Published May 12, 2005.The RaveonettesPretty In Black (Columbia)The Raveonettes’ Sharin Foo was set to replace The Cardigans’ Nina Persson as Sweden’s quirkiest and most beloved songbird, but then there was the mysterious inclusion of a Raveonettes song in an American K-Mart TV commercial. “Huh?” said fans watching the cast from WB’s Seventh Heaven grooving to […]
Sue Carter Flinn
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The great north end
The complex personality and tumultuous history of Halifax’s north end have made it an ideal muse for the many filmmakers, artists, poets and authors who live there. This Saturday, during the Go North! event—when north-enders invite the rest of the city to tour over 45 local artist studios, galleries, homes and businesses—two of the scheduled […]
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Head of stats
Rank of “mittens” on Google’s list of the most popular searches done from Halifax: 1 Number of adoptable kittens’ photos posted online by the NS SPCA Metro Shelter in Dartmouth: 36 Number of raised bathtubs at Metro Dog Wash on Cunard: 5 Approximate number of catalogued entries in the Natural History Museum’s zoology collection: 300,000 […]
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Where art thou?
For a city unsupported by a provincial or municipal arts council, Halifax boasts an astounding number of art galleries. Hey, we have a world-recognized art school smack in the middle of the downtown, a network of reputable university galleries and a dedicated arts community with an Energizer-rabbit attachment to hard work, all working hard to […]
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Life aid
Not everyone is good at holding sick hands or running a charity marathon, no matter how worthy the cause may be. Still, there’s no denying that volunteering experience helps pad a weak resume and is helpful for networking (a terrible but important word in the working world), making friends and getting acquainted with new city, […]
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Meal ticket
MONDAY Ko-doraku (Spring Garden Place, 423-8787, no delivery) Inexpensive, well-prepared take-out sushi pushes the expected quality of standard food court fare. The baby sister to Doraku (1579 Dresden Row), Ko-Doraku is open for lunch and serves a wide variety of daily specials that should also please veg-heads and non-fish eaters. Plus, the Omega-3s found in […]
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Tenants’ Commandments
Long, long ago, back when people used to stay home on weekends to watch Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy donned a striped jumpsuit to play Tyrone Green, a poet-inmate whose jailbird recital, “Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. C-I-L-L my landlord,” spoke to traumatized victims of dirty hallways and broken toilets everywhere. Of course, killing […]
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Dig your Roots
During Bill Clinton’s Metro Centre visit last week, he lounged in front of a starry backdrop, speaking about unavoidable—negative and positive—global interdependence. Clinton’s relationship model could also be applied to Halifax’s visual arts community: they work together, socialize together and yes, some even sleep together. An exhibition at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Roots […]
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Food for thought
Best splurge Our fantasy diners got wound up debating how to spend their fantasy dollars: go for the familiar—the tried and true—or take your chances with that hot new honey of a bistro? Da Maurizio (1496 Lower Water, 423-0859) drew plenty of “oooohs” from the crowd, as did Fid’s (1596 Dresden Row, 422-9162) French-Asian minimalism. […]
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Get with the program
“‘Why don’t you get Miles Davis?’” Susan Hunter, artistic director for the Atlantic Jazz Festival, laughs about one of the odder requests she’s received. “People look at the line-up and say, ‘I’ve never heard of anyone.’ Well, the truth is they’re either way too expensive or way too dead.” The famous horn player put down […]
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The David
In a promo for the 47th season of The Nature of Things, David Suzuki, the 70-year-old science and environmental activist, appears as naked as the jaybird he tries to protect, wearing nothing more than a strategically placed maple leaf. Held high over his remarkably buff physique, he literally carries the world on his shoulders. Although […]
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Drawing interest
The hot-pink clues arrived, scattered across Halifax’s north end, on the morning of Thursday, May 11. There were no concert announcements on the recipe-card-sized papers, just the words “Gottingen and Cunard,” cryptically laid over a photocopy of wood grain. Signs were everywhere: stuck with masking tape on Staples’ glass doors, the old legion building on […]