Happy trails
The Halifax Urban Greenway is quite possibly one of the nicest projects you’ve never heard of. Essentially, the Greenway involves two parallel trails—a three-metre-wide trail reserved for cyclists, skateboarders and other non-motorized wheels, and a one-metre-wide walking path—that would follow the edge of the Halifax peninsula. The Urban Greenway would connect Chebucto Road to Point…
Under the bridge
In the “who knew?” category, we’re featuring a local documentary about the intricate, cutthroat world of competitive bridge. Yes, the card game. “I followed them for about two years between 2004 and 2006,” says writer-director Andy Pedersen of In the Cards, his 45-minute film about top players Gavin Wolpert and Vince Demuy. “At the beginning…
Ego’s trip east
Three-piece rock outfit My Dog Ego—comprised of vocalist/drummer Jamie Lee Patterson, guitarist John Longley and bassist Clark McMillan—has moved to Halifax from Toronto in the hopes of making an impression on the east coast with its debut EP. “We got back together in Ontario last year, and the five songs that we thought we would…
Don’t walk
To the editor, Children seem to continue to be at risk in crosswalks in Nova Scotia and especially in the HRM. These children often receive multiple injuries. Small children seem especially at risk because it is difficult for them to see vehicles and for inattentive drivers to see them. I believe additional resources need to…
Don’t walk
To the editor, “If you can’t see the driver, the driver can’t see you.” These words were accompanied by what looked like a shot of a telephone pole on a street corner, until a little girl’s face popped out from behind it, smiling at the camera. That television public service announcement was a component of…
Love-hate-bitch relationship
Dear Gag me with a Fork, I’m writing regarding your response to the re-re-suggestion of a Love the Way We Love column. If you wish to see the world as “jaded and nasty” and think that a bitching column is “relevant” and “intriguing,” that’s your perogative. May I suggest that instead of pissing on another…
On fire
To the editor, I was leafing through The Coast article on the North End Pub fire (“Change of venue,” March 15, by Stephanie Johns) and felt that the loss of all the equipment, CDs, merchandise, etc., by Terratomb was mentioned as a footnote, a by-the-way sort of thing. Are you insane? I have been critical…
Grounds for complaint
To the editor, In the report submitted to Halifax Regional Council by staff regarding further concerts on the Common it is written: “Council needs to be satisfied that the duration of disruption is minimized and the disrupted use is returned as quickly as possible. This was done with success during the Rolling Stones concert by…
Next up
Mickey MacDonald, the local businessman who sold Downeast Communications last year and is currently opening a kids’ boxing gym on Gottingen, has acquired two local businesses. MacDonald’s company, Micco Companies, has recently bought out Nova Scotia mainstays The Chickenburger, at 1531 Bedford Highway, and Mills Brothers women’s clothing store, at 5486 Spring Garden. While the…
Burning Ears for Wednesday
Our quaint fishing village is at the heart of a couple business stories that are getting international attention (one about phones, the other malls). A local is an expert on a gambling scandal in Ohio. And we’re still using that old Sarah McLachlan connection Full links below. EASTLINK MAKES THE CALLfrom New YorkTwo Nova Scotia…
Burning Ears extra
Responding to a Globe and Mail news item about an outbreak of mumps in Halifax, a reader with the handle Dr. Mephistopheles says: “The problem is the hygenic conditions and the sheer poverty of people living in Halifax. People there are so poor and public restrooms backward and dirty there is no wonder we are…
Graffiti v. graffiti
“The Community Art Pilot Project brings together youth and emerging urban artists in the creation of murals (and other creative art works) as a deterrent to graffiti vandalism. It also aims to engage young citizens and communities in raising awareness of the strong connections between graffiti management, community art and civic pride.” The message is…
Blowing our own horn
For the 14 or so years of its life, The Coast has done a predictable dance with the Atlantic Journalism Awards. The steps of this dance are simple. 1) We submit a bunch of stories to the awards. 2) We get completely shut out of the nominations. 3) We get pissed off and complain that…
Burning Ears for Tuesday
At last, at last, a mention of our dear city in England’s Halifax. Plus cruising for bargains and making the fiber-optic connection with New York. Full links below. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASSfrom Halifax, UKOn a quick first skim of this article, I thought I was reading yet another obituary from a certain sleepy local paper.…
In memoriam: Dr. Ransom Myers
I wasn’t sure how to categorize this sad news–(and I just realized Kyle already mentioned it…) I put it under Halifax, but Dr. Myers’ impact was felt well beyond it city’s borders. This is from the Dalhousie website: “Ram, as he was known, captured the world’s attention time and time again with breakthrough research on…
Burning Ears for Monday
A slow news day for Metro comes off a slow news weekend. The “delusional Calgaria” thing is earning a spec of attention, as is the Casino’s nascent union. Then there’s the upcoming Canadian ringette championship. And so the wait for headlines like “Cure for cancer found in east coast city-town” and “Nova Scotia premier shot”…
Burning Ears for Friday
If only the Commonwealth Games would go extinct instead of the sharks. Full links for both stories below. SHARK WEAK, SCALLOPS WEAKERfrom New York, Baltimore, Boston, Orange County (California), Manchester (UK) and likely moreFor attracting attention, you could do worse than a report about how humans are driving sharks to extinction. Witness the media feeding…
AGNS sculptures hit by vandals
This is not the way I like to start the day. According to a press release sent this morning, vandals damaged two sculptures in the gallery’s Ondaatje Court. “Vandals were able to move Greg Forrest’s Molecule sculpture and use it to hit John Greer’s Origins sculpture.”–two of our province’s best artists–“Molecule measures more than 5…
Sing for the Moment
Upstart company Metamorphic Theatre—winner of Best Play for its inaugural production, of Marion Bridge, in last year’s Best of Halifax —launches its new season this week with a brand-new production written by first-time playwrights Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian. Creatures of the Moment will run for four shows from March 29 to 31 at The…
Imagine that
Hey, Bloomfield Centre, I’ve got some good news and some frustrating news: The good news is that the city has announced the centre will be cleaned up. The main building on the corner of Robie and Almon will receive new lighting, floor tiles and a fresh coat of paint. The trio of buildings making up…
Young Triffie is
According to the movie’s ad. And apparently, according to me. But not really. The day I’ve dreamed about for so long, the day I see my own dumbass quote used for marketing purposes, and it’s not really about the movie. You see, I saw Mary Walsh’s Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With at the Atlantic…
Darting ahead
Linda Goyetche has been dreaming of running her own cafe for her entire life. Now, with the help of her sister, Marina, she’ll finally get the chance when Solara Cafe opens at 73 Tacoma Drive in Dartmouth. The sisters say they finally decided to go ahead with the venture during a drive back from Toronto…
Best Female Solo Artist
Barber has had a harder lock on the local category than The Sopranos at the Emmys—this is her fourth win. It’s the first time somebody named Sarah hasn’t even touched the list in the national category and also makes Barber the first local gal to win that one. She’s had a banner season since the…
Burning Ears for Thursday
Influential local biologist Ransom Myers passed away Tuesday, and the world is paying its respects. Plus Faith Hill, props from the capital city of Indonesia and more. Full links below. Ransom Myers, RIPfrom Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, St. John’s and Manchester (UK)The untimely death of the Dalhousie University fisheries biologist — victim of brain…
Best Local DJ
DJ IV “WOW, thanks so much!!!” texts the hard-working IV, AKA Brian Pelrine, on tour in Ottawa with Classified. “Well I guess you can start by telling the readers I said thanks so much…it’s been a long road to making it where I am and I really appreciate the support that I’ve gained from the…
Best Local Fan
David Cieplinski He’s our go-to live-shot guy for a reason: dude is EVERYWHERE. There’s no show in recent memory that we’ve attended where we haven’t seen Cieplinski kneeling near the front, aviators pressed up against the back of his camera. We’re not sure what keeps him going, but it doesn’t appear to be alcohol, making…
Best of Music reader’s poll
Listen to our playlist of Best of Music winners. Best Local Solo Artist (Female)Best Canadian Solo Artist (Female)Jill Barber Barber has had a harder lock on the local category than The Sopranos at the Emmys—this is her fourth win. It’s the first time somebody named Sarah hasn’t even touched the list in the national category…
Best Artist Most Likely To Make It Big
Wintersleep Wintersleep has been keeping things quiet on the home front, choosing to take its show on the road for most of 2006 with only a handful of gigs in the Metro area. But a handful’s all you needed to bestow the inaugural (if awkwardly named) “Band to Be Blown Away By” award on the…
Best Local Merch
The Superfantastics “Matt was opposed to having one-inch buttons made since every band in Halifax had one-inch buttons,” says Superfantastic Stephanie d’Entremont of the duo’s winning slap bracelets. “I was browsing the internet for other ideas, one website I found offered slap bracelets with your company’s name on them.” She discovered it would cost over a…
Best Local Band
In-Flight Safety It’s been the most-nominated year ever in the young history of soaring rock quartet In-Flight Safety, who began 2006 on the cover of this very newspaper and never looked back. After collecting trophies at the Music Nova Scotia Awards and then the East Coast Music Awards, which they closed out with a lasertastic…
The Green hornet
When Elizabeth May announced her plan to challenge Peter MacKay in the next federal election, she came under immediate criticism. The move was seen as a stunt at best—the Green Party leader taking on the powerful cabinet minister being a David-and-Goliath fight designed to secure media coverage. At worst, it was considered political self-sabotage, evidence…
Best Artist To Be Blown Away By
Wintersleep Wintersleep has been keeping things quiet on the home front, choosing to take its show on the road for most of 2006 with only a handful of gigs in the Metro area. But a handful’s all you needed to bestow the inaugural (if awkwardly named) “Band to Be Blown Away By” award on the…
Best Independent Record Label
Dependent Music It was a quiet but winning year for Dependent, which released just two mighty albums: the debut EP from its newest family member, Montreal buzz act Land of Talk —who played HPX in November—and Jill Barber’s For All Time, the nicest, classiest monster this town ever did see. There’s a brand new Holy…
Best Local Album
In-Flight Safety, The Coast is Clear It’s been the most-nominated year ever in the young history of soaring rock quartet In-Flight Safety, who began 2006 on the cover of this very newspaper and never looked back. After collecting trophies at the Music Nova Scotia Awards and then the East Coast Music Awards, which they closed…
Braking the habit
Dear single-occupant commuters, I regret to inform you that your time here is up. Actually, scratch that. I have no regrets. Go away. Get moving. And don’t make it any more difficult than it needs to be—carry on with your death throes and do hurry up. Get your arse on the bus, or on the…
Best Canadian Band
Wintersleep Wintersleep has been keeping things quiet on the home front, choosing to take its show on the road for most of 2006 with only a handful of gigs in the Metro area. But a handful’s all you needed to bestow the inaugural (if awkwardly named) “Band to Be Blown Away By” award on the…
Best Karaoke Host
Mimi Andriopoulis (Bearly’s) You just look out, Mimi, for the day My Chemical Romance makes its way into the karaoke canon and replaces Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the drunken, off-key epic of choice. Until then, add another trophy to your pile, and pass the wings. 1st runner-up: Laurie the Guy, 2nd runner-up: Jackie Smith
Best Canadian Album
In-Flight Safety, The Coast is Clear It’s been the most-nominated year ever in the young history of soaring rock quartet In-Flight Safety, who began 2006 on the cover of this very newspaper and never looked back. After collecting trophies at the Music Nova Scotia Awards and then the East Coast Music Awards, which they closed…
Dine-N-Dash
Nick-N-Willy’s is the first Atlantic Canadian outlet of a franchise that’s carved a niche in the crowded pizza market by perfecting a “Take-N-Bake” version of its product: The convenience is that you can take it home and bake it whenever you want. You can also eat in and there’s home delivery. Eating in on Quinpool…
Best Local MC
Jesse Dangerously We’re just gonna nod our head to the beat while Mr. Dangerously makes his acceptance speech: “Aw shoot, shucks and gee willikers! I have never wavered in my faith that the readers of The Coast are unfailingly suave, literate, socially conscious and delicately scented. What is that…lavender? Karma cream? Lemon-dill? My left eye…
Best Music Photographer
Chris Smith After a win at the Music Nova Scotia Awards in November and a score at the ECMAs in February, this is the last of the big awards Chris Smith could win. “Huge thanks goes to all the dirty hairy musicians crazy enough to work with me,” he says. “Without you, I’d be designing…
Best Song
In-Flight Safety, The Coast is Clear It’s been the most-nominated year ever in the young history of soaring rock quartet In-Flight Safety, who began 2006 on the cover of this very newspaper and never looked back. After collecting trophies at the Music Nova Scotia Awards and then the East Coast Music Awards, which they closed…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage keeps it short and sweet.
Best New Artist
The Crimson Tides The young punk quartet released its self-titled debut last year, obviously making a mark on the city. “We are making this all up as we go,” says singer Adam Bowes. “All I know is that we are passionate about playing and spending time together. Nothing is taken too seriously, whatsoever…but things get done…
Best Radio Station
CKDU Even when the station was low-powered and on a different frequency you listened. Now that it’s blasting 3,200 watts across the greater Metro area, even more listeners are tuning in to the station’s eclectic programming, cult hits (Let’s Get Baked, anyone?) and tastemaking music selection. “I’d just like to thank all of our listeners,…
Best Canadian Video
In-Flight Safety, The Coast is Clear It’s been the most-nominated year ever in the young history of soaring rock quartet In-Flight Safety, who began 2006 on the cover of this very newspaper and never looked back. After collecting trophies at the Music Nova Scotia Awards and then the East Coast Music Awards, which they closed…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Prepare for a midnight ride, Pisces, asks Rob Brezsny.
Best Local Band to Dance To
The Stolen Minks These punkabilly idols inspire hipsters to drop the facade and bust a move already—how can you not with songs about Charles (motherlovin’) Bronson?—and take the inagural nod for Best Local Band to Dance To. And props to Ben Jeddrie for the fab, popular animated clip for “Boys on the Floor,” from the…
Best Gig Poster Artist
Yo Rodeo! Seth Smith, Yo Rodeo!: This makes us feel good but a little guilty since we didn’t produce many posters last year. Paul Hammond, Yo Rodeo!: It’s awesome to see that there is actually a category for us this year. But yeah, we’ve been a little lazy in the poster department…it’s nice that people…
Smog and mirrors
“Concern about the environment is a core Canadian value,” says Jim Hoggan. “It’s not something that just popped up last year —it runs deep in the Canadian identity. “But people have been bullshitted to for so long, they don’t trust anyone.” A self-described “corporate PR guy” who has represented such firms as A&W, the Northwest…
The Lives of Others
German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s debut beat Pan’s Labyrinth for the foreign language Oscar in a reversal of the Academy’s usual avoidance of movies about complex world issues. The Lives of Others is an indictment of adhering morals to political-doctrine shortcuts. Until its dissolution in 1989, the Stasi secret police ensured East Germany was…
Best Video
The Stolen Minks These punkabilly idols inspire hipsters to drop the facade and bust a move already—how can you not with songs about Charles (motherlovin’) Bronson?—and take the inagural nod for Best Local Band to Dance To. And props to Ben Jeddrie for the fab, popular animated clip for “Boys on the Floor,” from the…
Best Local Album Artwork
Yo Rodeo! Seth Smith, Yo Rodeo!: This makes us feel good but a little guilty since we didn’t produce many posters last year. Paul Hammond, Yo Rodeo!: It’s awesome to see that there is actually a category for us this year. But yeah, we’ve been a little lazy in the poster department…it’s nice that people…
The Lookout/Reign Over Me
If you watch enough movies, grief starts looking like a temporary setback. The death of a close relation is something a character needs to overcome to discover his or her full potential—no different than the climactic boxing match in a Rocky film, or an upcoming spelling bee that’s been consuming a character with fear. This…
Under the covers
Age agrees with Jann Arden. known for her humorous zeal, hearty stance and sentimentally loaded songs “Insensitive,” “Good Mother” and “Could I Be Your Girl,” the prominent songwriter has reshaped her perspective, turned up the volume and transformed herself emotionally and physically. At 45 years old, she recently shed a reported 50 pounds, sifted through…
Best Appearance On YouTube
The Stolen Minks, “Boys on the Floor” These punkabilly idols inspire hipsters to drop the facade and bust a move already—how can you not with songs about Charles (motherlovin’) Bronson?—and take the inagural nod for Best Local Band to Dance To. And props to Ben Jeddrie for the fab, popular animated clip for “Boys on…
Best Recording Studio
Echo Chamber The closure of the Khyber Club saw the almost simultaneous shuttering of Ultramagnetic Recording, Charles Austin and Kevin Lewis’ legendary studio atop many, many stairs in the Khyber Building. But this musician-heavy town is loyal, and many have followed Austin to Echo Chamber, his new Kempt Road spot with Andrew Gillis, where he’s…
Rose-coloured glasses
There’s a scene in Thom Fitzgerald’s 2003 film, The Event, where a 30-something man (Don McKellar) tells his mother (Olympia Dukakis) that he’s gay. “I know,” she says. “I’ve known for a long time…The last girl you brought back was a prom date, and you did her makeup.” In these few lines of dialogue, Dukakis…
Crazy/dutiful
“We’re the best there is. You’d be crazy to fuck with us,” announces a Canadian infantryman in a moment from The Crazy Eights, a documentary made for the CBC about a company of soldiers in Afghanistan. This is the down and dirty reality of what it means to be a fighting man in a conflict…
Best Artist / Band Hijinks
BA Johnston His website alone, with its motto (“A fat, tired chud”), Mario Bros. icons, trucker hats and handlebar moustaches, is entertaining enough. You want endearing? Check just the title of his latest recording, Call Me When Old and Fat is the New Young and Sexy. But to get the full effect you need to…
Best All-ages Venue
One World Cafe The closest contest in the competition saw One World knock off longtime champ the Pavilion by a mere three votes. One person can really make a difference (well, three, in this case). One of the World’s best features is that when it gets too damn hot in there—as it did at last…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Start buying tuna fish, Leo, says Rob Brezsny.
Young guns
Mary Walsh and Fred Ewanuick sit beside each other on the hotel room couch. She’s the actor/co-writer/director of Young Triffie and he is the film’s star. But their rapport suggests another relationship. In a black outfit, including impressively long boots, that contrasts with her auburn hair and tanned skin, Walsh appears the taller, worldly, still-a-little-bit-wild…
Best Artist To Enjoy Quietly
Old Man Luedecke If there were a Nicest Dude in Halifax Rock poll, Joel Plaskett would end up having a handshake-off with the In-Flight guys while David Myles moderated, but Dapper McBanjo would emerge victorious. Chris Luedecke’s incisive storytelling and folksy banter make you want to shut your damn mouth for once and let yourself…
Best Live Music Venue
The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen The dearly departed Stage Nine made a good run, but nobody was able to unseat perennial winner Marquee. And why should they, really, with the likes of Feist, Holy Fuck, The Constantines and Sam Roberts dropping by. They still bring the goods, that Marquee, is what we’re saying, despite not…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage walks the walk, talks the cock.
Having a blast
The picture looks grainy, hacked-up and discoloured, as if it’s been stored in some studio basement since the heyday of blood-and-guts grindhouse cinema. Black lines, spots and other imperfections pockmark the screen and the colour has the quality of an old Polaroid photograph. A grizzled drifter with a Robert De Niro glare busts open a…
Best Local Cover Band
Shameless This is the second win for Shameless in the Cover Band category. And if you voted for the quartet, you probably already know its band motto: “The more you drink, the better we get.” So it’s not surprising—and a little poignant, honestly—that Shameless has also picked up the inaugural nod for your favourite act…
Best Music Festival
Halifax Pop Explosion Snap, crackle, HPX: this year’s fest brought in the usual pile of hot buzz with much- anticipated shows by Holy Fuck, Land of Talk, Cadence Weapon and Great Lake Swimmers, as well as a bunch of local rep, CanZine East and the Music Matters conference. “I personally do get surprisingly nervous every…
Well versed
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” says Lorri Neilsen Glenn. The Halifax poet laureate is quoting Joan Didion in the midst of a discussion about her own writing. She punctuates the words with her hands as if conducting an orchestra. Glenn is an astonishing listener, incisive in her comments. Her eyes don’t waver,…
Best Artist to Get Trashed To
Shameless This is the second win for Shameless in the Cover Band category. And if you voted for the quartet, you probably already know its band motto: “The more you drink, the better we get.” So it’s not surprising—and a little poignant, honestly—that Shameless has also picked up the inaugural nod for your favourite act…
Best Live Show In The Past Year
The Rolling Stones w/Kanye West, Alice Cooper and Sloan on the Halifax Common, September 23 You sure got some satisfaction (and a nice little case of Stones flu) last fall, didn’t you? Did it start you up? Get off of my cloud, Angie, and get under my thumb! Get down girl, go ’head get down…
The fantastic two
Listen to “Tonight Tonite” off the album Pop-Up Book. On the afternoon before he leaves on tour with ever-expanding band The Sleepless Nights—Halifax’s version of Broken Social Scene—Matt MacDonald, a co-conspirator behind the peachy power-pop duo The Superfantastics, finds time to chat about their quirky, irresistibly adorable, full-length concept album Pop-Up Book. “My parents had…
Best Female Solo Artist
Jill Barber Barber has had a harder lock on the local category than The Sopranos at the Emmys—this is her fourth win. It’s the first time somebody named Sarah hasn’t even touched the list in the national category and also makes Barber the first local gal to win that one. She’s had a banner season…
Best Dressed Artist / Band
The Stance The increasingly popular Motown-inspired quartet takes an indie-mod approach to its stage attire, which you can see all over Halifax stages (including our awards show party at The Attic). “Beauty on a budget,” says guitarist James MacAulay of the band’s look, featuring lots of striped ties, sharp button-downs and sweet belts. “Wait…what was…
Best Tour You Wish Came To Halifax
(tie) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Radiohead There was the campaign to bring the Chili Peppers here, and it was a valiant one, but alas, Anthony Kiedis was too busy getting fellated by his 25-years-younger girlfriend in Blender to stop by. And Radiohead’s string of catalogue-combing shows hit only major centres. But we got Alice Cooper. So…
Special K
Our table is spread with exotic foods, mouth-watering aromas emanate from the open kitchen, Arabian music fills the air and a lithe belly dancer shimmies and gyrates around the room, dancing shyly behind the veil or flirtatiously encouraging others to dance with her. For a little while, it’s easy to pretend we’ve travelled farther than…
Unprotected sex
Ron Chisholm’s mysterious encounter with a woman in Dartmouth last month reminded me of my own recent adventure in the City of Lakes. The provincial fisheries minister says a woman tapped on his car window at Tim Hortons and asked for a drive home. “I said no at first, but she started pleading with me,”…
Best Canadian Solo Female
Jill Barber Barber has had a harder lock on the local category than The Sopranos at the Emmys—this is her fourth win. It’s the first time somebody named Sarah hasn’t even touched the list in the national category and also makes Barber the first local gal to win that one. She’s had a banner season…
Best Tour You Wish Came To Halifax
(tie) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Radiohead There was the campaign to bring the Chili Peppers here, and it was a valiant one, but alas, Anthony Kiedis was too busy getting fellated by his 25-years-younger girlfriend in Blender to stop by. And Radiohead’s string of catalogue-combing shows hit only major centres. But we got Alice Cooper. So…
Waste 2.0
It began in March of 2005, when Mayor Kelly proudly posed for a photo op outside city hall. He stood beside a four-stream waste receptacle in Parade Square, the first of its kind in downtown Halifax. Granted, it wasn’t on a sidewalk (too bulky)—but hey, it was a start. That event formally kicked off phase…
Loss of status
There were banging pots, placards with messages against inequality and shouts of, “Stephen Harper doesn’t like women, he wants us back in the kitchen! That’s OK, we’ve got the solution—let’s cook up a revolution!” These are just a few of the sights and sounds from a protest held last Friday outside of federal Status of…
Best Canadian Solo Male
Joel Plaskett “I really am flattered to be given these honours again this year,” says Plaskett, writing from Melbourne, Australia, after midnight. “I feel very fortunate to have the support of the community back home and I don’t want to take it for granted. The Maritimes sure celebrate their own. Lucky me!” We expect to…
Best Canadian Single
Nelly Furtado, “Promiscuous” This is the one case where we’re going to respectfully disagree with y’all. We ask you, where is the freaking hook? Perhaps you like Ms. Furtado’s new “sexy” image, or the presence of JT in the video, or Timbaland’s neckless beats. We admit to liking that “(Wicka) Don’t be mad, don’t be…
