Don’t Adverise what you Can’t (legally) provide
A leisurly stroll downtown on Saturday chanced my friend and I pon two young females giving out coupons for a new “pay by the weight” stir fry grill near Reflections. They asked us if we wanted free apptizers… since I can barely afford a litre of gas anymore, let alone a bit of decent food…
Dancing with Knives
Dancing with KnivesSaturday, June 21, 7:13pm, at The Pavilionphoto Scott Blackburn
Mob rule sucks
To the editor, I take exception to Scott Donovan’s letter “Too many voices” in last week’s Coast. Somehow, Donovan forgets human rights trump city bureaucrat policy. The “bigger picture” he refers to is actually a manifestation of mob rule! I hope he remembers this when all the responsible Coast readers get together to put a…
the things i’ll never say
LOVE. IS. NOT. FAIR. I want to not be attracted to you anymore. alone while you are with her
Watering the Fucking Sidewalk
What is it with bozo boy and his hose watering down Hollis and Prince Streets? If he was doing it for two minutes, that would be one thing but I watched this guy spray the fucking sidewalk for nearly a half hour. What a total waste of water for something that’s going to dirty up…
Send your good wishes to Black Moor!
Local metal band Black Moor got into a car accident on their way back from Montreal. A collision on the highway is anyone’s nightmare, and luckily there are no life-threatening injuries. A Facebook group has been set up here for those who want to wish them well on the road to recovery.
Sound Market sessions
Windom Earle are going to help you fulfill your lifetime dream of dancing like a maniac inside of a recording studio in the middle of the afternoon this Sunday, June 29 (2pm, $10, limited seating available). Sound Market Studios are putting on a series of exclusive recording sessions, and the shows are being taped for…
Embassy closed
Last weekend Embassy Nightclub (1661 Argyle) closed its doors for good. According to owner Charile Ahoury, who has seen the business through various stages and names, business has been slow for quite some time. “I’ve been around to pizza places, retail outlets, other bars and clubs,” says Ahoury. “The consensus is business died. Unfortunately it’s…
Organic vino
Nova Scotia’s premier organic L’Acadie Vineyards, based in Gaspereau, recently opened up their environmentally-friendly geothermally heated and cooled winery on May 9. Their grand opening celebration takes place on July 20. “The climate in Nova Scotia is ideal for traditional-method sparkling wines,” say Bruce Ewert, L’Acadie Vineyards owner and winemaker. “Ocean-influenced, moderate temperatures with extended…
Damage Deposit
GIVE IT TO ME! God Dammit, I was suppose to get it 3 days after I moved out, it’s over a month now. You first tried to say I didn’t give you one, I had to go to the bank to get year old bank records to prove it. Now its proven give me my…
Dear Dumb Bitch Yakking on Your Cell
‘A Halifax woman was handed three tickets after three children and an adult were struck at a city crosswalk Friday morning. Police said a car lurched into an intersection at Hollis and George streets, hitting two 12-year-olds, an 11-year-old and a parent out on a school field trip. The foursome was part of a group…
Teenage Bottlerocket is a fun time
Consider this fair warning and plenty of time between now and Wednesday, August 20 to learn all the words from all the albums of the following bands: Teenage Bottlerocket (Wyoming), The Sidekicks (Ohio), The Varsity Weirdos (Moncton) and The Hemingways. The gang are playing at Reflections, and show is also serving as an EP release…
am I fucked up?
I miss all you guys at the coast bitch section. fuck you Ginger
Down the Tubes
I know a lot of people think the menstrual cycle is dirty and gross. So why, ladies, must I constantly be reminded as I walk on any beach that the overwhelming choice of feminine product is the tampon? It is incredible the number of applicators on the beaches, I mean there are alternatives, or simply…
Appropriate response to “Thank You”
I am tired of going into Tim Hortons, Walmart, Sobeys, etc and feeling like crap when I leave. I buy my stuff and give them my money, when the transaction is completed, I say Thank You. 9 times out of ten, the person at the counter either says nothing or says “Yup”. My money is…
Rainmen
I’ve never heard of the Premier League. Not like I’m on top of basketball leagues, but in general I think the play can be more interesting at the smaller-league level, and potentially (if managed correctly) fan-friendly. Levingston’s a smart guy, and seems to have figured out better than anyone else how to make a team…
What goes around comes around – YES!!!
Saturday night my husband and I were out for walk downtown and we saw a big group of teenagers skateboarding down a street. They were out skateboarding and having fun, minding their own business – until these 2 drunk, 20-something guys decided to grab one of them and pick a fight. Yayy for you drunk…
your “weird mood” is old news
don’t say that the reason for being “anti social” is due to your new found “weird mood”. sorry s but you have been in a “weird mood” since september…..a “weird mood” that cost us our friendship bitch over it all
coffee shops aren’t for kids
to the three sets of parents who took their twelve collective small children out to Just Us for a coffee and a chat at 3pm last monday…good call. Kids under five totally love coffee and samosas! And tiny coffee shop tables are uniquely suited for huge groups. And the people who ran in to grab…
WTF?
On what planet exactly is it ok for employers to require employees to work mandatory overtime, for which they will not be paid or compensated, including weekends and holidays (even holidays where others would normally get time and a half)? I understand the nature of my job is that there’s a lot of overtime, but…
Be kind to the person looking at your account
It always amazes me how ignorant some people can be. I always chuckle to myself when I see some self aggrandizing asshole try bite the head off some utility cashier because they didn’t like their bill… You know, the person with the delete button that could cancel your account so you go home with NO…
Lets actually do something!
To everyone jumping on the band wagon on “we have to conserve resources because fossil fuel prices keep climbing…therefore, food prices, electricity prices, travel prices,… go up too” . . . Here’s some food for thought: • Yes, times are changing and we should be more aware of reducing our ecological footprint…. so lets bike…
texting
to all of 16 year old girls who can’t seem to pry their phones from their hands: fuck off and stop texting for two minutes. can you not actually carry on a real conversation? when you walk down spring garden road with your friend and your head is bent down texting, you’ve taken it too…
Bubaiskull for the masses
Late, great Halifax band Bubaiskull have done something awesome and made a wicked and entertaining website in which you can listen or download all the Bubaiskull songs ever (with the exception of one—you will have to guess which) and look at some old posters and read the accompanying funny comments.
the customer is always right
but learning to shop in places like walmart is not. please stop rummaging thru things you have no clue about and learn to be SERVED! sp and dont complain about “made in china” if you refuse to pay the right amount for canadian made…nobody here in canada would like to work for 1 dollar a…
Joel Plaskett: label guy
Joel Plaskett launches independent label New Scotland Records, the first release kicking off the roster is Emergency drummer Dave Marsh’s The True Love Rules (to be released July 29). Says Plaskett “I enjoy producing and want to build on the experience I’ve gained making my own records by working with people whose music I admire.”…
Mr. Sloan on life, love
The National Post recently published this piece wherein Chris Murphy sounds off about being cool, girlfriends on the road, old musicians, being cool, Sloan’s longevity and being cool to promote the release of the band’s ninth album Parallel Play
Letters to the Editor
Regarding Bruce Wark’s righteous indignation about Canada’s military keeping journalists on a tight leash in Afghanistan: How naive. Does Mr. Wark really believe that the military should let journalists run willy nilly around a war zone reporting whatever they damn well please? Has he never heard of the phrase “Loose lips sink ships”? “That secrecy…
Letters to the Editor
I must take exception to Mr.Scott Donovan’s letter “Too Many Voices” in last week’sCoast. Somehow, Mr.Donovan has forgotten that Human Rights trumps policy formedby City bureaucrats. The “bigger picture” that he refers to, is actually a manifestationof Mob Rule! I hope he remembers that when all the responsible Coast readers gettogether to put a hyper…
Letters to the Editor
Lezlie Lowe, as usual, is right. There is something offensive about “the sexualization of women for profit” (Say, just how much does The Coast make for those Wet T-shirt contest advertisements from the Palace anyway?). And I do think she’s hit on something when she points out that Dove’s campaign subtly relies on the very…
Let’s Get Congratulated
Let’s Get Baked hosts Dave Ewenson and Mat Dunlap got some well-deserved props at this year’s National Campus and Community Radio Conference in Windsor. Let’s Get Baked, a syndicated vegan baking show on CKDU 88.1FM that features indie bands each week, won the award for best magazine program. Says Ewenson: “When we started Let’s Get…
Super Summersonic
July 19th is going to be one awfully long and music-packed day for those attending both Summersonic and Deerhoof (that night at the Marquee with Dog Day and Rich Aucoin). And don’t drink too much, the next day is also set out for you, as the festival continues on the Sunday. Why, oh, why does…
Helmet Scmelmet
Hey Halifax Regional Police! Thanks for tackling the city’s crime problem by cracking down on skateboarders (some of which are grown men) who choose to not wear a helmet. You now are setting up stings to bust these criminals. What a great way to build a positive relationship with the city’s youth, and spend tax…
Shut the f%*k Up
I wonder what everyone did before they had cellphones. God forbid you should sit in silence on the bus for a few minutes, or even (gasp) read a book. I am so tired of seeing people with these things attached to their heads everywhere I go. We are on the bus people.. not in your…
Knock, knock
To the girl in apartment 810, turn your music down. The next time we phone the police you’ll be issued a ticket. Love, the neighbours you don’t want to meet
Stupid Comments
Here it is, one of the greatest conversations that I have ever had the pleasure of over hearing Last year, on a foggy and damp summer day, I was at a local bus shelter waiting patiently for my bus to take me home. There were two overweight-mars bars-eating females bitching about the dampness. Suddenly one…
Canada Is Suppose To Be Free….
Are you just as tired as I am with all the stupid laws that governments are throwing down our throats? As far as I’m concerned,the only laws that should be applied (in order to be a free Democracy country),are the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins!!! Other than this,Democracy is becoming a an abused…
Halifax Traffic
Why can’t more of our city’s traffic lights offer a few measly seconds for left-turns during peak traffic? And some of the lights that do have a left-turn signal don’t have them activated half the time… what gives? It’s downright dangerous to proceed on green lights in some intersections because of the three, four, five…
Proactive Agricola Mommy
Quoth (more or less) a door a few blocks away from my home, on NEON STATIONERY: Childbirth is a tiring process. Mommy and baby need their rest and privacy. So please: 1. Call before visiting for any reason. 2. Make your visits brief. 3. Make your offers of help specific. Sincerely, the Midwife. Oh wow.…
All-encompassing music review section
I’m writing to say that I am unimpressed by the current music review structure of the Coast. Currently, the Coast reviews 4 or 5 discs a week, and only 1 or 2 are of local acts; those local acts almost certainly pertain to the indie-hipster demographic. Additionally, reviews of live local bands are also limited…
Yay Alison
Alison is on here a lot. Which keeps me amused at work. We need more people making more topics and comments to help me get through the day The Bad Guy
Invisible gets ReLit
The annual ReLit Awards are perhaps the coolest literary awards in the country. Presented to Canadian authors whose fiction, short fiction and poetry books were published by independent presses, the winners receive a cool ring that has four moveable dials, each one struck with the alphabet, so you can spell out “SHIT” when you win.…
10×10 makes music videos sing
One of the highlights of last year’s Atlantic Film Festival was the 10×10 Music Video Program, where 10 Atlantic filmmakers were paired with 10 Atlantic bands to create and premiere a music video in one week, under the guidance of Norwood Cheek. Not only is this LA filmmaker a super-nice guy, he’s directed tons of…
CBC TV plays tricks
CBC TV is looking for your stupid human tricks. Their suggestions include: “Can you belch the national anthem? Dazzle onlookers with a hula-hoop? Whistle through your nose? Write the new the Hockey Night in Canada theme?” No, they’re not looking to replace Strombo, it’s for a new TV series called Live at 25:00 (CBC execs…
You need a muzzle
Dear obnoxious neighbor chick: are you deaf? are you hearing impaired in some way? I wonder as I have absolutly no clue why the rest of the very small building should be subjected to your intense volume at all hours unless you are other-wise abled in some way. Seriously- I can feel the bass from…
its a bus-stop pervert
This is for all the dirty old men who are looking for some afternoon delight for a fee as the pass down windmill rd. I’m not a freakin hooker it not my falult that the stock bus company wants to use that corner. I’m waitting for my kid to get home from school it 2…
Halifax Rainmen announce new league
That’s the entire press release I just received, besides the note that a press conference will be held Monday to explain.
Drama Queen from Hell
I recently heard about what you did to my gf almost a year ago. She went through complete hell. Lost her job breifly all because she took the advise of a house inspector and didn’t but your piece of shit house. You are one cruel and mean fag. I feel sorry for your bf. Good…
Retailer of the year
Congratulations to Atlantic News (5560 Morris), the original newsstand, as they recently took home Retailer of the Year at this year’s Magazines Canada Annual Luncheon in Toronto. “We are thrilled to be recognized as the best magazine retailer in the country,” says Michele Gerard, co-owner.
Steamy’s goes veg
Steamy’s (6300 Quinpool) has incorporated a more vegetarian friendly menu, including veggie dogs and burgers.
17 years to perfect a sandwich
This past May benchmarked a big anniversary for G. Abato’s Italian Market (6061 Young), after 17 years in business they managed to take home Best Sandwich and Best Take Out Foods in The Coast’s readers poll 2007.
Celtic Car Sales
Are you in the market for a used car? Instead of hightailing it over to a car lot to schmooze over the prices of an old beater, why not give Celtic Car Sales a call. This student-run business surfaced when James Kennedy went looking for his first car six months ago. After searching high and…
Camera Whores
This is in reference to all the women who can’t stop taking pictures of themselves. Your obsession with your painted face is one thing but you ladies have to come up with a new face or pose. If you go on facebook to one of these camera whores, 99/100 pictures they make that stupid face…
Foreigners
To ALL the foreigners in my beautiful country. Respect our customs, respect our people and STOP WEARING SO MUCH FUCKING COLOGNE. BornNBredNS
Where is Customer Service?
Why is there no customer service happening in today’s society? If I was to have acted the way most establishments(including government agency’s)20 years ago,you can bet your ass that I would have been fired.There are so many people out there looking for jobs,so why are these companies allowing snobbish workers to STAY? They need to…
Smoking in halifax?
Ha! Not anymore. Our city’s smokers are being rounded up and shot. First was making people smoke 16 meters from any intake window or door of a public place. I can understand this, yes. But the bars and pubs? Now it’s getting to be so smokers dont have any rights. Hell, we can be written…
No referendum on tax reform
Peter Kelly is right: He would like to see a mail-out to residents with “before” and “after” figures so homeowners could see for themselves how their tax bills would change. It’s dishonest to ask residents to vote in favour or against tax reform until they know what, exactly, they’re voting on. Not just the philosophical…
Gangs
Wtf is up with all these little kiddy gangs harassing people and acting “gangster” sure a few of them have legit ties to REAL crime but wtf, I felt a hell of a lot safer in Halifax when the H’s Angels clubhouse was still in Fairview. If you look at the statistics violent youth crime…
Common sense
if everyone around you thinks you are a crazy bitch, you are probably a crazy bitch. shut the hell up already. searching for relief
Everything
Big middle finger to all the jerks who almost run me over daily in Metro’s crosswalks. A huge bitch to all the ignorant a-holes who can’t say thank you, you’re welcome. A huge bitch to the dumb girls who can’t walk in their shoes (you so don’t look cute limping and wobbling around) and slowly…
Police Wasting Tax Payer’s Dollars
Hey cops at pizza corner, (probably rookies) how about you don’t harrass people who didn’t do anything illegal. Just because you’re the law and you can get FREE SLICES FROM SICILLION PIZZA doesn’t mean anyone sober isn’t watching you LOUDSPEAKER HARASSER. Get off your high horse and stop threatening innocent people that you’ll take them…
Halifax Slayer Day
Halifax Slayer DayFriday, June 13, at HellPaul Hammond
Dead wreaths commemorating Halifax Explosion victim.
Remarks: Back in December, local dignitaries appeared at Fort Needham Park to pay their respects to those felled 90 years before. They placed wreaths at the base of the Memorial Bell Tower, one emblazoned with “Halifax Regional Municipality,” the next “Royal Canadian Legion,” a third “Province of Nova Scotia.” Touching, no doubt. But, six months…
More of the same, please
To the editor, This note commends The Coast for revealing comparative assessments of public interest concerns of the readers (“Faux democracy,” June 5), and suggests the need for more exploratory, investigative journalism. Citizens find media is a major source of their knowledge and protection of the public interest, with the other stakeholders failing to act…
Too many voices
To the editor, I’m not sure what Chris Benjamin expects from democracy in “Faux democracy” (June 5). If he thinks that a dozen homeowners along Chebucto Road ought to determine transportation policy for the regional centre, than I would beg to differ. There will always be parties to an issue who feel aggrieved or disenfranchised…
Liv Tyler no “chick”
To the editor, I’m not oversensitive, but I took offense to Mark Palermo’s reference to Liv Tyler as “that chick from Aerosmith” in his recent review of the film The Strangers(“On screen,” June 5). Liv Tyler is not a member of Aerosmith, she is a well-known actor; one who, in my opinion, has chosen thoughtful…
Selfish Jerks
I swear, the majority of you that ride Metro Transit are self absorbed jerks. Is it so difficult for you to offer a seat to a woman that is 7 months pregnant? Sure you’ll offer a seat to the 40 year old woman standing in front of me who obviously didn’t have any problems with…
Savage Love
Q: I’m a 33-year-old man, married eight years and mostly happy. My problem seems common: My wife has lost interest in sex. We have sex once every two months, maybe once a month if I’m lucky. When we do have sex, it seems to be good for both of us. It wasn’t always this way—we…
Ndidi Onukwulu
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.Ndidi OnukwuluThe Contradictor(Jericho Beach Music) It’s an all-too-common problem: Singer with obvious talent puts out record that lacks focus. Ndidi Onukwulu’s The Contradictorsounds like an artist who knows how to nestle in the spaces between Norah Jones, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Joan Osborne and Amy Winehouse, but nestles to the point of…
Shout out to the devil
True story: Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel have both played characters named Victor. (Keitel played Victor the cleaner in Point of No Return; Pacino apparently played “Viktor Taransky,” in S1m0ne.) But this article’s not about guys named Victor. It’s about cinematic Satans. And Pacino and Keitel have both played him, too. Why all the hellfire?…
Alex Wilson plans for the worst
“Hurricanes, floods, ice storms, fuelshortages, blackouts, terrorism.” Alex Wilson gives me a list of things modern architects needs to concern themselves with. Wilson is a green building editor and executive editor of Environmental Building News. Jennifer Corson and Keith Robertson of Solterre Design, a local green architectural firm, have invited me to meet with Wilson…
Tomcat Combat
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.Tomcat CombatI’m Okay You’re Okay (Noyes)Navigating the dangerous waters of post-rock is not easy since there’s a fine line between sounding inspired and uninspired. Tomcat Combat manage to do the former by shunning the cliched quiet-build, big-release framework that bands such as Explosions In The Sky milk endlessly. Tracks like “Pacer’s Club”…
WWOOFing around the farm
Shakeel Rehemtulla has done some unsavoury jobs. The NSCAD student and local designer once scooped out fertilizer from a huge steamy vat filled with a concoction of long-fermented yogurt, compost and manure. Along with girlfriend Carey Jernigan, they spent a week last year working on an aloe and date farm in Gujarat, India as volunteers…
The Happening
The Happening brings about the realization that Mark Wahlberg is only as good as the director given to him—maybe if Martin Scorsese or P.T. Anderson or, even, Sixth Sense M. Night Shyamalan was directing him, WahlbergÂ’s everyman science teacher pose and his foreshadowing speech about unexplained bee deaths would be more credible.
The suspense of the…
Walk a New Canadian Pilgrimage
If you drop by Eyelevel Gallery on Gottingen Street, chances are you’ll find its director, Eryn Foster, sitting behind the high-walled desk down at the end opposite the storefront windows—the source of the gallery’s brightly lit space. Amid a clutter of printed matter—administrative and creative—she appears totally at home. In her three years of work…
The Incredible Hulk
At risk of sounding like my nana, I am going to state up front that I thought this movie was far too loud. Battle scenes are earsplitting—one sequence actually has mega-decibel sound cannons meant to physically cripple the Hulk. The volume is just shy of making your skin undulate. Does anybody else think this? As…
Sail, kayak, canoe or fish
Newbie sailors and easy-access paddlers Congratulations, you’re a member of St. Mary’s Boat Club! The neighbourhood boat club is open to the public and it doesn’t get any better than this. SMBC offers various sailing lessons and camps to anyone over the age of 10. (And ranging to upwards of 85!) All instructors are nationally…
DMC Eliminations w/R$ $mooth and Classified
They only have six minutes to save the world.Six minutes on the stand is all they have, which is just enough time for Brian Pelrine, AKA DJ IV. “It gives you a little room to breathe, go through your catalogue and show people as much as you can,” says Pelrine. The DMC Eliminations take place…
Drive the Quinpool cruise
There’s something in our subconscious that ties us to our cars. Especially in men. Maybe it starts with our fathers and the cars we remember when we were children, the trips we took, stuck in the back seat as the world went by. It could be the lasting imprint of that adult thrill of learning…
Riding the Paris Metro
It was my first time in Paris—actually, at age 15, my first international sojourn—and after a week of intensive morning French classes and afternoons of negotiating huge lines of fellow tourists and letting my mother do all the talking, I finally rode the Paris Metropolitan on my own. It is a testament to how easy…
Unicycle across Nova Scotia
She went out almost every day and rode 10 to 15 kilometres, 25 to 30 on the big days. Perhaps you passed her if you’ve driven out of Cole Harbour towards the eastern shore on Highway 207 in the past few months. It may have been a bright, sunny spring day, or even a slushy,…
Zip-lining in Laos
The sun rises over the Mekong River and meets my excitement about the next three days with no rain clouds to accompany it. Excellent. It’s monsoon season in Laos and a rainy day would mean six-to-eight hours of hiking instead of three. My boyfriend Jeff and I are about to participate in The Gibbon Experience—a…
Fallsy Downsies
Lansing Meadows sat in the back. He pressed the little tab that made the windows go up and down. He pressed it up, he pressed it down, he pressed it up again. Evan Cornfield, steering the car over the rutted road, around roadkill and potholes and the various other detritus of an old highway in…
Rural culture in the Czech Republic
Two years ago I impetuously joined a group of Dalhousie University history and theatre students who were travelling to a small Bohemian town in the Czech Republic to study Baroque culture. My desire to go to the Czech Republic had nothing to do with the pursuit of higher education, rather it was flimsily based on…
Easter in Copenhagen
Here I am, Easter weekend, 2004, stuck in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m a third of the way through what will become a three-month trip through Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Even before I left my home in Vancouver, my mother was fretting over the holiday weekend, that I’d be left out in the cold with nowhere to…
Mud Festival in South Korea
At the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul, with a twilight parade of 10,000 paper lanterns making its way down the old temple streets, go figure I would randomly run into a guy I rode the bus with in high school. There are only about 10 million people in South Korea’s capital city after all. He…
Bike tune-ups across Halifax
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and bikes arecoming out of the garage. Some of them are squeaking, creaking and moving slowly. Al Barbour at Nauss Bicycle Shop (2533 Agricola Steet, 429-0024) says a lot of people wait until their bikes don’t work before they come in. His advice: Find out how much air…
The road to hell
Welcome to The Coast’s 666th edition, the Issue of the Beast. A couple weeks ago was the paper’s 15th anniversary, and around then I was in a meeting with some local business owners and I mentioned the birthday. The group burst into applause, a thankfully brief ovation that I felt a little embarrassed accepting for…
Skateboard city
For people looking to start skateboarding this summer, or to just dust off their old deck, Halifax is the place to be in the Maritime skateboarding scene. The recently renovated Halifax Common Skatepark is the de facto place in the city to skate. “The city threw down, they built it, and it’s a great addition…
The Kooks
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.The KooksKonkEMI North American audiences criminally neglected Inside In/Inside Out, the debut offering from UK band The Kooks (check out “Ooh La” and “Seaside”). Undeterred, these Brighton boys have released their sophomore effort, Konk, that should fair better than their debut. Not much has changed between the two records: The band is…
Comic blog hero
A lot of commercial websites would kill for 30,000 hits a month. Rachelle Goguen has seen that kind of traffic on her comics blog Living Between Wednesdays, and she’s never done any advertising. All it took was a little controversy. “I wrote an open letter to one of the editors at DC— that got a…
Outdoor adventures in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia boasts 7,500 kilometres of coastline, and almost that number of sea-adventure packages for the unsuspecting traveller to choose from. “Canada’s Ocean Playground,” indeed. But what about overland adventure? Head inland from any point along our coast and you’re liable to find yourself rubbing up against 300-million-year-old fossils at Joggins Cliffs, losing your boots…
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
[image-4]Published June 26, 2008.4 months, 3 weeks and 2 daysDirected by: Directed by Cristian Mungiu (Mongrel Media) 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile) is a movie filled with lengthy silences: the awkward pauses that ensue when two friends attempt to chat over dinner, after agreeing not to…
Chebucto Road reconstruction
Reversing direction from last week, Regional council voted Tuesday to approve the Chebucto Road widening project. Construction crews are expected to start work the week of July 1. The contentious project will consume portions of residents’ front yards in order to widen the road up from the Armdale Roundabout, allowing the installation of a third,…
The Grand
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.The Grand Directed by: directed by Zak Penn(Anchor Bay/ITN)Improvised comedy The Grand features Werner Herzog playing an angry German poker player and TV’s Mr. Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) in his first acting role since a 1984 Murder, She Wrote episode.Those are just two of the ringers onboard for director Zak Penn’s charming little…
Tanya Davis’ Gorgeous talk
When Tanya Davis performs, her fingersmove fluidly over guitar strings. She sings in a low and clear voice, annunciating each word. Some say they hear a hint of a PEI lilt in it. Her lyrics are personal—“straight ahead,” as she puts it. Davis says she didn’t look for her voice: It was there as soon…
Alanis Morissette
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.Alanis MorissetteFlavors of Entanglement (MAVERICK)Anyone comparing Flavors of Entanglement to Jagged Little Pill hasn’t listened to either. Where JLP raged—at boys, god, record execs— FOE resonates with the wisdom and level head 13 years can bring. Those eager to exploit Alanis Morissette’s tabloid breakup are extolling Entanglement’s “return to form” but she’s…
A frosty Foggy Goggle
Soho Kitchen’s replacement, the Foggy Goggle, needs to warm up a little
Entire Cities
[image-4]Published June 19, 2008.Entire CitiesDeep River(indie) Entire Cities hates the term alt-country and rightly so: While Deep River has a certain country-jamboree sensibility, it bears no resemblance to aging cowboys who want to be rock stars. The Toronto ensemble shifts between a panoply of instruments on their first full-length, creating an atmosphere that’s fun but…
