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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 — […]

Air Supply, scheduled to serenade the Forum on July 7, has ruined our summer by cancelling. We assume it was the $60+ tickets unbought by an unconvinced Halifax public, but we’d hoped the love would be strong enough to support such a thing. We were wrong. Enjoy your Canada Day Cock Rock Spectacular, idiots.

The crowd was small—and tame—for Friday evening’s second play, The Ballad of Jim Pane. It makes you wonder whether they roll the sidewalks up in Dartmouth at 10 pm. This show begs for audience participation, but there were only a few brave souls singing along to writer Ross Desprez’s catchy protest songs. There was plenty […]

The house was almost full and the audience was primed for Andy Jones’ An Evening with Uncle Val. They weren’t disappointed. Jones is hilarious as the aging and frustrated Newfoundlander who tells the story of his “captivity” in the suburbs of St. John’s in the form of letters to a friend in his beloved out […]

Two weeks ago I asked the city to do something about the graffiti on one of its disused civic buildings. Here’s my complaint to the snitch site: “100 Wyse Road. Former Dartmouth Heritage museum practically covered in spray paint, especially on two sides facing Dillman Park, from simple scrawl of ‘suck your mom’ in red, […]

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for weeks. But I apologize for the last few days of silence on the Burning Ears front. Among other thrilling tasks, I got to tweaking the search methods that power the Ears, and would have posted earlier but for getting buried an avalanche of material old and […]

As promised in this column published yesterday, I’m blogging details of graffiti reports that I’ve made to the city. I’ll post them one or two at a time — call it building suspense, or having other things on the go. Here’s the first strike from my recent push to test the city’s graffiti-cleaning mettle: Thursday, […]

The May 15 episode of Gilmore Girls will cap its seventh, and, it was announced yesterday, final season. Too bad. Everything that’s happened with this incredible, unique program in the past two years that has made it impossible for it to go out on the highest possible note — it’s just too bad. Sad day. […]

If you can get in–last night’s show was sold-out, packed with ladies–go see Dirty Dancing at Park Lane, 7:30pm. It was even worth sitting through the lame Special Feature/DVD ad first (hopefully tonight they”ll figure out the aspect ratio so Swayze isn’t all squished up), where there are no star interviews, just chats with people […]

This week the CRTC announced that it was OK for phone companies to charge 50 cents for payphone calls, up to $1 if you use any “non-cash” methods of payment, i.e. phone card. They also announced the CRTC will allow established phone companies to charge more for local phone service, and whatever they want for […]

Rolling Stone has just released a 40th anniversary edition. But Thorney, casual/non-readers might be wondering, didn’t they just do that last year with that heinous psychedilc Sgt.Pepper’s dealy? No, dude, that was the 1000th issue. This is one of three planned issues celebrating the mag’s birth in San Francisco in 1967. It has lots of […]

New York, Toronto and Calgary are abuzz about Halifax, thanks to robot doctors, gas regulations and a billion-dollar deal. And in less metropolitan company, our town’s on lips in Charlottetown and Sydney courtesy of a new government office and an award for tourism. Full links below. RURAL ANGSTfrom SydneyPremier RodMac must have been playing to […]