Unpublished Newswire

Two barely-there lines above the outer edges of her eyebrows mark where surgeons screwed a halo apparatus to Anya’s skull to keep her head from moving while they destroyed tiny bits of her brain. She remembers being sedated, but not completely out, lying on her back on the scanner table. A special helmet fixed to her head beamed high-intensity ultrasound waves at a targeted brain circuit. When the waves intersected at the desired spot, tissue was ablated — burned away like kids using a magnifying glass and the sun’s rays to scorch dead leaves. For one brief moment she felt a sudden...

With nothing more than grit, hard work, and determination, Christine Oreskovich and Kyle Shaw created and built the famed alt weekly The Coast. Started in 1993, by the turn of the millennium, The Coast was a 100-page weekly opus; it was Halifax’s go-to publication for arts and entertainment reporting and for an irreverent take on the news. Along the way, The Coast became the breeding ground for dozens of journalists, the starting point for their careers. Coast alumni include Matthieu Aikins, Lezlie Lowe, Paul McLeod, Craig Silverman, Mike Landry, cartoonist Michael de Adder, photographer...