Letters to the Editor
Hello, I wasn’t sure whether to send this to the Bitch or to Letterhead. Thanks for your time. Olivier JardaVP Academic, Saint Mary’s University Students’ AssociationHalifax, NS I recently read an article in Maclean’s entitled “Stop Him before He Votes”. It argued that “today’s 18-year-olds are too immature to vote”, and that the voting age…
Bribezillas
Subject: Bribery articleShape of thinks to come in Halifax?: Mayor convicted on first daySAN DIEGO – A federal jury on Monday convicted San Diego’s new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal the “no-touching” ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow to a city already…
Bribezillas
Subject: ‘Keep writing, keep complainingImportance: High Shape of thinks to come in Halifax?: Mayor convicted on first daySAN DIEGO – A federal jury on Monday convicted San Diego’s new acting mayor and a city councilman of taking payoffs from a strip club owner to help repeal the “no-touching” ordinance at nude clubs, the latest blow…
It takes a hero
Our experience with Reader’s Digest extends mostly to dentist waiting rooms and airplanes, though we often marvel at how some version of RD is printed in a couple hundred countries. But an eagle-eyed reader pointed us to the January 2006 issue, featuring dreamy diver Alexandre Despatie, and its rather earnest feature on reader-voted Heroes of…
North by no way
After a single year of promoting under the clever spoof label NXNE, the North by North End festival, featuring local bands playing in north end Halifax venues, will be legally forced to modify its marketing strategy for 2006. The huge North by Northeast festival — held annually in Toronto — smacked the organizers of the…
New face(s)
Georgio’s restaurant in the Prince George Hotel at 1725 Market closed January 2 for renovations. The restaurant is expected to re-open in three months, after a thorough overhaul. “Absolutely everything’s changing,” says operations manager Craig Norton, “the menu, the decor, the wine list. It’s going to have a new name, a new identity, a total…
Christmas leftovers
To the editor, I noticed something that makes me sad and mad again this year, something I’m sure we’ve all noticed before. It was garbage day in the area where I work and the streets were lined with discarded Chritmas trees, ready to be picked up and taken away. Is this how we celebrate the birth…
Green advice
To the editor, As I write, there has been one more death and three more serious Canadian casualties in our undeclared war in Afghanistan and the experts are warning us to expect more to come. And for what reason this suffering, except to support Bush’s so-called war on terrorism? In effect, our troops serve to…
Not so hot?
To the editor, There is a claim made in the article “Hot hot heat,” published in the January 12 issue, that is only partially true. The author, Lis van Berkel, makes the following references to a pump that is used in a geothermal system: “And, because it isn’t oil-fired—generally, it’s electric—it’s both sustainable and cheaper…
Da-lovely
While watching the Food Network recently, I caught a repeat of Opening Soon, a series about what goes on behind the scenes in the months leading up to the opening of a new restaurant. On this episode, Bish was featured, and I watched as owners Stephanie and Maurizio Bertossi painstakingly turned yet another dream into…
Sidedish
Describe where you got the idea for Do You Read Me?I’ve been dealing with food politics for a long while now and this just seemed like the next logical step. I’ve also been reading Marion Nestle’s book Food Politics and running into a lot of jargon and other amazing information. That’s where some of the…
Savage Love
Dan Savage talks movies. And toilets.
Free Will Astrology
You’re at your peak, Capricorn, says Rob Brezsny.
Mock star
After years of couch surfing, Michael Mabbott is giving up his apartment in Vancouver and moving to Toronto. The Alberta-born writer-director put the move off, but he needs to be there for his career, especially as his first feature film is being released in theatres across Canada—the country-rock mockumentary The Life and Hard Times of…
Eastern alienation
The looming federal election has me thinking a lot about the medically induced coma. You know, Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon was put in one after his stroke, and two Canadian soldiers received the coma treatment when they were wounded in last weekend’s suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. Now I’m ready. Just put me out…
Overdue for a change
When the Halifax Memorial Library on Spring Garden Road first opened in 1951, no one could have imagined the demands that would be placed on the building by 2006. Still, despite being over half a century old, the building continues to function as the largest library branch in the HRM. That may change. In a…
Frock the vote
Andrea D’Sylva has a plan for you this election. She wants you to vote strategically. It’s not about ditching your NDP, Marxist-Leninist or Green Party principles and voting Liberal to make sure Stephen Harper doesn’t grab the keys to 24 Sussex. For D’Sylva, voting strategically is voting as a feminist. And voting as a feminist?…
Flightplan
In March of 2004, the four members of Halifax rock combo In-Flight Safety flew across this vast country of ours, fully expecting to capture their hopes and dreams on tape. Spending four weeks in a Vancouver recording studio with a renowned producer at the helm, the band had no idea that this month-long endeavour would…
The quiet one
“I’m growing a bit concerned as I’m still waiting for the records to arrive from Nashville,” says Richard Lann, over a bottle of pulp-free orange juice at Uncommon Grounds. “I wish that they were being made over in Dartmouth so I could just pick them up.” While these wrinkly details are being ironed out, Lann…
Tristan and Isolde
A screen preface informs us that Tristan and Isolde is set in The Dark Ages. That’s appropriate for a movie whose colour scheme runs the gamut from grey to brown. The glum visuals are a near opposite of the spectacle and sweeping camera movements that have come to characterize movie epics. It’s possible this may…
