“Adam’s fall” Matthieu Aikins’ award-winning feature on suicides from the Macdonald Bridge is a heartbreaking read even now, a decade after its publication. A year after Aikins’ story was printed, the bridge commission finally decided to install safety barriers along the old bridge to prevent future deaths. Seals of approval One of the most-read stories […]
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Coast 25: The truth is out there
One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven issues leave a lot of lines for readers to read between. Are Coast writers actually a bunch of left-leaning, pot-smoking, Green-voting, indie-rock-lovers? Is Jacob Boon actually a talking dog? Strap on your tinfoil hat, here are some of the misunderstood conspiracies about this little paper. Best of Halifax is […]
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Coast 25: Align time with John Panter
J ohn Panter has been rolfing chronic slouchers like me in Halifax since 1998—and advertising his services in a weekly ad in The Coast every week since without fail. The practice, invented by Ida P. Rolf in the 1950s, sees the practitioner re-align the patient’s body by re-adjusting the fascia, a connective tissue enmeshing the […]
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Coast 25: EST. 1993
SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA “My first visit to Point Pleasant Park, I saw the Cambridge Battery and then the Fort Ogilvie and thought, ‘Wow, these are great places. I wonder if anything is going on here.’ And nothing was. But then I found out that it was more difficult than I thought. In fact, prior […]
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Coast 25: Art directors on their favourite covers
CHRIS MUELLER Coast art director: March 1997-August 1999 Career highlights: Assistant art director at Esquire, art director at Vanity Fair, design director at The New Yorker Now: Creative director at The Foundry at Time Inc. Memorable covers: The one with the present. It was super-fun. Hannah [Thomson] shot it and we were hanging out at […]
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Coast 25: Queer, now and then
Maura Donovan: The social worker turned her volunteer passion into The Youth Project. It was her time volunteering at Halifax’s Gayline that motivated Maura Donovan to start the LGBTQ youth group that would later become The Youth Project, Nova Scotia’s haven for queer and trans youth. One caller, a young gay man in grade 10, […]
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Coast 25: Scenes from a time
My first assignment for The Coast was in 1995. I had recently graduated from university and was feeling totally lost about what to do with my life career-wise—and it was after my first assignment for The Coast that the stars aligned and I realized I wanted to be a photographer. From 1995, I was a […]
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Coast 25: Ahead by a quarter-century
Media has always been sensitive to technological advances. The printing press changed things. The telegraph changed things. Television changed things. The internet seems to be changing everything. When we started The Coast, in pre-internet June 1993, we were six friends from the University of King’s College—the two of us, plus Andy Lamey, Andy Pedersen, Aran […]
