It’s difficult to talk about downtown Halifax’s erstwhile Halloween Saturday Mardi Gras party without getting bogged down in details like debating the relative merits of a traditional wine skin versus hiding a pint bottle of lemon gin down your pants. Perhaps that’s why it’s so difficult to pin down when Mardi Gras started (sometime in […]
Lezlie Lowe
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Sister act
It’s 24 degrees and sunny and Kate McGarrigle —one-half of the Canadian folk duo known as Kate and Anna McGarrigle—is looking through the stash of albums in her Montreal home, trying to find Richard Verreau’s Chantons Noel. Her favourite Christmas song is on it—or the first favourite that comes to mind, anyway—and she can’t remember […]
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Back to the land
They found the remains of Alicia Ross last week. Twenty-five and missing for a month from her home in Markham, Alicia’s remains were scattered around picturesque cottage country on a lake near Coboconk, Ontario. Three days before, it was Jennifer Teague. Eighteen and missing 11 days since she left the night shift at Wendy’s and […]
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In search of fame
I Google myself all the time. Nothing dirty. It’s just searching my name on Google.ca. Though admitting it feels kind of like letting the cat out of the bag on chronic masturbation. And it’s a similar activity, really — fuelled by self-love, simmered in a feeling of shame that’s, if you’ll pardon the pun, bred […]
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Book ’em
A school in Vail, Arizona, becomes this autumn one of the first e-book high schools, ditching real, live paper textbooks for the flat screen sheen of student-issue laptops, e-texts, online articles and an extensive WiFi network. I can already hear the apocalypse-prophesizing of book lovers everywhere. But come now. This isn’t the same disaster of […]
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Attention all shoppers
Santa’s always on time. Stereo equipment manufacturers, not so much. “It’s a little desktop radio with a CD player in it,” says Chris Sweet, manager of Peak Audio on Agricola Street in Halifax. “It was supposed to be a great thing for Christmas. But now it’s delayed and the company says it won’t be here […]
