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,…
Show your teeth
Forget about “Kokomo.” Erase from your mind the image of those balding, portly, middle-aged men dressed up in the red, white and blue singing surf tunes at Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inauguration. There was a time, we’ll call it the ’60s, when the Beach Boys were the vanguard of California cool. It was the spring of…
