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Hey You Guysnew

A new comic strip at The Coast.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Paul Hammond |
07-30-2012 |
Cartoons
Tags: Hey You Guys
The Wine Provincenew

Ten wines from Nova Scotia you should try before you make some dumb comment about how Nova Scotia wine sucks.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Craig Pinhey |
09-23-2011 |
Food+Drink
Brad Marchand, from Coast cover to Cup holdernew

Before Brad Marchand became the latest Halifax hockey hero to win Lord Stanley's beer bong, he was profiled by Stephen Kimber in a March 2008 Coast cover story.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Kyle Shaw |
06-20-2011 |
Sports
5 Tips for Gardening in Small Spacesnew

According to gardening expert Elizabeth Peirce, if you follow these five tips you don’t need a lot of space or experience to make that green stuff grow.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Elizabeth Peirce |
04-16-2010 |
Gardening
Tags: Urban Gardening
Nova Scotia's Organic Milk Industry Faces Bureaucratic Bullnew
Cows' milk is different from most food Nova Scotians buy.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
08-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Why Christmas?new
There's no good reason for a sane, rational person to like this time of year. And yet, I do.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
12-19-2008 |
Commentary
Halifax's Ocean Entertainment Tastes Success with Popular "Food-porn" TV Programsnew
It all started in 1997, when Michael Smith was running the kitchen at the Inn at Bay Fortune on PEI. In the garden overlooking the sea, gathering herbs for an evening's service, the chef suddenly thought to himself, "this is so goddam perfect, we should make a television show."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Jessica Linzey |
08-08-2008 |
Food+Drink
What's For Dinner? Local vs. Organicnew

Greenhouse gas emissions from organic flood flown around the globe or pesticides and synthetic fertilizers from "conventional" food grown by a local farmer? Is that the only choice?
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
08-01-2008 |
Food+Drink
Art Meets Hockey: A Marriage Made in Canadanew

"You don't usually associate art with hockey, but it's inherent in our identity as Canadians." We explore the new survey show, Arena: The Art of Hockey.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sue Carter Flinn |
05-13-2008 |
Art
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
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
Soft Sellnew
Chris Foster's vending machine makes visual art affordable and fun.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Laura Kenins |
01-29-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Ban the Bag Bannew
I'm back on plastic shopping sacks. These days, the lowly plastic bag has become so vilified, so universally derided as a symbol of our environmental ho-humism that I can't find a plastic bag anywhere.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
01-29-2008 |
Commentary
Amateur Porn is Hotnew

Sites such as YouPorn.com and PornoTube.com are cutting into the traditional porn biz.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Lezlie Lowe |
01-14-2008 |
Commentary