Today, from the Chronicle-Herald: The investigation into a forest fire that destroyed eight homes in the Spryfield area this spring is over and no charges will be laid. The Department of Natural Resources investigated the fire with help from Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service and Halifax Regional Police. They found that an unextinguished campfire […]
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Fringe review: What Happened to Jeff?
Jeff Onore is one weird dude. His one-man show So What About Jeff is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I like twisted. I like dark. But his mind is twisted and dark in ways that I can’t comprehend. His delivery is flat and measured, so that it takes a moment to process what you […]
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Leotarded…
So the Coast has space for a 3″ by 3″ picture of an egg in the idiotic gomer times comic, but they don’t have enough space to fit all of the Savage Love article in. What’s the point of having a paper if you’re just going to direct people to the website? —Bastard Fish
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Expecting privacy in public places
Michael Jackson’s passing last week at the tender age of 50 shocked me right down to my shoes. “It’s getting deadlier and deadlier for celebrities like us,” I was overheard to remark. The King of Pop’s demise was likely brought on by the stress of rehearsing for 50 concerts starting this summer in London. In […]
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Spryfield fire questions
Remember the Spryfield fire? Monday, May 4, I spoke with both Mike LeRue of Halifax Fire and Emergency Services and Jennifer Gavin of the provincial Department of Natural Resources, and both promised they’d issue an explanation of what had happened “by the end of the week.” That was over two weeks ago. Still nothing. Here’s […]
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Shoptalk Correction
Jay Wells Salon‘s new location is, in fact, at 1673 Barrington Street, third floor, above The Hub, and not the address that was reported in Thursday’s print edition of Shoptalk. The phone number is 422-3532 and the salon’s website is jaywellssalon.com, where you can find more information about their services. The Coast regrets the error […]
Posted inFood + Drink
Recipe Exchange Project makes recipe cards an artform
A small group of people, mostly NSCAD students, sit elbow to elbow around a small table, sharing the remains of a dinner in an otherwise empty hall attached to St. Matthew’s Church on Barrington. They are celebrating the success of the first Recipe Exchange Project event, an art experiment designed to teach cooking to the […]
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HFD’s old boy network
A series of human rights complaints and questionable management decisions has plagued the Halifax fire department. Last week we detailed allegations by black firefighters of institutional racism in the city’s Fire and Emergency Services Department (see “Fired up,” April 7, link below). This week, a woman firefighter goes public to say that she too is […]
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Taliban in transition
Protesters took to the streets of London last week as suits from the world’s richest countries pondered the economic meltdown. Demonstrators held up four big horse puppets to represent greed, war, climate chaos and poverty—the four faces of a world crisis brought on by a corrupt political and economic system driven by money, media, militarism […]
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Black firefighters file human rights complaint
When word leaked out this week that a group of black firefighters had filed a complaint against the Halifax fire department with the Human Rights Commission, fire chief Bill Mosher tried to frame the issue as an overreaction by two unduly sensitive employees. “We had met with [black firefighters] and came up with an action […]
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Growlers filled with wheat
Don Harms, brewmaster for Propeller, pours bottles of Propeller’s new wheat beer, Hefeweizen*, into glasses. He places them on the bar. Daniel Girard, Garrison Brewer, puts his nose right up to the sudsy glass and takes a huff. Banana and cloves, that’s good. Lorne Romano, Rogue’s Roost brewer, takes his glass over to a window […]
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Saving Brindi
Sometimes you have to laugh, so that you don’t cry. Just ask Francesca Rogier. “I wouldn’t believe this story if somebody told me,” she says. “Honestly.” And yet…the fantastically far-fetched plotline that belongs to the story of Brindi the dog—Rogier’s five-year-old brown mutt that was seized by the city after three attacks on other dogs, […]