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Dartmouth filmmaker Jason Eisener, along with mates Johnathan Davies and Rob Cotterill, has won the Grindhouse trailer contest with their entry Hobo with a Shotgun. The locally shot clip was personally chosen by Robert Rodriguez out of thousands for a contest sponsored by South by Southwest. Congrats dudes! Watch it on Eisener’s MySpace.

Last week I was emailing with my friend Jill Barber who was on the road with Stuart McLean and Dan Hill for The Vinyl Cafe tour, which played four sold-out shows in Halifax. I told her that when I was a pre-teen in the country with no access to the things that make you become […]

More evidence that Helsinki is THE coolest city in the world, may I introduce the Helsinki Complaints Choir. The choir collected complaints from the general public–about annoying ringtones, people who smell on public transit, trees being cut into toilet paper rolls, etc.–and turned them into beautiful choir music, releasing the stuff that really pisses people […]

The province and the city have withdrawn their support for the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid, effectively putting a kibosh on the Games. And now, from the release… “The two levels of government reached their decision based on the outcomes of the independent reviews which were conducted on the operating and capital budgets submitted to the […]

The good news is that Halifax is considered a serious contender for hosting the Commonwealth Games. The bad news, as reported yesterday in The Scotsman, Scotland’s national paper: “Glascow’s bid to win the Commonwealth Games in 2014 has been handed a massive boost by its main rival, whose campaign is on the brink of imploding… […]

I was on the Utne Reader‘s website trying to figure out how to renew my subscription when I came across an interesting little blurb and a link to my Valentine’s Day article about Slow Love (no, I was not Googling myself)! Here’s the link from Utne which will eventualy bring you back here. The best […]

Thanks to a 158-page court decision released yesterday, people who want to see a couple new skyscrapers in downtown Halifax can sleep a bit easier. Supreme Court justice Suzanne Hood heard arguments in December that the public hearings for United Gulf’s notorious Twisted Towers development were screwed up, and thus city council shouldn’t have approved […]

Moving the cars off Grand Parade is a dream that just took a big step towards reality. At a Committee of the Whole meeting this afternoon, Metro’s councillors voted to turn their parking lot back into a public square by September 1, 2007. Although this deadline is considerably later than the April 1 no parking […]

Today’s news about the shitty police cameras at Pizza Corner doesn’t come as much of a surprise. (Nor is it a surprise that the local dailies gave huge play to the wire story, written by Keith Doucette of the Canadian Press, without adding any reporting of their own. The Herald put it on the front […]

2007 is going to be an awesome TV year: Parker Posey to star in pilot from ‘Gilmore’ creator! And ABC to launch ‘Grey’s’ spin-off! Related: Tara professes her love for Addison Shepherd (last item)!

It’s a little late, but I was really saddened to hear about his death of lung cancer. A talented Oscar-nominated animation artist who suffered from years of alcohol and drug abuse, Larkin spent most of his life in homeless shelters. He was brought back into the spotlight with Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winning short Ryan, and was […]

There’s an impromptu dance party scheduled for noon today (February 14) in the front window of Eyelevel Gallery, 2128 Gottingen. There will be cupcakes and teas. Maybe the cupcakes will be American Idol-inspired like these, courtesy of milkfat.com.