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My favourite reaction to the Celine Dion concert collapse is from Sheila Bryson, a blogger in California, whose post linking to the Perez Hilton piece is called “WHY HALIFAX FUCKING RULES.

From the Hollywood Reporter: Woody Harrelson is starring and Katie Holmes is in talks to join Giovanni Ribisi and Jason Lee in writer-director David Michaels comedic fantasy adventure The Other Side” from Myriad Pictures. The story follows a female grad student who, while spending a summer on remote Destiny Island for her scholarship to study […]

I always thought that if Halifax was to make into Perez Hilton, it would be for Tom Selleck punching out a Shoe Shop patron. Or maybe something nice about Ellen Page. Lucky for us, Celine ensured us a spot and a shitload of comments–so far, mostly from Haligonians eager to share their side of the […]

The restaurant critic for The New York Times came to Halifax recently, but he wasn’t on the hunt for donair, fried pepperoni or other local fare. Frank Bruni was just passing through on his way to get some oysters and mussels in Prince Edward Island. His shellfish story was published yesterday, an entertaining read that […]

After speaking briefly with an Events Halifax rep, the news is, there isn’t much news – other than the obvious, “Celine ain’t coming anywhere near the Halifax Common anytime soon…” Here’s the rundown: For the time being, even Events Halifax peeps don’t know exactly what made Celine’s peeps change their mind about the venue, which […]

I’m writing this on November 16, a Friday afternoon. On Wednesday night, November 14, I went shopping for groceries at the sprawling and mightily stocked Joseph Howe Atlantic Super Store. Piped in for the gathered consumers, dwarfed by canyons of President’s Choice frozen dinners, McCain Frozen Pizzas and glass jars stuffed with litres of oyster-white […]

We feared something was wrong last week, when Celine Dion’s official website announced that members of the TeamCeline fan club could buy their tickets for the Taking Chances world tour. But before we got the Visa out, we saw the fine print: The ticket sale for the Halifax show, slated for next August, “has been […]

And What Alice Found There is weird and wonderful. It combines a smidgen biography (of Charles Dodgson –AKA Lewis Carroll–and his muse Alice Liddell), with a dash of Victorian social history (from photography to imperialism), and mixes them with physical theatre, puppetry and video components. The end result is wildly original and very entertaining. Alice […]

I don’t have the answer to Halifax’s problem with street violence, and neither do you. Certainly the mayor doesn’t have the answer, nor the chief of police, nor a random city councillor. That’s because there’s not likely to be some magic pill that will solve this thing—no single configuration of police deployment, parental supervision, lecturing […]

Remember the good ol’ days when fake bombs were funny? Not any more apparently…This story comes from Canadian Press: a 15-year-old North River boy and his buddies put together a bomb made out of three hot dogs, a clock, calculator chip, two wires and a hair pin, and then wrapped it in electrical tape. Then […]

Chekhov’s Three Sisters is an interesting choice for the young actors of the Dalhousie Theatre Program, and not an altogether successful one. It is a stretch for the audience to believe a 20 year old is a 60 year old, a thin man is verging on obese, or that an obviously attractive suitor is supposedly […]