Operating out of an office above Long & McQuade, Dunlap does design, web stuff and photography for local musicians. With Brent Randall and Dave Ewenson, he started the Just Friends collective/label in 2003. “We don’t run it as a strict business, it’s more just helping everybody out with whatever services we can,” says Dunlap. The […]
Hot Summer Guide
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How to find a patio in the sky
The Argyle Bar & Grill The Argyle boasts both the largest rooftop patio in Halifax and unblocked sun access. Bar owner Johnny Demestihas says Thursday nights are his hottest and most happening all summer long, and one look at the rooftop layout explains why: three bars, a lounge chair area and an endless supply of […]
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My summer: Shauntay Grant, poet, broadcaster
Grant is a performer who has been writing and singing as long as she can remember. After high school she did a music degree at Dalhousie and a journalism degree at King’s. She now works at the music department of the CBC and hosts the CBC Radio One program All The Best. Her children’s book […]
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Summer new music guide
Songs have seasons. In autumn listeners long for transitional songs, while in winter the ear tends to hibernate with softer, folkie odes of melancholy. Spring inspires renewal and rebirth, so bring on the pop-anthems. But it’s the sounds of summer that are the true soundtracks of the year. This year’s contenders for the season kicks […]
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My summer: Kate Lavender, actor, producer
Splitting her time between Toronto and Nova Scotia, Lavender is a theatre and film actor who still regularly plays teenagers even though she’s 29. She went to high school in Moncton, where she first trod the boards, then studied at Acadia and followed that up with work at Neptune Theatre. She spent some years studying […]
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How to pick a rainy day movie
Rainy day movies shouldn’t be too cerebral. You don’t watch The Godfather or Memento on days like these. You peep a horror marathon on Space, a romcom, an underappreciated gutbuster—something you’ve seen 10 times. You want to revel in its familiarity. Rainy days are for jokes you know and well-known moments you cry at anyway, […]
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My summer: Andre Levingston, Rainmen owner
Andre Levingston OWNER OF THE HALIFAX RAINMEN Levingston has taken an interesting path to become the president and majority owner of the Halifax Rainmen. He coached high school basketball in his hometown, Detroit, where he worked as a schoolteacher. Becoming an entrepreneur, he went into business for himself, which led him to Toronto, where he […]
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How to pick a rainy day movie: the sequel
Rainy day movies Jay Dahl, filmmaker In my book, one to two millimetres of rain is enough to justify a nine-hour Sopranothon. My favourite bad weather DVDs at the moment are just that: heavily serialized cable network series. Breaking Bad, Summer Heights High, Mad Men and Friday Night Lights: These shows are dangerously addictive—you’ll find […]
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My summer: Megan Leslie, Halifax MP
Leslie, born and raised in Kirkland Lake, Ontario—“I’m not from Upper Canada, I’m from Rupert’s Land,” she explains—has been a Halifax resident for seven years, travelling to the province to study law at Dalhousie and having every intention of only staying for the three years of school. Though she found at the end of law […]
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How to pick a summer book
Summer is all about compromise and eating popsicles before they melt. It might not be the best time—humidity kills ambition—to pick up that 1,000-page tome you’ve been telling everyone you’re going to read. The purists are gasping, but if Jane Austen can be torn apart in terrible “chick” movies, why not let the undead have […]
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How to make a Halifax Bucket List
You have one summer left to live. The world ends after Labour Day. Now is the time to do it all, to suck the marrow out of Halifax. Start working on that bucket list. That’s the challenge we put to The Coast’s Twitter and Facebook friends and we received a pile of must-do activities. In […]
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How to enroll in a summer course
Academic, my dear Watson Are you too busy to take a course? Well, why not take a course in Time Management through the Nova Scotia Community College. Hurry, the one-day workshop is happening on June 20 and will teach students things such as how to save up to one hour per day of time, overcome […]
