On Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip to Boston to see Regina Spektor. It was sweet. As a result, I got to utilize the newest feature at the Halifax International Airport — US Preclearance! Which means if you’ve got a direct flight to the US, you clear customs in Halifax and then it’s like you’re […]
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Retro cartoon RAVE!!!
Hey look at how in the background all the little characters dance. How did spongebob get there? I love that He-Man is a jock.
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Where tower meets power
There was one, brief moment of levity at this morning’s Utility and Review Board hearing about the “twisted towers” development. The lights inexplicably went out for 20 seconds or so, then came back on. Cracking wise about a recent URB case, board chair Peter Gurnham goes, “Nova Scotia Power really doesn’t like us.” The hearing […]
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Dinner and a show
It’s an involuntary reaction that occurs when you’re walking by a restaurant with big open windows: Try fighting the compulsion to check out what everyone is eating. It’s hard to avoid when you’re walking past fishbowl-fronts like jane’s on the common or Athens Restaurant. Look long enough and you’ll catch a diner’s eye, and feel […]
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A Starbucks is born
From the front page of the Herald‘s business section today: “Starbucks plans to open lots of coffee shops worldwide.” Yes gentle citizen, it turns out there’s this business with a wacky name that serves a type of heated brown beverage—some drinkers call it “coffee”—and this company has aspirations (doubtless delusional) of expanding beyond its home […]
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Not addressed
For weeks, Diana Viet had watched the pile of garbage between her North Street home and the two-unit apartment next door gradually building up. Black bag after black bag of garbage, pieces of cardboard, bundles of newspaper, and even an old mattress was slowly filling the narrow space between the two buildings, all of it […]
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Sunday shopping is dead
Beleagured premier Rodney MacDonald is giving up the fight on Sunday shopping. Instead of appealing today’s court decision that lets SuperStore and Sobeys open Sundays, the premier says now all stores everywhere in the province can be open all the time, no exceptions, except Remembrance Day. “Government has gone to a considerable effort to maintain […]
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Book mobile
On September 28, as weary rush-hour travellers inch towards Pearson Airport along the congested Highway 401 in Toronto, their choice of scenery will no longer be limited to flashing rearview lights and gaudy electronic billboards , thanks in part to Halifax artist Ilan Sandler and Velocity, a Burnside machining and welding company. Sandler, also director […]
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Potty humour
Is it totally juvenile to laugh at a truck sucking up shit, parked right beside a HRM car? Maybe.
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Roll on roads over fresh green grass
In the infamous words of Cat Stevens (before all his records were burned), “Tell me, where do the children play?”
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Pissing rain
Technically this is not a photo of the Commons–it is a photo of the asshole who took a piss on my neighbour’s house before I could yell to stop (see red line). Dude, I might not be able to see your face, but my CSI Halifax technology has spotted your idiot friend’s Rolling Stones jacket. […]
