Vol. 19, No. 19
To serve or suppress
Police departments across Canada turn routine crime reports into official secrets, putting public safety at risk in the zeal to control information. That’s why Halifax’s pioneering move to free the police blotter is vital
By Tim Bousquet
Occupy Nova Scotia gears up
Local group joins the global Occupy Wall Street movement.
American newspaper police blotter reports
Straight reporting to interactive maps to the surreal.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission to come to Halifax
Up to 600 survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School may attend.
The Shop talk guided tour: Spring Garden Road
Building an even stronger Spring Garden
Haley
Don't mess with this Texan style
By Danna Storey
Dwayne
Corduroy king
Nicole
Costume design student knows fashion starts in the home
Morgan
Pin-up but all class
Rock Island Bistro is closed
Quinpool Bermudean resto shuts down
By Carsten Knox
All the Pretty Things have a birthday
Sweet boutique is four years old on Saturday
Oddjects open in Halifax Shopping Centre
Barrington Street import home store gets second location
Mahone Bay Trading Company opens in Park Lane
The big sign went up on Thanksgiving Sunday for the quality footwear people
Gold Island Bakery starts fall bread subsciption service
Sign up for fresh bread brought to your door by bicycle
Designer Craftshop to open Friday
Another good reason to visit the Mary E. Black gallery
Banana Republic opening factory store in Dartmouth Crossing
The big day is Friday, October 14
Patagonia opens in the Brewery Market
Another big international brand arrives dowtown
Chris Velden moves on
Ryan Duffy's chef opens catering business The Flying Apron Cookery
Free trade folly
Canada’s negotiating another local, sustainable-economy- killing free-trade agreement, but the city of Halifax ignores it.
By Chris Benjamin
Say what you are
It’s not easy to raise money, let alone spirits. But that’s what the Halifax Slam Team is trying to do.
By Simon Thibault
12 movies in the 12 weeks left in 2011
Hollywood tends to release a number of quality movies between now and December 31. We choose a (potentially) delightful dozen worth seeing
DalTheare's season starter While We're Young
The 2011/2012 is all about learning through love, and it starts with this play from New Brunswick's Don Hannah.
By Allison Saunders
Revealing Three Faces of Realism
Three accomplished local artists work towards a more prominent voice for realist art.
A walk in the Parks
Dal's Dr. Claire Campbell talks national treasures at The Envy of the World? Canada's History Though National Parks.
From Dust (Ubisoft)
Available on Xbox 360: Xbox Live Arcade
By Colin Chisholm
Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew
By Stuart Ross (ECW Press)
By Andrew Patterson
The Antagonist
By Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press)
By Natalie Joan MacLellan
Easy to Like
By Edward Riche (House of Anansi Press)
The Guard full of Irish charm
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the odd couple in a dark comedy
By Jacob Boon
The Ides of March a powerful political thriller
George Clooney directs a stellar cast, but Ryan Gosling shines
By Matthew Ritchie
Real heart in Real Steel
Robo-boxing movie a knock-out
By Matthew Morgan
Adrenalized Senna
Formula One doc is exciting even if you're not a fan of the sport
Five Questions About Napalm Death
the more you know
By Alison Lang
Station to station
Tamara Lindeman’s solo project The Weather Station performs her solid songs
Jeff Beck's Haligonian Bassist
rhonda smith played with prince, chaka khan, little richard
Cute overload
Maria Bartlett's Cutesy Pukesy sympathizes with your fall cold
By Stephanie Johns
The Rebirth of Pervert
moncton powergrungers release debut EP
A poet's life at the Live In
Play reading just one of many great events offered through October at The Living Room
By Kate Watson
Video: Cold Warps Get Stupid Tattoos
they can't get enough
Rain men
Yarmouth’s Rain Over St. Ambrose bring songs from their upcoming EP, Overton Window, to Halifax this Friday
The Jerry Granelli Trio gets going
Looking down the barrel of a national tour for their debut release Let Go, the threesome plays three shows in Halifax.a
Laura Merrimen's next chapter
Halifax's Americana rocker has a new album on the horizon and wants you to have a sneak peek.
Dan Mangan
Oh Fortune (Arts and Crafts)
By Doug Taylor
Red Hot Chili Peppers
I’m With You (Warner)
Quaker Parents
No Crime When Covered In Grime (Hot Money Records)
J. Cole
Cole World: The Sideline Story (Sony)
By Adrian Lee
Prayer beat
William Robinson's Young Prayer is all the rock minus the guitar god
Q&A with Adam Gopnik
Coming to town for the 50th anniversary Massey Lectures, cool Gopnik revels in the winter
These Kids Wear Crowns
Young and full of crowns, TKWC play the Pavilion tonight
Superhero Girl
By Faith Erin Hicks
True Story by Robin Spittal
By Mike Holmes
Can the bird
Kristen Pickett asks Halifax restaurateurs to weigh in on where they’d eat Thanksgiving dinner, without a turkey in sight.
By Kristen Pickett
Free Will Astrology
Tell yourself the heart-strong truth, Leo.
By Rob Brezsny
You will be able to have a sex life
Dan’s advice is that genital birth defects need not mean no sex for life. Plus: Mummification text seemed to be out of a “horror movie.”
By Dan Savage
Halifax Transit planning for a ridership decrease
By Matt Stickland
Everything you need to know about HRM council's March 26, 2024 meeting
The many faces of Hawksley Workman
By Martin Bauman
Pit sweat and drug checks: Dispatches from the JUNO Red Carpet