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Don’t say you haven’t been warned…look closely at Stephen Colbert’s board, Mr. route #6 bus driver who always ignores me. You’re on there.

I like a good bar show because it’s more intimate, the band is likely not polished to the point of edgelessness and you can scream out a request and there’s a good chance it’ll get played. BUT Bars can get awfully overcrowded — I love Wintersleep but I dread their shows, especially when it’s university […]

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I am well aware that this is old news, but having just returned from a week’s sojourn in Toronto, I still want to talk about it. Kayne West is opening for the Rolling Stones when they come to ruin the Halifax Common. It’s $100. Or for a student, $79. Which is much more reasonable. But […]

Brotherhood is fucking great. I fell in love with Providence a couple years ago, but frankly the series makes me scared to go back. And I do have to cover my eyes at least twice an episode — with the hammer and the teeth and the chipping? And the neverending ear thing?!? — which I […]

Those cats over with the HRM sure are sensitive about how they’re protrayed in the media. Last week, a release from Deputy mayor Russell Walker, and then another from communication manager John O’Brien were sent out in immediate succession, explaining to local media how the city wasn’t being fairly treated by the local media. I […]

werenotgonnatakeit.org is an interactive art project that allows pissed off people to call up a number and record their own protest song, karaoke-style, to the Twisted Sister classic. Mostly Toronto-based and actually pretty annoying, but there are a few gems buried in there, like the dude singing about Toronto restaurants: “They use shitty Ikea furniture […]

I haven’t seen Scrubs much this year. It didn’t come back until mid-season, and CTV put it on against Gilmore, so I missed its poignant irreverence. (Yes I am on the Zach Braff is Hot train. I see pictures and know why I shouldn’t be, yet there it is.) The one I did see changed […]

Sloan, the band that can be blamed for most of that Halifax-next-Seattle stuff in the ’90s, just confirmed it’s coming to town to play LCDapalooza September 23. (Also secured on the bill are the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper; stilll rumoured are Nickelback and Great Big Sea.) The gig coincides with the Sept. 19 release […]

Even if it wasn’t happening in the middle of summer, Ahmed Assal’s human rights tribunal would be a media circus. To put his case one particularly lampoonable way, Assal says he needs a satellite dish to exercise his religious and cultural rights. To put it another way… well, that first way pretty much sums it […]