Burning Ears for Wednesday
A big natural gas project generates plenty of hot air. Water technology professionals are aware of changes to local standards. And those embarrassing fans of Coronation Street are talking up Halifax’s embracing of the show. It’s an eclectic day on the web for Metro, and full links to these items are below. IT’S A GAS,…
Hamlet (solo)
Anyone who has ever read Goldilocks aloud, performing the range of voices from the booming Papa to the whining Baby, will have some idea of what to expect from Raoul Bhaneja’s Hamlet (Solo). That’s not to say that this performance is child’s-play, for Bhaneja is not just switching voices as he retells the play, alone…
Burning Ears for Tuesday
Today’s tour of the web’s latest Halifax mentions features a blog post about Jared Leto, a self-important Torontonian’s trip east and a possible movie ticket theft. How could you not want to read the full links below? THE UNKNOWN FASHIONISTAfrom San FranciscoWriting at TeamSugar —it’s a girlie, glossy networking site big on celebrity, fashion, beauty…
Burning Ears for Monday
The tourism stories are popping out in American media like buds on the trees, and other parts of Canada are still worried about catching mumps from us. Full links below. WHERE TOURISTS COME AND GO LIKE THE TIDEfrom Los Angeles and BostonIt’s that time of year, when Americans — or at least their editors —…
Burning Ears for Monday
The tourism stories are popping out in American media like buds on the trees, and other parts of Canada are still worried about catching mumps from us. Full links below. WHERE TOURISTS COME AND GO LIKE THE TIDEfrom Los Angeles and BostonIt’s that time of year, when Americans — or at least their editors —…
Burning Ears for Monday
The tourism stories are popping out in American media like buds on the trees, and other parts of Canada are still worried about catching mumps from us. Full links below. WHERE TOURISTS COME AND GO LIKE THE TIDEfrom Los Angeles and BostonIt’s that time of year, when Americans — or at least their editors —…
Making love out of no show at all
Air Supply, scheduled to serenade the Forum on July 7, has ruined our summer by cancelling. We assume it was the $60+ tickets unbought by an unconvinced Halifax public, but we’d hoped the love would be strong enough to support such a thing. We were wrong. Enjoy your Canada Day Cock Rock Spectacular, idiots.
The Ballad of Jim Pane
The crowd was small—and tame—for Friday evening’s second play, The Ballad of Jim Pane. It makes you wonder whether they roll the sidewalks up in Dartmouth at 10 pm. This show begs for audience participation, but there were only a few brave souls singing along to writer Ross Desprez’s catchy protest songs. There was plenty…
An Evening With Uncle Val
The house was almost full and the audience was primed for Andy Jones’ An Evening with Uncle Val. They weren’t disappointed. Jones is hilarious as the aging and frustrated Newfoundlander who tells the story of his “captivity” in the suburbs of St. John’s in the form of letters to a friend in his beloved out…
Graffiti challenge — Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Two weeks ago I asked the city to do something about the graffiti on one of its disused civic buildings. Here’s my complaint to the snitch site: “100 Wyse Road. Former Dartmouth Heritage museum practically covered in spray paint, especially on two sides facing Dillman Park, from simple scrawl of ‘suck your mom’ in red,…
Burning Ears for Friday
Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for weeks. But I apologize for the last few days of silence on the Burning Ears front. Among other thrilling tasks, I got to tweaking the search methods that power the Ears, and would have posted earlier but for getting buried an avalanche of material old and…
Graffiti challenge — Robie at Jubilee bus shelter
As promised in this column published yesterday, I’m blogging details of graffiti reports that I’ve made to the city. I’ll post them one or two at a time — call it building suspense, or having other things on the go. Here’s the first strike from my recent push to test the city’s graffiti-cleaning mettle: Thursday,…
Where you’ve led, we’ve followed
The May 15 episode of Gilmore Girls will cap its seventh, and, it was announced yesterday, final season. Too bad. Everything that’s happened with this incredible, unique program in the past two years that has made it impossible for it to go out on the highest possible note — it’s just too bad. Sad day.…
Hockey makes the man
Toronto-via-Ottawa rock group Clothes Make the Man are proof The White Stripes—soon to play Halifax, tickets on sale May 4!—are not the only band showing love to the far reaches of Canada. The act, which directly conjures an inspiration in sound and live vigour of early Foo Fighters, will “rock the rock” with a trio…
Accessorize this
A store that sells chains has now become a chain itself. Joanne David Accessories has doubled its fun with a new location in the Spring Garden Place Mall. The new store is now open in the former Splurge location. After 21 days of renovations, including a few coats of manilla and tan paint over the…
Oh, the irony
Here’s the thing about widening Chebucto Road: Adding another lane and another strip of pavement to our city is not a progressive idea. Christ knows if anyone on Council is paying attention, but for the record: The 20th century was all about the car, the 21st is all about how to stop using them. The…
Timing after timing
Halifax theatre troupe Foghorn, after a successful 2006 season that included productions of Mamet’s The Shawl, Judith Thompson’s White Biting Dog and a Robert Munsch-inspired Much Too Munsch, launches its first play of the year on May 9 with All in the Timing, five one-act plays by David Ives. “Ever wish you could control time?…
Past perfect
At the first of two 20th anniversary screenings of Dirty Dancing, a sold-out crowd overwhelmingly comprised of women buzzed excitedly. “I can’t find my ticket,” said a woman who needed to pee. “So what?” said one of her two companions. “Oh, they’re being really strict,” said the other. “They won’t let anyone in or out…
Year of the Dog & Next
Peggy isn’t the sort of character you see in the centre of movies. She’s the best friend, the ear, the shoulder, the confidante. Peggy lives an unexciting life working in a faceless corporate office nestled in a suburban sprawl. Her only comfort is her beagle Pencil, and his death sets her on a path to…
Growing pains
Generally, the name “Hellmann’s” doesn’t tend to conjure up images of urban greenery or gung-ho gardeners. It might bring to mind tasty sandwiches, but that’s about it. That’s something the company is looking to change. In early April, Hellmann’s flooded Halifax mailboxes with packets of carrot seeds. “Your Hellmann’s urban garden is only a few…
Light bulb moment
And in a flash, there goes Edison’s incandescent bulb. OK, the flash part’s exaggeration. In fact, this new Tory green scheme is too little too late—it doesn’t take effect until 2012 and it’ll only quash six million tonnes of greenhouse pollution annually; we need to delete way more than that to meet our Kyoto targets.…
Missile possible
It’s probably safe to say that Andrew Sisk, the brainchild behind the folk-inspired electronic project Share, had to leave home to find what he was looking for. A native of Chipman, New Brunswick, Sisk didn’t see a punk band in concert until he left his hometown for Fredericton as a 17-year-old. That experience, along with…
Spray for mercy
I’m a graffiti snitch, a narc, a stool pigeon. The Man is on a crusade to clean up the town, and I’ve happily done his bidding, ratting out urban art day after day. Being an informant doesn’t make me happy, but I have my reasons. The city’s war against graffiti is escalating to the point…
Drop the needle
Quilts. Please don’t turn the page. I know quilts are not an easy sell. While they’re comfortable to snuggle in, or remind you of your grammy, no one could have predicted that an exhibition of quilts would break museum attendance records across the United States, or be declared by Michael Kimmelman, chief critic for the…
Ballad power
Playwright Ross Desprez has come full circle in the creation of his work The Ballad of Jim Pane. The play had its early roots as the story of a fictional 1960s folk singer, but morphed into The Ballad of Phil Ochs after Desprez discovered an album by Ochs and was moved by songs such as…
Red-y and grilling
If it hadn’t been for the effusive praise of my restaurant-going neighbour, I don’t know that I would have looked twice at the The Redwood Grill. Located in the Future Inn heading into Bayers Lake, I’ve thought of it more as a restaurant of convenience than quality. Little do I know, as I head through…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage goes all Greek-tastic on you.
On the waterfront reviews
Kate Watson watches all the plays she can handle.
