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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Sightings! Photos: Dance party on the Common
Even the cops feel the beat at the Friday night dance party.
Posted by Shannon Fay on Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Our writer and resident dancer Shannon Fay busted a few moves (and took a few photos) on the Common, Friday night at a dance party organized by Su Donovaro and Mary Burnet. She writes:
The idea came together quickly and over the course of a week they got everything together: They spent $80 to rent speakers and a generator, put together a playlist, and then had a friend drive them and their equipment to the Common. While the dance was held in part in response to the violence that has occurred in the north end, the main target was the commodification of the Common. Donovaro and Burnet wanted to hold a fun, public event to counter the expensive concerts that have been held on common land. At its height, I would say there were almost a hundred people there. The police did show up early in the event, their van stopping by the crowd just as the second song (Beyonce's "Single Ladies") faded out. Burnet and Donovaro talked with them, and the cops agreed that the dance party could continue as long as people stopped going in the fountain (before the music had even started one young man had climbed the fence and got in the water, only to see how many wires there are and just how disgusting the water is before getting out).
- Madeleine and Lindsay Slack
- Mary and Alexandra
- Melissa Lavendar
- Sonya Ruck and Phil Cousins
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Sightings! Capture the Flag: tonight at 7pm
Raindate posted on Facebook by 5pm, if needed.
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Meet at the waterfront wave at 7pm for some good, clean fun. You still know how to play, right?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Sightings! Queen Elizabeth in Halifax, June 28-30
Practice your royal waves, boys and girls.
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Apparently a lot of you think I'm wrong to care that Queen Elizabeth will be in Halifax June 28-30, during the navy's centennial. Yes, I know the Monarch is irrelevant to Canada and its government, but so are your arguments. This woman is one of the most consistent pop culture icons of our lifetime. Well before Justin Bieber's garbage was being ransacked by TMZ, Liz had to deal with British gossip media ragging on her hats. Just last week she was in the news for giggling at a guard (amazing photos) and because a BBC host announced she was dead (she's not). Yes, she's done some not-so great things, but whose grandmother hasn't? (Prince Philip is another story though.)
I for one will work on my curtsy, and hunt down an appropriate hat. Cheerio, haters!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sightings! Picnicface in the Huffington Post
The Button tickles the blog's funnybone
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Picnicface's spoof of the Cameron Diaz moral-headscratcher The Box was picked up by the Huffington Post, only the most linked-to blog on the internet. That's gotta be worth something...
This should save you a few bucks at the theatre:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sightings! Bust a move: flash mob in the Halifax Shopping Centre
Next days function, high class luncheon in the food court.
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM
So I've been begging people to start a Michael Jackson flash mob, but I guess Young MC is sort of close enough, and this is definitely for a good cause. A group of ladies on a mission interrupted the stone cold munchin' at the Halifax Shopping Centre today, as a sneak preview of an upcoming fundraiser for the QEII and IWK Foundations.
On January 30, look for Bust A Move, a six-hour fitness marathon at the Metro Centre. They're expecting over 1,000 participants and to break a few world records. Details here.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sightings! Video: Zombie Walk 2009
Your brains will be blown by hundreds of undead.
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Zombies don't do well in heat (see Goths in Hot Weather for details), but nevertheless, the undead lurched and staggered through downtown Halifax today. There must have been hundreds of them, including one guy in a jean vest who had an amazing zombie walk, tripping and falling into bushes, but then I realized he was just hammered.
Here are a few highlights. There isn't much dialogue, because, well you know, they're bloody zombies.
Now it's off to zombie-oke!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Sightings! Brotha! Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick in Halifax
Desmond gets off the island for new PBS movie on Charles Darwin.
Posted by Sue Carter Flinn on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM
On the weekend I received my first Henry Ian Cusick rumour sighting. Best known as button-pushing, hatch-living, Penny-seeking Lost character Desmond, Cusick is shooting the PBS/National Geographic movie, I, Darwin, about the evolutionary scientist. Most of the production is taking place at the NS Museum Prescott House.
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