Transit (now Halifax Transit) and another $1 million in lost earnings and pension. The man’s…
I go back and forth between whether I like to plan ahead on things like travelling or whether I like to have a loose idea and just let a lot of things fall as they do and not stress whether I’m seeing the “best” possible thing with my time. While I’m a huge fan of…
Some young offenders hate the province’s only secure care facility so much, they’d rather be in juvie. Nova Scotia legal aid attorney Paul Sheppard says at a hearing last month, one of his clients being held at the Waterville youth jail was offered a deal: sign a form promising good behaviour and go free. But…
It makes sense that Matt Whitman would want to get Chelsea Peretti to hang out with him. When Peretti tweeted that she was going to be in Nova Scotia, Whitman offered to be her tour guide for his district. Whatever you think of the councillor, he never gives up an opportunity to be visible. But…
OK, Halifax—what is the deal with royally fucking over Argyle Street?! I’m not even referring to the odyssey that was the construction of the Nova Centre, or even the six-month long project during absolute peak business season, during the Canada150 and Tall Ships summer, of tearing up the road, save for a tiny ped-path that…
If you are a Haligonian? Rock that shit. If you are a Dartsider? Rock that shit. If you are scruffy? Rock that shit. If you are chubby? Rock that shit. If you got a baby belly? Rock that shit. It doesn’t matter what race you are, Rock that shit. If you’re a dude who loves…
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The municipality apparently feels its employees have a Charter right to call each other racial epithets. It’s the bizarre defence that lawyers representing HRM used during an independent board of inquiry into complaints of racial discrimination at Halifax Transit’s Burnside warehouse. As exposed earlier this week in the board’s decision, Black and Indigenous employees in…
To the tattletale at work, why must you find it so important to tell on mistakes everyone makes to the boss? You are not a supervisor, your title is the same as us. You must enjoy the power of feeling superior to everyone, even though it’s not in your job description. Step down off your…
COAST TAP TAKEOVER + SUMMER LAUNCH PARTY Stillwell Beergarden June 21, 6pm As you’ve probably heard by now, The Coast turns 25 this year. Why should you care? Because we’d like you to join us for a toast. No champagne here, though! Instead, seven Nova Scotia breweries are pouring up special beers (and a cider)…
This weekend, Oceans Week washes ashore while the Scotia Festival of Music ups your classical IQ. Plus: The Cedar Lebanese Fest and Doors Open return while Ghettosocks and Aquakultre drop a new EP. Doors Open 2018 Saturday, Sunday Get to know some of the city’s most iconic buildings with these free tours that give you…
Internet and landline went down. I don’t own a cell phone. Went to the pay phone several blocks away to call my ISP. Nobody would answer 411. It rang and rang for a half hour straight! What has the world come to? I dialed zero for information, the bitch ass operator was so rude to…
CIOE 97.5 FM East Coast Music Showcase w/Reeny Smith, John Gracie, Makayla Lynn, JJ Roots and more Saturday, June 2, 6pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $25 tickethalifax.com Growing up in the church, R&B-singer Reeny Smith witnessed first-hand the powerful effects of words and music. Delivering inspiration, hope and faith through song is second nature…
It’s a long overdue revamp for how Nova Scotians safely use our roads. The province has put out an open call for public input on a new Traffic Safety Act to replace the century-old Motor Vehicle Act. The MVA was created in 1907 when the only vehicles on the roads were Oldsmobiles and Ford Model…
As time goes by, travelling becomes even more accessible to the average jetsetter. Whether you travel for business or pleasure, you can count on getting from point A to point B with a direct flight. But did you know you could do the same from Atlantic Canada to our nation’s capital? To bring true patriot…
Postdata w/Quiet Parade Thursday, May 31, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $15 The first Postdata record was a gift, from Paul Murphy and his brother Michael, to their mother. The collection is nine hushed, intimate, gentle songs, emotionally in line with but sonically and tonally distant from Paul’s main gig, Wintersleep. For the…
Black Cop Opens Friday, June 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road Black Cop was shot in Halifax, but you’d only know that if you already lived here. Cory Bowles’ directorial debut, expanded from his 2015 short, looks and feels as if it could be anywhere in North America, and that’s just what he…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) Now is a favourable time to worship at the shrine of your own intuition. It’s a ripe moment to boost your faith in your intuition’s wild and holy powers. To an extraordinary degree, you can harness this alternate mode of intelligence to gather insights that are beyond the power…
Q I am a 38-year-old gay man with a serious problem. My boyfriend of five years has developed a strange fascination. We’ve always watched porn together, but now he has been looking at straight porn and even lesbian porn (!!!) more and more often. More than once he has expressed an interest in having a…
Carbon tax time In response to “Costly carbon,” the May 10 letter from Rob Moore, Conservative shadow minister for Atlantic Issues. Mr. Moore condemns the federal government’s carbon tax strategy to reduce GHG emissions as too expensive. But the question to ask is how much will not pricing carbon cost us? A new study published…
The forever-king of baroque pop and broken hearts—and the only person who could pull off an album of Shakespearean sonnets—famed vocalist, songwriter and gay icon Rufus Wainwright is about to light up your fall with a September 20 show at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Tickets go on sale at sonicconcerts.com at noon on June 1…
