Plane thinking
Le Theatre de Boheme, fresh off its run of 1984, has already got its next production lined up: a re-staging of its 2004 production of Sartre’s No Exit at the Prague International Fringe Festival. Thirty-five companies will put on 180 performances in one week, beginning May 29. Seeing as how a last-minute trip to Toronto…
Just say Novaks
The Novaks are on the road promoting the release of their third radio single from last August’s self-titled debut, and pushing the soulful rock tune “I’ll Give You a Ring” will keep their family and friends back home anticipating they’ll do just that. “We’re planning on spending as little time in Newfoundland as possible. Summer…
For the ladies
Nubody’s Fitness Centre in Scotia Square Mall is undergoing renovations to add a new women’s-only work-out facility. The new space will occupy some of the room vacated by Physiotherapy Atlantic, and will include cardio machines, free weights and circuit training. “It’s going to serve a lot of the new exercisers,” says manager Marie Kuppens. “Women…
No nudes is good nudes
On Wednesday afternoon, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board decided to renew the liquor license at the now-infamous Dartmouth strip club Sensations Cabaret—with some conditions. Big conditions. Fully-clothed conditions. Spread over a whopping 108 pages, the ruling’s biggest decision can be boiled down to a single declaration, found on page 107: “Effective 12:01 a.m.…
Poetic licence
To The Coast, The Coast is the paper I read the most. The Herald, the Globe, the Daily News, too, Holler for attention, but it’s not their due. For I am a Coast fan—it grew by the years, HRM blues from bars to the beers; From columns that inform to those for a laugh, The…
The blame game
To the editor, It is time to scrap the Young Offenders Act. Seriously. Yes, there is a strong argument to keep it intact, but I believe that with the increasing frequency of crimes being performed by children—such as assault, attempted murder, grand theft auto, to name a few of the recent events—we cannot let these…
The blame game
To the editor, For some time now there has been much talk about young offenders, especially ones who steal vehicles. Recently on the news I heard people saying that after a youth steals a car, their parents should be arrested! I wonder—do these people have teenagers? Do they know how difficult it is to control…
Starship troopers
To the editor, Bruce Wark’s editorial (“Shared vision,” May 11) got me thinking…when is the public going to remove its collective head from its ass and realize that the main purpose for NASA (and space exploration in general) is to serve as a cover for weapons research and development? Do you really think government gives…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Feed the wild one within, Pisces, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage has a straight rights updates for all you breeders.
Silver screen summer
June A Prairie Home Companion (directed by Robert Altman) Eighty-year-old Altman had director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) as an insurance-required understudy on this project about the last broadcast of a beloved country music radio show. Expect the usual exquisite ensemble cast, the overlapping dialogue and rambling narrative. Nacho Libre (Jared Hess) Hess follows his…
Habit trail
I was chowing down on green chili curry the Friday night before Rodney MacDonald pulled the fuse to detonate the provincial election, when I spied a note on the spice packet. It announced that the curry company donates money to help save the endangered Asian elephant. “But what about the poor mainland moose?” I cried,…
Fair treatments
Juliette Gay, a regular patient at the North End Community Health Centre, doesn’t dread visiting her doctor. In fact, she enjoys it. “It’s convenient for where I’m living now, but I like going there. My doctor, Dr. Watson, I just love her,” says Gay, a north end resident who has been a patient at the…
Question period
Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, says one cannot “predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely.” Hawking (who’s quoted in Bill Bryson’s staggeringly good A Short History of Nearly Everything) is talking about an especially tricky theory of quantum physics. But think about…
Visions of Greater things
After David Woods was publicly named as the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s first associate curator of African Canadian art in February, he joked that it messed up his friends at Tim Hortons, where he goes to write. “They don’t know what associate means, but they know it’s big. It’s comical because I might not…
Beats master
Philip Clark is a strange guy. On the surface he’s soft-spoken and friendly. As a performer, however, he transforms into a mad scientist behind a bank of sound boxes and keyboards, dancing to his self-generated beats like an extra on the Mike Myers Saturday Night Live skit “Sprockets,” imploring others to join him. The bespectacled,…
Poseidon
As kids, the first mystique of movies was that they’re something bigger than we are. It’s mandatory to believe in the thrill of giant spectacle to get anything out of Poseidon. At most basic levels of character and drama, it’s a subpar work of fiction. There’s no reason to see it on DVD or in…
Northern exposure
Downtown for dinner with a couple of girlfriends, I decide to combine pleasure with business and drop by 44 North for review purposes. 44 North is the restaurant of the former Sheraton turned Casino Nova Scotia Hotel and now Marriott; as a Casino employee, my ties with the hotel were severed after the sale. With…
