If crafting the perfect gingerbread house takes skill, Lindsey Vidito has lots of it. Enough to make a gingerbread pub, anyway. Vidito, a staff member at Smith’s Bakery and Cafe (2525 Agricola Street), says she’s been showing her talents during the holiday season for the past couple of years. Last Christmas, Vidito’s gingerbread channeled the […]
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User-friendly map shows HRM’s spread of holiday decor
There’s nothing like taking a stroll through wet snow and sub-zero temperatures to look at all the pretty Christmas lights in the neighbourhood, right? The challenge is knowing where to look. Luckily for Haligonians, someone has done the heavy lifting for us and mapped out a bunch of them. Halifax Redditor Mark Seymour has created […]
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Spreading joy with coombes and dark
L ydia Fulton grew up in Devon’s countryside, learning lessons about self-sufficiency from her grandparents, who ran a farm and sold homemade goods from a shop on the property. That sentiment stuck with her, and even after studying and landing a full-time job in London, she sold her homewares and lemon curd from a table […]
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Halifax Shoebox Project wants to reach all women in Nova Scotian shelters this Christmas
The Halifax Shoebox Project is underway again this year—this time, with a goal of getting 1,200 boxes into the hands of those in need. “We’re hoping to reach every woman across Nova Scotia that’s in a shelter for Christmas,” says Carole Rankin, local project coordinator. The Shoebox Project for Shelters began in Toronto in 2011 […]
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Independence holiday
In September of last year, I entered some search terms into an app called Skyscanner. Travelling from: Halifax. Travelling to: New York. Departure date: December 23, 2014. Return date: December 30, 2014. The price it spat back at me: $332.96 For years, I’d been working up the courage to leave at Christmas. My parents split […]
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Watch this for tips on helping The Shoebox Project
This morning, the Halifax organizers of The Shoebox Project, a national organization featured in last week’s issue of The Coast, released a heartwarming video that shows the immense value of small gestures. The project, founded in 2012, collects items in shoeboxes (up to $50) during the holiday season that many women need and distributes them to […]
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Big gifts come in small shoeboxes
[Image-1] For Danica, childhood wasn’t a happy time—not even during the holidays. “I had a mother that was very physical with me,” recalls Danica. “She would throw me down the stairs.” For just over six months, Danica (not her real name) has been staying at The Marguerite Centre in Timberlea. The centre is a shelter […]
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Flack attack: Is Russia The Next Up-and-Coming EDM Scene?
[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, this past month’s weirdest releases. 3 gifts that help #SaveTheBees TSN’s James Duthie sports chicken suit for charity “Not everyone has the pluck to step into a chicken suit and […]
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The perils of poverty for the physically disabled
[Image-1] PAXnorth church has nine steps leading up to its front doors, and no ramp. That’s why some community members were upset when the venue, at 5568 Cunard Street, was chosen for the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia’s annual memorial. “It came as a total surprise,” says Claudia Jahn, program facilitator at AHANS. She […]
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Trash rises higher
“Residual waste; garbage, that is.” —councillor Reg Rankin “I’m sick and tired of plans. Sick and tired of it, silly master plan.” —councillor Barry Dalrymple “I drove by a Santa Claus today—it looked great—on a car dealership.” —Dave O’Connor, president of Glow Parties THROW AWAYS Yesterday was Halifax Regional Council’s last meeting of 2014, and […]
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Councillor spends $25,000 on robot tree
[Image-1] A Halifax councillor has spent $25,000 of the municipality’s money on a talking Christmas tree. Brad Johns, councillor for Middle/Upper Sackville-Beaver Bank-Lucasville, is eagerly awaiting his new tree as it’s shipped from the States. He says it will help Sackville compete with neighbouring districts. “Spryfield’s got the Santa parade, downtown has their tree lighting. […]
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Blue balls on Grafton Street
[Image-1] The good news is we all have an extra year to buy our convention centre-warming gifts, now that the Nova Centre isn’t going to be what we asked for, when we asked for it. A week ago the news broke that the Ivany tower dream project which is the Nova Centre is delayed nearly […]
