After tickets for the Friday, July 12 concert at the Metro Centre sold out in a matter of minutes, acclaimed rock trio Rush had to recognize. Please read the following quote in your best Geddy Lee voice: “We are thrilled that the good folks of Halifax have forgiven our long absence from their beautiful city […]
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Rush is coming this summer
Admittedly I am a little late on this, and that could be interpreted as me not caring about the momentous news that Rush is coming to Halifax on their Clockwork Angels tour after 25 years of NOT coming to Halifax (details are still to be announced. My money’s on the Metro Centre. Or my living […]
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How Halifax’s concert scandal played out
Last spring, Halifax’s now-infamous “concert scandal” broke when city staffer Cathie O’Toole revealed that mayor Peter Kelly and the city’s deputy CAO, Wayne Anstey, had improperly extended millions of dollars in loans to concert promoter Harold MacKay’s firm, Power Promotional Events, and that the last two of those loans, totalling $400,000, were not repaid. Anstey […]