Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. This is a topic where the “mainstream” papers were disappointingly incomplete in their reporting. I know Doug Sparks and I knew the story behind his refusal to take his seat and it was great…
Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. This is a topic where the “mainstream” papers were disappointingly incomplete in their reporting. I know Doug Sparks and I knew the story behind his refusal to take his seat and it was great…
Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. This is a topic where the “mainstream” papers were disappointingly incomplete in their reporting. I know Doug Sparks and I knew the story behind his refusal to take his seat and it was great…
Table manners
Dear Editor,I would like to commend Stephen Kimber on his in-depth article on Doug Sparks and the school board seating dispute. This is a topic where the “mainstream” papers were disappointingly incomplete in their reporting. I know Doug Sparks and I knew the story behind his refusal to take his seat and it was great…
Letters to the Editor
Kimber’s telling of the story behind the story in Table Manners just serves to remind us all that racism is still very present not only in our school board rooms but throughout our community. I think we need to pay heed by taking responsibility for examining how our own “seemingly inocuous” actions and assumptions may…
Letters to the Editor
On Saturday I was watching a couple movies with my friends and noticed something awful- The exec’s at ABC are willing to keep the word ni***r in Forest Gump, and apparently the word c**n is not a problem either, but BLEEEP forbid anyone saying the lords name in vain. So let me get this straight,…
Pecking order
I almost barfed when I read that Liz Feltham considers KFC, ‘the best’ fried chicken. Though, it was not because she referred to it just moments before as ‘dirty bird’. No. It was because of the support this oblivious woman gives to the ‘restaurant’ that demonstrates the most outrageously cruel and inhumane procedures on the…
Pecking order
I almost barfed when I read that Liz Feltham considers KFC, ‘the best’ fried chicken. Though, it was not because she referred to it just moments before as ‘dirty bird’. No. It was because of the support this oblivious woman gives to the ‘restaurant’ that demonstrates the most outrageously cruel and inhumane procedures on the…
Letters to the Editor
My name is Michelle Myers, and I am writing this letter in response to the Halifax Regional School Board “seating scandal”. I am writing not only as a former student and President of Cole Harbour District High School, but also a concerned mother of two (in separate school districts). I’m not sure if “disgust” would…
Juno city blues
To The Coast, I feel compelled to write something about the Junos. $150,000 from DTCH and $30,000 from the Come To Life Initiative and we get some themed decorating contests, a few local artists freezing their unappreciated tushies off in Grand Parade, and some variation of an Exclaim hockey game. The lack of true local…
Adventures in Press Materials, volume 3
This week we received a tube of “mermaid bait” (gummy worms) as promo for the late March release Aquamarine starring Emma Roberts — AKA niece of Julia — as a teen mermaid. It’s a waste of studio money, but we’re not going to spit in the face of free candy (except for the time we…
Carry on up the Khyber
Efforts to re-open The Khyber Club are still underway, but assuming this closing is official, the Halifax institution was given one memorable sendoff. The public paid its last respects on February 19 and reminisced along with surprise solo performances from two of the arts community’s most illustrious sons: Matt Mays and Joel Plaskett. The former…
Sweet Revolution
Revolution Records at 5189 Prince expanded last November to include new business partner Rock Candy. Co-owned by Nick Oliver (who also owns Revolution) and Tim Crowe, Rock Candy specializes in all manner of rock ’n’ roll merchandise, from t-shirts to studded jewellery. “The rock t-shirt thing is something I’ve wanted to try out for sometime,”…
Power points
To the editor, I found Stephen Kimber’s “Paying For Power” article in last week’s issue enlightening. His unfolding of information only peels back a small part of the unseen truths of Nova Scotia politicians. Rather than participate with the citizens of Nova Scotia, they hide stupid, simple facts. So what if the controllers are known?…
Reasonable doubt
To the editor, At the bottom of Bruce Wark’s editorial on the Peter March controversy, you printed the quaint little line, “We (The Coast) always promote reasoned public discussion.” So, who gets to decide what is and is not reasoned? Is there a board? Are members voted in? Freedom of expression would not need a…
Reasonable doubt
To the editor, After reading Bruce Wark’s February 16 column about Peter March, I can’t help but speculate that Wark’s own reasoning process is breaking down. If his goal is to persuade readers to accept his opinions, he must first convince us that he’s reliable. If an argument contains fallacies, thoughtful readers will not take…
Date Movie
What do the makers of Date Movie think their audience wants from a film like this? What does said audience really expect? And what different circumstances would my life have to undergo for me to give this movie a positive review? These are the questions that plague my soul. Since much of what I do…
Rick’s round-up
When Rick Moranis jumped back into the public consciousness late last year with the release of his Grammy nominated country/comedy disc The Agoraphobic Cowboy, it was as much of a shock to Moranis as it was the general population. The 52-year-old comedian, best known for his appearances in such films as Ghostbusters, Honey, I Shrunk…
Pecking order
I once had a boyfriend who could do the most amazing thing—he could put an entire piece of fried chicken in his mouth and then pull out the stripped bone. Now, who could ask for anything more in a mate? Well, the boyfriend’s gone, but my love affair with fried chicken is still going strong.…
Piece of (pan)cake
The tradition of celebrating Shrove Tuesday with pancakes started as people tried to use up their eggs, milk and butter before the beginning of Lent. Not as many people fast during Lent these days, but many still mark Shrove Tuesday with a pancake supper. We talked to Becky Field, who is coordinating the pancake supper…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
‘Tis the season to build your will, Pisces, says Rob Brezsny.
Creation myth
There’s a scene from a classic civilization where the emperor Nero plays his fiddle, while around him a fire is destroying Rome. Although the veracity of the story is debatable—if nothing else, his instrument must have been a lyre—the image of a politician indifferent to major problems has earned a place in our vocabulary. Over…
Snow parking zone
Last year, Kristian Curran and his wife lived though their first full winter as downtown homeowners. Curran also lived through his first experience with the downtown winter parking ban. Abiding by the ban, which does not allow parking on downtown streets between 1 and 7am, Curran moved his car off of Maynard Street street every…
Negative Energy
So long Monte, we hardly knew ya. Monte Solberg – newly minted Harper cabinet minister and long time Reform Alliance Conservative MP — is ditching his blog at www.montesolberg.com after a paltry year and four days in the blogospheric fray. Solberg’s a zippy writer; he spent 17 years as a broadcaster. His blog was a…
Alone together
Solitary thinking, self-reflection, alone time: whatever you call it, you probably try to find it; moments where you can to take time for the big questions in life. Presented by Dalhousie University’s School of Public Administration, a new lecture series provides an opportunity for everyone to partake in mass self-reflection—communal alone time, if you will.…
Table manners
Get it out of the way early. You probably already have an opinion about Douglas Sparks, and it almost certainly isn’t good. That’s OK. Get in line. In January, Sparks, the Halifax Regional School Board’s African-Nova Scotian member, transformed what one newspaper reporter described as a “seemingly innocuous motion” to change the order of seating…
Black’s anatomy
The Neptune Theatre has an “A” level. This is where the administrative offices are located, on the floor above the main foyer. There is a long, carpeted hall, its walls spotted with glossy promotional posters of past shows and interrupted by offices on both sides. At the hall’s end is the Pratt & Whitney studio,…
SAVAGE LOVE
Big or small, Dan Savage answers them all.
Fiction’s imprint
Reading the lavish amounts of positive press Toronto-based rock group From Fiction has been receiving around Southern Ontario, one can easily develop the impression the band is really something. And perhaps it is. Maybe the quartet is that band you’ve been waiting to rescue you from your musical doldrums. Maybe these guys will restore your…
