There was no Warped Tour in 2021, even though pop-punk’s pulse rattled loudly enough for the first time in a decade to warrant its snot-nosed, guitar-thrashing return—as evidenced from WILLOW’s Travis Barker-christened Lately I Feel Everything to the global dominance of Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour. A local ripple of the trend’s cresting wave? Halifax’s No, It’s […]
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A pick up artist bought some of Nova Scotia
Imagine my surprise as I’m browsing Gawker at work (um that’s allowed because I need to know about pop culture for my job and I’ve filed everything for this week and you’re not my mom OK?) and I see that a former (?) pick up artist named Tynan bought an island off the coast of […]
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“Tax Reform” proposal is dead
It started innocently enough. Concerned that rapidly increasing and uneven property assessments were resulting in big tax increases for homeowners, three years ago HRM councillors established the Tax Reform Committee and charged it with finding a better way to fund government. Along the way, however, the committee went off track. It embraced the concept of […]