For people looking to start skateboarding this summer, or to just dust off their old deck, Halifax is the place to be in the Maritime skateboarding scene. The recently renovated Halifax Common Skatepark is the de facto place in the city to skate. “The city threw down, they built it, and it’s a great addition […]
Hot Summer Guide
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WWOOFing around the farm
Shakeel Rehemtulla has done some unsavoury jobs. The NSCAD student and local designer once scooped out fertilizer from a huge steamy vat filled with a concoction of long-fermented yogurt, compost and manure. Along with girlfriend Carey Jernigan, they spent a week last year working on an aloe and date farm in Gujarat, India as volunteers […]
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A few local hiking trails
A summary of an article called Walk The Line, first published in The Coast Hot Summer Guide, June 2007, researched and written by Tim Bousquet BLT Trail Buses 21, 23. Off Highway 3 or St. Margaret’s Bay Road, turn into the Lakeside Industrial Park to the trail parking lot next to the Coca-Cola building. The […]
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Grand slam
On the small porch outside of Steve-O-Reno’son Brunswick Street, Andrew Abraham recites his tongue-twister of a poem, St. Bullshit College. Two minutes in, he pauses. “See, if I choke like that at the slam I’m fucked,” he says, before continuing with his poem. The slam—a competition for spoken word artists—is one highlight of the Canadian […]
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blind faith
Michelle Butler Hallet shows great empathy for her characters in her short stories and in her new novel, Double-blind, which she’ll read from at Word on the Street this weekend. Psychiatrist Josh Bozeman narrates the story of his own work with a secretive research group, the losses that plague him, the damage he’s done in […]
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Going places
If you saved a few pennies this year, or own a credit card with room to burn, it’s time to skip town. Wondering where to go? Tuck this handy guide into your fanny pack—and if you’re flying, calculate how much you should donate to environmental projects to offset the greenhouse emissions: www.greenmyflight.com. ARTS Bring your […]
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June
Written by Caley Baker, Jodie Barnaby, Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Victoria Foley, Austen Gilliland, Stephanie Johns, Carsten Knox, Lindsay McCarney, Kate Watson and Shannon Webb-Campbell. ARTS BURNING RUBBER AT SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY Show curator and documentary filmmaker Ariella Pahlke is attuned to the world, the details that tell a bigger story. Around […]
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August
Written by Caley Baker, Jodie Barnaby, Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Victoria Foley, Austen Gilliland, Stephanie Johns, Carsten Knox, Lindsay McCarney, Kate Watson and Shannon Webb-Campbell. ARTS ACTUAL AT DALHOUSIE ART GALLERY Emerging artists find a welcome home at Dalhousie Art Gallery, whether in solo or group shows. This summer a new group of young […]
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Hot summer guide
Over 100 eventsWith hiking, cycling, swimming, lazing & more. Dig into the 11th annual treasure trove of ideas and tips for fun in the sun.
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Taking flight
The Winston Churchill statue that stands in front of the Spring Garden Road library is a Halifax institution. Forever fixed mid-pace, the great leader frowns and guards the library’s path. Stephanie Domet describes the statue as “calming and encouraging.” It’s fitting, then, that the library is where much of Domet’s new novel Homing takes place. […]
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Well versed
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” says Lorri Neilsen Glenn. The Halifax poet laureate is quoting Joan Didion in the midst of a discussion about her own writing. She punctuates the words with her hands as if conducting an orchestra. Glenn is an astonishing listener, incisive in her comments. Her eyes don’t waver, […]
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Little’s lone figures
Whether by choice or circumstance, some people live in isolation, but even these lone figures eventually find connection in, and to, this world. Linda Little’s second novel Scotch River offers readers a chance to contemplate this idea through her two main characters, Cass Hutt and Pipe Holmes. “For me one of the main themes is […]