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1. Meat Loaf can’t sing like he used to.2. Jim Steinman = genius.3. Desmond Child = hack. (Why god why?)4. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!5. When’s the Broadway musical? Seriously.6. A Bonnie Tyler comeback would be sweet and weclome.

Both NBC and The CW have refused to air ads for Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck‘s dope new documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, which opened on the coasts this week and hits Halifax on November 10. NBC, according to the Drudge Report, passed because the spots “are disparaging to President Bush.” And The […]

As a companion to my story this week: “Making a rock video is the biggest promotional gamble you can take as a label or a band. You spend $100,000 on something that most likely will not get played in any capacity to sell records for you. Billy Bragg, who’s one of my favourite people of […]

If you don’t know picnicface, you’re not nothin’. As comedy troupes go, they’re the troupiest. And they’re from Halifax – just like us! Neat-o! Check out their blazin’ new single, Monster Rap. It’s crunk, dope, stupid-fly, hooked up, chopped, flipped, mashed, buzzed, clipped, plipped, glonked, hittin’ switches, and fun for the whole family. Bitches, gauze […]

Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal made its ruling on the Midtown Tower case today, siding with the Utility and Review Board and against the 17-storey building’s would-be developer. In short: Stick your skyscraper someplace else. (CBC has the story here.) The decision clears the way for the URB to go ahead with the hearing about […]

On Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip to Boston to see Regina Spektor. It was sweet. As a result, I got to utilize the newest feature at the Halifax International Airport — US Preclearance! Which means if you’ve got a direct flight to the US, you clear customs in Halifax and then it’s like you’re […]

There was one, brief moment of levity at this morning’s Utility and Review Board hearing about the “twisted towers” development. The lights inexplicably went out for 20 seconds or so, then came back on. Cracking wise about a recent URB case, board chair Peter Gurnham goes, “Nova Scotia Power really doesn’t like us.” The hearing […]

From the front page of the Herald‘s business section today: “Starbucks plans to open lots of coffee shops worldwide.” Yes gentle citizen, it turns out there’s this business with a wacky name that serves a type of heated brown beverage—some drinkers call it “coffee”—and this company has aspirations (doubtless delusional) of expanding beyond its home […]

Beleagured premier Rodney MacDonald is giving up the fight on Sunday shopping. Instead of appealing today’s court decision that lets SuperStore and Sobeys open Sundays, the premier says now all stores everywhere in the province can be open all the time, no exceptions, except Remembrance Day. “Government has gone to a considerable effort to maintain […]

Is it totally juvenile to laugh at a truck sucking up shit, parked right beside a HRM car? Maybe.