Sep 18-24, 2008

Vol. 16, No. 17

City

Bruce DeVenne

Candidate for District 20

Sep 18, 2008
City

Nancy Sievert

Candidate, District 10

Sep 18, 2008
City

Tim Hosford

Candidate, District 19

Sep 18, 2008
City

Glenn Dodge

Candidate, District 14

Sep 18, 2008
City

Jerome Downey

Candidate, District 12

Sep 18, 2008
City

Beverly Miller

Candidate, District 13

Sep 18, 2008
City

Sean Phillips

Candidate for District 14

Sep 18, 2008
City

Historic indecision: Waterside Centre

The proposed Waterside Centre development is the "hardest decision" they'll ever have to make, say Halifax councillors.

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 18, 2008
City

Doug Poulton

Candidate, District 23

Sep 18, 2008
City

Katie Campbell

Candidate for District 14

Sep 18, 2008
City

Gina Byrne

Candidate, District 23

Sep 18, 2008
News

Port business down still further

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 24, 2008
News

The joke's on us

By Stephen Kimber
Sep 18, 2008
News

The best Halifax election site ever

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 23, 2008
News

Downtown council election

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 24, 2008
News

Fire boat accident

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 18, 2008
News

Death by a thousand polls

By Stephen Kimber
Sep 18, 2008
News

Rodney MacDonald's non-existent environmental policies

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 18, 2008
News

iVote: Can electronic voting save democracy?

Halifax elections are going hi-tech, but while elections officials hope internet voting is the cure for voter apathy, skeptics say it is a threat to democracy itself.

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 18, 2008
News

Be it resolved…

By Stephen Kimber
Sep 18, 2008
Shoptalk

Shoptalk

Sep 20, 2008
Shoptalk

Sweet Sheraton

Sep 20, 2008
Opinion

The ivoting debate

Sep 24, 2008
Opinion

Otherworldly media coverage

By Bruce Wark
Sep 18, 2008
Opinion

More ivoting debate

Sep 24, 2008
Opinion

ivoting continued

Sep 24, 2008
Opinion

The iVoting debate

Sep 24, 2008
Environment

Green biz

Local entrepreneurs are finding that it pays to be sustainable.

By Chris Benjamin
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Life of Pi (Illustrated edition)

Yann Martel. Illustrated by Tomislav Torjanac

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Essays in Love

Alain de Botton

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Friday Possibility

By Carsten Knox
Sep 19, 2008
Arts & Culture

Long Story Short

Elyse Friedman

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City

Mark Kingwell

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Spaced: The Complete Series

Edgar Wright

By Lindsay McCarney
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Before Green Gables

Budge Wilson

By Hillary Titley
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Life on the Refrigerator Door

Alice Kuipers

By Kate Watson
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

A Covenant of Salt

Martine Desjardins (translated by Fred Reed and David Hormel)

By Mike Landry
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Jerome: The Historical Spectacle

Ami McKay

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Glass Voices

Carol Bruneau

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

We Could Be Like That Couple

Sarah Steinberg

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

So many miles

Patti Smith, Eva Madden and One Week

By Carsten Knox
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

The Office: Season Four

Developed by Greg Daniels

By Lindsay McCarney
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Hall of Best Knowledge

Ray Fenwick

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Coming Attractions 07

Edited by Mark Anthony Jarman

By Ryan Turner
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Almost Green

James Glave

By Mike Landry
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

The Book of Other People

Zadie Smith (edited)

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Ojingogo ink

Matthew Forsythe's debut graphic novel Ojingogo is inspired by Korean cartoon culture.

By Alison Lang
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Abstract Painting in Canada

Roald Nasgaard

By Jane Kansas
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Wild Plants of Eastern Canada: Identifying, Harvesting and Using

Marilyn Walker

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Rock 'n' roll high school

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 19, 2008
Arts & Culture

In a Mist

Devon Code

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Phonogram: Rue Brittania

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

By Laura Kenins
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

The Angel Riots

Ibi Kaslik

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Quintet

Douglas Arthur Brown

By Mike Landry
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

The Late Hector Kipling

David Thewlis

By Graham Pilsworth
Sep 18, 2008
Arts & Culture

Martin Belanger's body talks

Martin Belanger's contemporary dance Grande Theorie unifiee mixes cheerleading, hip-hop and spoken word in a collage of movement.

By Meredith Dault
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The City of Words

Alberto Manguel

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The Baroness

Sarah Slean

By Shannon Webb-Campbell
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Troubled

RM Vaughan

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Falling

Anne Simpson

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The Goddess of War

Lauren Weinstein

By Laura Kenins
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Sitcom

David McGimpsey

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Burn After Reading

It's ok, no one else understands what's happening in the new Coen Brother movie, either.

By Mark Palermo
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

On Performing

Bob Snider

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Be Good

Stacey May Fowles

By Laura Kenins
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

I'd Like to Thank the Academy...

By Hillary Titley
Sep 19, 2008

Arts & Culture

Dolly Parton peddles books in The Book Lady

She seems an unlikely celebrity to promote literacy, but local filmmaker Natasha Ryan proves otherwise.

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Big White Knuckles

Brian Tucker

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The Learners

Chip Kidd

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Hey shorty, it's your birthday

Waltz With Bashir, Jacob Medjuck and Atlantic Shorts III and IV

By Carsten Knox
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The Ravine

Paul Quarrington

By Mike Landry
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Remembering the Bones

Frances Itani

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Yet at a Distance---Father Poems from the Maritimes

Various

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

The End...

The Hillary Awards, Thank-Yous, and Plans for the Future

By Hillary Titley
Sep 20, 2008

Arts & Culture

Slash

Slash with Anthony Bozza

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Krazy!

Curated by Bruce Grenville

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Back up to three a day...

By Hillary Titley
Sep 19, 2008

Arts & Culture

The Withdrawal Method

Pasha Malla

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Free Lab

Christine Macy

By Sean Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Looking For Anne

Irene Gammel

By Hillary Titley
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

It’s So You

Edited by Michelle Tea

By Shannon Webb-Campbell
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Righteous Kill

Are De Niro and Pacino the new Matthau and Lemmon?

By Mark Palermo
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Devlin Kuyek

Good Crop / Bad Crop

By Tim Bousquet
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Get It Ripe

jae steele

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Last Day

By Carsten Knox
Sep 20, 2008

Arts & Culture

Gervais' Ghost Town

Ricky Gervais leaves The Office and Extras work for an unusual romantic turn in Ghost Town.

By Tara Thorne
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

I Tania

Brian Joseph Davis

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Blackouts

Craig Boyko

By Laura Kenins
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Long and short of it

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself

Russell Wangersky

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Skim

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin

Stephens Gerrard Malone

By Mike Landry
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs

Dave Bidini

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Arts & Culture

Pictures perfect

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 21, 2008

Music

Amelia Curran has a record deal

Yessssssssssss

Sep 22, 2008

Music

Plants and Animals at the Marquee

Sep 19, 2008

Music

Omon Ra

The Halls of Medicine

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Music

Nova Scotia Music Week nominations announced

Sep 24, 2008

Music

Meet the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council tonight!

Sep 22, 2008

Music

Taking off the Yellow Jacket

To Avenge no more

Sep 18, 2008

Music

Open letter to Mr. Harper

Sep 24, 2008

Music

CKDU funding drive on now

Radio, radio romance

Sep 23, 2008

Music

Great Atlantic Blues & Beyond Festival

Sure Thing: Real life Dream Girl Bettye LaVette

By Sue Carter Flinn
Sep 18, 2008

Music

Tom Fun Orchestra

Sunday, Sep. 21, 1:26am, at The Marquee

Sep 24, 2008

Music

Pitch me, my friend

Sep 19, 2008

Music

Climbing B.A. Johnston's Stairway to Hamilton

B.A. Johnston returns to Halifax in a pool of sweat and with a new album, Stairway to Hamilton.

By Andrew Robinson
Sep 18, 2008

Food + Drink

Restaurant Reviews

Acadiana Soy tries to keep it fresh

Acadiana Soy struggles to deliver fresh tofu despite CIFA regulations.

By Angelina Chapin
Sep 18, 2008

Lifestyle

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Dan says shit is a known known.

By Dan Savage
Sep 18, 2008

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