Apr 11-17, 2013

Vol. 20, No. 46

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News

The Rehtaeh Parsons story in context

What our police and prosecutors care about, and what they don't care about.

By Tim Bousquet
Apr 10, 2013
News

Baristas serve up labour complaint

Just Us! Coffee has been accused of firing workers discussing unions before.

By Katie Toth
Apr 11, 2013
News

Urban coyotes want your cat

The potential predator has been seen on the Halifax peninsula.

By Chris Benjamin
Apr 11, 2013
News

Six Metro Transit buses have caught fire since July

But there's nothing to worry about, insists city spokesperson.

By Tim Bousquet
Apr 12, 2013
News

Denial of service attack interrupts provincial website and email

Ten-minute loss of service comes as Anonymous becomes involved in Rehtaeh Parsons story.

By Tim Bousquet
Apr 11, 2013
News

Protestors put focus on sexual assault

Gathering to remember Rehtaeh Parsons includes women who have themselves been victimized.

By Katie Toth
Apr 15, 2013
Shoptalk

NSCAD sticks it to 'em

Art school alumni sport I AM NSCAD decals in shops and businesses in support of new campaign

By Kaitie Unwin
Apr 10, 2013
Shoptalk

All fired up

The Park Avenue Community Oven is the first of its kind in the HRM. Thanks to a determined community, it lit up Leighton Dillman Park last fall.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

ALTEREDegos

Gottingen Streets hub gets a new looks and more

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

Common grounds

After one season on the corner of Bell and Robie, Common Roots Urban Farm’s fearless leader Jayme Melrose looks back—and forward to the site’s growth.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

Tiny but mighty

Halifax’s newest child care centre aims welcome kids into a natural, local and eco-focused classroom.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

Wino forever

Product of the week: Corkcicle, it's Oprah approved!

By Megan Rudson
Apr 12, 2013
Shoptalk

Beauty clean

Stock your shelves, bathroom and travel kit with these kind and conscious products.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

Natural selection

Scrub your home from top to bottom with these products, and not only will you be smiling, the environment will be too.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Shoptalk

Moksha Yoga opens in Bedford

Talk about a hot topic

By Megan Rudson
Apr 16, 2013
Shoptalk

Sprucing things up

Big Spruce Brewing prepares to launch in Halifax/Dartmouth

By Kaitie Unwin
Apr 16, 2013
Opinion

I’ve seen so much litter that even the worst dump sites don’t surprise me

Don’t treat Nova Scotia as your personal trash can.

By Neil Bailey
Apr 11, 2013
Opinion

Letters to the editor, April 11, 2013

These are the letters and comments from the print edition

Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Sew it goes

Through sewing circles and kids’ parties, Cinderella Sew is helping to give pre-loved materials the fairytale ending they deserve.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Milking it

A co-op of keeners has put its heads (and cows) together to break ground with East Coast Organic Milk.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Home sweet Home Grown

A trailblazer in the business of bringing local, organic food into homes since 1999, Home Grown Organic Foods has found its home after all these years.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Back to our roots

Root cellars offer an energy-free alternative to storing your produce. With some construction skills and a cold basement you, too, can lighten the load in your crisper drawer.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

All roads lead to home

With their carbon footprints and love for local in mind, Drew Moore and Gillian Wesley started The Local Traveler NS.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

The new normal

Breastfeeding is a waste-, pollution- and energy-free way of feeding babies, yet in the year 2013 it’s still not widely accepted by Nova Scotia’s general public.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Built to last

With an interest in constructing renewable energy sources but no expertise, If You Build It is a community collective running on passion, great conversation and a love of learning from each other.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013
Environment

Water works

Clean Nova Scotia is helping the HRM residents wise up about stormwater systems, one community at a time.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013

Arts & Culture

The grace of God

2b Theatre Company’s The God That Comes brings Hawksley Workman back to his sumptuously over-the-top roots.

By Carsten Knox
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Strangelove

The paranormal romance genre is predominately created and consumed by women, featuring fantastical and over-the-top storylines and cheesy cover models. Get to know some local authors who turned seduction, myths and hard work into successful careers

By Julie Sobowale
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Reading list

Ready to sink your teeth into the world of vampires, werewolves and mermaids? Start your reading marathon with these 10 must-read books from the paranormal world.

By Julie Sobowale
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Legally Blonde: The Musical

The Neptune Theatre production of Legally Blonde is a hilarious story with a powerhouse musical star.

By Kate Watson
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Paranormal primer

Crib notes for a genre packed with subgenres

By Julie Sobowale
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Good First Impressions

Anne Bastedo's exhibit First Impressions - Central American Light warms you from the inside out.

Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Psychic potential

The 2013 Spring Psychic Fair hosts speakers, readers and vendors with a focus on inclusion and positivity.

Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

There’s something in the water

Halifax poet Sue Goyette launches her latest collection Ocean

By Jessica Jay
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris

By Stephanie LaClava (HarperCollins)

By Whitney Moran
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

For Zuppa Theatre Co., size matters

This play on the scale of everyday life is thematically ordinary, visually extraordinary

By Chelsea Gutzman
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

The Art of Sufficient Conclusions

Sarah Dearling (Mansfield Press)

By Whitney Moran
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Love Water Memory

By Jennie Shortridge (Gallery Books)

Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

A Tale for the Time Being

By Ruth Ozeki (Viking Canada)

By Zoe Migicovsky
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Scary Movie 5

I don't know how high your hopes are for this one, but lower them immediately

By Jacob Boon
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

42

Charismatic and hopeful

By Jacob Boon
Apr 11, 2013
Arts & Culture

Revolution

Important message needs more substance

By Jacob Boon
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Gianna Lauren’s On Personhood of interest

A new direction, a magical recording process and an extra loud band mark a new path for the soft-spoken folk songwriter.

By Adria Young
Apr 11, 2013
Music

On Parade

Quiet Parade’s latest Old Haunts is an ode to hometowns

By Alyssa Gallant
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Onelight Theatre's mise en move

Onelight Theatre becomes theatre in residence at Alderney Landing

By Jessica Jay
Apr 10, 2013
Music

Shotgun Jimmie is Everything all at once

Collage-rock from college radio’s sweetheart is a mixed bag, just like the album artwork

By Adria Young
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Kate Walchuk's kitsch party

Why buy a novelty snowglobe when a personalized souvenir is so much better?

By Megan Rudson
Apr 10, 2013
Music

Go Berserker

The Berserker Lion collective gets unplugged at Rock Bottom throughout April.

By Megan Rudson
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Something Totally Wicked this way comes

The Totally Wicked Music Festival is back for another round of silly names and impromptu never-before-seen bands.

By Megan Rudson
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Lampposts on a bender

Two NSCAD alums’ art reflects mischievous behaviours, illuminates waterfront

By Chelsea Gutzman
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Spooky love playlist just for you

And your otherworldly bf of choice

By Stephanie Johns
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Quiet Parade "Edge of the Ocean" live at the Coast

Sentimental track from Old Haunts

By Heather Rappard
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Quake Matthews

Corrado (Robin Steele)

By Matthew Ritchie
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Gianna Lauren

On Personhood (Forward Music Group)

By Andrew Mills
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Orchid’s Curse

Words (Diminished Fifth)

By Andrew Mills
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Graham Parker & the Rumour

Three Chords Good (EMI)

By Doug Taylor
Apr 11, 2013
Music

Video of the day: Old and Weird, "All Of My Friends"

Art, shots, makeup

By Stephanie Johns
Apr 16, 2013
Music

Goodbye Rita MacNeil

Cape Breton icon dead at 68

By Stephanie Johns
Apr 17, 2013
Comics

Hey You Guys

By Paul Hammond
Apr 11, 2013
Comics

Cuir'ro

Choose the Adventure

By Jordyn F Bochon
Apr 11, 2013

Food

Berry treasure

With the haskap berry poised to be the next acai, one local business is aiming to make Canada its most important producer in North America.

By Simon Thibault
Apr 11, 2013
Food

Fine vines

Sure, organic wine sounds good and clean, but what makes it that way? L’Acadie Vineyards’ Bruce Ewert breaks it down.

By Allison Saunders
Apr 11, 2013

Free Will Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Be soulful, Cancer

By Rob Brezsny
Apr 11, 2013
Savage Love

Advice from a gay bishop

Dan hands it over to a religious expert for a gay man’s church-related conflict, then takes it back for a girl who’s bored in bed.

By Dan Savage
Apr 11, 2013

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