I know I’m almost a week late with this reaction
PHIL SPECTOR SHOT A WOMAN IN HER FACE. Then she died. What’s there to be hung up on? AMERICA, GOD.
Suburban screen rant
Ah… my first posting to The Coast editorial on-line presence, Bloghorn. If you know me from my prior freelance contributions, you know me as largely a movie guy. Reveling in that status, here’s a fresh screed about being an audience member in this town: 3:10 to Yuma In The Valley of Elah The Hunting Party…
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We’re just saying
It’s fitting that the Zuppa Circus team should occupy the cover of this particular issue, our last. In the summer of 2000, the first of eight at this newspaper, we were assigned to cover The Sneetches, a play based on a Dr. Seuss story, being performed on the waterfront by an upstart company whose name…
What’s that odour?
Those unfamiliar with the simple concept of snot rockets would do well to do a little research before BA Johnston’s show at Gus’ this Friday, September 28. The show is a DVD release for This is What 110% Smells Like, the product of two nights’ no-holds-barred on-stage antics from Johnston and some of his closest…
Cutting a rug
Did the April closing of the Zephyr Rug Gallery on Cunard leaving you feeling adrift and abandoned? Worry not, friend—Zehpyr is back. And it’s roomier, fancier and has customer parking. This week, Zephyr Rug and Home, the second incarnation of the aforementioned rug emporium, is set to open at 6232 Quinpool (formerly the Scout Shop).…
Democracy now
Remember 1758? Good year. The Seven Years’ War was all over the news, Clement XIII became the 248th Pope…lots going on. And here in Nova Scotia, we elected our first legislative assembly, the first elected legislature in Canada—pretty awesome, frankly. People moving forward, working together…it really put that whole Seven Years’ War into perspective. (Oh,…
Fishing for answers
To the editor, I’d like to thank Lezlie Lowe and The Coast for an engaging cover story this past week. There has been a flurry of talk about “food miles” and ethical eating in Nova Scotia as of late, and I thought September 20th’s “Green meat” feature added a thought-provoking point of view to the…
Go park—not park and go
To the editor, I was walking by the Dartmouth Commons recently and read the sign on Wyse Road regarding the upcoming renovation project. I read there was going to be a revamp to the area, with more park space (great!) as well as some 24 parking spaces being built. Huh? Concrete parking spaces being built…
Beef over meat eaters
To the editor, Cows eat vegan, and I’ll occasionally eat cow. I love animals, I like to buy locally, I’m as green as I can manage, and three times a week I eat something with a cute face. I love meat, and I couldn’t help but notice the cover pic features T-bones, yum. So, I’ll…
Beef over meat eaters
To the editor, It’s amazing to me how far people can go to rationalize their actions when they know they can’t really be justified. To follow Lezlie’s explanation of why eating meat is green in Nova Scotia to its logical end, perhaps we should convert every bit of land used to grow any kind of…
Beef over meat eaters
To the editor, Last week’s feature by Lezlie Lowe on meat “Green meat,” September 20, did cover a few good points, such as there being no way to avoid meat being transported out of Nova Scotia, then back in its stages of production. Are vegetarians just going to have to deal with the fact that…
Industrial revolution
What a time it’s been for the Nova Scotia film industry. On September 13, at the Atlantic Film Festival opening gala screening of Shake Hands With The Devil, premier Rodney MacDonald announced an increase in the provincial tax credit for filming in Nova Scotia, from 35 percent to 50 percent (60 for rural productions and…
Say what?
You Say Party! We Say Die! is a hard band to nail down. In its short lifespan, the group has been called dance-punk, party-rock, noise-rock, art-rock and pretty much any sub-genre in between. In fact, You Say Party! We Say Die! is one of the few bands that truly has to be seen live to…
Sydney White
Amanda Bynes is the most unexpected of recent kid-market female stars. Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) has attitude. Hilary Duff has flair. Mandy Moore brought maturity to the mix. But Bynes is a comedian. This allows her to stand against her contemporaries’ vanity. In Sydney White she continues She’s the Man’s rejection of harmful gender roles.…
SAVAGE LOVE
Q Who the hell wears swim caps anymore? I haven’t seen a swim cap in years. That question in your column last week from the swim-cap fetishist getting off on his visits to public pools was bullshit. I would think you, of all people, could see through it. —Sexy St. Louis Girl A Lots of…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
No half-assed efforts this week, Saggitarius, says Rob Brezsny.
Fall Arts Guide: September 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell That doe’s a dead deer but the Marquee is alive, and we all scream for ice cream at the Jim Jarmusch film survey. PROSPECT 12: DUSTIN WENZEL When up-and-coming sculptor Dustin Wenzel pictures a deer he doesn’t imagine a doe running through the…
Fall Arts Guide: October 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell GRAY’S ANATOMY: MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN MACHINE Last June the amazing Wellcome Collection, a museum based on the intersection of art, medicine and science, opened in London, UK. Based on the collection and original endowment of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936, the Wellcome…
Fall Arts Guide: November 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell CAL LANE: CRUDE Cal Lane’s vision is like no other in Canadian art. Turning everyday, hard-working objects into art, Lane elevates the potential meanings of wheelbarrows, oil cans, shovels and more. If we’re to use a spade, for example, to help beautify our…
High school confidential
Censorship is rearing its ugly head these days in Halifax schools. Picture this: A high school teacher trying to give a science lesson on cloning wants to use animated, interactive websites to illustrate it. But half a dozen of them are blocked when students try to call them up on their classroom computers. It gets…
Hoppy trails
It wasn’t all that long ago—25 years in fact—that there was no such thing as microbrewed beer on the radar of Haligonians. Kevin Keefe at Ginger’s (The Granite Brewery) cured that in 1984. In contrast, the last five years have seen a veritable explosion of craft brands released in the area, to the delight of…
Target practice
“Since we’ve passed the Act,” said Premier Rodney MacDonald, “people ask me “Do we really mean it?’…I’m here to tell you: “We really mean it!'” MacDonald was speaking of the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act, which was passed unanimously by the legislature in April and establishes real environmental targets as law of the land:…
Flying circus
In a day and age when a lot of marriages don’t last 10 years, it is pretty remarkable that an ensemble theatre company, the kind of collective that’s likely to be a hot-bed of creative passions and potential clashes, is entering its 10th anniversary season. But Zuppa Circus Theatre, one of Halifax’s most cutting-edge theatre…
Driving lessons
It was during a get-together of familiar faces on December 31, 2006, that a trigger moment readied for Sam Fisher. That year, like every year—a tradition, really—a pal of Fisher’s hosted the year-end whoop-dee-do; in his opinion, “always a great New Year’s Eve bash.” While others elsewhere overindulged on munchies, mistletoe and flutes of Spanish…
Table talk
In North America, we don’t share tables with strangers in public places. We’d sooner give up our spot right away, decline the request to share, or begrudgingly agree, only to rush our dinner, beer or coffee, and get gone. Even families are reportedly spending less time at the dinner table together. These social realities run…
Going coastal
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