For those who worship at the altar of a curiously delicious curry, finding authentic Indian food in Halifax can be pretty tough. However, thanks to a creative entrepreneur, finding the perfect palak paneer may soon be a naan-issue. Growing up in West Bengal, India, Shivani Dhamija moved to Halifax a little over three years ago. […]
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Fashion ain’t easy
College students, current and former, are used to “camping out” in libraries, pulling all-nighters during the final term push. But Becky Gartner is taking it to the next level. In preparation for NSCAD’s senior fashion show, *Thaw*, the fourth-year student loaded up her trusty Dodge Caravan with a mattress, pillows and sheets and parked it […]
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Half-heard, Chapter 32
Audible through the fluorescent strobing party light-hued fog machine murk were huddled shapes chinwagging over the psyche of David Lynch’s oeuvre while passing around Trevor’s vaporizer, joints and a pizza box. Their diarrheic jabbering over the parallels between Manson (Marilyn)’s Mechanical Animals and Lost Highway was arrhythmically punctuated by constant misuse of “bemused” over “amused,” […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19) Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I don’t know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because […]
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Letters to the editor, April 9, 2015
Leaning left of way The proposed pilot project to implement bike lanes on the north and south sides of University Avenue, from Robie to Le Marchant Streets, is an inspired idea and has my full support. Biking around Halifax seems incredibly intimidating when, in most cases, cyclists are sharing the space with motorists who frankly […]
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Nova Scotia Film Tax Credit slashed by Liberals by 75%
Sadly, it turns out that comments made by finance minister Diana Whalen last week denouncing the Nova Scotia film tax credit weren’t just woefully off script, the Liberal government did indeed decide to cut the Nova Scotia film industry tax credit from 100 percent refundable to 25 percent, beginning July 1, as announced in today’s […]
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Some selection would be nice
[Image-1] Is it too much to ask to be able to find some variety in spirits in our liquor stores? The NSLC’s selection of gins is laughable (nothing but London dry? Where’s my Old Tom, New Modern, Plymouth, or Genever?); I’ve only ever seen two brands of vermouth; there’s no amari to speak of beyond […]
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To the uber-hip burger lovers
[Image-1] Thousands of sentinent animals are being subjected to unimaginable pain and suffering so you can wolf down that pulled pork covered triple beef burger. Professing ones love for bacon and burgers is the new trend while this suffering goes unnoticed or worse, ignored. It makes me really sad and angry that people don’t give […]
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Bitch lover hypocrite
[Image-1] While I thoroughly love reading the daily bitch session the coast provides us freeloaders with daily(maybe this should be a love the way we love post?) I always end up thinking….maybe, just maybe if the people posting these bitches actually took the time to express their anger,frustration,disappointment etc in an honest way to the […]
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A Different Kind of Cold
[Image-1] I can deal with the frozen ice world of Halifax. In fact, I’m kind of over talking about it – some of these sunny afternoons, walking in the street in lieu of snowbanked sidewalks has given us a strange comedic solidarity with one another. But this is a different kind of bitterness: in January, […]
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What A Rause Thank You So Much How Will I Spend This So Called Dime
[Image-1] Thanks so much to the powers for this dime or is it a dime when you take the tax out and the tax out when I spend it plus round the pennies down sounds more like a nickel a hr raise Now it’s easy to see with the math skills of these powers why […]
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Gouging
[Image-1] I don’t mind the high prices for lunch, but charging extra for a debit card? Over a dollar extra? It’s not the high cost of parking that’s keeping people away from your downtown business. —Rarely Carry Cash
