🗞 Halifax’s North of America hometown reunion

THE WANDERER GROUNDS PODCAST

The end-of-season awards, as voted by you—our listeners

The Canadian Premier League will announce its 2023 regular season award winners tomorrow, but here at The Coast, reporters/podcasters/soccer fans Martin Bauman and Matt Stickland have come up with a far more prestigious (and definitely official) set of awards: The inaugural Wanderer Grounds Awards. Er... Groundies? Wandies? We’re still not entirely sure.

Four Wanderers—all in their debut season—are in the running for the CPL’s official end-of-season awards: Lorenzo Callegari (Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year), Dan Nimick (Defender of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year), Massimo Ferrin (Players’ Player of the Year) and Patrice Gheisar (Coach of the Year). That already marks a franchise record for the club. But what of all the other highlights?

On this week’s Wanderer Grounds episode, Matt and Martin debate—and decide on—another set of Wanderers-specific superlatives: Player of the Year, Goal of the Year, Assist of the Year, Match of the Year, Tifo of the Year, Off-Field Moment of the Year, Signing of the Year, Unsung Hero of the Year, Beat Reporter of the Year and Fan of the Year. (They’re also joined by a cast of Wanderers supporters and friends of the show who, very helpfully, submitted their nominations.)

Need to know

🦠 In Nova Scotia’s latest COVID report there were 2 deaths and 51 hospitalizations recorded. There are also 14 ongoing outbreaks in long-term care facilities across the province.

🎫 Live Art Dance presents Canadian dance icon, Christopher House this weekend! Tickets are almost sold out, get them while you can!*

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On The Coast

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Fall into a good book

Have you checked out the lineup for AfterWords yet? Writers and readers meet for one glorious week in venues around Halifax. Have brunch with Emma Donoghue and Charlene Carr. See Sean Michaels and Amy Jones in conversation with Laurie Brown. Take a writing workshop with Alicia Elliot, and much more.

In other news

🔥 Some homeowners displaced by the summer wildfires are no longer interested in rebuilding their homes due to long wait times and have instead opted to purchase new ones.

🪑 Halifax councillors are looking into the possibility of adding an assigned Mi’kmaw council seat.

🚘 The SiRT—Serious Incident Response Team—is investigating after a suspicious vehicle fled police and crashed into a home, leaving the driver and passenger with serious injuries.

🪤 Under direction from the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, coyote leg traps have been set on the Bay to Bay Trail after an incident of multiple coyotes approaching a pet and its owner—but is this the most ethical way to solve the issue?

🚨 A 14-year-old was discovered with a stab wound by police on Lucien Drive in Dartmouth yesterday afternoon.

🌊 At a news conference yesterday, the Ecology Action Centre called on the government to stop delaying action on the Coastal Protection Act, which was passed back in 2019.

🚔 A man and woman have been charged after being caught breaking and entering Dartmouth South Academy on Prince Arthur Avenue early yesterday morning. The two were found with stolen electronics in their possession.

🏒 After major backlash, the NHL has reversed its ban on players supporting organizations and causes with coloured tape on their sticks.

MUSIC

26 years later, Halifax’s North of America still punk as ever

Mark Mullane has a job to do: For the next month, the former North of America singer and guitarist has his work cut out re-learning chord progressions and guitar tunings that, 20 years ago, in the midst of a whirlwind punk career, he hadn’t quite written down. Or if he did, that is, between European tours and EP recordings, they weren’t kept in any fashion that could be referenced, say, in the event of a long-awaited reunion. Like the one North of America is having in a few weeks, here, in the city where their music dreams began.

“I’m kicking myself for not making videos of me playing the songs,” Mullane jokes, speaking by phone with The Coast, “but they’re coming back to me pretty quickly.”

For the first time since 2010, Mullane will join his old bandmates in Halifax for a hometown reunion show. North of America is playing a pair of concerts at Dartmouth’s Woodside Tavern on Nov. 17 and 18, with a third show still in the works. Tickets sold out for the first two shows, but there’s a waiting list for the third.

Read Mark Mullane’s full interview at The Coast.

🤝 Now hiring

• Primary care social worker at North End Community Health Centre.

• Barista at Almonak Halifax.

• Part-time customer service representative at Boyd’s Pharmasave.

• Barber at Oddfellows Barbershop.

• Energy efficiency coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre.

• Curator of history at Nova Scotia Museum.

Hiring? Reply back and let us know!

Sure things

Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:

🗓 Jah’Mila Master Class: Dal’s Fountain School of Performing Arts is holding an open voice master class with Canadian musician Jah’Mila at the Joseph Strug Concert Hall this week | Oct. 26 | 11:35am-1:25pm | Free.

🗓 RobieScope Cinema: Movie nights at Good Robot Robie and the new Commons Beer Garden are back in honour of Halloween. Catch a screening of Hocus Pocus and I Know What You Did Last Summer over the next few days. Ticket holders will also be entered into a giveaway and will receive 10% off beer | Oct. 27 & Oct. 31 | 7pm | $7.

Find more Halifax events in The Coast listings

Eat this

👀 Curated Magazine has released its 50 Best Places to Eat in Halifax 2023! 

🎃 CHKN CHOP just launched its wildest chicken burger special of the week yet: The Pumpkin Spice. It’s made with fried chicken, pumpkin spice mayo, gruyere cheese and arugula. Get your hands on one before Oct. 28.

Shop this

🍎 Check out the Mobile Food Market at Halifax’s North Memorial Public Library where you can purchase fresh and affordable produce every other Saturday!

Deals

💰 Lake City Works (386 Windmill Road) is giving away free bags of sawdust. It’s first come, first served, so if you’re interested make sure to head over as soon as possible.

Have a local special we should feature? Reply back and let us know!