You’re out for a pint, minding your own business, when your beer-nerd friend—everyone has one—starts on a rant about the full, rich, enticing body of their chosen brew. Though mildly annoying, that friend’s on to something. When people talk about a beer’s body they’re basically talking about malt. Malt gives beer that lingering flavour, the […]
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Locks and load: adventures with Dartmouth’s new brewery
Nine Locks Brewing, owned by Danny and Shaun O’Hearn, officially graced the craft brewery scene with its presence last week. In the same brand new building as the Mic Mac Bar & Grill, the brewery’s name pays homage to the historic Shubenacadie Canal that meanders just a stone’s throw away. The O’Hearns, distant cousins and […]
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Salary freeze rejected during snarky council debate
[Image-1] A new compensation system for HRM councillors and the mayor was viciously shot down at City Hall this week, but problems with the current salary formula remain. A report asking to change HRM council’s pay and base it off of the average salary for a full-time HRM resident was debated at a stumbling, confrontational […]
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City council unanimously passes “good news” budget
[Image-1] This is the last budget several HRM councillors will get the chance to approve in City Hall, and they seemed to be happy to go out on a high note. “Hats off to everybody,” said Gloria McCluskey, who won’t be re-offering this fall. “I sat here, I don’t know how many years and I […]
Posted inArts + Music
Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
Posted inLove the Way We Bitch/Love
Earphone Wearing Asshole
[Image-1] To the guy with the big earphones who told me to “smile” as I was walking by you on Barrington Street on Sunday: Fuck you. The weather was beautiful, and I was enjoying my walk (before your comment of course), and I do not need to smile just for your pleasure. I would have […]
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Let’s (not) have a talk
[Image-1] To all the chatterbox old people that ride the bus and spew nonsense continuously at the bus driver, fuck you! The driver has to pay attention to the road. If they were to make a mistake because of your continuous jibber-jabber all the people on the bus (including you!) would be in danger. Just […]
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Stronger access to information needed in Nova Scotia
[Image-1] Nova Scotians are not known for their “right to know” activism. We might march in the streets to remember veterans or to protest moose culls and school closures but typically we do not march in the streets demanding transparency and accountability from our local and provincial governments. But Nova Scotians file more access to […]
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Gavin Tucker is hungry for a fight
[Image-1] In a powerful burst, Gavin Tucker’s left leg lifts off the ground and kicks his opponent’s left hand. The leg has barely returned to the soft blue training mat when Tucker’s right arm, covered in tattoos and dripping with sweat, sails through the air. It lands in the same spot his foot was a […]
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Mental illness and African Nova Scotian communities
[Image-1] From the 1960s on down, many labels have been placed on African Nova Scotians who exhibited differing behaviors. These labels include “learning disabled,” “crazy,” “animalistic,” et cetera. One could venture to say most psychologists and psychiatrists in the province of Nova Scotia have little or no understanding of the lives, culture, heritage, lineage and […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20) Unless you work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a regular basis. You may have a love-hate relationship with it, because on the one hand you don’t like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you enjoy anticipating the […]
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Letters to the editor, March 3, 2016
The road worrier You know what I love about Halifax? The fact that it’s finally growing up and becoming a city, seeing some great cultural development, with a real potential to be a destination. With Halifax growing, there have been many pains: Dartmouth’s refusal to integrate; The Big Lift; locals combatting condos which, by comparison […]