Sea spot yum
Hi Liz, I just wanted to Thank You so much for the wonderful article you wrote on the Seaside Shanty Restaurant! As the new owner of the restaurant, I couldn’t be more pleased to read all the great things you had to say!! Next time you are in the restaurant, please ask if I am…
Sea spot yum
Hi Liz, I just wanted to Thank You so much for the wonderful article you wrote on the Seaside Shanty Restaurant! As the new owner of the restaurant, I couldn’t be more pleased to read all the great things you had to say!! Next time you are in the restaurant, please ask if I am…
Animating in LA
Local animator Heather Harkins (The Eight Husbands of Zsa Zsa Gabor, Duncan’s Cove) has got her summer vacation all lined up—she’ll be wiping the stardust out of her eyes for the entire month of August as artist-in-residence at the Echo Park Film Centre in beautiful Hollywood, California! Or, more accurately, east Los Angeles. Harkins accompanied…
Hey hey, my my
Those who don’t know Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta! are about to become a whole lot more familiar. The six-piece played its first gig in Halifax during the Juno showcases and is set for three more dates in the city within the next month. Momentum has been rising since the group formed last August, with the release…
Electric wheels
Scooter Commuter opened Saturday at 1589 Dresden Row. The store is stocked with electric scooters, bikes, trikes, remote-control golf trolleys, wheelie sneakers and gas-powered skateboards and roller blades. “I’m just looking at the environment as a big concern, and people are looking for more economical ways to commute, feeling the effects of the high gas…
Board out of your mind
Oh, what an eventful week it’s been for the Halifax Regional School Board. It all started with the reassignment of Gordon Young, who up until last Thursday had been the board’s director of programs. Young had also been the principal of Halifax West High School five years ago during the incident involving teacher Lindsay Willow,…
A resourceful incentive
To the editor, 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, an incentive to purchase fuel-efficient vehicles should go hand-in-hand with a disincentive to purchase “gas guzzlers.” This could easily be achieved by making the Provincial Vehicle Registration tax proportional to…
Paint the right picture
To the editor, I’m writing in regards to Megan Wennberg’s Shop Talk column “Paint for life” (May 25). As the owner of Dandy-Lion Eco Interior Painting, I was pleased that Megan took the time to include me in her column; however, a large portion of the article joked about me “painting myself out of a…
And on the seventh day
To The Coast, Some of us don’t need to visit the big box stores and shop ’til we drop on Sundays, but it sure would be nice to be able to buy groceries when we want to, not when the government tells us we have to. Our weekdays are packed, and I really don’t think…
And on the seventh day
It is commendable that you are concerned about the massive consumption practised by North Americans, and Nova Scotians in particular (“Shopping maul,” June 1). Linking that concern to Sunday shopping, however, is spurious and irrelevant. Why have you limited your indignation to the retail sector? If reduction of consumption is the goal, then it would…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Start taking yourself less seriously, Sagittarius, says Rob Brezsny.
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage says it takes risks to make gains.
Climate change info
www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/ www.davidsuzuki.org/NatureChallenge/ www.theweathermakers.com/globalwarming/ www.gov.ns.ca/energy/AbsPage.aspx?id=1391&siteid=1&lang=1 www.worldwildlife.org/climate/involved/individuals.cfm www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/639312/1361980/?lang=_e www.earthday.net/resources/2006materials/Top10.aspx
Reduce, reuse, remake
Dear Hollywood, I know we haven’t spoken in awhile. It isn’t because I don’t care about you anymore. I see you around. You’re hard to ignore, what with you being in every multiplex. I have seen your genre movies, the ones you made on a low budget. You’ve often allowed talented and hungry young directors…
Hollow argument
Dull, dull, dull. That was the media consensus after last week’s NS leaders’ debate. Call me crazy, but I found the debate infuriating. I even watched it twice, stopping the tape often the second time to take notes—and to groan and curse at the leaders’ leaden words. Rudyard Kipling called words “the most powerful drug…
Governing body
In March, a teenaged girl in St. John’s, Newfoundland, died from toxic shock due to, the coroner concluded, a nipple piercing. Following the tragedy, officials in Nova Scotia commented publicly on the need to bring in regulations, but Nova Scotia is still without formal rules governing the practises. “There been discussions,” assures Gord Mowat, a…
The David
In a promo for the 47th season of The Nature of Things, David Suzuki, the 70-year-old science and environmental activist, appears as naked as the jaybird he tries to protect, wearing nothing more than a strategically placed maple leaf. Held high over his remarkably buff physique, he literally carries the world on his shoulders. Although…
Big love
There is a rock and roll version of this wedding and it’s probably the one you want to know about. I don’t blame you. I mean, how exciting can reading about a wedding be? Even a $200,000 wedding with two planners, hundreds of volunteers and a 600-pound 25-foot copper dragon sculpture travelling from British Columbia…
Camp trip
God bless the drummer. The person burdened with the task of keeping other band members in time so things don’t get messy is usually the one most ignored when it comes to the spotlight. Leave it to the person singing about his personal issues or the guy indulging in a way-too-long guitar solo to get…
A Prairie Home Companion
Robert Altman does something tricky in A Prairie Home Companion: He makes a movie about death that’s fully alive in the present. The big ensemble affair doesn’t seem like a departure, except that the 81-year-old director is now visibly preoccupied with the end of things. The real, live-theatre radio show A Prairie Home Companion is…
Sea spot yum
Of all the places to eat on the South shore between Halifax and Lunenburg, the Seaside Shanty has long been my favourite. A small building tucked between the old highway and a jetty, the Shanty’s unassuming exterior belies the excellence of the food that pours forth from a tiny kitchen. Stepping into the Shanty, your…
Vegan FM
Q: Your show “Let’s Get Baked with Mat and Dave” is a popular CKDU feature and is syndicated to radio stations across the Maritimes and in BC. How did it begin? Mat: Originally, all I wanted was a CKDU show. I thought it’d be cool to have one of those shows that just goes on…
