The Coast, Halifax's Weekly

Run, Dashchund, Runnew

Greyhounds aren't the only racing canines, as Shane MacDougall reveals in his Spellbound-meets-Best in Show "dogumentary" Wiener Takes All.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Carsten Knox | 09-18-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Shane MacDougall, Wiener Takes All

'Shake Hands With the Devil' Revisits Rwandan Genocidenew

The story that is being told here, from the filmmakers' perspective, is more complete than has been told in the other movies about the subject.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Carsten Knox | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Roger Spottiswoode, Shake Hands with the Devil

Don Brownrigg Releases Debutnew

Newfoundland's Brownrigg creates Wander Songs, a prolific musical anthology of thought and needs time to steep, like any good cup of tea.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Shannon Webb-Campbell | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Don Brownrigg, Wander Songs

Great Lake Swimmers Shrug Off Neo-Folk Labelnew

Call it the Garden State effect: Bands got lumped into the "neo-folk" group, but the Swimmers don't feel like they're part of the movement.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Ian Gormely | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Great Lake Swimmers

Chaz Thorne's 'Overnight' Successnew

Thorne burst onto the Canadian film scene this month by doing the basically unheard of -- getting his first two features, Just Buried, and Poor Boy's Game, in Toronto's film fest at the same time. But it didn't happen overnight.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Tara Thorne | 09-18-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Personal Choices Won't Save the Planetnew

All our individual efforts to limit our eco-footprints won't amount to squat if they aren't accompanied by major political action.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Tim Bousquet | 08-31-2007 | Environment

Tags: environment

Facebook Activismnew

Last week, Dalhousie University and an animal activist identified as Amy Scott turned Facebook into a bizarre cyber battlefield when they locked horns over the university's use of animals for medical trials.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Mark Bolton | 08-31-2007 | Animal Issues

Tags: animal issues

Wii Can Hurtnew

Black eyes and stitched-up fingers: Nintendo Wii fanatics are injuring themselves in gloriously bloody ways.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Chuck Teed | 08-31-2007 | Video Games

Tags: video games

Nova Scotia's Premier Votes in Favor of Global Warmingnew

Rodney MacDonald joined up with his counterparts from Alberta and Newfoundland to kill a plan to impose a national "cap and trade" system to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Tim Bousquet | 08-20-2007 | Environment

Tags: environment

Will the Internet Doom the Big Screen Like it Did the CD?new

Will the movie industry be able to save itself from the torrential reign of downloading?

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Tara Thorne | 08-20-2007 | Movies

The Nova Scotia Coast is On the Rocksnew

The "international treasure" is supposed to be public property to the high-water mark -- but private development and ineffective regulation threaten to both wreck the coastal ecosystem and take access to the shore out of you.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Tim Bousquet | 08-10-2007 | Housing & Development

Tags: housing & development