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The business of bare: Inside Ralph’s Place
She is on hands and knees, naked. Below her a man slumps over his beer bottle. He is nearly alone in the club on this bright afternoon. She crawls towards him, stopping three feet away–as close as the law allows. Her movements are almost languorous, but she lacks the confidence and practice of the other […]
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Two decades of world-class delusion
After “drop the bomb,” never have three simple words so devastated a place. The first reference I can find to anyone using the phrase “world-class city” to describe Halifax comes from 1994. That July, Fred MacGillivray was hired as president of the World Trade and Convention Centre, the provincial crown corporation now called Trade Centre […]
Posted inArts + Music
Laurie The Guy: King of karaoke
There’s an indescribable hum of excitement over the room of karaoke regulars just before the show begins. Like sprinters waiting for the start gun to fire, singers anxiously flip through songbooks—though they already know what they’ll perform—watch a stack of request slips grow at the front of the room, ask for the lights to be […]
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Coast up for Canada’s biggest journalism prize
After nearly 20 years of coming out on Thursday, The Coast has lots of good memories associated with this day. There’s Thursday, June 17, 1993, when the first-ever issue came out. And Thursday, April 24, 1997, when we graduated from biweekly publishing to come out every week. And a bunch more. But today might just […]
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Coast scores another award nomination
Hot on the heels of the Atlantic Journalism Awards making The Coast’s day, the Canadian Association of Journalists keeps the party going with its national awards nominations. The CAJ’s prestigious prizes are for “outstanding investigative journalism in Canada,” and one of those outstanding pieces of investigative journalism is Coast news editor Tim Bousquet’s February 16, […]
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Kudos for The Coast
In an awesome kick-off to the weekend, yesterday the Atlantic Journalism Awards announced the list of finalists for this year’s awards, and three members of Team Coast made the cut. Coast news editor Tim Bousquet is up for the Enterprise Reporting (in print) prize, for “A trust betrayed: Peter Kelly and the estate of Mary […]
Posted inLifestyle
Making the Mooseheads
On Friday night, April 5, at the Metro Centre, the Halifax Mooseheads—the number-one-ranked team in all of Canadian junior hockey—begin the second round of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Championships. The team steamrolled through the first, no-need-to-break-a-sweat, tune-up round, sweeping away the Saint John Sea Dogs in the minimum four games, outscoring their opponents […]
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Creative Nova Scotia celebrates
The Brewery Market was a hive of artistic activity and abuzz with a high-energy atmosphere for the 2012 Creative Nova Scotia Awards. The annual celebration of artists, art organizations and creative communities took a detour from the traditional high-priced dinner and speeches format and instead put together one hell of a party. Nine artistic installations […]
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Cousin & wife
A group of volunteers sits in a circle of chairs in the lunch room of The Red Cross in Halifax. They’re all activists for different kinds of equality: an environmentalist; a social worker; a children’s rights activist; a gay rights advocate and a youth worker with the YMCA named Fadi. Fadi, 28, is a Kuwaiti-born […]
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A trust betrayed: Peter Kelly and the estate of Mary Thibeault
When Halifax resident Mary Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida, winter home, she left an estate valued at over half a million dollars and a will naming 13 people and five charities as beneficiaries. One of the beneficiaries was Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. Thibeault called Kelly a friend and valued his judgement: In addition […]
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NSMW: Part 3
Our own Alison Lang was up for an award for Media Professional of the Year at the Music Nova Scotia Music and Industry Awards brunch, so we headed to the Grand Ballroom in our nice shirts. It was sponsored by Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey so there was a bottle on every table. It wasn’t so bad […]