I am so sick of this conversation
I yell about a lot of things, but I don’t have the fight in me for much. Yet I get really, really pissed about the state of women and cinema. How women are represented on film, why we’re not marketed to more often when “women’s pictures” are almost always cheap to make and hugely successful…
After these messages
To the editor, I am a little more than pissed off at Bruce Wark. His article “TV’s two-minute warning” (August 2) wasn’t even close to being factual. I have worked as a technician for a private broadcaster for over 20 years, and due to the specialty channels and internet, which are taking a lot of…
Heated opinions
To Tim Bousquet, I read your column on Atlantica and NS Power (“Atlantica alternative,” August 2). There are some facts it seems you may be unaware of. NS Power has proposed using the waste heat from Tufts Cove for district heating in that neighbourhood. But any changes require the approval of the Utilities and Review…
Touring Green – Blog 38: Thunder Bay (June 30-July 1)
So today I thought I’d show you guys what it’s like to bike down some of these hills I’ve been biking.
Touring Green – Blog 37: Upsala to Thunder Bay (June 30)
This marks the spot of where all water runs down to the Atlantic from here in Northern Ontario. (All downhill theoretically, but I can tell you since I’m retroactively blogging that it definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely isn’t!!)
Touring Green – Blog 36: Dryden to Ignace (June 28)
So today I biked through a tornado stricken community and I learned that bees and horseflies are attracted to large yellow trailers and will pursue them up to speeds of 40km per hour.
Touring Green – Blog 35: Kenora to Dryden (June 27)
Today I was in great spirits and, as I stood on the bike pedals for a little stretch and, perhaps victory perch, I felt something I had never felt before, my front wheel popping. After being stranded for a little bit on the road a kind woman stopped who had already seen me and brought…
Shameless self-promotion
Last summer I made a short film. This summer I finally figured out how to get it on You Tube. It stars Brian Borcherdt and Jill Barber, with music by In-Flight Safety.
In Bloom
Haley Thomas is no stranger to the stage or studio. A noted session violinist in the indie community, Thomas has performed alongside such notables as Windom Earle, Jon Epworth, Down with the Butterfly and hey rosetta!, and spends her days working as an engineer at SoundMarket Studios. Thomas’ main squeeze, however, is The Orchid, a…
North end migration
The Frenchy’s on Gottingen is on the move. After almost two years of providing north end residents with a bevy of bargain-priced secondhand threads, the store closed its doors on July 31. The store’s set to re-open the week of Aug. 15 at 2713 Robie, just a short distance away from its old stomping grounds.…
Lip service
Q Come on, Dan! Your response to You Gonna Eat That? was off the mark. I’m 100 percent gay and I occasionally watch hetero cunnilingus in porn, especially if the man is attractive. Another gay friend of mine feels the same way. Assuming my buddy isn’t YGET, that’s three of us right there. So there…
And a friendly regional director, too
Big news out of the TV world this week—chill dudes, Dwight D’Eon is still safe on Idol!—Andrew Cochran, of Theodore Tugboat fame, has been named regional director at CBC Television. Cochran is a producer, writer and director who has been involved in various capacities with Pit Pony, Blizzard Island, Canada AM and the CTV National…
Atlantica alternative
The dream that Halifax will become a megaport for Chinese trade to the American Midwest is laughably stupid, and yet Nova Scotia’s political and business elites are falling over themselves promoting the “Atlantica” idea in the name of our supposed economic future. Meanwhile, they ignore the best and fundamentally pragmatic way to build the local…
Mezza marvelous
I’m an avid fan of Lebanese cuisine; the point-counterpoint flavours of smooth, mellow olive oils and sharp acidity of lemon juice set my mouth to watering before I’ve even glanced at the menu. In the case of Mezza, my senses were tingling when I entered the front door. This is a beautiful restaurant. From the…
Nearing the end of it
Just shy of a year after the release of Sloan’s eighth—and full-length redefining—album Never Hear the End of It, the quartet is home in Halifax for a visit before making arrangements to head back into the studio. “I don’t know what is going to be, if it’ll be another 30-song opus or not,” says vocalist…
The Simpsons Movie
The question of what suffices for The Simpsons Movie is a balance of realism with sentiment. At its height, The Simpsons didn’t need special episodes to show its potential since it was regularly and reliably the greatest thing on TV. And it wasn’t only a pop touchstone: The Simpsons irreversibly affected a generation’s sense of…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Upsize your puny, half-assed desires, Aquarius, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage on canoodling Canucks (but no canoes).
Lohan common denominator
Last week turned out to be terrible for “troubled actress” Lindsay Lohan and “foundering pop star” Britney Spears. Lohan got herself arrested (again) on suspicion of drunk driving and cocaine possession while Spears supposedly sat back and watched as her doggie pooped on a $6,700 gown at a publicity photo shoot that was supposed to…
Begging unpardonable
A little white lie never hurt anyone. Unless you happen to be a panhandler in downtown Dartmouth, where one currently circulating lie turns you into a criminal. A new campaign by the Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission is targeting panhandlers in order to get the more aggressive ones off its streets. The DDBC is giving stickers…
BURNING EARS
A Titanic error —from England, Houston and Winston-Salem When Titanic news happens, our morbid link to the disaster often gets our town mentioned on lips around the globe. It happened five years ago, when the so-called Unknown Child—a nameless infant who was buried in Halifax’s Fairview Lawn Cemetery along with 120 other victims of the…
The two Joels
The Joel Plaskett Emergency is set to go on stage in five minutes. Outside, at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, roughly 3,000 fans wait patiently in the unseasonable chilly July fog. This is the band’s first hometown gig in support of its latest record, Ashtray Rock, a semi-autobiographical album of teenage love and music set in…
Stone rolling
“We have a love for this magical place… it’s a major blessing.” Steven Brandman is raving, nay, gushing about being in Halifax again. The Emmy Award-nominated producer is preparing to make the fifth edition of the popular series of CBS-TV movies, starring Tom Selleck, about Robert B. Parker’s fictional detective Jesse Stone. This one is…
