Promo Bios
Check out character profiles for Mark Palermo’s movie LATER THAT STEVENING, which will premiere at the Atlantic Film Festival. Add them as your friends. They love you. www.myspace.com/laterthatsteven www.myspace.com/laterthatashley www.myspace.com/laterthatchainsaw www.myspace.com/laterthatjamie
LIGHT DRAWINGS
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Letters to the Editor
Dear The Coast, Once again the annual air show is underway and is being advertised as something appealing to the family. Fast machines are sexy and cool and extreme engineering is fascinating to almost everyone. There’s also a defence industry flea market with booze fueled parties to keep defence contract participants on good terms. Whoohoo!…
Letters to the Editor
Just a thing to think about. A good thing to look into is Peak Oil, and our dependency on it they’ve created. Cars could run on water, they’ve invented far more amazing things.. but no they don’t.. Now the world is upon an energy crisis like no other. It’s coming up even in mainstream media.…
There’s no such thing as a free song
So Universal Music plans to offer its North American catalogue for free. It’s a “compliment” — not competition — to iTunes, which sells songs for 99 cents a pop, and which has taken over the music industry at a rate that alarms the dinosaurs still stomping around. Always slow to come around, major labels have…
And the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Irrelevance goes to the 2006 Emmy Awards
Look, I love television. And I love awards honouring television. But the Emmys can officially suck it. New voting rules were put in place this year as a way to allow new names. The Emmys are notorious for handing successive noms and nods to the same handful of people in each category every year, until…
Starr gazing
Dear Editor,I would like to respond to the hurtful review done by your food critic Liz Feltham. I really enjoyed reading her column and always thought the reviews were truthful and sometimes insightful about the people who run the restaurants, cafes etc…When the staff and I read our review our jaws dropped. That was not…
Starr gazing
Dear Editor,I would like to respond to the hurtful review done by your food critic Liz Feltham. I really enjoyed reading her column and always thought the reviews were truthful and sometimes insightful about the people who run the restaurants, cafes etc…When the staff and I read our review our jaws dropped. That was not…
Saving Pluto, one product at a time
It didn’t take long – the Pluto-is-too-a-planet movement has begun. Get your Pluto-promoting <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/product/235703365657092027" target="_blank" tshirt , <a href=http://www.cafepress.com/buy/pluto/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.71612518/pNo_71612518/id_14161318/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_" bumper sticker, and the “Pluto, we hardly knew ye” <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/buy/pluto/-/pv_design_prod/p_1901469.71636887/pNo_71636887/id_14164630/fpt_/opt_/c_360/pg_" target="_blank" mousepad. Poor, poor Pluto. The little planet that couldn’t.
The beef line
Hundreds of thousands of financially savvy Canadians felt a cold chill last week when Halifax-produced international phenomenon Street Cents got the axe from CBC after 17 years. The show is a seven-time Gemini winner and won an international Emmy in 2001. It helped put names like Jonathan Torrens, Demore Barnes, Brian Heighton (AKA Ken Pompadour),…
Still pushing…
Rob Lewis, Aaron Jackson, Benjamin Jordan, and Carlos Coppen set out from Halifax with the goal of longboarding all the way across the country to Vancouver (that’s 8000km or so, in case you were wondering). Their cross-Canada journey, dubbed Push for the Cure, is designed to raise money and awareness for the fight against breast…
In My Country…
Mainstream music’s trendy genres are transient—most recently indie rock and new wave sounds have dominated the airwaves. But now as those genres’ widespread popularity seems to be waning, many signs point to country as the heir apparent. Alex Madsen, lead guitarist for outlaw country group The Divorcees, agrees and disagrees. “My honest opinion about it?…
Au natural
Melanie Butler is the new owner of …To Relax You at 101 Portland in Dartmouth, taking over from Hilary Todd. Under Butler’s ownership the consignment shop, featuring handmade works by local artists, will be open from Monday through Saturday, 9:30am-6pm. The store will also change names, and Butler is hoping for Handmade from the Heart…
Survivor: Out race? Out of their minds?
Honestly. CBS annouces that next season’s Survivor is going to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/23/earlyshow/series/survivor/main1926528.shtml" target="_blank" divide the tribes by race. My god, what a fantastic idea. Finally, an answer to the age-old question: which race really is superior? I can’t wait to find out. Fortunately, host Jeff Probst offers some Sociological context: “I think it’s very natural…
Skids
Enough with the Alicia Silverstone sightings already, let me know if you see this man lurking around town…apparently Sebastian Bach is here for TPB, and perhaps a little Metalfest, hmmm?
Shoes
The best video ever, betch…
The last best hope
Tom Martin wasn’t “full.” Not yet. He could still remember what Frank Hoskins, Sr., the legendary Halifax cop, used to tell the younger guys: No matter how much you love this job, he’d say, one day you’re gonna wake up and know you’re full. The first time Frank had said that, Martin was just a…
Pawnshop Blues: The Coles Notes version
Maybe you’ve been away since May, or maybe you just took a couple weeks off to cottage it up in the wilderness somewhere, or maybe you need a little help getting in the mood to go back to school, but whatever the reason, we figured we’d warm up your reading skills with a Coles Notes…
In-flight safety
Producers of the internet-hyped Hollywood movie Snakes on a Plane must be rubbing their hands together. The arrest of 19 air bomb conspirators in the UK has renewed anxiety around air travel, and it’s not hard to imagine some fast-talking studio-head saying snakes are a metaphor for our fear of airborne terrorism. As if there…
Laying waste
“I came here as a foster child and my mumma’s buried down there,” Wendy Campbell told me last Saturday in the graveyard at Tracadie United Baptist Church near Lincolnville, a tiny black settlement in Guysborough County. “This lady took me and raised me as her own and Lincolnville is my community.” Now Campbell fears that…
An act of Google
Don’t let Google Google you writing anything in your blog about Googling. The internet search engine megacorp, whose corporate motto is (suddenly ironically) “Don’t be evil,” is feeling a tad litigious. Last week, Google sent cease-and-desist letters to media organizations (at least, UK daily paper The Independent claims so in an online piece which a…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
It’s time for senseless mayhem, Taurus, says Rob Brezsny, and that’s no bull.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage gives sound advice, however the heck old he is.
Starr gazing
The lower end of Portland Street seems to be enjoying a renaissance of sorts, with the building of executive-style townhouses nearby, and a general clean-up of an area once dominated by strip bars. It’s a sunny day, and as I walk down the wide brick sidewalk I can glimpse the sun glinting off the blue…
Rogue wave
The last time Luke Doucet was spotted among the streets of his hometown was during the Junos frenzy. Now the handsomely boyish troubadour returns for a solo stint at Stage 9 on August 26. “It certainly will be a less chaotic affair than the Junos, though that was a good chaos,” says Doucet, calling from…
Snakes on a Plane
“Really? That’s so cool!” a girl sitting behind me exclaimed when I joked to my friend that the only thing I like better than planes is snakes. The brilliance of Snakes on a Plane’s title (garnering it far more interest than mid-level action films of its ilk ever get) is how unpretentiously it lays out…
Cool cups
Inside Trident Cafe on Hollis, along with the warm smell of fresh roasted coffee, are little reminders written on index cards: “Please take only as many as you need,” above the napkins, “Paper towel ONLY for green bin composting,” in the washroom, and “Garbage only thanks. No compost stuff. No recyclable stuff. Give that to…
