Forest Town Feb 27-Feb 29, 7:30pm; Mar 1, 1:30pm; 7:30pm The Park Place Theatre, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive $15/$20 If every man had to hold a branch each time he mistreated a woman, would men change, or would the world look like a forest? This is the counter-factual reality explored in Forest Town, an anthology […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Gold Winner Halifax waterfront Silver Winner The Board Room Game Cafe Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park Halifax’s waterfront is the Best Place For A First Date for lots of reasons. It’s idyllic. It’s romantic. The views are nice and there are enough people to people watch when you’ve run out of things to talk about […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Salt Marsh Trail Bronze Winner Shubie Park A frequent PPP runner says: “Point Pleasant Park is the best for a good long run, especially if you’re looking for a great spot for a breather while taking in your surroundings. Running to the bottom of the park gives you […]
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Best Place To Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Salt Marsh Trail Who let the dogs out? You, you, you, you. And you’ve once again chosen the most pleasant park of all as the place your beloved pups prefer to be posted up for pees, poos and butt sniffs. Ample running room, various […]
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Park Wizards
The Wizard of Oz June 30-August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park by donation ($25 sweet seat) shakespearebythesea.ca We’ve had a lot of conversations about, ‘What is iconic? What are people going to be expecting?’” muses Jesse MacLean, director of Shakespeare By The Sea’s season opener, an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. “We don’t […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Lake Banook Point Pleasant Park is full of wide, winding paths and the potential for a new route every time you go. Why would you bother taking to the boring ol’ sidewalk or jumping on a treadmill for your cardio fix? Here, you can […]
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25 for 25: episode 2000
We’re finally in the new Willennium. Our editorial colleague Allison Saunders joins us in studio to chat about Hershey’s laying off workers at the old Moirs plant (plus the difference between American and Canadian Pot of Golds). We also run down the greatest Atlantic Canadian albums of all time (as chosen by Coast readers in […]
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Best Place To Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake Provincial Park As long as your doggo likes other doggos, Point Pleasant Park is the best place to bring your good boy (or girl). There is plenty of space for puppers to do zoomies. Common doggos, special doggos, smol doggos and heckin’ […]
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Best Place To Go Running
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Salt Marsh Trail Going for a run is less of a chore when you have a pretty place to do it, and for most of our readers, Point Pleasant Park is that very place. The scenery’s nice, yes, including views of the harbour—but the […]
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Coastal erosion is threatening two of Point Pleasant Park’s historic monuments
Waves off the coast of Point Pleasant Park are threatening to sweep away two of the park’s most historic military sites. According to an update to the Point Pleasant Park Comprehensive Long Term Plan, published in September, the Bonaventure Anchor faces relocation while the Point Pleasant Battery will either be buried or demolished in coming […]
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Best Place to Walk Your Dog
Gold Winner Point Pleasant Park Silver Winner Shubie Park Bronze Winner Long Lake Provincial Park When they say all dogs go to heaven they actually mean Point Pleasant Park. Wide open spaces, butts to sniff, trees to pee on, puddles to roll in—everything a furry friend could possibly need is here. Except for all those […]
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Best Public Space
Gold Winner Public Gardens Silver Winner Halifax Central Library Bronze Winner Point Pleasant Park There’s no irony to the Public Gardens. For all the problematic Victorian era heritage and the hubris of a cultivated garden plonked down unnaturally into a city’s centre, the gated space really is a pristine gem to Halifax’s city life. It’s […]