The city claims it wants to know about — and will quickly act to eradicate — any graffiti on public property. So on Monday, April 23 I sent this complaint through the snitching site: “The city’s black plastic garbage can, fastened to a pole near the convenience store at 6070 South, has many tags on […]
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Graffiti challenge — Robie bus shelter part two
On the way to work this morning, I noticed the tags on the Robie at Jubilee bus shelter still haven’t been cleaned off. That makes it 36 days since I alerted the city to the graffiti-covered piece of public property. For its part, the city promised to do the clean-up within three days of my […]
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Knocking the rocks-off rock box
Apple turned itself into a business powerhouse by making the MP3 player sexy, but apparently it doesn’t want the iPod to get too sexy. The company is threatening to sue British sex-toy store Ann Summers for using Apple-inspired graphics in ads for the iGasm, a vibrator that plugs into an iPod and throbs to the […]
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Doc-tor Death
I spent my teenage years in Doc Martens, mimicking idols like Joe Strummer. But now I would like to retrieve one of those wee boots and kick the ad exec responsible for this tasteless campaign. Dead rock stars—Kurt Cobain, Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious and yes, Strummer–in heaven a’la George Burns or Patrick Swayze–wearing gowns and […]
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The good and the bad re: On the Lot
Good: Carrie Fisher. Anytime you’ve ever intentionally laughed at the Academy Awards, she probably wrote it. She’s the perfect judge for this thing – old-school Hollywood, the fanboy wankers love her (seriously, did we have to see the guy say “Princess Leia, 20 feet away from me”? So pandering!) and she knows what’s she talking […]
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Chasing Amy
Amy Lee Collins had to go to the hospital. But she didn’t want to. She hated hospitals. So she said to the two friends she’d been spending the day with at her North Park Street basement apartment, “I’m fine. I’m fine.” She had already had one seizure. Then there was another. Then, in time, another. […]
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Is that a pronoun in your pocket?
If you think no one is paying attention to your blog–think again (I learned my lesson after the Young Triffie fiasco). At least once a week I read the Zeke’s Gallery blog from Montreal which is a good, irreverent source of art news. Anyhow, in November, its writer Chris Hand wrote a post stating, “a […]
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Math
A reader recently asked for documentation for the various stats I threw around in my rant about Nova Scotia Power exec’s excessive pay. This is excuse enough for my entry into The Coast blog world, and if you read through, I’ll even make an additional point. First, the numbers. For provincial energy use and greenhouse […]
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Word nerds unite!
In the middle of something half-way important, I got distracted by this completely unimportant but engrossing memory test. You see 15 words in 15 seconds, then write down all you remember. And you can do it over and over and over again, with different words every time. The average 20-year-old gets seven. How about you? […]
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Up and at them
Some good news coming out of the upfronts this week. Private Practice, the Kate Walsh/Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, has gotten a green light. All the Law and Orders, Friday Night Lights and sleeper comedy Notes from the Underbelly (Jennifer Westfeldt! Love!) are coming back. Someone has seen fit to give the fab Judy Greer her own […]
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Body of art
Amber Thorpe stares—absorbed—at the work of another tattoo artist on a monitor in her Quinpool Road tattoo studio. “As an artist, I feed off other people’s ideas,” she says. Professional tattoo artists such as Thorpe look closely at each other’s work, something that will happen a lot during the first Maritime Tattoo Festival, a Halifax […]
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Burning ears
Murder most foul—from Los Angeles, Toronto, England and the blogosphere The city has been on edge since last Friday, when local police drew a connection between the murders of Michael Knott and Trevor Brewster, and the news has reverberated widely. “The RCMP has issued a public advisory about gay cruising areas in the Halifax area […]
