The Big Hit
Liebe Kirsten, in der Anlage ein Artikel in einer regionalen Zeitung hier an Nova Scotia’s Ostküste… Herzliche Grüße, Marcus. By Marcus Behrens
The Big Hit
Liebe Kirsten, in der Anlage ein Artikel in einer regionalen Zeitung hier an Nova Scotia’s Ostküste… Herzliche Grüße, Marcus. By Marcus Behrens
Letters to the Editor
Re: Cookie Dough What an interesting letter! From this I learned: 1. Ms MacDonald has an overweight son and its due to his life at home. 2. She likes exclaimation points, and has no idea how to use them. 3.She is totally rotted out by the fact her son can’t eat leftovers for school lunches.…
In Blume
In other Best of , Time has released its list of the best 100 all-time novels. There are the predictables — Catcher in the Rye, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse Five, The Blind Assassin, et al. But a happy surprise is Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which…
Pimp my drive
CKDU’s annual fundraising initiative gets underway this week with a variety of events happening across the city. The extensive range of cultural activities was chosen because it is a reflection of the distinct nature of the station, says funding drive coordinator Adam Binet. “With about 17 live events happening during the nine days, we are…
French connection
Chateau Briand Fine Dining is now open in the former home of Corso Cafe in Granville Mall. The Chateau will serve all manner of French specialties, including duck a l’orange, frog legs, escargots, pepper steak and its namesake, chateau briand. “Chateau briand is the best piece of meat in the filet mignon,” explains manager, chef…
Wheels in motion
This past spring HRM council budgeted the largest amount yet toward implementing its bike plan: $200,000. While an improvement on the $120,000 spent last year, it’s still well below the $300,000 minimum recommended in the 2002 council-approved bike plan, and still sadly not enough to even come close to completing a major bike project. The…
Cookie dough intake related to exclamation point usage
To the editor, I’m a mother of three and a business owner! I think the school board’s intentions are good, but they’re going overboard with this new policy!!!!! First of all, of my three sons, one of them has a weight problem. It’s no fault of the school, his problem is what he eats at…
You’ll pry that info from our cold dead hands
To the editor, I just had my one year anniversary in Halifax, and actually in Canada. I discovered The Coast upon moving here and found it to be the place to go for all things Halifax. It was a natural replacement to the San Diego Reader from where I moved (www.sdreader.com) although your website is…
Everything was cool until Mary Poppins
To the editor, I had to comment on dear Bruce Wark’s thoughts on The Daily Scrooge, I mean The Daily News. It’s about time someone talked about what a horrible paper it’s become. One talks about the sinking of the Titantic, how about sinking of The Daily News? The stories are about as interesting as…
A proposal to television
To the editor, I had the misfortune of catching an episode of Intervention and it just doesn’t seem real. The participants are either too down and out, or not down and out enough. Moreover, their friends still talk to them. In one episode a girl smoked crack and then chilled out with a companion. People…
A mind like a steel trap
To the editor, For what it’s worth, before Trinity (Oct 13, “Three wishes”) was Spice or Le Bistro, it was Chez Jean, a quite good French restaurant. That must have been about 25 years ago. By G. Ternan
Wanted: One shit ball gun
To the editor, Just spent 10 minutes trying to see who’s playing at the clubs. Are you out of your minds? I used to click on “Music by day” and have all the info I needed. If I needed to know the venue location or the phone number, I could look that up separately. Whoever…
Oh! The power!
To the editor, My family and I used to enjoy the October street party and were sorry to see it end when liquor and stupidity took over. It would be great if it could be re-introduced as the wholesome event it originally was. However, if you are going to promote its resurrection (Oct 13, “Trick…
Bulldozers
If you ask Matt Wells how much integrity there is in the music industry, he will tell you there is an equal number of those with it as without it. But faced with a choice, the Bucket Truck frontman chooses substance—and, consequently, deep debt—over style. With their latest release, Favour the Bull, the Newfoundland-bred, Halifax-based…
Enjoy the Silence
Mike Feuerstack, singer-songwriter of Snailhouse, can’t wait to play before a Halifax audience—that is, if a heart attack doesn’t slow him down first. The 33-year-old is a busy guy, playing in numerous bands, recording several albums worth of material with those bands and under his Snailhouse moniker, all the while holding down a full-time office…
Elizabethtown
Cameron Crowe leaves no doubt that Elizabethtown is a personal film. The protagonist, like his leads in Say Anything… and Almost Famous, is a stand-in for the director — utterly without vice. His name is Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom). He’s a shoe designer who loses his job shortly before learning his father has died. On…
Message in a bottle
Students down it to pull all-night study sessions, office workers to put in 100-hour work weeks, truck drivers to go the extra kilometres and even partygoers to dance until dawn. Caffeine, one of the world’s most commonly used psychoactive drugs—meaning it affects a person’s mind, mood or behaviour—can now be found in a consortium of…
Funny boy
Shaun Majumder’s a funny guy. Which is lucky, because his singing career won’t be taking off anytime soon. After missing his first few interview calls, Majumder answers his cell phone singing “I’m a loser, I’m a big fat loser.” The sentiment is endearing, the tunefulness debatable. But with a full slate of acting, stand-up and…
Sugarcane Academy
My friend sits out on his back deck, where he would normally be grilling the hamburgers. The tiny pool is ready for our kids. The fence is propped up with two-by-fours. The house is clean, the toys are on the shelves, ready for an onslaught of little hands. But our kids aren’t there. Not only…
Savage Love bonus letters
I have a GGG question. I like it a lot when my girlfriend calls me “daddy” during sex. In fact I’d like it even more if she would carry out the theme a bit. I want to hear what a bad girl she has been and how she needs a good screwing from her daddy.…
The River wild
It was on the second day of shooting the thriller The River King that the camera operator and an assistant went through the ice. The crew, set up near Meander River, had been assured the intense winter cold of 2004 had made the river safe to stand on. The director, Nick Willing, an Englishman, had…
News flash
“OK, what about banning cigarettes totally?” asked radio talk jock Andrew Krystal last Friday as he tried to pick a fight with a caller named James. Krystal, host of Maritime Morning on the new Rogers News 95.7, added, “I can’t go out and buy morphine. It’s bad for me, right?” “Yeah, no, absolutely,” James blurted…
Struggle for life
Stephen Lewis is a man consumed, but then, that’s not news. Lewis, the United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is known as much for his passion for Africa as for anything else in his life—his diplomacy, his career as leader of Ontario’s NDP, his famous family (he’s married to journalist Michele Landsberg, is…
On approval
There’s a prime piece of land, some 15,000 square metres big, between Salter Street and Bishop’s Landing on the Halifax waterfront. It currently sits as a large parking lot space. But city planners and a development group are now looking at the site with new eyes, hoping to turn the spot into the city’s brightest…
Date to skate
It’s going to be a bittersweet winter for Halifax skaters, bladers and bikers. Months ago, before things got so chilly, it wasn’t that hard for optimistic skatepark patrons to envision a shiny new park opening just in time to beat the first snowfall of the year—maybe even afford a chilly ride or two. Unfortunately, despite…
The Big Hit
If there is such a thing as a higher being, she is probably smiling down at the North Street Church right now. Not because of an enlightened sermon or confession of juicy sins, but because of the loud movements and joyful sounds that are echoing off its peeling walls. For the past two months, the…
Going pro
Halifax became a major sports town for a day last June, when the Canadian Football League staged a game at Huskies Stadium, home of the Saint Mary’s Huskies. Before a crowd of 11,000 fans, the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tigercats played to a 16-16 tie. It went much better than the last time the…
