Even though the ad was lacking in specifics, the car still sounded like a loser. But the price was right. “’92 Lumina, blue, 4 door, about 349,972 km,” the ad read. The poster described it as a “great driving car,” but warned it was in need of a modulator, which would run about $200 plus […]
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Art History
It’s a sunny but shockingly frigid January afternoon on Barrington. A thick veil of condensation covers the front window of the Mud Room, hiding Emily Vey Duke as she walks in from the cold. She looks tired, but that’s not unusual—fatigue is the uniform for anyone employed by a not-for-profit organization, especially one that faces […]
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Hey ladies
There’s nothing like a dame, says the old song.1 Except maybe two dames. Getting it on. These days you can surf to 10,000 sites or tune your TV to The L Word and see gals going at it, tits to the wind.2 You can waltz into any magazine or bookstore of half decent size and […]
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Love hurts
It’s Saturday afternoon. Sunlight streams through the windows of Tim Hortons at the corner of Robie and Young. A travelling high school sports team files in to fuel up on coffee and muffins. Couples both young and old order their customary blends—medium double-double, small black, large three-cream—and sit contentedly in the familiar surroundings. Wade Mason […]
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New and improved
It was standing room-only on Saturday morning at a live broadcast of Brent Bambury’s neo-variety show GO at the CBC Radio studio on Sackville. The affable host gently poked fun at his former residence with the usual schtick: crappy weather, Keith’s beer and the disconcerting winter disappearance of Public Garden ducks. However, under all the […]
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Size matters
Small wonder First they take Little New York, next they take the city. Freeman’s Little New York restaurant, located on Quinpool Road, is one of the first local owners of a European-made Smart car, an ecologically friendly, micro-compact car made by Smart, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler. Picture a golf cart on steroids. Or better yet, […]
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Dock talk
The view from Branco Mizerit’s dining room is enviable. Across the narrowest point along Halifax’s Northwest Arm the Dingle rises proudly atop its carefully landscaped mound; in front, the placid waters of the Arm—maritime tranquility not 15 minutes from downtown. “It’s the best view in the city,” says Mizerit.The foreground tells another story. The land […]
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Snow job
There are 23,000 students in the Halifax Regional School Board, and most of them unwittingly pray to Ann Bell.Bell is the coordinator of pupil transportation for the Halifax Regional School Board, and these days, she’s keeping a close eye on the skies. Every time a major storm slams into Halifax, Bell is responsible for deciding […]
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Year in Review
Municipal election A healthy dose of pre-election buzz came to a rather anticlimactic head on October 16, when metro voters chose overwhelming in favour of mayor Peter Kelly keeping his job. Going into the election, Kelly faced three challengers: folksy Mike Flemming, a school board member and former bus driver; sharp-tongued city planner Ernie Brennan, […]
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Diddly squat
Last week a group of protestors occupied an abandoned building in Dartmouth.The hope was to be there long enough to figure out how to turn the place into a shelter. But city officials acted quickly, and within a few hours the activists were back at noth
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Follow the leader
At around 2pm on Sunday afternoon I arrived at the Emergency Operations Centre over in Dartmouth. Basically I was there for the duration. I got home late Monday evening. What we did was get a feel for what was going on. We called the Emergency Measures Advisory Committee together, which consists of the deputy mayor […]
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Cat came back
On Monday morning, when things have finally calmed down, I decide to focus on the fence in the backyard that fell during the hurricane. We’re lucky the fence didn’t kill anyone, for it was broken before Sunday’s storm. Most things half-broken then broke completely. Including, it turns out, my relations with the dogs living on […]