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Halifax and New Orleans are united in grief over the murder of Helen Hill early yesterday morning. When she and her husband Paul Gailiunas moved to Halifax in the ’90s, they touched people through their arts (she a filmmaker, he a musician), their generosity (she a teacher, he a doctor), their activism, their kindness. And […]

Neatorama has posted a list of 13 photographs that they claim changed the world. Somehow, the photo of this dude’s haircut didn’t make the list.

After watching Helen Mirren in The Queen and Dame Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal (go see this movie if/when it comes to Halifax. She’s wicked), I have to say that those two British ladies have more acting chops in their tiny tea-drinking fingers than a entire pot of Hollywood soup. Whatever that means. […]

The OC has been cancelled. Fucking figures. After a pair of mediocre-to-ridiculous seasons, the teen drama has hit a creative high, bringing back the fun and zazz of its glorious debut season. Some wire stories are linking the falling ratings to Mischa Barton‘s quitting — she couldn’t even DIE convincingly — but the show has […]

Peter Duffy’s infamous double column about being violated by a ghost is in the running for Gawker‘s Greatest Moment in Journalism for 2006! Show your tartan, commies, and VOTE. UPDATE: He won. Barely. Heh.

This week’s issue offers up some random things us Coast editors loved about 2006. Since I didn’t get to contribute to the best movies of the year — and missed a lot of the bigs, to be honest — and people in my own office were asking me what my top 10 records of the […]

5. Simpsons reruns from 1989-1994 in syndication Why are you torturing me, Fox? What did I ever do to you, Comedy Network? I pay my cable bill to get good cable, not episodes from when I was in grade 6 and my teacher banned all anti-authority Bart t-shirts. Once the season is available on DVD, […]

Become even more of a Simpsons nerd than you already are, with help from Wikipedia. Also, if Portland, Oregon doesn’t already have a Simpsons walking Tour, someone could make a fortune.

Peter Duffy‘s twofer about being violated by a ghost of course won Gawker’s Great Moment in Journalism last week. Easily, and with one final comment.

According to CBC, a device that kills lobsters with electric shocks–apparently humanely, but how do we really know–has been developed into an industrial-scale model by a Charlottetown company. It’s name…wait for it…wait for it…The CrustaStun. Awesome.