Christianity’s tough day
Is it because of the assy new pope? According to the headline on this story in today’s Herald, “Lord expected to step down.” The article doesn’t have reaction from Muslims, but they’ve gotta be stoked.
Walk on
To the editor, A few weeks back, someone wrote in suggesting a “Love the Way We Love” feature instead of/as well as “Love the Way We Bitch.” This is one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time. I would really love to start it off. I have battled with depression since my…
Train of thought
To the editor, Reading “Keeping the drive alive” (Upfront, December 7) got me thinking about the transportation alternatives for Halifax, for example a light-rail rapid transit. In Metro Halifax there is rail infrastructure that encircles the entire harbour horseshoe and goes well beyond it. We should look at how we could use it while it…
HRMbyHaligonians
To the editor, If HRM wants diversity at its consultations, it has to go to where diversity resides. Take the Bloomfield Centre, for example. The tenants of this centre and the citizens in the surrounding neighbourhood represent a tremendous diversity. The Imagine Bloomfield Society represents a diverse group of citizens interested in community-building that supports…
Pro sports
To the editor, I am disappointed with the press coverage the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid has received. Every time I pick up a newspaper there is an article about how much this is going to cost. It is unfortunate that this is the only aspect most journalists have chosen to focus on and that they…
Noodle nook…
quit your lies and bring me some pad thai! What you might not know about the fictitious take-out noodle place on Blowers is that it’s owned by RFL Group of Companies, which also owns MIlano’s and Source Security. well, whoever you are, I like ’em spicy!
Let their ass get you home?
The NSLC’s anti-drinking and driving campaign (good idea) features a guy with a donkey, a guy with a wheelbarrow, and a guy with the ability to give piggyback rides (questionable idea). They’re characters that could get a drunken you home….if they existed. Obviously, they don’t – I didn’t actually think that Donnie and his donkey…
Can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff(y)
Beloved New York media website Gawker has been running this feature for awhile called “Great Moments in Journalism,” wherein it encourages readers to submit the worst leads they’ve read all week. At the end of the week, Gawker sticks the top 5 in a poll and then you can vote on them. Today’s entry comes…
i’m leavin’ it
Apparently all that glitters isn’t officially Golden Arches. I just wandered by the McDonald’s website and clicked the menu that invited me go to check out McD’s sites in Slovenia, Kuwait, France and dozens of other countries. I chose Canada, and got this warning screen telling me that by going to the Canadian home of…
Facebook is creepy. So, why do I love it?
Ok, I know everyone already knows about Facebook, and has already formed their own opinions as to how lame they think it is. Don’t know about it? Well, it’s basically an “academic” substitute to MySpace (academic in the sense that you need a school e-mail to sign up.) But do you really know how incredibly…
Awww…
First let me make it perfectly clear that I am morally against calling things cute simply because they are small. But all that disappeared when I laid my eyes on Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse. This little beauty is five years old, and only 17 inches tall! Check out the news story here.
Letters to the Editor
*for bitch section This is for the fat assed beer belly grey haired asshole at the joe howe superstore on Friday night (Dec8) wearing jeans and a leather jacket! I noticed your fucking stare at me. You looked me over like a piece of meat with my husband standing there and then looked at me…
Girls, interrupted
Since I last wrote about Gilmore Girls, before its season premiere in September, the following has happened: Lorelai and Christopher got married. That’s all you need to know. Well, Logan moved back to the States and Lane’s having twins and Rory got some annoying art star friends, one of whom is dating my favourite Rory…
Letters to the Editor
Absolutely love Kate O’Connor’s “Good Christian’s Helpful Guide to the Christmas Tree.” Brilliant, in fact! Since Hanukkah comes first, though, might we expect to see something by way of a companion piece for a menorah? By Bobbi
Letters to the Editor
Our litter has more value? I am not a litter bug in fact find people who litter to be quite lazy but..I can get a fine up to $450.00 for littering on HRM streets yet case workers/employees/staff from Community Services/Housing and the HRM police can abuse people everyday causing injury and trauma and those agencies…
Letters to the Editor
Dear hALifax, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for trying to be sarcastic and only succeeding in pointing out how stupid smokers are (must be the formaldehyde). If you weren’t “far too stupid to make my own decisions” you wouldn’t smoke. Clearly, being too stupid to make a healthy choice, it…
Fight for your right to not party
Feeling the stress of not finishing work but needing to head to an annoying holiday function, I responded by going surfing. And look what I came across: an excuse generator. Tell it stuff about the function you wanna duck, and it’ll write and even send the note for you. Now that I’ve blown off that…
Information Overload
Welcome to yet another HRM fact-filled entry, brimming with random information about the city that I found out last week, but couldn’t use in my “Ways to make the City Better” articles. In today’s exciting episode, let us examine hypothetical buses that may or may not exist in the future. For one of my articles,…
All you need is Love. Kind of
A cool theatrical production kicks off a week-long run this week at The Space (2353 Agricola) with a rendition of Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, starring local fave Christian Murray along with Pascale Roger-McKeever as a couple “obsessed with one another and haunted by the past.” (The film version was directed by the late…
Un-Common ideas
Just over two months since Halifax hosted the Rolling Stones on the Common, the city released a report outlining costs, benefits, spin-offs and the lessons it learned from the big show. If you believe the numbers that are presented in the report, the concert was an unqualified success. In the run-up to the show, the…
The lost Pearlman
Some believe the music industry is the scum of the earth, but promoter Ben Pearlman presents a strong argument for the opposing point of view. The local promoter began working with bands in the fall of 2001, eventually establishing himself as one of Halifax music’s biggest assets. We’ll only have him for another week though,…
Samosa satisfaction
Staff of Life Cafe and Bakery has a new addition—a welcoming, front-of-the-house restaurant perfect for enjoying their famous samosas and a steamy cup of organic fair trade coffee. The spot opened about two and a half months ago, and has already grown into more than expected. Ben Rosenbloom was hired by owner Fran Shirazi to…
Long time coming
Four hundred pieces of music. It’s the amount of work Trobiz, AKA Tremayne Howe, has developed since he got serious about his music six years ago. It’s also music he created without releasing an album of his own. After an extended period of honing his craft, the R&B/hip-hop artist is finally launching his long-awaited debut…
Loss of faculties
John Chisholm has a busy winter ahead of him, and he’d like to keep it that way. The third-year Saint Mary’s University student is trying to fast-track his marketing degree. To do that, Chisholm is taking six classes in the coming winter semester. Technically, it’s an overloaded schedule, but if all goes according to plan,…
Life’s a sketch
It is 7:45pm on Sunday night and the buzz in the air is palpable. Ginger’s Tavern is close to capacity as groups of young adults stream up the stairs on a minute-by-minute basis. By the time 8pm rolls around, there isn’t an empty seat in the house. The audience has gathered not to see a…
Over the top
When your thumbs get tired from playing our top10 video games, read one of our picks for best book or graphic novel. Steeped. Click to see this year’s best: BOOKS by Sue Carter FlinnGRAPHIC NOVELS by Carsten KnoxVIDEO GAMES by Gerry Hubley
Daisies chain
There is a crowd gathered on the side of Herring Cove Road, watching open-mouthed as smoke billows out of a soot-stained, green-roofed building. A fire engine is idling in the parking lot and several police officers are conferring officiously beside it. It looks as if the set of local writer/producer/director Chaz Thorne’s feature film Pushing…
What a drag
“Huh?” That was the collective reaction among fishermen, environmentalists and marine biologists last month when John Risley, chair of Bedford-based Clearwater Seafoods, dissed the international movement for a moratorium on deep-sea bottom trawling. “There is zero scientific evidence, not one shred of scientific evidence,” Risley told the St. John’s Board of Trade, “that these fisheries…
Branching out
Sugar maple logs, hot tubs and ventilation hoods made from old Mustangs—this isn’t your typical cooking show. Food Jammers is a cutting edge, off-the-wall celebration of imagination that pulls in even the most jaded Food Network viewer. And the Food Jammer hosts aren’t your typical celebrity chefs or domestic superstars either—they all hail from arts…
Unaccompanied Minors
Child actors showcase stand-up comic personas in Unaccompanied Minors, a conceptual mish-mash of Home Alone and The Terminal. The movie opts away from seasonal feeling to be a live action cartoon. But it rises somewhere higher profile blockbusters Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cars, V for Vendetta and The…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Get ready, get set, get joyful, Pisces, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage says cuckold-doodle-doo!
Keeping the drive alive
One sunny morning in September 1999, a wall of industrial fog suddenly rolled across a section of expressway near Windsor, Ontario, known as “carnage alley.” Within seconds, 87 cars and trucks began plowing into each other, creating a fiery pile-up of twisted steel. Crash survivors heard the screams of people trapped in burning cars. Seven…
Ready, made, go!
The 13th Floor Pottery Lisa-Marie Campbell’s wares—toasting glasses, teapots and mugs, trays and bowls—draw on distant celebrations such as Day of the Dead, which she witnessed on trips south. “They had those incredible shrines all over the place and those absolutely bizarre little skeletons done up with flowers and hats,” Campbell says of sights and…
Paper cuts
Gifts forever Look down as you stroll through Victoria Park at the corner of Spring Garden and South Park and you’ll notice more than dirt beneath your feet. Hundreds of bricks on the walkway are engraved with the personal messages of people who’ve purchased Victoria Park Legacy Bricks since Feed Nova Scotia started the fundraising…
