Rebekah HiggsMusician, Coast reader poll winner for Best Dressed Local ArtistOne year I was poison ivy. I sewed together an onesie out of a green velvet tracksuit, wrap my hair into two cones, and glued fall leaves to my eyebrows. But my funniest costume would have to be the Mary Kay sales woman. I wore […]
Halloween
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Snack-o’-lantern
Pumpkins aren’t just for making pie or jack-o’-lanterns. They’re also the perfect source of the raw ingredient for one of fall’s most underrated snacks: pumpkin seeds. With a little bit of time and effort, you can turn your pumpkin’s innards into a snack that’s healthy and delicious—and which will put any Halloween candy to shame. […]
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Trick or street
It’s difficult to talk about downtown Halifax’s erstwhile Halloween Saturday Mardi Gras party without getting bogged down in details like debating the relative merits of a traditional wine skin versus hiding a pint bottle of lemon gin down your pants. Perhaps that’s why it’s so difficult to pin down when Mardi Gras started (sometime in […]