[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Monday night at Gus’ Pub is a quiet affair, though the tables are dotted with tiny beer glasses. Chairs are filled with a mostly hoodie-wearing crowd. The disco twinkle of […]
Awards
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Why everyone loses under the city’s new property tax plan
One day last week I drove out to the Kingswood subdivision off Hammonds Plains Road, just beyond Bedford. Kingswood is the epitome of suburban sprawl; thousands of ritzy houses, some of them worth a million dollars or more, are plucked down on half-acre to two-acre lots along cul-de-sacs and roads stretching perhaps 10 kilometres into […]
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Nova Scotia Music week slideshow and winners
Coast photographer Scott Blackburn took a little road trip to Yarmouth for Nova Scotia Music Week. And now that we see his photos, we’re really regretting missing the awards and showcases (and the Frenchy’s, apparently. Umm, $4 Frye boots?) The weekend in photos: Awards presented at the Music Nova Scotia Gala Awards Show:Bell Aliant Entertainer […]
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Doolittle, Darwin and the Deeply Dumb
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Because it is both the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of author Charles Darwin’s birth, 2009 has been dubbed the Year […]
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Unembedded in Afghanistan
[Editor’s note: On May 29, 2010 this story won the Canadian Association of Journalists award as the country’s best Print Feature, the second CAJ prize Matthieu Aikins has won in two years. This piece is also one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected […]
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AFF Awards
The Linda Joy Awards: The Joy Award – Connie Littlefield, Ann and Sasha The Helen Hill Animation Award – Colleen MacIssac, Collectables The Joy Post Award – Cory Bowles, Righteous The Newfoundland Joy – Jordan Canning, Not Over Easy The CBC Script Development Award – Jennifer Tilley, Freaks of Tatamagouche Craft Awards Art Direction – […]
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Heather Young’s best in show
When you’re picking up tickets for the Atlantic Film Festival, grabone for Atlantic Shorts IV (Monday, September 21, Park Lane, 7pm), soyou can give Heather Young an extra clap—-the NSCAD grad just wonMontreal’s Canadian Student Film Festival. Dog Girl was inspiredby a teen Young worked with in New Brunswick, who was “very optimistic,happy and hard-working,” […]
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How the sewage plant broke
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Halifax’s new sewage treatment plant was turned on in February 2008, and it seemed to fulfill its promised intentions immediately. All you had to know was that parts of the […]
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Shoptalk-lets: local business round up
Looking for a new and effective way to train your dog? A local company is offering The Clicker Leash, which might just be the ticket, bridging the techniques of dog whisperers and other more traditional types of dog training. Clicker Leash expert Adina MacRae will be offering a free demonstration of the leash at Bark […]
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Atlantic wine awards give plenty of coastal gold
Atlantic wine was put on a pedestal this past weekend when results were revealed for the first annual Atlantic Canada Wine Awards. Thirteen wineries walked away with awards and most winners, unsurprisingly, were from Nova Scotia. About two-thirds of the 119 wines entered in the Atlantic Canada Wine Awards won at least a bronze medal, […]
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Tears for beers as the Midtown’s end nears
[Editor’s note: This story is one of a package of three of Andy Murdoch’s articles selected for Honourable Mention in the Food Writing category of the Association of Alternative Newsweekies’ 2010 awards. See all three here.] The original Midtown tavern is another icon of an important period in our drinking history that is about to […]