Paul McCartney July 11 A Beatle is coming to Halifax. Some come down on the man for his stand against the seal hunt—though it sounds like these days most blame the militancy on his ex-wife, Heather Mills—or some say that his wanting to change the order of the songwriting credits on “Yesterday” from Lennon/McCartney to […]
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Common commandeered
To the editor, For the last 15 years, I’ve spent Sunday afternoons playing baseball on the Common. Some of my teammates have been playing together here for 30 years. While we play, the rest of the diamonds are full; there’s also an ultimate frisbee game, the regular cricket match, flag football, a pickup soccer game […]
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John Prine tells a few tales at the Rebecca Cohn
Storyteller extraordinaire (both in song and in prose) John Prine comes back to the Rebecca Cohn on August 20 and 21 to regale audience members with stories about farm life and ex-wives, tickets are, unfortunately, sold out at artscentre.dal.ca/box.html, but wishing really hard might help (or kijiji-ing really hard).