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The good news is that Halifax is considered a serious contender for hosting the Commonwealth Games. The bad news, as reported yesterday in The Scotsman, Scotland’s national paper: “Glascow’s bid to win the Commonwealth Games in 2014 has been handed a massive boost by its main rival, whose campaign is on the brink of imploding… […]

I was on the Utne Reader‘s website trying to figure out how to renew my subscription when I came across an interesting little blurb and a link to my Valentine’s Day article about Slow Love (no, I was not Googling myself)! Here’s the link from Utne which will eventualy bring you back here. The best […]

Thanks to a 158-page court decision released yesterday, people who want to see a couple new skyscrapers in downtown Halifax can sleep a bit easier. Supreme Court justice Suzanne Hood heard arguments in December that the public hearings for United Gulf’s notorious Twisted Towers development were screwed up, and thus city council shouldn’t have approved […]

Moving the cars off Grand Parade is a dream that just took a big step towards reality. At a Committee of the Whole meeting this afternoon, Metro’s councillors voted to turn their parking lot back into a public square by September 1, 2007. Although this deadline is considerably later than the April 1 no parking […]

Today’s news about the shitty police cameras at Pizza Corner doesn’t come as much of a surprise. (Nor is it a surprise that the local dailies gave huge play to the wire story, written by Keith Doucette of the Canadian Press, without adding any reporting of their own. The Herald put it on the front […]

2007 is going to be an awesome TV year: Parker Posey to star in pilot from ‘Gilmore’ creator! And ABC to launch ‘Grey’s’ spin-off! Related: Tara professes her love for Addison Shepherd (last item)!

It’s a little late, but I was really saddened to hear about his death of lung cancer. A talented Oscar-nominated animation artist who suffered from years of alcohol and drug abuse, Larkin spent most of his life in homeless shelters. He was brought back into the spotlight with Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short Ryan, and was […]

There’s an impromptu dance party scheduled for noon today (February 14) in the front window of Eyelevel Gallery, 2128 Gottingen. There will be cupcakes and teas. Maybe the cupcakes will be American Idol-inspired like these, courtesy of milkfat.com.

Most of us in the office flicked past the Grammys on Sunday. I watched the whole thing because Dixie Chicks, though their speeches got worse as the night went on — designate a speaker, girls! — and my once-beloved “Not Ready to Make Nice” feels like a commercial for bullying or something, after hearing the […]

If you thought that this month’s cover of Geist look familiar, it might be because you’ve seen the photos before. They’re from local photographer Michael McLeod’s cross-country road trip, part of the exhibition Geography is Killing Me–a great show at ViewPoint Gallery last year. For more of Michael’s work, go to www.michaelmcleod.ca