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AltWeeklies Award - Web Site
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Staff |
04-21-2008 |
Media
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"The Holiday Planner"new
AltWeeklies Award - Illustration
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Kate O'Connor |
04-21-2008 |
Media
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"Y"new
AltWeeklies Award - Editorial Layout
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Staff |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Ghost Bees Performs Strange, Spirited & Often Spooky Folknew
The band, led by twins Romy and Sari Lightman, is inspired by family ancestry. "Even as kids we always had this fascination with death and the supernatural," says Sari.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
04-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghost Bees
Book of Imprisoned Women's Writing is Fascinating, Heartbreaking, Amusing & Frighteningnew
Words Without Walls, a book of poetry and drawings from women in Nova Scotian prisons, offers insight into troubled lives and a damaged system.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sue Carter Flinn |
04-14-2008 |
Books
Are Skyscrapers Really Good for the Environment?new
Density is our hope for long-term survival. At least until peak oil. The problem with these sky-scraping symbols of long-term sustainability, according to an energy expert, is "figuring out how to heat the damn things. If we assume the heat source will be oil," Larry Hughes says, "it's very short-sighted, naive to the extreme."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Chris Benjamin |
04-14-2008 |
Environment
L8er, H8ersnew
I'd like to speak with the angry people online, but I don't know who they are.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
03-21-2008 |
Commentary
Binge Drinking and Big Fighting in Halifaxnew
The city's drinkers get drunk and fight too much now. Not like the 1980s...
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Craig Pinhey |
03-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
Black Mountain Climbsnew
With In the Future, the band isn't about to shed the Led Zeppelin comparisons that greeted it early on, but the album may well establish Black Mountain as a priority -- a collective with truly equal members -- rather than another vehicle for McBean's musical vision.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Mountain, In the Future
Sleepless Nights' Heart is a Lonely Wanderernew
The Halifax band has been home to more than 20 musicians over its five-year lifespan. This revolving door has garnered the band comparisons to Broken Social Scene, something frontman A.A. Wallace is quick to dismiss.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sleepless Nights
Motorizing Motivationnew
Recently, the move to concretize our schemes -- albeit ones often grounded in, if not fully sane at least interesting concepts -- has indeed taken off as a social trend.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
03-03-2008 |
Commentary
Cuba Librenew
With Americans craving political change, it's been useful to see the U.S. response to Fidel Castro's resignation; the biggest change the northern hemisphere has seen in a while.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Bruce Wark |
03-03-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: Cuba, Fidel Castro
Atlantic Climate Change Conference Gets Greennew
The conference is putting a local spin on a global crisis.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Nicole Trask |
03-03-2008 |
Environment
Golden Raspberry Stainsnew
Before the Oscars, check out the 28th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies) nominees.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lindsay McCarney |
02-15-2008 |
Movies
Daily News Canned by Transcontinentalnew
The Daily News's closure leaves employees uncertain, and Halifax with one less voice.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tim Bousquet |
02-15-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
