Tannessa Holt is a self-proclaimed foodaholic. Her devoted love affair took a nasty turn when she found herself overweight, unhappy and waiting to have bariatric surgery. Holt decided to make a drastic change and subsequently had to relearn her relationship with food, though the journey wasn’t easy. “Once I wasn’t able to eat how I […]
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Why Dartmouth rules this weekend
As trees grow greener and commuters move from the sheltered lower deck to the open upper deck of the ferry, two Dartmouth events are inviting folks out of their homes for a weekend spent in the great urban outdoors. First, on Saturday, the Dartmouth Skate Coalition (that’s DSKC) is celebrating the grand opening of the […]
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Dartmouth Makers are making it happen this Saturday
When Gina Comeau and Rachel Blair-Johns met two years ago they bonded for a variety of reasons, but it was after comparing notes over a coffee that the two jewellery makers (Comeau is Three Oak Jewelry, Blair-Johns is Ment Jewellery) decided Dartmouth Makers had to happen. “We were kind of like, ‘Wouldn’t it be great […]
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Harold MacKay’s Downeast Beer Factory is open
Harold MacKay is back in the beer game. While many Coast readers might recognize his name from a certain concert funding scandal that rocked the city five-plus years ago, beer was his bag way before the Black Eyed Peas. MacKay—who was one of the founders behind long departed Dartmouth brewery, the Maritime Beer Company—opened Downeast […]
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Dartmouth rapper Jay Mayne gets US distribution deal
“If you know me, you know I don’t get excited about things until they’re actually moving,” says Dartmouth rapper and #ChopTrees founder Jay Mayne. “I’m hyped to make some steps in the right direction, but I still gotta’ secure the bag.” Last week, the rapper announced an American deal with Blingnot Media, a US-based firm […]
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Honey, I’m home
“I want that,” Cait Holmes says. That was her first thought when she heard Joel Plaskett was including a cafe at his New Scotland Yard Emporium. “I am the type of person who says, ‘We’re doing it,’” Holmes says. ”Alex has a bit of a frenzy, but then? Then it happens.” Holmes, 27, and her […]
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City Council Report Card 2016
[Image-1] The mild winter must be making us soft. During last year’s frozen hellscape we chiseled grades out of sidewalk ice and wrote the councillors’ names in the snow. But in preparing the 2016 City Council Report Card we can’t help but think it hasn’t been that bad of a year for HRM. The municipality’s […]
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Tim Rissesco enters race for Gloria McCluskey’s seat
[Image-1] The first challenger for Gloria McCluskey’s seat at City Hall has stepped forward. Tim Rissesco is running for the Dartmouth Centre riding in this fall’s general election; an incumbent-less race due to councillor Gloria McCluskey’s plans to retire. The executive director of the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission made the announcement on Twitter. I am […]
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The roast of Gloria McCluskey is happening in April
If you want to watch Mike Savage make fun of Gloria McCluskey, it’s going to cost $50 a plate. Next month, various political dignitaries and community well-wishers will gather together on April 23 in Eastern Passage to do what some on the internet have been doing for a while now, and roast the retiring […]
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Dartmouth will keep its HΛLIFΛX signs, for now
[Image-1] Dartmouth isn’t in Halifax, but “HΛLIFΛX” will remain in Dartmouth. On Tuesday HRM Regional Council (minus the absent Brad Johns, Barry Dalrymple and Linda Mosher) unanimously voted for a staff report on the use of HRM’s bold logo on community signs. It’s a watered-down version of the original request, which was to look at […]
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City council to discuss removing Halifax logo from Dartmouth
[Image-1] Having solved Twitter and given royal assent to donairs, HRM Regional Council will now turn its attention to scrubbing HΛLIFΛX off of Dartmouth. Next week councillors will discuss a recommendation from the Harbour East-Marine Drive community council to look at removing the Halifax logo and brand from “all community signs, landmarks and flagpoles” across […]
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Found: Lost Documents, Halifax’s newest poetry publication
While trying to encourage local writer and musician Daniel Long (The Cannisters) to publish his poetry, Bijoux Wilcox (Faw Haja) noticed it might be easier for her and her buddies, namely Dylan Jewers and Grant Mitchell, who also all write poetry, to just do it themselves. “It became apparent that if we all contributed a few things, it […]