[Image-1] Being the critical voice for the arts and city politics that we are, The Coast gathered three opinionated experts to sit down and comment on the best (and worst) election signs dotting the HRM. (Also we thought it’d be funny.) Chris Parsons (activist and occasional writer, @cultureofdefeat), Elizabeth MacMichael (illustrator, @lizmacdraws) and Matt Brand […]
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Review: The Lobster
What if being single was a crime? A dystopic future of marrieds is the world posited by The Lobster, but that’s just the logline. Here’s what actually goes on: There’s a place where eligible singles gather. They have 45 days to find a mate—hetero, natch—and if they fail they’re turned into an animal of their […]
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Watch: A teaser for the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society Cat Show
Today at The Coast, watch the trailer for Cat Show, which chronicles the competition and heats between Halifax’s north-end cats and their owners, all participants in the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society’s Biennial Spring Classics. The trailer is a pitch for a potential satire (catire?) web-series, based on real life events. In 2013, Kathleen Prinsen‘s tabby Florian […]
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Telus also offers support for mental health
[Image-1] Many companies talk about mental health, but did you know Telus puts its money where its global telecommunications leader of a mouth is? Last year, Telus—home of Canada’s most reliable 4G mobile network—donated (in part) $450,000 of funding to mental health initiative The Sandbox Project. “TELUS is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing […]
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Councillor Bill Karsten objects to council live-blogging
Yesterday, mayor Peter Kelly had other commitments, so deputy mayor Bill Karsten took over duties of presiding over the weekly council meeting. As usual, I was there and live-blogged the meeting via Twitter. Today, I received the following email from Karsten: Tim, I saw your crap on twitter last night, and I have had about […]