Dec 17-23, 2009

News + Opinion

• City

  Will East Coast Dynamics ring the New Year in right this year?

  ECD, author of last year's Cunard Centre fiasco plans another New Year's Eve bash this year at the Halifax Forum's Multi-Purpose Room.

  By Charlene Davis

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• City

  Asphalt sidewalk replacements don’t measure up.

  By Mike Gorman

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• News

  No Deal

  Or at least no binding deal; it's looking like anything coming out of Copenhagen will be as toothless as a Danish alligator

  By Chris Benjamin

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• News

  Final Day, Maybe

  COP15 participants are riding the pendulum between hope and despair amidst rumours that delegates have been asked to stay until Sunday

  By Chris Benjamin

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• News

  They Failed Us

  The world's biggest winners never had much hopenhagen after all

  By Chris Benjamin

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• News

  Q & A with Dr. Claire Campbell in Copenhagen

  Claire Campbell is a Dalhousie history prof and part of the university's new College of Sustainability. She provides her thoughts from the Copenhagen conference

  By Chris Benjamin

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• News

  Andrew Weaver: "Global leaders have abdicated their responsibility"

  Copenhagen conference on climate change was a "disaster" says Canada's foremost climatologist

  By Tim Bousquet

  Dec 22, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Mexico Lindo closes for the holiday

  Guess you will have to keep that holiday enchilada urge at home till the new year.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 17, 2009
• Shoptalk

  All Hail The Midtown Tavern

  New Midtown "customer-friendly and lady-friendly," say owners of their new home in Boomers on Grafton. Note: after tavern hours, the space becomes Boomers nightclub again.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 19, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Breakhouse breaks out

  Local design company Breakhouse lands deal to create retail outlet chain for new wireless Wind Mobile, a new wireless brand by Toronto-based Globalive.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 20, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Splice invites iphone app wizards to sign up

  Get in on the mobile app gold ru$h: Splice offers development courses to learn how to make applications for the iPhone.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 21, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Fancy Pantry and Breads offers home delivery

  New artisanal baker Jessica Ross offers quality german-style sourdough breads and hot pie deliveries to downtown foodies.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 22, 2009
• Shoptalk

  A year of CarShare

  GM Peter Zimmer says his company is booming, with over 200 drivers using the service.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 23, 2009
• Opinion

  Wayne Doucet, skate doctor

  Both artist and technician, Wayne Doucet brings old-school skill to that most important of tasks.

  By Lezlie Lowe

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Opinion

  Chequebook politics leaves city staff short changed

  Halifax councillors get a big pay raise, while city employees get the shaft.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Opinion

  Bruce Fisher on The Coast's tax reform analysis

  Fisher, Manager of Fiscal and Tax Policy, HRM responds to Tim Bousquet's article on Tax reform.

  By Letters editor

  Dec 17, 2009
• Opinion

  Taxing HRM

  From the information provided, I believe that what HRM has come up with is a complete disaster.

  By Letters editor

  Dec 17, 2009
• Environment

  Dalhousie study gets province powered up

  David Wheeler, dean of the faculty of management at Dalhousie, co-authors study that spells out how Nova Scotia can meet its renewable power goals.

  By Jonathan Linds

  Dec 17, 2009

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Jason Priestley on the Fitz

  Jason Priestley trades in the Peach Pit for a used car lot in the Annapolis Valley and a raunchy new cable series, Call Me Fitz.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart, Syr Ruus (Breakwater)

  NS writer on detachment from life.

  By Sean Flinn

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Thirst

  Directed by Chan-wook Park (Focus Features)

  By Sean Flinn

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Luna/Sea's all-woman Twelfth Night is wonderful

  Play is great, cast is great, music is great, Cathedral Church of All Saints as stage is superb.

  By Kate Watson

  Dec 17, 2009
• Arts & Culture

  Halifax comedy on the laugh track

  It takes a lot of guts to get up on stage and be funny, but every week budding jokesters suck up their nerves and pray for laughs. Meet the next generation of Halifax’s stand-up comedians.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Invictus stirs the soul

  Director Clint Eastwood's meditation on how an inspired citizenry is necessary to rebuild a nation is interesting.

  By Hillary Titley

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Santaland Diaries: All work and a play

  Ian Mullan pulls from real-life experience for his adaptation of *Santaland Diaries*, David Sedaris’ hilarious memoir of working as an elf

  By Holly Gordon

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  My Wonderful World of Fashion, Nina Chakrabarti (Laurence King)

  Discovering fashion can be, and should be, fun for all ages.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Humpday

  Directed by Lynn Shelton (Maple)

  By Kyle Wells

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Deerfield twang up the afternoon, Dartmouth style

  Country matinee? Don't mind if I do!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 16, 2009

  
• Music

  B-52s at the Casino Schooner Room March 19 and 20

  Worship at their feet before they zap you.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• Music

  Battle to Canadian Music Week 2010

  FINISH HIM/HER!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• Music

  There's just something in my eye, that's all

  Children singing VU songs get me every time

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 17, 2009
• Music

  In-Flight Safety + Jenn Grant holiday jam

  hell yeah

  By Tara Thorne

  Dec 22, 2009

  
• Music

  Haydain Neale’s Jacksoul

  SOULmate (Sony/BMG)

  By Sean Flinn

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Record sale at the Bus Stop Theatre!

  Scope it out and tell a sister about it, willya?

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 18, 2009

  
• Music

  Afrika Bambaataa at the Paragon January 15

  Round 2!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Dec 18, 2009
• Music

  SISTER says it all

  Plumtree’s Carla and Lynette Gillis honour their family in the best way possible: with a heavy metal sound.

  By Mike Landry

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  The hottest State

  NewYorkNewYORK

  By Tara Thorne

  Dec 21, 2009

  
• Music

  Tommy T

  The Prester John Sessions (Easy Star)

  By Doug Taylor

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  North End Metal All-Stars blazing

  Pump your fists to North End Metal All-Stars’ good-time pub metal.

  By Mike Landry

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Fresh Flesh

  Fresh Flesh mix tape (Independent)

  By Mike Landry

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Mittentime Revue spreads Island cheer

  PEI expats, including Tanya Davis and Jenn Grant, bring a musical gift from the Island: Saturday’s Mittentime Revue

  By Holly Gordon

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Tom Waits

  Glitter & Doom Live (Epitath)

  By Kyle Wells

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Tori Amos

  Midwinter Graces (Universal Republic)

  By Tara Thorne

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Comics

  Unlife, December 16, 1965

  By Faith Erin Hicks

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Comics

  True Story by Melissa Buote

  By Mike Holmes

  Dec 17, 2009

  

Food + Drink

• Drink

  South shore seasonal pub tour

  The holiday season calls out for hopping in the car and dropping by Nova Scotia’s great pubs.

  By Craig Pinhey

  Dec 17, 2009

  
• Drink

  It's Raining Men (and tall drinks)

  To honour the start of the Halifax Rainmen season, we're featuring a few bars where you can reach for a tall drink.

  By Jonathan Linds

  Dec 17, 2009

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Fall more deeply in love, libra

  By Rob Brezsny

  Dec 17, 2009
• Savage Love

  Carnal tunnel syndrome

  Dan plays through the pain to advise dominants, bisexuals, polyamourists and peggers. Plus, Savage Lovecast #165

  By Dan Savage

  Dec 17, 2009