Aug 15-21, 2013

News + Opinion

• City

  Red-light greenlight: Sex work at the brink of legalization

  The Harper government resists any change in legislation and is fighting a court ruling favouring sex workers, but a recent poll finds Canadians increasingly are in favour of legalization.

  By Justin Ling

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• News

  City buys another house on Bayers Road

  HRM now owns 19 houses between Highway 102 and Connaught Avenue.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Aug 14, 2013

  
• News

  Chain of Lakes Trail obfuscation continues

  Councillors Linda Mosher and Russell Walker vote for sewage pipe project, then consult with their constituents, but omit the cost to ratepayers.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Aug 14, 2013

  
• News

  Most Chain of Lakes Trail users don't know about sewer project

  Plans for the sewage trail are still a bit, umm, underground.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Aug 19, 2013

  
• News

  What happened when the city tried, but mostly failed, to widen Herring Cove Road

  The city bought over 50 properties, but seems not to have known what it was doing.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Aug 20, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  Cintamani set for Spring Garden

  Iceland Iceland baby

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 14, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  We all scream for Ice Cream Heads

  Incredibly happy functional art

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 14, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  Get a dose of DCAF

  Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is back and packed with talent

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  Kelly Neil, photo win

  Art meets food at the Economy Shoe Shop

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 16, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  Mother's, may I?

  The pizza party starts soon*, ya'll

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 19, 2013

  
• Shoptalk

  HFX Sports Bar & Grill goes big

  The former Palace becomes a sports bar like Halifax has never seen

  By Allison Saunders

  Aug 21, 2013

  
• Opinion

  Letters to the editor, August 15, 2013

  These are the letters and comments from the print edition

  Aug 15, 2013

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Scream queens

  AFCOOP’s Ladies of the Fright fundraiser shows off scarily awesome talent from local and international female filmmakers.

  By Carsten Knox

  Aug 8, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Levels of Life

  By Julian Barnes (Random House)

  By Whitney Moran

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  First Spring Grass Fire

  By Rae Spoon (Arsenal Pulp)

  By Michael Lake

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Hellgoing

  By Lynn Coady (Astoria)

  By Stephanie Johns

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Womb

  Directed by Benedek Fliegauf (Mongrel Media)

  By Carsten Knox

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  The Good For Nothings

  Better than a summer blockbuster

  By Kate Watson

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  The Marriage of Figaro

  Sofia Grella provides some opera-induced bliss

  By Kate Watson

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Jobs

  Myth America

  By Jacob Boon

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Paranoia

  Bald Harrison Ford

  By Jacob Boon

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  Kick-Ass 2

  Creative bloodletting

  By Jacob Boon

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Arts & Culture

  A Little Night Magic

  Love, love, love

  By Kate Watson

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  Myles Deck and the Fuzz’s regrowth

  For one night only, Halifax’s peanut butteriest band gets back together to melt faces.

  By Adria Young

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  Song cross’d lovers

  Stewart Legere and Kim Harris recreate the *Romeo + Juliet* soundtrack and you will listen, bewitched.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  Owen Steel & the Sad Turns

  Time Machine Blues (independent)

  By Doug Taylor

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  The D.O.T

  Diary (Cooking Vinyl)

  By Doug Taylor

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  The Civil Wars

  The civil wars (sony)

  By Tara Thorne

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  The Heavy Blinkers

  Health (independent)

  By Doug Taylor

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  White Rabbit’s five alive


  Summer camp for artists and art lovers still going strong

  By Stephanie Johns

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Music

  Chris Brown concerts cancelled

  No Energy/Summer Rush concert series this year

  By Stephanie Johns

  Aug 19, 2013

  
• Music

  33rd Atlantic Film Festival program announced

  Over 180 films in Halifax September 12-19

  By Stephanie Johns

  Aug 20, 2013

  
• Comics

  Hey You Guys

  By Paul Hammond

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Comics

  Haligonians

  Bald Cure

  By Russell Jackson

  Aug 15, 2013

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  You can pickle that

  With the proper planning it’s possible to get a taste of summer-fresh produce all year round.

  By Simon Thibault

  Aug 15, 2013

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Celebrate with humble grace, Scorpio

  By Rob Brezsny

  Aug 15, 2013

  
• Savage Love

  Locked in a paradox box

  Guest advisors take on a self-proclaimed lesbian with a male intruder fantasy, and a young man with an abusive girlfriend

  By Dan Savage

  Aug 15, 2013