Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2009

News + Opinion

• City

  The Feds buy half a bus

  ecoMOBILITY and the Bridge Commission will help bus riders who fear something bad will happen if they don't have their cars.

  By Holly Gordon

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• News

  Fred MacGillivray's latest whopper

  Trade Centre Limited's $2 million deficit is "most successful year in history"

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 2, 2009

  
• News

  Overnight parking ban news

  The Bloomfield Centre parking lot is now available

  By Tim Bousquet

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• News

  Rank Inc. wins bid for new convention centre

  Former Chronicle-Herald site on Argyle chosen over competitors

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 3, 2009

  
• News

  Tweaking the voting system won't work

  Provincial PCs contradict themselves

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 1, 2009

  
• Shoptalk

  Shoptalk-lets

  Hamachi Group wins Small Business of the Year and Frozen Ocean closes its doors.

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Planning and Design Centre seeks storefront

  Community planning group based out of Dalhousie University want to move to downtown digs. Can you help them?

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Shoptalk-Lets

  Stonewall closes, The Source Survives, Biscuit's got a sale, new NSLC on Quinpool, new owners at the Oxford Laundromat and Belly Dancing classes start.

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  80/20 Lifestyle Studio

  Fitness and Health studio focuses on nutrition. They take before and after photos, too.

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Industry comes out of shell at Sip n' Shuck

  Government launches Catch, a new festival to salvage local seafood. But is it too little, too late?

  By Andy Murdoch

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  South Park YMCA to get cable TV treadmills

  With personal screen cable multi-channel universe, it's even easier to ignore the sweaty jogger next to you.

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Now with parsley, sage and rosemary

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Shoptalk

  Halifax Design Plan on Deck

  Downtown Halifax Business Commission asks Haligonians to show support for HRM By Design

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 30, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Menz Bar birthday bash

  Gottingen gay bar celebrates fourth anniversary with weeklong bash. And announces outreach health program.

  By Carsten Knox

  Feb 2, 2009
• Opinion

  Painful insurance rulings

  Car insurance companies are making bags of money thanks to Nova Scotia's payout caps.

  By Bruce Wark

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Opinion

  Halifax's hidden racism

  Haligonians are shocked---shocked!---at charges of racism.

  By Lezlie Lowe

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Opinion

  Green cabinet shuffle

  If Mark Parent If he does the same with the agriculture portfolio , we’ll all eat, sleep and breathe better for it, and the environment will thank us.

  By Letters editor

  Jan 29, 2009
• Opinion

  Enviro-failure exposed

  With so many environmental problems in our world, we can’t afford to have a government that doesn’t take the environment seriously. T

  By Letters editor

  Jan 29, 2009
• Opinion

  Buses, not wider Bayers

  Widening Bayers Road is not a solution to the traffic problem, but something needs to change there.

  By Letters editor

  Jan 29, 2009

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  The Night Is A Mouth

  Lisa Foad (Exile Editions)

  By Shannon Webb-Campbell

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Doctor Enns strips down comics

  Dalhousie University is offering a course on cartoons and comics, the first of its kind in Canada.

  By Tony Ferguson

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Generation Kill

  Created by David Simon, Ed Burns and Evan Wright (HBO Home Video)

  By Lindsay McCarney

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Tim Krahn's inside stories

  States of Mind, a free film series focused on mental health issues, wraps up this week with Robert Downey Jr.'s Charlie Bartlett.

  By Sean Flinn

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Revolutionary Road

  If you're thinking of giving up on your dreams, go see this movie.

  By Mark Palermo

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Frost/Nixon

  Ron Howard's take on the stage play resists a predictable smear job.

  By Mark Palermo

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

  There is not an intended joke in the whole shebang.

  By Mark Palermo

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Gideons release debut, Hymns for Hers

  To be distributed in hotel rooms nationally. Plus: Exclusive Q&A inside!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 4, 2009

  
• Music

  In The Dead of Winter schedule change

  No Ferron, but Barber!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Secret Theatre previews their new show

  another city another life makes its way to the Rhubarb festival.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 4, 2009

  
• Music

  Trailer Park Boys move south of the border

  US satellite service DirecTV acquires the popular TV show.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Jan 30, 2009

  
• Music

  KISS come to Halifax

  Dogs gave rock and roll to you (by giving up the Common for a day)

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 3, 2009

  
• Music

  Michelle SaintOnge is a good thing

  Halifax designer to appear on The Martha Stewart Show.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 4, 2009

  
• Music

  Brazilian Carnaval 2009

  Hot time in the city

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 3, 2009

  
• Music

  Company calls on Ryan MacGrath

  Ryan MacGrath's lovely new EP, In My Own Company, conjures up old-world romance.

  By Shannon Webb-Campbell

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  The First Aid Kit w/Rich Aucoin and The Stance

  Saturday, January 31 at the Seahorse, 1665 Argyle, $8, 423-7200.

  By Andrew Robinson

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Friendly Fires

  Friendly Fires (XL)

  By Laura Kenins

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Antony and the Johnsons

  The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Jenn Grant

  Echoes (Six Shooter Records)

  By Carsten Knox

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Lake of Stew

  Ain't Tired of Lovin (WoodHog)

  By Sarah Greene

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Music

  Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

  Sunday at Devil Dirt (V2/Fontana)

  By Sean Flinn

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Comics

  I am the Galaxy's Greatest Collector of Pets!

  By Jesse Jacobs

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Comics

  The aliens have come bearing gift after gift

  By Joey Comeau and E. Horne

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Comics

  True Story by Cathy Leekham

  By Mike Holmes

  Jan 29, 2009

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  Recipes: Meat and Vegan haggis

  A little bit of something Scottish for carnivores and herbivores alike.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Food

  Offally good

  Ye olde haggis gets a bum rap. Andy Murdoch hosts a Robbie Burns night and gets to the heart (and liver) of the matter.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Jan 29, 2009

  

Lifestyle

• Savage Love

  Cold feet

  Dan Savage says men wearing socks on their feet in a porn video isn't a mysterious tradition.

  By Dan Savage

  Jan 29, 2009

  
• Buy Local

  The Coast's get involved guide

  Be the change, slacker. Then there’s the wider world, with all its shortcomings. Maybe the two of you should hook up and make life a little more interesting

  By Tim Bousquet

  Jan 29, 2009