Letters to the Editor
Have you noticed large full colour advertisements pasted to the construction fences at the Art Gallery on NS on George Street, or outside the Lieutenant Governor’s residence, or on closed gas stations and other construction fences around town? These would be ads for Coke products, Axe boy’s perfume, the Junos and other big corporate clients.…
Letters to the Editor
MACKENZIE – RIGHT IDEA WRONG METHOD! The Liberal’s proposed ” up to $2,000 in retail tax rebates for the purchase of fuel-efficient and low emission vehicles” is commendable. However, the same outcome could be better and more economically achieved with a “tax-neutral” approach. Quite simply, an incentive to purchase fuel-efficient vehicles should go hand-in-hand with…
Letters to the Editor
Re: Vol 14 June 1-6 Music Snow Patrol Dear Johnston Farrow – Snow Patrol’s debut is not “Final Straw”. SP’s “When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clean Up” was released way back in 2001, on Jeepster. (it’s a good listen, too…) FYIen By evelynnapier
Letters to the Editor
A Pair of Pears When you walk into the supermarket intending to buy a pear do you ever realize that when you buy a single pear it sounds the same as pair? Unfortunatly when you say you are buying a single pear in most cases you will be saying it verbally which could make it…
The shape of things
A handful of dancers from across the country calling themselves SINS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) will present Oceanids, among other pieces, this weekend at DANSpace. The piece has multi-disciplinary roots: after seeing a Rothko painting, composer Mark Duggan wrote “Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea,” which is the source of the dance piece.…
New vinyl
It is commonly believed that marketing singles by way of vinyl is a trend that was exhausted decades ago, but one local record label may be tapping into an alternative method which might, by now, be considered recurrent. Out of Touch Records will release a sample of its new music on the revered seven-inch format…
Rendezvous in Dartmouth
Cafe Tryst opened last month at 86 Portland in Dartmouth. The new restaurant is co-owned by Alex Auld-Blake and Pernell Blake, former owners of Coffee & Colours in Barrington Shops (sold to Johnny Anjoul March 31). Chef Pernell Blake was looking to expand his repertoire with the new restaurant, creating such Caribbean- and Canadian-inspired entrees…
School’s out
The Halifax Regional School Board released a survey this week that is asking teachers to disclose their sexual orientation. The survey, which also questions staff about disabilities and race, asks teachers to identify if they are heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian (No transgendered tick-box? What gives?). Although the board claims that the survey is simply…
Beg, borrow or steal
To the editor, When Rodney MacDonald won his leadership campaign he said he would make the environment one of his top four priorities. Yet he has allowed one of his campaign’s biggest donors, Pioneer Coal, to strip-mine in Cape Breton. There is no Tory plan to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, increase efficiency or…
Growing awareness
To the editor, I really want to send a big thank you to Erica Butler for writing “Good to grow” (May 11). Her article spurred me into action. As a resident in the Springfield Lake area I am very concerned about the shortsighted and irresponsible development that has been proposed. Councillor Brad Johns is right.…
Much ado about doggie doo
In the land of Haligonia and beyond, this is for certain: doggie doo abounds, in stacks and mounds. When I see someone not picking up the doggie doo, I stop and go up to the person and smile. I tell them that I noticed they didn’t have a bag for the doggie doo, and that…
Cold comfort
Like many students who rent in south end Halifax, Robert Jewer feels he’s being gouged. He’s paying $620 per month for his room in a modest three-bedroom apartment, located at Park Victoria on South Park. “It seems high,” he says, “but it’s something you learn to live with in this city.” Jewer moved here from…
Reader’s choice
What should our libraries look like? Please hold for a likely unexpected answer: Chapters/Starbucks in Bayers Lake Business Park. There. I’ve said it. That’s a load off. Phew. I’m unloading my deep dark love of the Chapters/Starbucks corporate mega-machine for good reason (and with a disclaimer: I buy 90 percent of my books from local…
The contender?
“Got it!” the young woman announces triumphantly as she breezes back into the NDP’s storefront office off Wolfville’s main drag, holding aloft a roll of inch-wide orange ribbon. “Told you,” King’s South candidate David Mangle says to no one in particular. “Anything you need you can get at the Home Hardware.” It’s 4:25 on a…
All aboard
VIA Rail passenger Allison Crowe makes a triangle pit stop in Halifax this week. The menage a trois spreads from Thursday to Saturday, as she appears June 1 at Fairview Heights Elementary School, June 2 at The Music Room and June 3 at Pilot House Cafe and Cottages in Boutilier’s Point. “I’ve been touring by…
X-Men: The Last Stand
Cutting-edge special effects highlight X-Men: The Last Stand, but they never build excitement because the movie has no style. Director Brett Ratner’s lack of visual imagination can’t rise to the potential of distinctive comic book adaptations by Alex Proyas, Warren Beatty, Sam Raimi, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro. Ratner doesn’t place himself alongside Bryan…
Five and dine
Five years ago, I had a most amazing opportunity—a chance to combine my love of writing with my passion for food. Five years later, I’m still visiting restaurants and sharing my experiences with Coast readers. One of the questions I’m most commonly asked is “What happens if you run out of restaurants?” Sadly, due to…
Snail meal
Q: What is the Slow Food movement? A: Slow Food is all about supporting small scale agriculture and artisan food producers. I really like the way that it combines a sense of mission—acquainting people with an alternative food system, one that is focused on locally grown, organic, small scale agriculture—with lots of fun—taking field trips…
Mark it
“My film is about how I put myself on display in strange ways.” Jeff Coll is explaining Me on Me, his new short film. It details his peculiar exhibitionist tendencies, and is one of 20 pictures to be shown at a June 1 end-of-school-year screening of work by students of the Nova Scotia Community College’s…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Show the world your true value, Taurus, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage gets everyone on the same page.
Shopping maul
Atlantic Superstores lobbed a stink bomb into the provincial election campaign last week when the giant retailer announced that part of its Barrington Street outlet would soon be open on Sunday. Starting on June 11, two days before the provincial election, the Barrington emporium will be peddling turnips and tangerines, dead flesh and fish, face…
