Dec 29, 2005 - Jan 4, 2006

News + Opinion

• City

  Big talk

  A draft regional plan, transit improvements and new developments marked 2005 as a year of growth. Christopher Vaughan looks back.

  By Christopher Vaughan

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Shoptalk

  Music: Idea moves west

  T.C. Demaresq browses for the year’s hottest trends and biggest business news.

  By TC Demaresq

  Dec 29, 2005
• Opinion

  Signs of the times

  Editorial by Bruce Wark

  By Bruce Wark

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Opinion

  Vote for Pedro

  Dec 29, 2005
• Opinion

  Big empty Tory

  Dec 29, 2005
• Opinion

  Now look up “endearing”

  Dec 29, 2005
• Opinion

  Blueberry capital blues

  Dec 29, 2005

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Fun with Dick and Jane

  Mark Palermo on Dick and Jane and Hostel.

  By Mark Palermo

  Dec 29, 2005
• Arts & Culture

  Indietown

  New theatre companies kept the scene lively this year. Natalie Pendergast picks out a few favourite up-and-comers.

  By Natalie Pendergast

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Arts & Culture

  Spaced out

  After toxic mould was discovered in the city-owned Bloomfield Centre last July, a group of artists lost their studios—and their last bit of confidence in HRM. “I feel that this city is afraid of artists because artists challenge them to define community,

  By Sean Flinn

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Arts & Culture

  Movie report card

  Palermo Ranks 2005 movies.

  By Mark Palermo

  Dec 29, 2005
• Arts & Culture

  Film flam

  It’s been a busy year for Halifax talent, behind and in front of the lens. Carsten Knox highlights the top stories from a year full of them.

  By Carsten Knox

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Arts & Culture

  Art and soul

  The visual arts scene weathered a couple of shakedowns in 2005. Sue Carter Flinn shows how it kept on creating anyway.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Arts & Culture

  Picture show

  It takes some searching, but Mark Palermo finds the good that won’t come out of the truly mediocre movie year.

  By Mark Palermo

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Music

  Letters to the editor

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Music

  ANABLOG

  Tara Thorne unearths her favourite moments in printed matter for 2005.

  By Tara Thorne

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Music

  The local playlist

  Jon Bruhm wades through the fog to come up with the five biggest stories in the musical landscape this year.

  By Jon Bruhm

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Music

  Snow day

  Don’t drop your shovel just yet, says Erica Butler.

  By Erica Butler

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Music

  2005’s Emergency exit

  Roche Uhntraal parties like it’s...you know.

  By Roche Uhntraal

  Dec 29, 2005

  

Food + Drink

• Restaurant Reviews

  The eat beat

  By Liz Feltham

  Dec 29, 2005

  
• Restaurant Reviews

  Hung up

  By Austen Gilliland

  Dec 29, 2005

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

  Dec 29, 2005
• Savage Love

  SAVAGE LOVE

  Dec 29, 2005