[Image-1] I’ve been pregnant since February. This pregnancy hasn’t been easy for me. I’m frequently tired, emotional and hormonal. And it’s made me a home body whenever I’m not working. I turned down the last two of your suggestions to hang out because you kept getting me at a bad time. Sorry I didn’t feel […]
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Three cheers for the Good Cheer Trail
Merging historical anniversary with a reason to drink, next week marks the launch of the Good Cheer Trail. With over 30 stops at breweries, wineries, and distilleries, the trail was created by the province to promote discovery of lesser-known regions of Nova Scotia, while building awareness of the gastronomic explosion happening from one end to […]
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Welcome to Halifax’s new condo market
[Image-1] It’s a condo conundrum. Do you go downstairs to use the indoor pool or get some exercise on the full-size indoor track? Actually, maybe a brisk stroll through the shops below is considered cardio. But don’t forget there’s also cocktails on the sixth-floor terrace with the neighbours later. Or maybe you’ll just grab a […]
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Ten years of Noyes Records
In 2005, Chad Peck (Kestrels, We Need Secrets) founded Noyes Records, now based just outside of Truro. Since then, Noyes has released music from some of the best indie bands of all genres, from Montreal’s Play Guitar to Austin’s Ringo Deathstarr. Peck celebrates the anniversary with greatest hits tape, Come on Feel the Noyes, and […]
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See Bonesaw
“Crapshoot” is a pretty fair and diplomatic way of describing work in the service industry, especially so when there’s a strong possibility your boss will leaf through the local alt-weekly and read an article about your band. “You have those days,” says Bonesaw guitarist Sam Beeley, “where you just want to come home and sit […]
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Find you in the cypher
Last March, Martez Wiggins, AKA Woozy Blanks, looked around the cozy space of Alteregos on Gottingen Street and realized it was the perfect spot to bring together HRM’s hip-hop communities through freestyle rap events known as cyphers. With DJ and producer Lindell Smith, an engineer at Centreline Studio in Uniacke Square, the duo’s monthly R.A.W. […]
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Time to fight back HALIFAX
[Image-1] REMEMBER we the poor out-number the rich its time to fight back stand up I’m seeing Halifax Die and it’s fucking pissing me off look whats going on people pull your heads out of your ass’s and stop thinking everything will be fine while the poor get poorer and rich get richer here —Remember […]
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Bluenose Marathoners own the MacDonald Bridge?
[IMage-1] There I was May 17, 6:55 a.m trying to walk to work from Dartmouth to Halifax on the bridge. Only to be stopped rudely by three “security” people who said the bridge was “closed”. Closed to pedestrians before 7am??? WTF. Who do they think they are? What about poor people who have no other […]
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Wtf is wrong with humanity?
[Image-1] Wtf is wrong with humanity? We seem to be hell bent on destroying ourselves and everything else that lives on this planet. The US recently announced plans to start drilling for oil in one of the most environmentally sensitive regions of the planet: Alaska. Ok; why do we need more oil? We are being […]
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How to destroy a political movement
[Image-1] In terms of the province’s shale gas development agenda, 2013 would turn very nasty. With billions of dollars in hypothetical royalties at stake, two years of false starts, and the likely threat of Southwestern Energy (SWN) suing the province for tens of millions of dollars if the company was forced to default on its […]
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The casual sexism of being a female journalist
[Image-1] Once upon a time, I visited a government building with a couple female colleagues. Between us, we had six degrees and worked for almost every major print and broadcast chain in the country. We were all under 30. The security guard didn’t believe us when we identified as media. He laughed and said he […]
