[Image-1] My “Student Deal” on internet has risen by 50% over the past two years, but my service is not 50% better. I would drop your ass and switch companies if I could get a better price, but it seems you two have been colluding to gouge your customers. I hope your children die of […]
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Price check: Who’s selling the cheapest clear garbage bags?
[Image-1] Call us Pepsi’s disastrous early-90s marketing fad, because Halifax is going clear. Starting this Saturday, all residents of the municipality will need to bag up their trash in transparent bags. It’s a bit of rubbish voyeurism to increase sorting and cut down on what’s headed to the city’s landfill. Love it or hate it, […]
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Just give it up already
[Image-1] Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re a bully. Do you know what BULLY means? While you look it up you might as well look up hypocrisy. Your “fight back” tactics are dangerously close to what you claim to be fighting. —Over easy.
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Chopped and screwed
[Image-1] We’ve all been taken aback by it while tuned into some FM radio station or another. There you are, gearing up to spit out Left Eye’s verse in TLC’s “Waterfalls” or priming yourself for Snoop’s verse in Katy Perry’s “California Gurls,” and…nothing. Like a tree shaken bare, you’re left with just a leafy skeleton […]
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Why you’re going to love clear garbage bags
[Image-1] Clear garbage bags are coming to Halifax on August 1, and you know what? You are going to love it. No. Really. In 2010, my partner and I moved to Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, where the clear bag policy was already in place. The thing is, I didn’t know about this before we moved. At […]
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For the love of pepperoni Halifax STOP
[Image-1] This is a manifesto that is a long time coming, Halifax. There’s a problem with your pepperoni pizza. There’s a really big problem. I had to remove myself from this town in order to fully realize the scope of this issue, and I’ve spent a long time trying to convince myself that Halifax pepperoni […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22) A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Mona Lisa.” The results suggest that she is 83 percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful […]
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The show must go on the road
Summer in Nova Scotia is the perfect time to embark on a magical mystery tour, theatre-style. Head to the Annapolis Valley and take in three delightful, chilling and thrilling plays. The Tempest (Ross Creek Centre for the Arts), as adapted by Ken Schwartz, is touching and wonder-filled, anchored by a layered performance by Graham Percy […]
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The show must go on the road
Summer in Nova Scotia is the perfect time to embark on a magical mystery tour, theatre-style. Head to the Annapolis Valley and take in three delightful, chilling and thrilling plays. The Tempest (Ross Creek Centre for the Arts), as adapted by Ken Schwartz, is touching and wonder-filled, anchored by a layered performance by Graham Percy […]
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Wallace Brannen 1952-2014
A baseball caught in a glove, a bat in mid-swing, a mustard-drizzled hot dog, cheeks smeared with black greasepaint: for artist Wallie Brannen, there was a time when his sons’ little league baseball diamond became his studio. The resulting photographic banners are some of the works currently on display at the Anna Leonowens gallery in […]
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SoHo Ghetto’s last hurrah
Local indie rock outfit SoHo Ghetto will be playing its last-ever show on Friday at the Seahorse, three days before frontman Marc-Antoine Robertson departs Halifax for Toronto. “It was just a natural kind of ending,” he says, almost apologetic for the lack of scandal. “I wish there was more dirt there.” With diverging career interests […]
