Letters to the Editor
I, ROBIN HODGSON , hereby make this Story in connection with my medical condition and my wife’s immigration to Canada. 1983 I underwent Entry Medical examination for the Naval Reserve with Commander Holland (PMO). It was discovered that I had a hernia. This was repaired at Camp Hill Hospital. I then completed the Naval Reserve…
Letters to the Editor
Thanks to Sue Carter Flinn for the great article on author Ami McKay and midwifery in Nova Scotia. In case you missed her at the International Writers’ Festival, Ami will also be reading from “The Birth House” at the Spring Garden Road Library on Thursday, April 7 / 7pm. By Sara Gillis, Spring Garden Road…
Letters to the Editor
Hey! What ever happened to the lovely Lorraine who was working at the Marquee? No one seems to know where she went and everyone has a different story. Could someone out there please tell us where she is working? LIfe in Halifax is just not the same without seeing her around. By Jason Bailey
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor I was interested to read your editorial about prostitution in today’s The Coast, not so much for its progressive bent, but for how classically liberal the viewpoint put forward is. It’s easy to think that decriminalising prostitution will have the same positive results as decriminalising marijuana has had in countries like the Netherlands.…
Short shorts
A handful of new filmmakers will screen their works on Friday—or, in Variety-speak, Digitial Doc Denizens Drop Debuts—as part of a journalism school workshop taught by noted local movie maven Sylvia Hamilton. “The one that I did is about band names,” says King’s student Karley Tabak of the tentatively titled Name, which she made with…
The hockey song
There was certainly no shortage of chirping between The NHL All-Stars and The Rockers before the Juno Cup hockey game on March 31. Animosity was high as the two clubs prepared to face off in this year’s installment of a fierce rivalry some compare in passion to that of the Sens and Leafs in recent…
Noble moves
Noble BMX, the only BMX-specific store east of Ontario, is moving from 2150 Gottingen to the former home of Tribes Art and Drums at 6070 Quinpool. “The move is a large step for us, and could make us or break us,” says owner Ted Efthymiadis. “Despite the tripling in rent every month, we think the…
We’re number 60!
According to a new study from the Educational Policy Institute, Nova Scotia offers the least affordable university education in North America. That’s right, folks, out of 60 states and provinces we finished…60th! In addition to finishing last, study authors Alex Usher and Kim Steele said that Nova Scotia was last by “some considerable distance.” A…
A syncere defence
As a professional, I accept and encourage criticism. I experiment to bring new ideas to the plates of my customers and their feedback is happily received and integrated. However, I feel that Liz Feltham’s critique of my restaurant (“Syn city,” March 16) was malicious, and her erroneous comments make me suspect of her food-related education.…
Thanks for the memories
Dear Lezlie Lowe, Thank you for your recent story connecting 20 years worth of dots back to 1986’s Out of the Fog compilation (“Making a Scene,” Juno Guide, March 30). Returning to Halifax in the late ’90s to a scene where there were actually venues for local, original talent to play, a market for their…
Juno blast
To The Coast, Last week’s (March 30) fawning, drooling, gushing, “Oh my God, the Junos are in Halifax issue!” has entirely undressed you. You claim, and have from your first issue, some kind of moral high ground because you know what’s REALLY hip. You pretend to stand shoulder to shoulder with the struggling indie genius…
It’s all your fault
Rah rah, Tara! Loved the Juno article. Thanks for telling it like it is! Quit voting with yer dollars, folks, and support stuff that’s fer real. Keep yer dollars local. The more support we all give local indie artists and the less attention we all pay to huge international bands, the more attention we’ll all…
Inviting discussion
Everyone’s talking about the need to attract and retain, to quote the current shorthand, immigrants to Atlantic Canada. Last week, Halifax mayor Peter Kelly hosted his counterparts from across the region to noodle with ideas and egg each other on. Even the news media has packaged the issue up, asking and re-asking how Atlantic Canada…
Writes of passage
Writers are scavengers. They tear the flesh off family lore, historic events or personal experiences, hunting for inspiration. Sometimes the hunt is pragmatic, but in some rare situations, magic—or perhaps destiny—occurs. If you believe in magical intervention, you might attribute the conception of Ami McKay’s gorgeous debut novel The Birth House to old-fashioned serendipity. After…
Halifax International Writers’ Festival
THURSDAY APRIL 6 | 7:30pm, $7 Brad Kessler The Vermont writer’s work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. Kessler’s new novel Birds in Fall turns its sights northward, as families of victims from an airplane crash, including a New York-based ornithologist, congregate on the fictitious Trachis Island, off the…
Hurry Heart
If all of the rising indie bands in the world could be poured like flavoured drink into a tray and come out of the freezer as yummy as The Constantines, every slurpy, purple and drippy indie band would sound pretty goddamned sweet. Formed in Guelph in 1999, The Constantines signed to Sub Pop (Nirvana, Wolf…
Ice Age: The Meltdown
End-of-the-world peril is conveyed through slapstick in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Its balancing of world wary poignancy and breathless mayhem surpasses the 2002 original. Rather than play for lazy sequel dollars, the crew at Blue Sky animation aim their fuzzy animal adventure for something greater —finding the heart and relentlessness to pull off a winning…
The O’C
First impressions do count, whether you’re meeting or eating. Generally, upon entering a new restaurant, I can size it up and get a pretty good idea of what the dining experience will be like relatively quickly. In the case of my visit to O’Carroll’s, let’s just say it’s a good thing I’ve been here before,…
Essential utensil
Q: What do you consider to be the three most essential kitchen tools? A: First, I’d say you need to have a good chef’s knife. Having one good, sharp knife is better than having 22 not-so-good ones. I’d also recommend a good set of pots. Buying good pots seems like an expense, but it’s better…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage’s who’s who of trannies, transvestites and drag queens.
Written for the screen
With the ubiquity of movies in popular culture, any novel that reaches a certain visibility gets in line to be adapted for film. It’s close to impossible to find a group of published authors whose numbers don’t include someone with some experience in screenwriting or whose books have not been adapted. Have a look at…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Sagittarius, it’s time to celebrate the outrageous, extreme, uninhibited, harmless things you’ve done, says Rob Brezsny.
The French third
Montréal’s Torngat are lugging their armloads of instruments into town to create ambient, experimental and instrumental sounds at Gus’ Pub on April 7. “The concept of the album *La Rouge* reflects our live show,” says Mathieu Charbonneau. “The songs are like structured improv; although, we play a lot of other material which is free-change improv…
Seeing red
1. Just because it’s always balmy outside the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles does not mean that you can abandon your coat in Halifax. In April. One wee heat lamp located 10 feet away does not a warm writer make, as some coatless journalists in open-toed shoes quickly discovered. I suspect that Saskatoon, the location…
Juno planner
Thursday 30 Halifax on Parade Kick-off concert The Trews, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Jimmy Rankin and Garrett Mason treat you to a free concert to kick off Juno weekend. And what a treat it will be! Grand Parade Square, Barrington at George, 5:30-11pm All Ages King Konqueror Punk rock, soul, ’60s…
Tail chasing
In societies based on Judeo-Christian values, sex is a dark demon that keeps rearing its ugly head. Money is filthy lucre. Mate money with sex and you come up with the world’s oldest profession. “For by means of a harlot, a man is reduced to a crust of bread,” the Good Book warns. “A 54-year-old…
Clinical trials
You may have noticed your tax dollars hard at work on television these days touting something called “primary health care.” Health Canada is spending about $9.5 million on a national awareness campaign designed, it seems, to coin the phrase without ever really explaining what it means. Meanwhile, without the aid of television ads, Metro residents…
