Luke’s Small Goods bakes up a new, approachable north end business
B aking hundreds of soft baguettes, flaky croissants and warm danishes is somewhat of a nightmare for most chefs—but not for Luke Gaston. “A lot of chefs out there despise doing desserts, despise baking,” says the Halifax chef-turned-baker. “I always gravitated towards that.” He’s spent years working in various culinary positions, most recently at restaurant…
Tinápe is serving Filipino breads and pastries in Bedford
Baking has always been a passion for Sharon De Leon, but her career in preparing Filipino breads and pastries began almost accidentally. For years, it had always been her side gig where she’d fulfill orders at home whenever she found the time outside of working as a professional chef. But now, she’s made baking her…
Your horoscope for the week November 11-17
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Robert Cowan, Terry Pulliam, Samantha Twohig, Gregor Ash, Jason Michael MacIsaac, Michelle Cameron (Coast intern), Richard Karpel, Robin Lake, Anne Guy and Stewart Legere. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces sagittarius …
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wednesday, Nov 10
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The Bachelorette episode 4 recap: Halifax hunk heads home heartbroken
Spoiler alert: The Coast will be recapping episodes of The Bachelorette every week this season. If you missed our introduction to this series, click here. Please stop reading if you don’t want to know what happened in the episode. When The Coast agreed to commission this recap series, it was for one sole reason: Chris…
Backlot access but still a boring date
Q I’m a 44-year-old gay male and I’ve never been in a serious relationship. I would like to find my way into an LTR, but I have a series of overlapping dating issues that I don’t know how to navigate. First, due to my career, I move around a lot, and often don’t see the…
Gary Burrill steps down as NDP leader, “this is the right moment to renew ourselves”
In order to propel the Nova Scotia NDP forward, leader Gary Burrill says it’s time to make way for someone new to take the helm. “I’m going to be stepping down from leader of the party in order for us to have the opportunity to renew ourselves before the next election,” Burrill told reporters at…
HRM’s new $3.2 million plan for modular housing units
Today the city’s promise to provide 73 units of modular housing for unhoused residents officially fell through. The city had sourced some units locally and made an announcement in September that they would soon be ready for habitation, but according to documents discussed at council today, sometime between then and now “it was determined that…
Show of the week: DJ Young Legacy
View this post on Instagram A post shared by DJ YOUNG LEGEND™ (@djyounglegend) DJ Young Legend, curator of bass-forward bops and maker of playlists followed by over 5,000 listeners on Spotify, is coming to The Den (2182 Gottingen Street, the former home of Menz & Mollyz) this Saturday, Nov 13 to heat up your long weekend.…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Nov 9
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A look inside the 73 modular housing units rotting at a Halifax construction yard
In late September, Halifax announced its plan to purchase a total of 73 modular units that would be used for temporary housing. Coincidentally, there are exactly the same number of units, with pale grey siding, creaky unlocked doors and basic wooden furniture, currently sitting at a Halifax construction site. Mills Heavy Hauling in Goodwood is…
Activists build a crisis shelter as Halifax stays silent about modular housing plans
Tuesday at its regular biweekly meeting, Halifax Regional Council is supposed to receive a long-awaited update on the city’s plan to deploy modular housing units, which were announced in late September as a way to create shelter for dozens of unhoused Haligonians. The update could be related to council agenda item 15.1.7, Options for Increased…
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory wins 2021 Sobey Art Award
This weekend, the Sobey Art Award—the top prize in Canadian Art—announced its 2021 winner, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, who is a mutli-disciplinary, perfromance-focused artist and kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Bathory took home a $100,000 purse, a sign that the Nova Scotian-funded award has returned to its pre-pandemic prize structure (last year, everyone on…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Monday, Nov 8
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Nova Scotia reports 111 weekend COVID cases and an outbreak at a Pugwash nursing home
Transmission of COVID-19 from a single, multi-day faith gathering is linked to an outbreak at a Pugwash nursing home impacting four fully vaccinated residents and one staff member. The outbreak is serious enough that the province announced some details in its regular Monday disease report, then minutes later issued a notice to media outlets that…
Here’s every Haligonian who won something at the 2021 Nova Scotia Music Awards
This weekend, Truro lived up to its nickname as the hub of the province as hundreds of local musicians descended on the town for Nova Scotia Music Week. Forty-nine awards were given out at the celebration’s closing event, held yesterday at Truro’s Inn on Prince Hotel, for categories ranging from Musician of The Year to…
Premier Tim Houston apologizes for minimum wage “real jobs” comment
In a tense back and forth with NDP leader Gary Burrill, during one of the final days of the legislature’s fall sitting, premier Tim Houston explained why he’s not focused on hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour. “What I’m focused on is the economy of this province and making sure that every Nova…
Modular units, where art thou?
Way back on August 31, Halifax Regional Council held a special meeting to discuss the housing crisis. It was only a few weeks after the violent police action on August 18, and the disturbing images from that day were still at the forefront of the city’s collective consciousness. The meeting was mainly councillors feeling remorseful,…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Friday, Nov 5
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Thursday, Nov 4
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Your horoscope for the week November 4-10
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Isabella Morgan, Tom Saunders, Alecta Jollimore, Brad Manders, Sean MacGillivray, Chris Murphy, Dylan Wells, John Woolhouse, Lindsay Cross, Mike Maheux, Aran Rasmussen, Carolyn Hebert, Jane Heeny, Kirk McGrath, Jack Julian and Rob Cole. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo …
Despite “code red,” governments continue to support fossil fuels
What’s the best way to respond to a “code red” crisis? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”—the first part of its sixth assessment—confirms we’ll continue accelerating on a terrible trajectory if we don’t rein in greenhouse gas emissions and protect natural…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wednesday, Nov 3
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Villains are sent packing in The Bachelorette episode 3
Spoiler alert: The Coast will be recapping episodes of The Bachelorette every week this season. If you missed our introduction to this series, click here. Please stop reading if you don’t want to know what happened in the episode. There are often villains on The Bachelorette who feel producer-manufactured. Their lines are taken out of…
Female trouble
QI want to correct you on something you’ve said repeatedly: a man can “hide” his bisexual orientation. I disagree. I felt my boyfriend was gay or bi immediately, but he flatly denied it. But it was so obvious! He sucked at sex, he never initiated and he was clueless about female anatomy! I was forced…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Nov 2
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“Massive” Cogswell redevelopment coming for 2025-2026
The redevelopment of the Cogswell Interchange, which is billed as the biggest city-building project in Halifax’s history, is expected to finish up in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Construction will break ground this winter on the rebuild that mayor Mike Savage says will bridge a gap between peninsula Halifax’s north end and the downtown core. “Make…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Monday, Nov 1
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How action to fight the climate crisis at COP26 can be undermined by trade deals
If world representatives at the UN climate conference in Glasgow put talk into action, we could forestall the worst impacts of the rapidly accelerating climate crisis. But we have to look beyond the Conference of the Parties—COP26 this year. If agreements under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are undermined through other international structures,…
Ready or not, winter is coming to People’s Park
As the sun sets on a Friday evening in October, People’s Park is bustling. At the Chebucto Road green space, known as Meagher Park before it became a community of unhoused locals, residents are eating goulash made by a volunteer, someone else is sorting through donated winter jackets and a man plays hacky sack while…
The first Halifax Asian Food Festival is bridging the gap between cultures
When Joyce Liu was starting to think about putting together a new food event, she knew she wanted to create something that would bridge the gap between different cultures. She’s the head planner behind Off The Eaten Path, a multicultural food festival showcasing Nova Scotia’s diverse and growing population. For its debut event, Off The…
Original bronze bells are coming back to Halifax City Hall after a silent century
Bells will be ringing again from City Hall this weekend, after roughly 100 years of silence. Two bronze bells are scheduled to be installed tomorrow (Saturday, October 30) in the bell tower on top of Halifax City Hall, and their chimes will be heard for the first time downtown at Grand Parade Square in the…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia for the week of October 25-29
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Show of the week: Mo Kenney’s GATE Fundraiser w/Mama’s Broke, Dani-Rae Clark
When Mo Kenney released an album of covers earlier this year—her stripped-back take on tracks from Tom Petty and Guided By Voices—the songs felt so intimately hers that, at first, I didn’t notice when the new album ended and Spotify began playing older Kenney originals. “That’s a good compliment; that’s sort of what I was…
Your horoscope for the week October 28-November 3
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Barb Kail, Barbara Rasmussen, Heather Clarke, Lesley Johnston, Marie Rasmussen, Andrea Dorfman, Simon Thibault, Vicki Grant, Peggy Walt, Krista Lane, Nicolle Spagnoli and Leanne Huck. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra pisces …
PC climate crisis targets exceed campaign promises, but do they go far enough?
Environment and climate change minister Tim Halman says he knows the state of the climate crisis is “at a pivotal moment” and that its effects are already being felt in Nova Scotia. “People will be watching us closely, as they should,” the Progressive Conservative minister said Wednesday. “Nova Scotians want government to take action.” As…
The Bachelorette episode 2 recap: There’s a rat in our midst
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Tips for becoming a cuckquean or cuckold
QI’m a 33-year-old straight female, been with my husband for 10 years, married for six. When we first started dating, I was an extremely jealous person. Fortunately, I got it under control with lots of therapy. But once I did, I started having fantasies about him hooking up with other people. We incorporated these fantasies…
A People’s Park success story
In late August, Malcolm Kay first experienced homelessness in Halifax. He spent nearly six weeks without a permanent address. First, he was sleeping in a tent at People’s Park, then was promised—and ousted from—a room at the Comfort Inn, spent a few nights at the Gray Arena and went back to the park. Finally, as…
Halifax’s underground queer bar is going public
Mike Scaife has lived in Halifax’s north end for nine years, on a quiet, dead-end residential street with limited parking and lined with trees that give way to the mid-afternoon sun. His house is a pale colour, blending in with the neighbours’ two-storey homes, their yards scattered with children’s toys and fall-themed decorations. The only…
666 ways to celebrate Halloween 2021 in Halifax
Here’s the candy-bag-half-full way to look at it: Halloween falling on a Sunday this year means you have a whole weekend of tricking, treating and partying ahead of you. How will you fill that time? The city’s gotchu with ghoulish good times, from monstrous movie screenings to petrifying parties. Here, we’ve gathered 666 (OK, fine,…
Mass Casualty Commission’s public proceedings could have started today
Today, Oct 26, was supposed to be the start of public proceedings for the federal and provincial public inquiry into what happened when a gunman dressed as an RCMP officer shot and killed 22 Nova Scotians in April 2020. Instead, the first public hearings into the Portapique tragedy will begin in February—four months later than…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct 22
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Flu shots are more important than ever
This might be the most important year to get immunized against the flu, top doctor Robert Strang says. During last year’s flu season, when Nova Scotians and much of Canada were under some form of COVID-19 lockdown, there was less activity than normal for the flu virus. But with day-to-day life closer to normal this…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Thursday, Oct 21
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Your horoscope for the week October 21-27
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Kimberly Coady, Olivia Kueber, Emma Danger Rosen, Hana Nelson, Deborah Ross, Lucas Dambergs, Nevin Harrington (Oyster Fest fan), Shaleen Jones, Dominic MacDougall, Amanda Maier, Ryan Gordon, Victoria Walton and Talulah MacNeil. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra …
Do I have to disclose my STI?
QI’m a woman in her forties in a relationship with a man, and I have my first STI with symptoms. Genital warts—yay! I noticed them about two months ago (near my b-hole) and went to the gyno today and had them treated. My question is, do I need to tell my boyfriend? We’ve been dating…
Hal-Con returns this weekend
Time to dust off your cosplay wigs: Hal-Con is back. While this year’s slate is significantly smaller-scale than past Cons, it still packs a wallop, particularly for the bookworms in the crowd: Author of the Governor General Award-nominated The Grey Sisters, Jo Treggiari, is one of several noted sci-fi/fantasy/YA authors on the 2021 event guest…
Rent control extended until the end of 2023
Until the end of 2023, rent in Nova Scotia cannot be hiked above a two percent annual increase. Premier Tim Houston announced the measure—a two-year extension of the pandemic-time rent control measure first set out in November 2020—today, following weeks of public pressure on the government amid the housing crisis. The PC leader, who has…
Show of the week: Les Hay Babies w/Sluice at Francofest
Consider it a double dose of some of the best Acadie-rock around. Moncton’s Les Hay Babies are hitting The Derby Showbar (formerly known as The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street) to celebrate Francofest on October 21, and are bringing along Halifax’s own Sluice for the ride. Les Hay Babies’s most recent effort, Boîte aux Lettres, is…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wednesday, Oct 20
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The Bachelorette recap: Halifax hunk Chris G. survives episode 1
Spoiler alert: The Coast will be recapping episodes of The Bachelorette every week this season. If you missed our introduction to this series, click here. Please stop reading if you don’t want to know what happened in the episode. Last night The Bachelorette premiered its 18th season, which follows 30-year-old Michelle Young’s search for true…
HRM woman urges NS to waive her ambulance trip fees needed to treat COVID-19
Danica Pettipas, a Cole Harbour resident who was among the Nova Scotians hospitalized with COVID-19 in the third wave, says the cost of ambulance fees from her eight-day stay in hospital with the virus has led to significant stress. Pettipas took four ambulance rides over the course of her illness, as directed by doctors at…
Province shares details of “limited” hospital COVID outbreak, impacting 3 patients
A small outbreak, affecting three patients in a non-COVID unit at Valley Regional Hospital, is a stark reminder of how COVID in communities can impact the health system, executive director of Western regional health zone Alyson Lamb said Tuesday. Lamb, who oversees the Kentville hospital where the limited outbreak has been identified, joined chief medical officer…
Police board seeks independent advice on independent review of shelter siege
Exactly two months after the shelter siege of August 18, Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners met to discuss the possibility of an independent review of police actions that day. A petition calling for such a review was started by the East Coast Prison Justice Society and signed by nearly 5,000 people over the past eight…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Oct 19
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COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Monday, Oct 18
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Summertime election set, history-making House Speakers, and a hammering of housing questions
Since the 55th sitting of the legislature began Tuesday, premier Tim Houston’s government has set a fixed summer election date and the premier was tested in his first question period since forming government. Houston’s vision was laid out in a throne speech that focused on health, but said little about housing. And history was made…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Friday, Oct 15
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Get ready to fall in love with The Coast’s recaps of The Bachelorette
In July, The Coast reported on one of the most exciting, significant pieces of Halifax news this year had to offer: Haligonian hunk Chris Gallant would be a contestant on the 18th season of The Bachelorette. As a serious journalist (who became a little too obsessed with the Bachelor franchise during the pandemic), I’d be…
HRM says modular housing units will be here “before the snow flies”
For several months, unhoused people in HRM have been struggling to find a safe place to sleep. Residents “sleeping rough,” as the city has dubbed it, have had municipal workers threaten eviction, seen promises of shelter announced and then revoked and been the focal point of violent police action. Many houseless citizens eventually settled at…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Thursday, Oct 14
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Your horoscope for the week October 14-20
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK TO Pete Clive, Brad Fraser, Holly Gordon, Scarla Julian, Phoenyx Wolfe, James Wilson, Maryanne McLarty, Allison Tweedie, Ansgar Gruber, Elly Jones Hannon, Charlotte Roshni Nette, Jacob Boon, Clare Tew and Sandra Brownlee. share the love by emailing your friend’s name and birth date to bday@thecoast.ca then click your sign to go to your horoscope aquarius aries cancer capricorn gemini leo libra …
Welcome to the 2021 Fall Arts Preview
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In a riff on Shakespeare, Fat Juliet takes her story back
It might seem trite to say Eastern Front Theatre and Shakespeare by The Sea’s Fat Juliet is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet unlike any you’ve ever seen—yes, even counting the dreamy Leonardo DiCaprio-Claire Danes redux from 1996. But what if I was to tell you that this spin on Shakespeare’s star-crossed story, debuting at…
At Nocturne, a giant dragon brings “Good Luck To The People”
For performance and installation artist Stephanie Yee, creation has long been a way of examining identity: It was there thematically in her 2020 sculpture of a non-functioning water fountain, an “imaginary prop” from a fictional 1980s Chinese restaurant she soused in sweet and sour sauce. It was in performance-based work as far back as 2014,…
George Elliott Clarke knows Where Beauty Survived
When he answers the phone call from The Coast days before his latest book is about to hit shelves, George Elliott Clarke isn’t afraid to admit his nerves: “I don’t have protection of fiction,” the Order of Canada-appointed poet and author says. While writers “are always revealing ourselves,” Clarke adds, his new memoir means “much…
Scene & Heard: Your record of news to note from the Halifax music scene
For all the new goings-on in the Halifax music scene this fall, we can start with the one thing that won’t be happening: The Halifax Pop Explosion appears to have shuttered, with no word yet of festival dates and no updates to the safer spaces survey it promised to deliver back in March 2021. The…
Scene & Heard: What’s going on behind-the-scenes in Halifax’s theatre and dance community
The world of live performance is returning to the stage at last—and it feels like a big exhale. Halifax’s indie theatre scene was a cultural life raft during COVID, since it had already been exploring innovations to the form that made digital theatre not only possible but actually worth watching. One of the brightest examples?…
Fall Arts Preview: See Zamani play The Stage at St. Andrews
Zamani at The Stage at St. Andrews 6036 Coburg Road, Nov 1, 7:30pm, $16.93, tickets available via eventbrite.ca (search “The Stage Mondays”) Zamani cemented her status as a name-to-know back in 2019, when she went from making bedroom beats to playing an attention-grabbing set at OBEY Convention (now called EVERYSEEKER Festival). Since then, her star…
Fall Arts Preview: See HEIST’s Frequencies
Frequencies Livestreamed from The Bus Stop Theatre’s stage to be watched virtually, Nov 5-6, tickets are $15, tune in to nac-cna.ca/en/event/29336 It’s true that a thing cannot be defined by what it is not, but that didn’t stop Halifax’s indie theatre scene from stripping its art form to the core foundations during COVID-19. Without a…
Scene & Heard: What’s going on behind-the-scenes in Halifax’s visual art community
Let’s start with good news: The 2482 Maynard project—a multi-use arts hub that’s home to Wonder’Neath Society, Eyelevel Artist Run Centre and The Blue Building Gallery, at 2482 Maynard Street—has been a runaway success since it opened mid-2020. Now, as its reopening plans unfold and onsite programming for Wonder’Neath resumes in the near future, the…
Fall Arts Preview: See imagineNATIVE Festival’s screening of Bootlegger
Bootlegger Oct 20, 7-9:45pm, Scotiabank Theatre, 190 Chain Lake Drive, festival.imaginenative.org for ticket details. A Turtle Island-wide celebration of Indigenous film, the imagineNATIVE Festival sees in-person screenings of a selected, seminal movie at some Cineplex locations across various cities. The flick in question for Kjipuktuk? The buzzed-about 2021 release Bootlegger, by Algonquin director Caroline Monnet. The…
Fall Arts Preview: See Looking Back 20 Years at ViewPoint Gallery
Looking Back 20 Years ViewPoint Gallery, 1475 Bedford Highway, until Oct 31 ViewPoint Gallery, the city’s lone photography-only exhibitor, celebrates two decades of putting the frame in focus with this retrospective show, on view until October 31. The gallery’s whopping 240-exhibit back catalogue has been mined for Looking Back. “We’re in a very interesting time…
Abena Beloved Green’s journey of rediscovery
In the soil that feeds Abena Beloved Green’s family tree, a place of nutrients and knowledge that helps grow chlorophyll-packed leaves, inspiration was waiting to be dug up like treasure. “I always had a reverence for grandmothers and always envied classmates who were close to their grandmothers and would talk to them,” the lauded slam…
Fall Arts Preview: Sit up and Let Dreams Be Noticed
MAJE w/LDN The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, Dec 5 In a west end backyard shed, there’s a framed photo of Drake, drinking a shot out of his upturned Grammy award. It’s lit with soft reverence, hanging above recording equipment like a cross above an altar. Adyan Brown, Cornell Reddick and Luke Berryman—a handful of…
Scene & Heard: News and notes from Halifax’s film and TV community
Forgive us for saying that it’s been lights, camera, action for the film industry in Nova Scotia for 14 months now, with the movie Wildhood putting the industry back in motion when it filmed in Windsor last August. Screen Nova Scotia told CBC then that our province’s handling of COVID gave us an edge in…
Fall Arts Preview: Hear the livestream launch of Jesse Wente’s Unreconciled
Jesse Wente in conversation with Matt Galloway Thu Oct 14, 8pm, livestream, Attendee info available at Bookmark Halifax (5686 Spring Garden Road) with purchase of Unreconciled Chances are you don’t know arts journalist and Canada Council for the Arts chairperson Jesse Wente, but you certainly know the cultural riches Turtle Island gets to boast about,…
Fall Arts Preview: Dig into Diggstown
It’d be easy to compare Marcie Diggs—the main character of the sleeper hit, Halifax-set CBC legal drama Diggstown, returning for its third season October 6—to Annalise Keating of How To Get Away With Murder, since both are powerhouses in the courtroom. It’d be easy to cast her akin to Scandal’s Olivia Pope, thanks to the…
Fall Arts Preview: See Family Patterns at the AGNS
Family Patterns Oct 16-Feb 28, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street “We’re not really represented a lot…or in a positive light,” artist Letitia Fraser told The Coast back in 2019, explaining why her portraits of the African Nova Scotian community are so vital as she was showcasing her first exhibit, at the Anna…
The show must go…where?
I’m tired of explaining why art matters, because I always figured it was something we understood, really, when we got out of our own way—a riff on that old, coffee mug-ready Picasso quote that “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once [she] grows up.” We know it because,…
Mind the age gap
QThirty-year-old trans woman here, Dan, and I have a question about what is surely one of your favourite subjects: the “age gap discourse.” About four years ago, I had a sexual experience that I go back and forth on whether to label as sexual assault. When I was 26 years old, I met a 19-year-old on…
COVID cases and news for Nova Scotia on Wednesday, Oct 13
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Journalist Robert Devet remembered as champion of the people
Simon de Vet remembers his dad considering retirement about a decade ago. “He was a little worried that he’d be sitting around the house all day,” says Simon, a first-year physics professor at Dalhousie University. “He was a little hesitant to retire early.” His father, Robert Devet—who styled their Dutch surname slightly differently—had been working…
