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Ladies all my ladies etc: Congrats to Mariska “Detective Benson” Hargitay, Mary-Louise “Nancy Botwin” Parker, America “Betty Suarez” Ferrara, Katherine “Izzie Stevens” Heigl, Jenna “Pam Beesly” Fischer, Chandra “Dr.Bailey” Wilson and Tina “Our Hero/Liz Lemon” Fey on their Emmy nominations. Fey responded to her acting and writing nods thusly: “This is an outrage.”

The second X-Files movie is a go. I will be there in the summer of ’08, but I’m pretty sure the audience for this one has depleted significantly over THE LAST DECADE.

Sorry true believers, but those Ears will be back tomorrow with plenty of news to catch up on from the last couple days. Including UFOs and a semi-celebrity birthday. Yes, according to the World Almanac, Jeff Corwin was born in Halifax 40 years ago yesterday. Here’s that reference. And if you’re wondering who Jeff Corwin […]

You know, I get tired of this War of the Sexes shit. It’s an endless cycle of, literally, she-said he-said that will never possibly be settled. So I find such discussions pretty much moot, yet I can’t stop reading the discourse! Today I tripped across something Gloria Steinem of fucking course wrote over on the […]

A big meeting and a medium-sized government grant have Canadian tongues wagging. Joel Plaskett inspires righteous indignation from the States. And a reader’s tip warns about English people retiring here in droves. Full links apres jump. GET YOUR MEET ONfrom TorontoThe Assembly of First Nations started its annual general meeting today in Halifax. What’s on […]

The shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize — which translates to $20K for the best Canadian album of the year, voted on by critics/wankers like ourselves; Final Fantasy won the inaugural pot last year for He Poos Clouds — was announced this morning. Applaud heartily or throw up your hands in righteous anger as we […]

This town’s on fire today. We’ve got star harpist Loreena McKennitt, political rat Stephen Harper, international accolades, kids who won’t eat their vegetables and more. Yes, by “more” I mean the requisite big boats mention. Full links apres jump. HARP LIKE KNIVESfrom New BrunswickFans of New Age/Celtic music, rejoice! CanadaEast says piano-, accordion- and piano-playing […]

Twas no Sassy, but Jane Pratt‘s follow-up, Jane, was a scrappy addition to the bloated women’s mag market in 1997, and remained as such until our hero Christina Kelly left. Pratt herself got the heave a couple years back, and today the mag was shut down completely. We haven’t read it in years, but it […]

I stopped caring right around the time that I accidentally ate an earwax-flavoured Bott’s Bean. But I may be alone. According to the Globe, all 300 Mac’s Convenience Stores in the “three prairie provinces and British Columbia have been denied permission to sell the newest, and last, instalment of the popular Harry Potter series when […]

You were a horrible mother on Who’s the Boss, but you looked hot doing it (and you were kind enough not to push Johnathan on the gay thing). I’d love to see you and Blanche Devereaux in a Dynasty-style catifght. I think you would win. Keep workin’ it, lady.

It goes from bad (Stephen Harper’s visit) to worse (a Haligonian killed in Afghanistan) for the city. But you gotta love those Tall Ships. Full links apres jump. MILITARY MIGHTfrom Winnipeg and TorontoStephen “I can’t believe he’s the prime minister” Harper was in town yesterday, handing out a piece of pork worth billions. “Canada’s 12 […]

It’s a pathetically slow day for Metro. Prime minister Stephen Harper was rumoured to be coming by the Globe, but CTV, the Globe‘s sister news organization, squashed that one. (Sources say the jackass will show up tomorrow to announce some federal make-work project.) And in New York, Halifax showed up on Newsday‘s page of kooky […]