“Whenever I’m home, I’m always writing something,” says PEI songbird Catherine MacLellan, who performs Friday. “I sit and look outside the window and inspiration comes through osmosis, through the experience of being here.” Although MacLellan says travelling—as she’ll do on tour later this year—can also spark creativity, “PEI is definitely my muse.” For almost 15 […]
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Fortunate Ones kind of homecoming
“Are we working on anything lately? Well, we just put a shelf together,” jokes Andrew O’Brien, one half of St. John’s folk-pop duo Fortunate Ones. “We’ve actually been on the road so much, it can be tough to find time to write, but we’ve been rehearsing some new stuff that we’ll try out in Halifax.” […]
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The road to Burning Hell
Back in 2008, In the Dead of Winter was the first festival that Mathias Kom played under his Burning Hell moniker. “In those first three or four years, The Burning Hell was primarily an outlet for songwriting,” he says. “I didn’t really expect that it was going to go anywhere in terms of touring.” Now, […]
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“The audience is going for a ride”
Mocean Dance has something special in store for this weekend. A trio, a duet and a solo dance are on the lineup for Ordinary Rebels, Mocean’s mainstage show at Neptune’s Studio Theatre. Even the title of the show has a tense energy. “We felt the dichotomy of ‘ordinary’ and ‘rebels’ is a reflection of dance […]
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A look inside Skratch Bastid’s studio
Last week, Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ Skratch Bastid (AKA Paul Murphy) released a filmed remix of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” on the morning after the rock star’s death. In just a few days, the video had been viewed and shared over 11 million times on Bastid’s Facebook page. This Saturday, Skratch Bastid returns to The Marquee […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) The birds known as mound-builders are born more mature than other species. As soon as they peck themselves out of their eggs, they are well-coordinated, vigourous enough to hunt, and capable of flight. Right now I see a resemblance between them and many of you Aquarians. As soon as […]
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Letters to the editor, January 21, 2016
Try another Day As February 15 approaches, I am reminded that Viola Desmond did not get the honour of Viola Desmond Day as promised for Nova Scotia’s first Heritage Day, in 2015. People may recall the weather that day was pretty rough—very cold with huge chunks of ice blocking the sidewalks and roads. The plows […]
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City councillor wants new flyer delivery regulations in HRM
[Image-1] “The system now is broken,” says Matt Whitman, about flyer delivery in the municipality. The Hammonds Plains-St. Margarets councillor is looking to regulate the city’s flyer delivery rules; changing the current system from opt-out to opt-in. Whitman will be asking for a staff report on options at HRM’s next Regional Council meeting. “I think […]
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Cute Extreme Couponer Wannabe
[Image-1] To the cute, “Extreme Couponer” brunette at a certain grocery store in Dartmouth on Sunday evening who was with what I assume is your father. You unscrupulous! The cashier told me all about you, you thief! It’s because of people like you is why I hate the world. The store knows all your tricks, […]
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Are HRM’s rural residents getting the short shrift?
Twenty-one percent of HRM’s population lives spread out over 80 percent of the municipality. The rural portions of HRM are huge, low-density areas, and often overlooked when talking about city services. That’s one reason why the Community Planning and Economic Development committee wants to know if the people living in these far-flung regions are […]
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A smile is the universal welcome…
[Image-1] You three work in a store which sells things, like… pepperoni and other such fare. I am a customer who buys things, like… pepperoni. Why don’t you smile? Better, why do you scowl? In all the years I have been buying things from you, like… pepperoni, you all scowl. Not one of you smiles […]