Net losses
Dalhousie University professor Boris Worm was in a hockey rink when he first realized that vast species of fish and marine biodiversity—all of the world’s currently fished seafoods—could be lost by 2050. “I was overseeing a student exam—a part of my job that I don’t enjoy at all,” Worm recalls. “To distract myself, I was…
Curry’s flavour
Curry’s flavourEarlier this year, singer/songwriter Andrea Curry received three nominations at the East Coast Music Awards—Female Artist of the Year, Pop Recording of the Year and CBC Galaxie Rising Star of the Year. Although she didn’t walk away with the pewter, she has two more opportunities to win an award in 2006, vying for Nova…
Farm’s almanac
The King’s Theatrical Society’s 2006 season kicks off with a bold choice in 20-year-old playwright Daniel Rosen’s Butterfly Farm, about two teens with mental illness, aided through it by their shared nurse. Herald has been “alienated by a corrupt, evil world,” while Melanie is the product of crappy parenting. Rosen’s been working on the play…
Nature watch
A new adult boutique, Naughty by Nature, opened its doors at 6247 Quinpool last Saturday. Naughty by Nature offers the usual sex toys, but it’s not just a sex shop, insists co-owner Nassim Klayme. “We also have a tattoo and piercing parlor. And we really are catering to customers with this. Each tattoo room will…
Hikin’ trail
It’s official. Classified is the biggest artist in east coast hip-hop. Hell, he might be one of the biggest acts on the east coast, period—up there with Matt Mays, Buck 65 and Joel Plaskett. In terms of reach and exposure, the 28-year-old man also known as Luke Boyd is now one of the most visible…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Celebrate all the little voices in your head, Leo, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage says it ain’t the size of the meatball, it’s the spice.
Pitching Awoo
The guitar plays softly as a group of people, flashlights in hand, clear through the tall brush. The Toronto skyline juts out from behind the water. Glockenspiels and synthesizers join in as Joel Gibb leads the pack into a forest, where they’re joined by a band of musicians wearing wolf masks—one of the few welcome…
Savage Love Wextra
I’m surprised at you! Both in your response to AWOL and in a response a while back to another woman who had difficulty/discomfort sucking cock, you failed to mention one tip that I remember reading in your column way back when I was a teen in the late ’80s. I’m a small woman and I’ve…
Loan soldiers
A former street beggar borrows $100 and buys a cow, and she now earns enough to feed her children by selling milk door-to-door. A tenant farmer borrows $500 and buys the land he’s worked for decades; the money he used to pay in rent he now uses to build a house. A peasant borrows $20…
Death in Halifax
Last Thursday, some of Metro’s best citizens gathered at Rain nightclub for The Coast’s Best of Halifax awards. It was a large crowd, sprinkled with boldface names like film stars (Ellen Page, Thom Fitzgerald) and politicians (Maureen MacDonald, Alexa McDonough). Dawn Sloane’s mother was on hand to watch her daughter collect the Best City Councillor…
Appetite for GN’R
Sure, only Axl is left from the Guns N’ Roses glory days, but who isn’t stoked about the band’s November 20 Halifax show? We’re getting ready by collecting your GN’R memories, stories and pics for a special GN’R gallery. Did you see that Halifax show back in the ’90s when GN’R opened for Iron Maiden?…
Shut up loud
“They got in my head that I said ‘15 little words’: Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas,” says Natalie Maines. “So when I watched the movie I saw that actually what I say is something like, ‘Just so you know, we’re on a good side…
You don’t know Jack
Exactly how you sell a vague and open-ended film like A Year in the Death of Jack Richards is a question on the mind of filmmaker Benjamin Paquette. How do you get moviegoers to connect with, let alone see in the first place, a film that gives its clues away in fleeting visual flashes and…
World tour
I’ve always been intrigued by One World Cafe—the little cafe that tries so hard to be so many things and by all accounts, has succeeded. In a very small space, One World hosts internet connectivity, English tutoring, spoken word and music performances, book sales and art shows. And that’s all before getting to the “cafe”…
Borat!
“Fear thy neighbour,” is the basis for Borat! and Babel, yet neither is as politically courageous as their admirers insist. Both films seek escapism by reflecting the absurd norms of human interaction. Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan gets away with a lot because it’s consistently very funny. Sacha…
Game theory
Last month, the people hoping to bring the 2014 Commonwealth Games to Halifax announced a major advertising campaign, with ads splashed on billboards and buses, on TV and in newspapers, and with a large web presence. “There’s a strong desire for further information,” spokesperson Deborah Hashey told city council. “The ad campaign is making information…
