Wednesday 6:45pm
City
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Bang for your buck
This week, for the first time in its 257-year history, the North Halifax Common is being handed over for the exclusive use of a private corporation—Montreal’s Donald K. Donald Productions, the firm producing and profiting from Saturday’s Rolling Stones concert. So unless they can pony up the $116 entrance fee to the concert, the usual […]
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Grand plans
Andy Fillmore was excited about last Tuesday. He and his two working partners from the Toronto-based design firm Office for Urbanism were scheduled to meet with the entire city council to discuss HRM by Design, a $200,000 planning project focused on downtown Halifax and Dartmouth—a chance to directly explain and promote the project, and hopefully, […]
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Fantasy’s island
Final Fantasy won the inaugural Polaris Prize on Monday. I was honoured to be part of the initial selection process, which was over 100 journalists across the country each pitching their top 5 albums, with the top 10 vote getters comprising the nominee list. (My number one pick was Sarah Harmer‘s I’m A Mountain, which […]
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Measuring Metric
(Sorry for the late post — I’ve been out of the office this week. TT) Metric finally made it to Halifax and let everyone know what the fuss was about. The Toronto-based quartet hit the Halifax Forum Multi-Purpose Room around 10pm on September 15 after a rousing set from local band The Stance. Clad in […]
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Tuesday 6:45pm
Hardcore construction on my way to a screening of American Hardcore
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September 19th nervous breakdown
Every day I walk across the Commons on my way to work, but this week I’m avoiding more than dog poop (although I love the North Park crosswalk police escort). Regardless of what you think about a public space being used during a for-profit concert, it’s fascinating in a kids’ Tonka Truck way to watch […]
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Gothic misunderstanding
While the country mourns the Dawson College killings, and television stations scramble to create heinous logos to advertise their coverage (CTV is using a crosshair superimposed over a fleur-de-lis), it makes me sad that once again, although still early, attention is focused on the killer’s association with “Goth culture” rather than making any intelligent attempts […]
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Square roots
When Tyler Morton was growing up in Uniacke Square in the ’90s, he knew the neighbourhood’s “bad guys,” including its drug dealers. Sometimes, he says, they’d offer him money to—wait for it—go to school. Or threaten to beat him up if he didn’t. At the time, he says he thought they were picking on him; […]
