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The word flurries has resurfaced in our collective lexicon, but North Brewing Company (2576 Agricola Street and 62 Ochterloney Street) is still dreaming of summer barbecues and sours. And we’re here for it. While the north end/Dartmouth brewer is re-releasing its crisp-weather appropriate, hefty treat Twinkle Pony tiramisu stout this week, it’s also celebrating the…
As problematic as football is, with the Washington R*****ns and the Kansas City Chiefs, the game holds a special place in my heart. For those of you who don’t know, my father is a residential school survivor and without getting into the nitty-gritty traumas of his experiences, it left him with a deficit when it…
Atlantic Fashion Week Oct 18-20 350 Horseshoe Lake Drive tickethalifax.com If fashion is a pendulum swinging between extremes, it’s clearly taken a break from ricocheting between hemlines and waist heights to lean hard in a new direction—away from dressing up and into casual clothing. Signs are everywhere: Sneakers have gone from commuter wear to statement…
AFW’s Opening Showcase Thursday, October 18 350 Horseshoe Lake Drive 7pm, $25, tickethalifax.com Spending a little too much time sewing, and a little less time hitting the books worked out for former Dalhousie English student Kristen Reid. Her line Lore Collective—which was born from her time preparing for Dal’s Vaudeville Fashion Design Show—walked the runway…
As Atlantic Fashion Week begins its annual sartorial shakeup, inspiration abounds with designers from across Nova Scotia and beyond bringing everything from statement-making streetwear to pop-art-y cocktail wear to the catwalk. Art Pays Me Duane Jones has been designing t-shirts that pack a socially conscious punch for years, and his collection at Friday’s showcase promises…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sourwood Cider (@sourwoodcider) on Oct 2, 2018 at 2:16pm PDT After a successful summer of piquing interest and tastebuds, the founders of Sourwood Cider are levelling up. The sometimes hard-to-track-down, funky-ass unfermented cider will have a place to hang out come early 2019 when it opens…
A spokesperson for Davie Shipbuilding strongly takes issue with comments that the Quebec company is stealing work from Halifax. “It’s being portrayed as if Quebec will steal jobs, contracts from Irving,” says Fred Boisvert, vice-president of public affairs for Davie. “Where if you look properly, closely, there’s nothing like it happening at all.” Federal procurement officials…
It was a largely symbolic gesture about the future of the planet. And Halifax Regional Council shot it down. Before the city’s elected leaders on Tuesday was a motion from councillor Richard Zurawski in opposition to offshore drilling and oil exploration in Nova Scotia. Zurawski wanted council to write a letter to the province voicing…
When our children and grandchildren and those of us still here in 20 years look back to this time, will we say it was when the world finally got serious about the climate crisis? Or will we mark a tragic time when political and business leaders prioritized short-term economic gain over the future of humanity?…
Filmmaker and Africville Museum general manager Juanita Peters is with us in the studio talking about the day Halifax finally apologized for its biggest mistake—the razing of Africville and forced displacement of its community members. Tara and Jacob also dig into the infamous MLA expense scandal, then we expose some drunk city councillors and wade…
Those jobs were always meant to be in Halifax, says HRM’s chief administrative officer, Jacques Dubé. “Always were.” Regional Council unanimously voted on Tuesday to voice its opposition to a proposal for splitting up naval maintenance work between shipyards here and in Quebec—calling on the federal government to keep shipbuilding jobs in Halifax. Councillor Stephen Adams put…
“I feel like we have let the public down,” deputy mayor Waye Mason says about the launch of Halifax’s new smoking ban. With hours to go until cannabis is legal across the country, Halifax is admitting that its complicated, city-wide ban on smoking needs some fine-tuning. “I think we owe an apology to the public…
The newest production from CanCon devotee Matchstick Theatre is John Mighton’s The Little Years, directed by Matchstick’s artistic director Jake Planinc and starring Colleen MacIsaac and Christine Daniels. It follows the family of Kate (Kayla Gunn and MacIsaac), a girl who dreams of a career in theoretical mathematics, from 1957 to 2002, mainly through her…
“The message that I got was I should be content that I wasn’t killed,” says Stewart Rand. The Haligonian was hit by a car on the morning of September 30 while riding his bike on the Bedford Highway near Nelsons Landing Boulevard. He says he was thrown into the air by a vehicle that didn’t…
This weekend, Nocturne lights up the night with art all across the city, The Town Heroes tear it up at The Seahorse, Laurie Brown brings her Pondercast to Halifax and famed artist Kent Monkman debuts a collection of paintings responding to Canada 150 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Nocturne 2018 Saturday Art’s big…
Halifax spokesperson Nick Ritcey responds to this article in an email to The Coast, saying the final decision on affordable housing has not yet been made: “The implication that affordable housing will not be included within the Cogswell district is incorrect. Decisions about affordable housing in this area have not been made. “In July, Regional…
Last month in The Coast I read again, with dismay, another opinion piece that concluded that, while Halifax is certainly a pretty little city by the sea, it’s not the city of opportunity that Toronto is. While this negative type of opinion piece is fairly common, what was unusual was the statement that our Joseph…
Exhibit 215 Park at Hollis and Barrington Street It all started over a year ago, when an audience member stood up at a lecture by senator Murray Sinclair, former chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “She asked ‘What can we do'” Kathrin Winkler recalls. “He said ‘Read the damn report!'” The phone line…
Hailing Uber Welcome Uber and Lyft (“The inevitability of Uber,” cover story by Jacob Boon, October 4)! That’s right—run Bob’s Taxi out of business and put an end to the monopoly on the cab business in HRM. Sick of Bob’s rude dispatchers, drivers that show up hours late in the winter (if they show up…
Exhibit 307 5057 Salter Street Don’t alert the GMO activists just yet, but hundreds (possibly thousands) of poems can be seen growing from a huge weeping willow tree on the evening of Nocturne. Yes, you read that right—the Poemtree is here to give Haligonians a super-natural outlet to express themselves. Inspired by Japanese traditions of…
Exhibit 505 Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission 163 Portland Street Dark and mysterious, peaceful and joyous: The evening holds a special place in all of our hearts. On the night of Nocturne, Let Evening Come invites you to explore the sentiments accompanying this magical time through music, drama and more. Inspired by Jane Kenyon’s poem of…
The Town Heroes album release w/Kids Losing Sleep, David in the Dark Friday, October 12, 10:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15, tickethalifax.com Mike Ryan and Bruce Gillis, better known as The Town Heroes, are back with an expanded cast on their fourth melodic rock album Everything (Will Be Fine When We Get To…
Neon Dreams w/Jodi Guthro, Mitchell Bailey Friday, October 12, 9pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 adv/$25 door sonicconcerts.com Neon Dreams is so committed to its social media game that someone follows the trio around solely for content creation. So it’s a bit perplexing to visit @neondreams right now—the Instagram account is down to…
Exhibit 404 Portia White Atrium, Citadel High, 1855 Trollope Street A few years back, Shaun Brodie was freshly rejected from journalism school. He’d left his freelance life as a trumpeter—for the likes of The New Pornographers, Basia Bulat and Dan Mangan—but he still wanted to do a project that connected those interests, music and storytelling,…
Exhibit 102 Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road There are, perhaps, a million ways a story can be told, but for Laura Stinson, there’s no way like puppetry. “I fell in love with puppetry because it involves performance and dance and music and visual art all together, but the focus is…
Exhibit 201 Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre 2158 Gottingen Street (6pm) Burying grounds at Sinnot Hill Park, 31 Windmill Road, Dartmouth (8pm) Granville Court, Granville at Duke Street (10pm) For their Nocturne piece L’nuwesimk, the artists Ursula Johnson and Angella Parsons are proposing something very small and incredibly wide at once: At three sites in Halifax…
Q I was involved with a straight man who enjoys cross-dressing and taking explicit photos. The problem is that the props he uses belong to his three children, all under age 12. For example, he dressed up as a slutty schoolgirl and wore his daughter’s backpack. He dressed up as a slutty cowgirl and posed…
Exhibit 115 Victoria Park, Spring Garden Road at South Park Street The team at Dramatic Changes wants to create art and community at the same time. “We’ve been getting together once a week for three months to discuss what support could look like,” says co-founder Ross Unger of the group’s Nocturne project, Free Consultations. “We…
Exhibit 400 Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street Different folks have different strokes, and that’s no lye when it comes to Black hair. For many years, Black women have adhered to Eurocentric hair ideals—oftentimes to their detriment. Black Hair Magic encourages us to see the beauty in Black hair. Inspired by the natural hair movement embraced…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBRA (September 23-October 22) My astrological analysis suggests that life is conspiring to render you extra excited and unusually animated and highly motivated. I bet that if you cooperate with the natural rhythms, you will feel stirred, playful, and delighted. So how can you best use this gift? How might you take maximum…
So, no big deal or anything, but cannabis becomes legal in Canada on Wednesday. This October 17 date has been a real, albeit still somewhat surreal, target for a while, giving lawmakers, producers and retailers a serious deadline to get a lot of shit figured out. And as that deadline gets ever closer, putting increasing…
Blue Collar Experience Once you step foot into Blue Collar Barbershop, you’ll never look back. Their professional cuts look exactly like what you came in looking for. You’ll stop in for a cut, but you’ll keep coming back for their welcoming vibe. Located across from the YMCA on the ground floor of the VELO apartments,…
