This just in from the what-the-fuck? files: China is banning plastic shopping bags.The country’s State Council struck up the new legislation last week prohibiting the manufacture, use or sale of flimsy bags (with a thickness less than 0.025 millimetres, if that means anything to you). Thicker plastic sacks are still kosher, but they must be […]
Lezlie Lowe
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Squeezing squeegeers
Meet Danielle Talbot,comic book stereotype of a squeegee kid. She’s got a black hoodie, a black shirt, dark pants and a dog. Talbot is 21. She left her New Brunswick home in her teens and has cleaned car windshields at intersections in cities across Canada off and on for seven years. She’s been in Halifax […]
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Porn is born
Here’s something you probably didn’t need confirmed by Paris Hilton: amateur porn is hot. Hilton’s homemade sex tape (which, in case you’ve been living off the grid, was accidentally-on-purpose posted on the internet in 2004 and later became an hour-long DVD release) took home three Adult Video News Awards, one for best-selling title of the […]
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Clocking on
I’m convinced. If I just had the right alarm clock, it would be a whole lot easier to wake up in the morning. You see my reasoning here, of course: wake up more easily, have a better day, be a better me. BAM! Get the right clock and all my problems are solved. Enter Clocky. […]
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Organizational smarts
I want Sandy. That’s not a statement. It’s a website. And I already have Sandy. What exactly I have, though, I’m not sure. “Hello, Lowe! Good to see you! How are you settling in? Please do drop my helpers a line if there’s anything you’ve been wishing I could take care of for you.” IWantSandy.com […]
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Fund razing
Holly Taylor has to feel happy. Students at Saint Mary’s University have voted to stabilize and more than double funding to the Saint Mary’s University Women’s Centre, which Taylor heads up as coordinator. But that levy vote isn’t all good. With it has come the news that the SMU Women’s Centre is losing the financial […]
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Rules to give by
Oh please, no, sweet jesus: not the man box. You know, the man box: those jewellery boxes that aren’t for jewellery (because only men who are homos wear jewellery, everyone knows that) but sit atop men’s dressers to hold pocket change and a watch. The man box has got to rank—along with teddy bears, Christmas-themed […]
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Aimee Mann
Aimee MannOne More Drifter in the Snow(SuperEgo)Must there be a sour note on every Christmas album? Apparently. On Aimee Mann’s new holiday hoo-ha it’s her duet with Grant-Lee Phillips, “You’re A Mean One Mr. Grinch.” A worse rendering of the song I could not conjure. And it’s worse for the fact that the rest of […]
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Anger management
Rene Angelil’s got my knickers in a twist. After Old Mr. Snooty McSnoots cancelled Celine Dion’s Halifax Common concert last week and gave as his reason the wounds inflicted by Halifax’s plentiful poo-pooing of his wife/employee, I had to sit down and ponder: are we mean? Or are we aptly critical, and just not very […]
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Divas on ice
You’ve heard of the million-dollar question. How about a $150,000 coincidence? I found one last week when the temperature dipped, I dug my skates out for their first-of-the-winter sharpening and put in a call in to Paul MacKinnon, executive director of the Downtown Halifax Business Commission and long-suffering Barrington Street booster. My question, in a […]
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Free wheelin’
Now they’re going to charge us for riding our bikes. I am apoplectic. I am banging my head against the wall. OK council, don’t get your knickers in a knot. I know what Gloria McClusky told CBC: “We are not in a position where we’re going to bring licensing in for bicycles at this time.” […]
