T he Coast sat down with local climate scientist Jeffrey Taylor to talk the basics of climate change. His key points about what climate change is—and isn’t—all centre around the idea that “for the most part, we’ve all accepted that we as humans have impacted the planet, it’s caused the climate to change,” he says. […]
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Turning the toxic tide on Northern Pulp and Boat Harbour
M ary Hatfield and her husband Alan built their house on an empty lot on Eagle Road in the late 1990s. More than 20 years later, the 67-year-old sits on the couch in her front room, explaining the landscape around her modest bungalow. Hatfield spent 26 of her adult years living in Truro before moving […]
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Where I work: Frédéric Tandy of Improv Café
WHO HE IS Ten years ago, Frédéric Tandy opened Ratinaud French Cuisine, a charcuterie brimming with cured meats, rillettes, sausages and imported cheeses. Since then, it has grown into a thriving business on Gottingen Street. But few know that, instead of a charcuterie, Tandy’s original plan was to open a French bistro. “I had this […]
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Giving—and taking back—the threesome rain cheque
Q I’m a 33-year-old woman in a relationship with a 43-year-old man. My boyfriend’s fantasy is to have a threesome with another man. He enjoys watching me have sex with other men, then intermittently fucking me. But he mostly likes to watch me get fucked. Recently, we met up with a man for the first […]
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Pinball’s bumper year
P inball wizards (and would-be wizards) are invited to Propeller Brewing Company‘s Propeller Arcade Room (2015 Gottingen Street) beginning at 4pm on Friday, January 31, for the arcade’s first birthday party, featuring balloons, $5 beers, $10 t-shirts and lots of ball-flipping action. Since opening last January with a modest collection of pinball and video games […]
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Review: Catching Gut Feelings
Gut Feeling to Mar 15 , Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue, Lower Level free A gut feeling can hit us when looking at art. While some work takes serious contemplation, often our response is an immediate one, an instinctual feeling that tells us this is beautiful; this is ugly; this […]
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Julie Doiron and Mount Eerie’s view from the summit
Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron Fri Jan 31, 7-10:30pm All Nations Christian Reformed Church, 2535 Robie Street Sold Out It’s been 11 years since the last Lost Wisdom record, a whole decade since indie royalty Julie Doiron (y’know, the best part of Moncton grunge legend Eric’s Trip, the lauded singer-songwriter whose tunes are a rock-tinged […]
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Kicking the plastic habit
As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most […]
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Angel Bat Dawid soars
Angel Bat Dawid w/NAT Chantel, New Hermitage Sat Jan 25, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20/PWYC When she was young, Angel Bat Dawid went with her father to watch the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus. It was there that everything clicked for her: she wanted to be a musician. “I remember sitting in […]
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First look: Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore
Eyelevel Artist Run Centre & Bookstore Tue-Fri noon-5pm 2177 Gottingen Street Of all the doors lining Gottingen Street, only one is as bright yellow as a banana or sunflower petal. Only one is a secret portal to shelves lined with work by some of the city’s most exciting artists. Only one leads to Eyelevel Artist […]
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The Handmade Film Collective proves DIY does it better
Handmade Film Screening from Coast to Coast Tue Jan 28, 7-9pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Free The Handmade Film Collective is partnering with the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative to organize a free screening celebrating the art of handmade, analogue film. The screening—a much-needed cure to the glut of CGI on view at the […]
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Fight for adoption records brings more questions than answers for Nova Scotia woman
A year ago, Linda Emberley had dozens of questions about her past. This year, she has a dozen more. In January 2019, Emberley told The Coast that due to laws in Nova Scotia, she had to wait to receive access to her adoption records. Under the Nova Scotia Adoption Act, records aren’t public, but adoptees […]