Circular logic
I drive through the Armdale Rotary several times a day. Before I moved, I was worried about the Rotary; it had a reputation for being a traffic nightmare. After two or three trips through it, I relaxed. Even in rush hour, there is never more than a 30 minute delay added to one’s commute. This…
Circular logic
I drive through the Armdale Rotary several times a day. Before I moved, I was worried about the Rotary; it had a reputation for being a traffic nightmare. After two or three trips through it, I relaxed. Even in rush hour, there is never more than a 30 minute delay added to one’s commute. This…
Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn…
Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn…
Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn…
Field of dreams
I like the Carnival idea, but here’s what I think could work well for everyone and for immediate use (actually, my friend suggested it but they’re not writing in are they). Level off the big rubble piles, fill the lot with tonnes of sand. Erect a few dividers for a kid’s area, lounging on lawn…
We’re watching
Upstart company Le Theatre de Boheme is close to a year old now, so they thought they’d celebrate the anniversary with an easy adaptation of 1984. “1984 doesn’t exactly fall into the mandate of the company,” says director David Connellan, laughing wearily on a break at the Khyber. “We’re more minimalist.” The production features more…
Letters to the Editor
Most years, the Public Gardens open on the long weekend in May and close on Remembrance Day, November 11, limiting public access to the city’s most beautiful park. Given the good weather that Haligonians often enjoy in early spring and late fall, shouldn’t the Gardens be open as weather permits? Last year and this year,…
Great Plains flying
Momentum in support of alternative rockers Great Plains is building faster than the trio can keep up. The band, just returning from its first Maritime tour with Down with the Butterfly and Jenn Grant, has accepted an offer to head back out on the road in Quebec and Ontario the first week of May. “It’s…
Ducks in a row
The Thirsty Duck is set to re-open on Spring Garden Road at the beginning of May. Grafton Connor Group (owners of the Five Fishermen, The Dome and the North End Diner, among others) took over the business at the end of February. “The Duck has been known for years as a place to go spend…
Hamm is where the heart is
Every so often, the provincial government will pause from its daily work, take a curious glance around the province, and eventually pose the question, “Hey—where the heck are all the young people?” (And occasionally, “Do you kids still listen to that Puff Shady? Is he still hip?”) There are some signs that the provincial government…
Get stuffed
To the editor, In preparation for the Easter holiday, many parents will consider getting a pet rabbit as a present for their children. Rabbits do NOT make good pets for young children. Rabbits are easily stressed by excessive handling, and children quickly lose interest in an animal that doesn’t like to be picked up and…
Bar patrons are people, too
To the bouncers of Halifax, As a regular patron of many bars throughout Halifax, I find it disturbing that many of the bouncers I encounter are ignorant assholes with belligerent, egocentric attitudes. Although there are many kind and honest bouncers throughout the city, many dickhead, power-tripping bouncers still exist. As a Maritimer, I take pride…
The law of human nature
To the editor, You’ve got to be kidding me! The whorehouse, excuse me, Gentlemen’s Massage Club, on Windmill Road was raided two weeks ago, two nights in a row. Whores were busted for prostitution, johns were busted for soliciting and the owner, a man from New Brunswick, was busted for pimping. They’re apparently back in…
The law of human nature
To the editor, I was interested to read last week’s editorial about prostitution, not so much for its progressive bent, but for how classically liberal the viewpoint put forward is (“Tail chasing,” April 6). It’s easy to think that decriminalizing prostitution will have the same positive results as decriminalizing marijuana has had in countries like…
Feels like the first time
To the editor, In this time of hypersexualized culture and sexually active children, Planned Parenthood should not be losing funding, it should be gaining (“Clinical trials,” April 6)! I went to their clinic for my first birth control pills, my first condom and my first STD test—all of which I may have gone without if…
It’s a living
To the editor, I used to think Halifax was a fairly sophisticated city, not severely dwarfed by Toronto and Vancouver. But the behaviour of the audience at the Junos has me wondering: are all Atlantic Canadians crude blue-collar types who hang on to old injustices that give them the long end of the stick? Sure,…
Ju no we support locals
Dear Tara Thorne, Loved the Juno article (“It’s all your fault,” Juno Guide). Thanks for telling it like it is! Quit voting with your dollars, folks, and support stuff that’s for real. Keep your dollars local. The more support we all give local indie artists and the less attention we pay to huge international bands,…
Field of dreams
When Talbot Sweetapple, an urban designer with local firm Brian MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, considers the layout of downtown Halifax, he can’t imagine a more exciting corner than Spring Garden Road and Queen Street. “I can’t think of a better location downtown to be more central, or more energized. Honestly. It’s amazing to have a space…
Koala’s beats
Kid Koala possesses a short attention span. That’s not a knock—he freely admits he has an overactive mind—but it goes a long way to explain his creative process. Kid Koala (AKA Eric San) is a man who can ingest much more information than the common person and make it into something exciting and original. At…
Lucky Number Slevin
It may seem unlikely that Lucky Number Slevin and The Benchwarmers have entirely different filmmaking philosophies; they’re both, after all, failed comedies. The distinction lies between the extremities of their attitudes. One is deathly in love with itself. The other just doesn’t give a fuck. Slevin displays one of the worst influences of Tarantino- inspired…
Kinh-ship
Just because food is served casually it doesn’t mean taste or service must suffer. The most humble meal can be elevated by skillfully prepared ingredients; the sparest dining room can radiate hospitality through the personality of the server. Such is the case at the unassuming dining room of Kinh-Do, a Vietnamese treasure at the south…
Shalom, Seder
Q: How is Seder related to Passover? A: Passover is an eight-day Jewish festival during which we remember the flight of Israelite slaves from Egypt and also the rebirth that is associated with spring. Seder falls on the first two nights of Passover, and is marked by special meals with symbolic food. The food and…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Don’t fall prey to apathy, Virgo, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage says castration is not a hobby.
A breath of canned air
“It’s so fuckin’ great out here,” says Ben Mulroney to anyone in earshot near the corner of Argyle and Carmichael in downtown Halifax. It is fuckin’ great out here. It’s Thursday, March 30 at 10 in the morning, and spring-like weather has come early, though only a fool would suggest it will stay. I am…
View found
Teresa MacInnes, British Columbia born-and-raised, has been a Nova Scotia resident for seven years. She came to filmmaking through social work, and found that by telling stories through the lens she was able to make more of a difference in people’s lives. “After a couple of years in social services you realize very quickly the…
Savage Love
I’m a self-identi?ed she-male who is not a prostitute, and I have a little more advice for the would-be tranny chaser in last week’s column. First off, you need to know the odds—there are a lot more of you than there are of us. For every tranny who posts an ad, there are 20 posted…
Looking forward
The sky should be ambivalent. Fog, maybe, or that rainy green from the pre-suck Matrix. But driving across the bridge on a clear, bright Friday afternoon, the view is fantastic. And traffic is minimal the whole way to the airport, so there’s no looming anxiety about being late. This could be the start of a…
Plotting success
As flowers begin to bloom around the city, many of us feel the urge to get down and dirty in our gardens. If you like to garden, but live in the city and think you can’t do it, think again. The North End Community Gardening Association, formed in 1999, is a non-profit organization that strives…
Out to lunch
Joan Parks-Hubley is my hero. It’s not a title that usually goes along with being a government employee. But Parks-Hubley’s got my nod. The Healthy Workplace program coordinator with Nova Scotia’s Public Service Commission is regularly bolting out the office door. It’s not quite in the spirit of “take this job and shove it,” but…
