Last year I made a decision to ban movies at Bayers’ Lake for both personal and political reasons. It’s a one-person (well, two, because I made my husband do it too) protest against Empire’s shitty programming–why do you keep putting “downtown” films out there?–and against the BLIP’s non-existent walkways, ditch-digging bus stops and over-indulgent commercialism. […]
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Is your microprocessor running?
Which came first: the computer, or the prank? Almost certainly, the prank. But did not the computer perfect the prank? We assert, yes. And, what is more, we offer this handy computer pranking reference from Wikipedia as proof (oh, wiki…so much better than encyclo.) It also explains the picture sitting just off to the right…. […]
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Snow bike, anyone?
In honour of the weather, which has finally produced a good ol’ fashioned Canadian blizzard, and in honour of my forthcoming attempt to get home, I give you, Ktrak. Turns any bike into a snowmo-bike, it does. I’ve also heard that it pushes the tempo. You be the judge.
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A higher calling
There is proof of the existence of good and evil: It is Helen Hill. Helen and her husband Paul Gailiunas—both one-time Haligonians—were shot in their rented white-sided New Orleans home one week ago. Paul: in the cheek, hand and forearm. Helen: to death. Francis Pop—their son, chubby-cheeked and cherubic like a two-year-old should be—was, by […]
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Hill Communication
There are a number of what I call rogue geniuses in Halifax. Brilliant, eccentric, following their curiosities and obsessions in study or art and—on the surface anyway—unfettered by sartorial trends of the general populace. These people fill me with admiration and I’m comforted to know they exist and balance the lemmings of this world. I […]
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Helen Hill, rest in peace
Halifax and New Orleans are united in grief over the murder of Helen Hill early yesterday morning. When she and her husband Paul Gailiunas moved to Halifax in the ’90s, they touched people through their arts (she a filmmaker, he a musician), their generosity (she a teacher, he a doctor), their activism, their kindness. And […]
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13 photographs that changed the world
Neatorama has posted a list of 13 photographs that they claim changed the world. Somehow, the photo of this dude’s haircut didn’t make the list.
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The Queens
After watching Helen Mirren in The Queen and Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (go see this movie if/when it comes to Halifax. She’s wicked), I have to say that those two British ladies have more acting chops in their tiny tea-drinking fingers than a entire pot of Hollywood soup. Whatever that means. […]
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Welcome to the TV graveyard, bitch!
The OC has been cancelled. Fucking figures. After a pair of mediocre-to-ridiculous seasons, the teen drama has hit a creative high, bringing back the fun and zazz of its glorious debut season. Some wire stories are linking the falling ratings to Mischa Barton‘s quitting — she couldn’t even DIE convincingly — but the show has […]
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Hammering away
For going on 10 weeks, members of the Carpenters, Millwrights and Allied Workers Union have been regularly picketing a construction site at the old YWCA lot on the south end of Barrington Street, protesting the contractor’s use of non-union labour to build a new seven-story luxury apartment complex at the site. “We believe that the […]
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Halifixes
Add lighting on the Common During the day the Halifax Common can be a great place to get some fresh air, play a little baseball or walk your dog. But at night, it can be a little sketchy: It’s dark, it’s large and it scares the hell out of some people. It poses a great […]
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2006’s theme song? For us: “Fergalicious.” For Peter Duffy: “Unchained Melody.”
Peter Duffy’s infamous double column about being violated by a ghost is in the running for Gawker‘s Greatest Moment in Journalism for 2006! Show your tartan, commies, and VOTE. UPDATE: He won. Barely. Heh.
