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You won’t believe where your garbage leaves can now be shoved
[Image-1] Paper or plastic? Doesn’t matter, because you can now cram your lawn junk into either. Effective immediately, the Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that curb-side collection of excess leaf and yard waste will be accepted in clear and orange plastic bags, along with large paper bags. Under the new garbage collection laws which came […]
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Classified Ad: Extras needed for Snoop Dogg/Classified video
Earlier this week, Classified released his new jam, “No Pressure,” with a sick feature from Mr. One-Eight-Seven himself, Snoop Dogg. The original dee-oh-double-gee references Scotia and it’s tight to hear those words out of his mouth, TBH. The track comes out in advance of Classified’s upcoming album, Greatful, which will be released on January 15 via HalfLife Records and Universal. […]
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Police department concludes internal audit into evidence control
[Image-1] At least 12 items have gone missing from the Halifax Regional Police department’s evidence control over the past three years, the result of some innocent mistakes according to deputy chief Bill Moore. “It turns out they were misplaced in the exhibit room,” Moore says. “It doesn’t appear it was an intentional thing.” According to […]
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Shannon Park stadium fantasies need more study
[Image-1] The Halifax stadium struggle is real. A report headed to Halifax Regional Council next week is again recommending additional study is needed before HRM can commit to a sports stadium at Shannon Park. Prepared by acting supervisor of community planning Carl Purvis, the report recommends HRM continue working with the Canada Lands Company on […]
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Hot New Track: “Money” by Bsdjzs
Halifax rapper Bsdjzs sent us this hot new track, produced by falls from Minneapolis and mixed by Aux Jennings (Weirdo Click). The track, “Money,” was accompanied only by this: This song is about growth, progression & self love. Personally it’s about realizing no matter what, I’m going to get old but it’s up to me if […]
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10 Questions with Old & Weird
Tonight at Gus’ Pub (9:30pm, $7), Halifax rock band Old & Weird will play with fellow locals Muncho Joe, Mauno and special guest iji, “absolutely perfect pop all the way from Seattle, Washington.” I’m not missing this one since it might be a few minutes before Old & Weird play Halifax again. After last summer’s release of […]
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Check out nostalgic release from Halifax’s Shadow Folk
Not everyone around here knows that in the early 1960s, Denny Doherty was playing in bands in his hometown of Halifax before getting signed to Columbia Records. He soon met Cass Elliot and in 1965 Denny and Cass released “Go Where You Wanna Go,” their first single as a folk-pop quartet with Michelle and John Phillips called The Mamas […]
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Dead weight: The cost of Halifax’s orphaned cemeteries
[Image-1] In some cities, a cemetery plot is prime real estate. An overabundance of the living leaves little room for the dead, driving down the availability of cemetery space even as prices for plots go up. A grave in perennially-overpriced Vancouver can cost as much as $52,000. But there’s a different kind of spectre haunting […]
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Halifax’s New Year’s Eve concert will once again be televised
[Image-1] Great news if you’re looking to catch the festivities at Grand Parade on December 31 but don’t want to stand out in the cold all night. Halifax’s annual midnight countdown party will once again be rocking the airwaves. Today, Halifax Regional Council accepted a proposal from Eastlink to broadcast the municipality’s New Year’s Eve […]
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Halifax really seems to hate the Slut Whisperer
[Image-1] This city appears to have real talent for shutting down Kiril Bichutsky. The American photographer—better known online as Kirill Was Here and the Slut Whisperer—has made a name for himself travelling the world, visiting nightclubs and posting pictures on his website of the throngs of sometimes-drunk, usually-naked women who come out to see […]
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Absolutely nobody wants to be Halifax’s town crier
[Image-1] Some HRM councillors didn’t know whether to laugh or cry yesterday at a staff recommendation to stop working on the recruitment of a permanent Halifax town crier. The position has remained largely unfilled since former crier Peter Cox passed away in 2009. Preston-Chezzetcook-Eastern Shore councillor David Hendsbee was especially disappointed in staff’s proposal. “I […]
