Trans spats
To the editor, Maybe a light could be shone on this subject concerning the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation’s new campaign to make trans fats illegal. Now, to some this may sound great, but I can’t pass this off as less than thought control. It is clear that North America’s children are getting larger and…
Eye-eye captain!
To the editor, OK guys, very scary photo on the January 25 cover. Do you realize how many of your newspaper dispensers and racks are at eye-level for toddlers and children, and being all over town—at library entrances, on the street, near bus stops, parking lots, cafes—they can very easily be seen by children. My…
Fenced in
At last year’s week-long fest of conceptual planning about the future of the Queen Street lands, planners (from Ontario, I think) identified the high volume of foot and bike traffic that uses the diagonal route from the library to Queen Street, across the DalTech parking lot. They suggested that whole buildings would need to be…
Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: In response to the letter from Spears Framing Ltd., and your Article by Erica Butler January 4, 2007 “Hammering Away” about the efforts of the Carpenters Union to improve the Construction Industry for workers, needs further input. In Mr. Spear’s editorial rebuttal, he reports his operation is “Open Shop”. This is industry…
Letters to the Editor
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in Canada. It is estimated that one in 2.7 Canadians die from heart disease or stroke. Take a look around – that means that one of almost every three people will likely be affected by heart related problems at sometime in their life. We, at the Maritime Heart…
A fresh Fiasco
The Condo that Fiasco Restaurant is adjacent to is called “Charter house” Ms Feltham should do her research, or at least look at the sign.Also She should know that Foie gras is 100% fat so when it hits the heat it melts, but is still present in the sauce, and flavor.It is well known details…
Letters to the Editor
On my friends 25th birthday, she chose Trapeze for dinner. Because there were 11 people coming, she made a reservation for 8:30. When we arrived we were told that it would be about 15 minutes longer. This seems strange for a reserved table, but we were able to overlook it. However when we actually sat…
Letters to the Editor
NOT FOR PUBLICATION— I sent a letter off earlier this morning in response to Chelsea Murray’s comment on milk. Please do not print my letter – I am rewriting it. Thank you – Penny Ormsbee By Penny Ormsbee
Letters to the Editor
To The Editor In response to Chelsea Murray’s letter to the editor regarding my comment on milk “Fighting Words” (January 18). I would like to clarify that at no time in my interview with Sue Carter-Flynn of The Coast, did I suggest that Canadian dairy farmers inject their cows with artificial hormones. I am very…
Letters to the Editor
Okay guys, very scary photo on this week’s front cover. Do you realize how many of your newspaper dispensers and racks are at exactly toddler- and child- eye level, and that, being all over town, at library entrances, on the street, near bus stops, parking lots, cafes, etc., they are verrrry accessible to children’s viewing?…
Letters to the Editor
Maybe a light could be shone on this subject concerning the canadian heart and stroke foundation’s new campaign to make trans fats illegal. Now to some this may sound great, but to someone with half a mind I cant pass this off as more than thought control. Now it is clear that it’s comming to…
Evolution theory
Live Art Productions has a rich history of delivering eclectic, challenging contemporary dance performances from around the world, and their latest, Brutalis, is no exception. Belgian dancer/choreographer Karine Ponties and her company Dame de Pic collaborated with comic illustrator Thierry Van Hasselt, who created hundreds of charcoal drawings of Ponties while she was dancing. Brutalis…
Goin’ Doane the road
Many years have passed since Melanie Doane left Halifax for Toronto and it has been almost a full three since her last local performance at The Marquee Club. Doane, in order to raise children, took a hiatus from touring but is now back on the road with the Bluebird North songwriters’ circle. With musicians Barney…
Cuckholding, Slaveboy, a fetish too far
I usually agree wholeheartedly with your DTMFA recommendations, but in the case of Unlucky In Cuckoldry I found myself put off by your advice to divorce his wife. My problem with your advice is this: People change. UIC’s wife obviously changed at some point…hence her “adults don’t do this” comment. I don’t think it’s realistic…
Papa don’t preach
I understand the principles of fan fiction–in fact, I know someone around here (who shall remain nameless) who used to partake in a little X Files fantasy. No biggie. But I just read about mpreg fiction. Mpreg is short for male pregnancy. Eew. So far, I’ve found water-breaking stories on Harry Potter, Orlando Bloom, Lord…
The good life
La Dolce Vita, which opened last month, is a new spa at 182 Bedford Highway. The business is owned and run by the husband-and- wife team of Danny and Liza Innocente from Halifax. As the name (it is Italian for “the good life”) suggests, the spa is meant to be a haven for people who…
Sister act
In 1982, Halifax set out on a journey of mutual appreciation with an adoring sister city in Japan. Separated by a mere 10,000 kilometres (give or take), Halifax and Hakodate were obviously siblings separated at birth—both are port towns, both have distinctive star-shaped birthmarks (ours is called the Citadel; theirs is Goryokaku Fort)… But, like…
Cellular biology
One more reason to hate the clinging ringing annoyance of cellphones: facial boils. Pneumonia’s a danger too. Oh! And meningitis. But the fear of a plain-Jane boil festering on my cheek is enough incentive for me to scrub down my mobile phone every couple of days. Cellphones, see, are carriers of an inordinate amount of…
A fresh Fiasco
I first reviewed Fiasco in September of 2001, not long after it opened. Until I reread the article (“Something of a Fiasco”), I couldn’t really remember much about it, other than I wouldn’t go out of my way to revisit—until now. Since Fiasco is one of a few local chef-owned (chef Martin Keyzlar) restaurants providing…
Marriner rising
Based on a 12-bar structure, blues music embodies a ballsy sense of catharsis, skilled inventiveness and an acute sense of musicianship. Often, blues lyrics are thickened with a sense of moody subjectivity, yet the rich melodies are a far cry from depressing, says Ottawa’s blues boy Steve Marriner, who rolls into town for a double…
Depraved in Utah
Two of my biggest pet peeves are a sense of entitlement and casual rudeness, so it really doesn’t make much sense that I make a habit of spending part of January at the Sundance Film Festival. Yet here I am, back in Park City, Utah, for the fourth time in the last five years. The…
Maze craze
“I think monster movies are fantastic parables about the human condition,” Pan’s Labyrinth writer and director Guillermo del Toro explains. It’s the subject matter with which he’s built his name. “This is the kind of movie I want to do all my life. I’d love to be pigeonholed. People say, ‘Oh, this is just a…
A league apart
Professional sports often spawn breakaway leagues intent on going it alone and serving underserved markets. Hockey had the World Hockey Association, which ran from 1972 to ’79. As for football, some would place the CFL in this category. While that league limps along, other failed fraternities—the USFL, XFL and a flurry of indoor iterations—have risen…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage finds some questions he can get behind.
The Hitcher
For anyone sick of Oscar season (when last year’s movies finally hit smaller cities hoping to garner widespread attention pre-awards ceremony), the competing first-wave January releases can be a relief. They’re the movies Hollywood doesn’t have a lot of faith in, or money behind—teen-skewed genre films that can risk idiosyncrasy because they’re neither expected to…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Break away from the everyday you, Sagittarius, says Rob Brezsny.
Here’s the bad news…
In the fall of 2001, just after 9/11, the Daily News ran ads promoting Halifax police and the RCMP. The ads, co-sponsored by a big coffee chain, peddled trading cards with photos of police officers on them. Kids who collected all 24 cards could win “cool prizes.” Under the headline “To serve, protect and collect,”…
Docu-drama
“‘The only good Indian is a dead Indian’ has been changed to ‘The only good Indian is a Non-Indian.’” That’s how Pierre Loiselle of the non-profit group Praxis Media sums up the shift in policy regarding Canada’s “Indian problem.” Praxis Media, in conjunction with the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group, has developed an audio…
