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Global is re-airing Friday Night Lights from the start beginning tonight at 8pm. Don’t make me make you run in the mud. WATCH.

Sorry for the sudden disappearance of the Ears over recent days. They will be back, once things in the offline world become a bit less hectic. And be sure to watch for a guest Burning Ears appearance in The Coast’s paper version this Thursday.

Today kicked off an industry event I would really love to be part of one of these years — the TV network upfronts, in which the nets reveal their fall line-ups. NBC was first out of the gate, and I’m STOKED to report Friday Night Lights will be back (on Friday, Marnie), original recipe Law […]

Rabbits and Blueberries by Ken Jessome is billed as a “dark comic drama” that takes “a hilarious but searching look at Cape Breton identity today”, and for the first act, it seems like it might deliver. The bantering between Billy (Todd Hiscock), an out-of-work ne’er-do-well, and Francis (Nick Sobol) a struggling bar owner, manages to […]

Daniel MacIvor’s House is resplendent with bizarre and haunting images: a smile that fills a sewer pipe, a pair of Irish Setters fighting over the only opened tin of pate at a hip dog party, two people so filled with the missed possibilities of love that they explode. These pictures (and many more) are woven […]

This is a really great story. And I’m not just saying that because my husband wrote it either. In today’s Globe there’s a story about Brian Purdy, son of the Canadian poet and literary icon Al Purdy and also a writer, who happens to live and run a bookstore out of his basement apartment below […]

If you’re a little freaked out by targetted marketing tactics such as Amazon.com’s “helpful suggestions” that are based on your previous search results, you should try the Unsuggester which “analyzes the thirteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the […]

A big natural gas project generates plenty of hot air. Water technology professionals are aware of changes to local standards. And those embarrassing fans of Coronation Street are talking up Halifax’s embracing of the show. It’s an eclectic day on the web for Metro, and full links to these items are below. IT’S A GAS, […]

Anyone who has ever read Goldilocks aloud, performing the range of voices from the booming Papa to the whining Baby, will have some idea of what to expect from Raoul Bhaneja’s Hamlet (Solo). That’s not to say that this performance is child’s-play, for Bhaneja is not just switching voices as he retells the play, alone […]

Today’s tour of the web’s latest Halifax mentions features a blog post about Jared Leto, a self-important Torontonian’s trip east and a possible movie ticket theft. How could you not want to read the full links below? THE UNKNOWN FASHIONISTAfrom San FranciscoWriting at TeamSugar —it’s a girlie, glossy networking site big on celebrity, fashion, beauty […]

The tourism stories are popping out in American media like buds on the trees, and other parts of Canada are still worried about catching mumps from us. Full links below. WHERE TOURISTS COME AND GO LIKE THE TIDEfrom Los Angeles and BostonIt’s that time of year, when Americans — or at least their editors — […]

The tourism stories are popping out in American media like buds on the trees, and other parts of Canada are still worried about catching mumps from us. Full links below. WHERE TOURISTS COME AND GO LIKE THE TIDEfrom Los Angeles and BostonIt’s that time of year, when Americans — or at least their editors — […]