The Merritt Awards for local theatre were announced last night in Dartmouth. Here are the winners. Look for Kate Watson‘s full report in The Coast on Thursday. Actor in a Leading Role: Graham Percy (Noises Off) Actress in Leading Role: Carolyn Hetherington (Lillibet) Actress in a Supporting Role: Patricia Zentilli (Noises Off) Actor in a […]
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Luck o’ the geek
Can’t make it to Blarney Castle this St. Patrick’s day?Here’s the next best thing.
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Halifax’s identity crisis on The Current
CBC radio’s excellent show The Current devoted a major section to Halifax this morning. Considering the city’s Commonwealth Games snub and resistance to the Twisted Towers, host Anna Maria Tremonti wondered if Halifax is going through an “identity crisis.” She convened a panel of Haligonians (councillor Sheila Fougere, former Heritage Trust president Alan Parish and […]
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Where are these so-called immigrants?
The front page of today’s hard-copy Herald is devoted to the new census numbers that came out yesterday. Coverage is skewed towards the standard Nova Scotia brain drain story. (“An exodus of people searching for work is a major reason why Nova Scotia is lagging behind the rest of Canada in population growth, the 2006 […]
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Come to your census
Statistics Canada has started releasing information gathered in last year’s census, and the population changes show the big trend from the 2001 count continues: People are moving to the city from the country. Across the nation, “four out of five people living in urban centres” says the Globe and Mail here. In a story much […]
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Save Lord Black…
I usually don’t read Frank out of some kind of karma thing, but this cracks me up. Editor Michael Bate created this faux “Support Lord Black” website, which totally faked out the Globe and Mail, New York magazine, National Post, Toronto Star and Canadian Business. Even better–according to Canadian Magazines blog, Bate, AKA Alastair Smith, […]
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We’re all dirty cops!
Dartmouth filmmaker Jason Eisener, along with mates Johnathan Davies and Rob Cotterill, has won the Grindhouse trailer contest with their entry Hobo with a Shotgun. The locally shot clip was personally chosen by Robert Rodriguez out of thousands for a contest sponsored by South by Southwest. Congrats dudes! Watch it on Eisener’s MySpace.
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The summer of wuss rock
Last week I was emailing with my friend Jill Barber who was on the road with Stuart McLean and Dan Hill for The Vinyl Cafe tour, which played four sold-out shows in Halifax. I told her that when I was a pre-teen in the country with no access to the things that make you become […]
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Quit your bitching
More evidence that Helsinki is THE coolest city in the world, may I introduce the Helsinki Complaints Choir. The choir collected complaints from the general public–about annoying ringtones, people who smell on public transit, trees being cut into toilet paper rolls, etc.–and turned them into beautiful choir music, releasing the stuff that really pisses people […]
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No Games for us…
The province and the city have withdrawn their support for the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid, effectively putting a kibosh on the Games. And now, from the release… “The two levels of government reached their decision based on the outcomes of the independent reviews which were conducted on the operating and capital budgets submitted to the […]
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Artist’s block
Topping the poster advertising the Khyber Building’s community brainstorming sessions, led by the Khyber Arts Society and HRM last week, is a quote from urban philosopher Jane Jacobs, “Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.” After Saturday’s session, when around 20 people, mostly representing arts and social justice organizations, […]
