Oct 25-31, 2012

News + Opinion

• City

  Mike Savage's campaign contributions made public

  By Tim Bousquet

  Oct 31, 2012
• City

  What Mike Savage's campaign contributors mean to Halifax

  The trouble with big money campaigns, buying access and small favours

  By Tim Bousquet

  Oct 31, 2012

  
• News

  SAP outsourcing decision to come within a week

  Union expects that 113 government jobs will be lost.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Environment

  Outskirts wisdom

  Hali-poet Sue Goyette is winning awards from everywhere for her ecologically minded poetry from hopeful places.

  By Chris Benjamin

  Oct 25, 2012

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Arc story

  Carbon Arc celebrates three years of independent screenings with a fall full of stellar film programming.

  By Kevin Hartford

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Nevermore forever

  Shakespeare By The Sea does Edgar Alan Poe justice with their chilling Halloween show.

  By Kate Watson

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Animal's attraction

  Dalhousie's latest exhibit examines our relationships with animals through video, sculpture, installation and photograph.

  By Allison Saunders

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

  By Robin Sloan (Harper Collins)

  By Whitney Moran

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Rock Reject

  By Jim Williams (Fernwood)

  By Chris Benjamin

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  The Age of Miracles

  By Karen Thompson Walker (Bond Street Books)

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Arts & Culture

  Borderlands 2

  Available on Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 (2K Games)

  By Justin Hartling

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Playing Indian

  So you want to be a “Pocahottie” for Halloween?

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Nights of Gore haunts hard

  Get freaked this weekend at the newest and closest corn maze to the HRM.

  By Allison Saunders

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Heaven on Earthworm

  Cape Breton’s finest folk-rockers The Tom Fun Orchestra kick off their “Canadian World Tour” supporting their newest release Earthworm Heart

  By Whitney Moran

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Spectator sport

  Amelia Curran’s latest album, Spectators, straddles fear and love with her trademark resolve.

  By Shannon Webb-Campbell

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Cool Lunice

  Montreal’s Lunice surfs into town on a wave of swag, just let it wash over you.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Hal-Con all night long

  Or weekend long, rather

  By Stephanie Johns

  Oct 24, 2012

  
• Music

  Charter party

  The Dalhousie Feminist Legal Association gives the 30th anniversary of Charter of Rights and Freedoms the party it deserves with DJs Anderoc, Regalia and Michu.

  By Allison Saunders

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Hemsworth the wait

  Fun, dancing, etc

  By Stephanie Johns

  Oct 24, 2012

  
• Music

  Tame Impala

  Lonerism (Modular)

  By Matthew Ritchie

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Sampson

  Ill-Mannered (Independent)

  By Trevor Savory

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Klarka Weinwurm

  Continental Drag (Independent)

  By Doug Taylor

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Music

  Inlet Sound

  The Romantics (Independent)

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Comics

  True Story by Kate Leth

  By Mike Holmes

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Comics

  Hey You Guys

  By Paul Hammond

  Oct 25, 2012

  

Food + Drink

• Drink

  Mix master

  Jeffrey Van Horne brings an old-school touch of class to drinking in the city through his posts at The Bicycle Thief and Untitled Eats.

  By Melissa Buote

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Drink

  Brothers of invention

  Sage Mixology’s bottle within a bottle proves to be Dal students’ dream within a dream.

  By Michaela Cavanagh

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Drink

  Muddling through

  Made With Love, a Canada-wide mixology competition, hit Halifax this month, bringing a lot of inspired drinks and thoughts on cocktail culture.

  By Melissa Buote

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Drink

  So you’ve decided to have Katrina Roberts make you a drink

  Morris East’s wine and beverage director guides you through the dangerous and tricky process of deciding what to get tipsy with.

  By Melissa Buote

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Drink

  Mixed media

  Jacob Boon takes on the thankless task of finding the most delicious fall cocktails to keep you warm from the inside out this season.

  By Jacob Boon

  Oct 25, 2012

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Deal with your limitations, Sagittarius

  By Rob Brezsny

  Oct 25, 2012

  
• Savage Love

  The myth of pornography

  Oh yeah, kids are watching it, but it’s not as bad as you think. (But you still need to conduct a talking-to, sorry Dad.)

  By Dan Savage

  Oct 25, 2012