Vol. 18, No. 38
Dissent and controversy enflame Halifax fire department
Chief Bill Mosher to retire; fired firefighter Cromwell wins ruling; survey finds firefighters dislike management.
By Tim Bousquet
Anna Gilkerson's new line
Deux FM designer launches trunk show tonight at Love, Me
By Carsten Knox
Sparrow Shoe Boutique opens
Johanna Galipeau's new store
Simmons discontinues its Comfort Exchange Program
Mattress outlet considers bedbug concerns with product
Toxic Blossom opens
Japanese styles at Dartmouth market
Caffe Sospeso Plus now open
Quinpool cafe offers Turkish coffee
Barrington Street sales
Random Play and Hilltribe bring the February deals
Propeller Brewery tours amp up
Eight beers on tap for only $15 for two hours.
HIM Boutique targets young professional men
Leo and Tony Salloum branch out from Tony's Pizza
Sushi Shige grand opening
Former Spring Garden resto open on Granville
Stadium nightmare
Halifax’s pursuit of a new venue is one thing; dealing with an ethically challenged FIFA another.
Disappearing farms
We can barely feed ourselves yet we’re replacing farms with business parks
By Chris Benjamin
Just Go With It goes where you'd expect
Adam Sandler does what he does best and makes an immature rom-com.
By Matt Semansky
Family circus
Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve talks about his Oscar-nominated drama Incendies: “To me the film is less about war and more about family.”
Walk a Mile captures Kenya
Photographer Mary Jefferson captures the faces behind the places she visited in Africa.
By Allison Saunders
Gleaming the cube
Montreal dancer Paul-André Fortier and artist Rober Racine bring their collapsable shack to town in Cabane.
By Laura Kenins
Love for Gnomeo & Juliet
The animated take on a Shakespeare classic proves garden gnomes can do romance too.
All rise, Odysseus is on trial
Literature and law come together for a mock trial and fundraiser for Halifax Humanities 101.
Deathtrap is killer
The Theatre Arts Guild's comedic-thriller keeps suspense high and wit dry.
By Kate Watson
Feast your eyes on the Falling Woman
A video installation at the new Eyelevel Gallery challenges the exploitative gaze.
Bieber's big screen bio is premature
Never Say Never chronicles a short road to fame far too soon.
Happy Birthday Ellen Page
The Big Two Four
The collapse of The Company Men
John Wells tries to squeeze in too much, but it still isn't enough.
Something's missing in Unknown
Liam Neeson is the only sure thing in this thriller.
Somewhere tests our patience
Sofia Coppola gets poetic and experimental and takes Stephen Dorff along for the ride.
By Tara Thorne
I Am Number Four lacks character
The teenage sci-fi flick misses the mark with its alien-human relationships.
By Mark Palermo
A Very Noyes Offer
pretty records for cheap, eh!
By Alison Lang
Dan Mangan is Coming
zomg!
Go To The Seahorse Tonight
dog day, duzheknew, cousins, secret colours
A/V Goes Hard in the Paint
kimchi fury
Hawksley Workman's spectre
Looms large over the Canada Games
By Matthew Ritchie
A Completely Indulgent Post About Lemmy
"lemme" show you some videos, ha-HA!
Five Silly Questions with Hind Legs
the two-headed horsie
Jeremy Fisher’s Flood
DIYer brings his pop to Grand Parade
Ready to Ramble
The Moonshine Ramblers are gearing up to head west
Duzheknew heads South by Southwest, and then some
This show's on the road, starting in the States and finishing across the pond.
Easy like Saturday morning
Cozy up with Eyelevel for cartoons and cereal.
True Story by Ghettosocks
By Mike Holmes
Superhero Girl
By Faith Erin Hicks
Rani’s rocks
The south end roti shop is the go-to place for jerk chicken. Melissa Buote likes it so much, she goes twice.
By Melissa Buote
Free Will Astrology
Choose a beloved microbe, Capricorn.
By Rob Brezsny
Don’t lesbian it into the ground
There’s no need to communicate your relationship to death if things are going great, Dan says.
By Dan Savage
Knocked out
After 40 years, boxing will be eliminated from Canada Games competition. Sean Flinn sizes up the last crop of contenders.
By Sean Flinn
Canada Games photo-blog by Courtney Kelsey & Zach Barkhouse
Grand Parade Square
By Courtney Kelsey and Zachary Barkhouse
Canada Games photo-blog by Courtney Kelsey
Curling
By Courtney Kelsey
Canada Games photo-blog by Zach Barkhouse
Hockey finals
By Zachary Barkhouse
Boxing!
How a Dartmouth speed change exposes HRM council’s political failures...
By Matt Stickland
'Don't let anybody tell you you can't,' says panelist at Black women in politics event
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Every big show coming to Halifax (and beyond) in 2024
By Team Coast
Aysanabee’s long, winding and wild road to the JUNOs
By Martin Bauman