If you ask Joel Plaskett the best way to ring in the New Year, you’ll likely get the answer an increasing number of people are saying themselves. Plaskett and the Emergency’s New Year’s Eve bashes have become tradition and the 2005/06 edition is his most ambitious yet. “Dave Marsh, Ian McGettigan, Joel Plaskett and Welsh […]
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Snow day
Peninsular Halifax is catching up with the Joneses. For years, Haligonians on the peninsula and in parts of Spryfield and Armdale have been hacking away at their sidewalks with shovels and picks, while their Dartmouth and Bedford neighbours wait cozily inside for city staff or contractors to come clear the way for pedestrians. But that […]
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Love the way we Bitch
Off your chest and on the web / Too hot for the printed page.
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Carded
Remember that episode of Friends where Selma Blair tried to get Chandler to cheat on Monica when he was stuck in Oklahoma or wherever the hell for the holidays — stop your lies, you know it as well as we do — and his company’s Christmas bonuses were donations made in every employee’s name to […]
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Main streets
While most bands are occupied with last-minute holiday shopping, on top of it all, the Danny Mainstreet Band will squeeze in a last-minute show December 23 at The Attic. Frontman Ben Hughes says the band is anxious to help Halifax relieve any holiday stress it may have. Just don’t expect Santa Claus. “I suppose if […]
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Get with the progamming
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the Sundance Film Festival line-up announcement! The fest has announced a return to its independent roots, to which we say we’ll believe it when we freakin’ see it. (Or see the movies, as it were.) But after reading the New York Times this week, we have […]
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Duke Murray
Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke have added some Dartmouth flavour to their line-up in the form of ex-Guthrie Dale Murray. The alt-country band released a statement on their website on November 29 announcing their parting of ways with founding member Jeff Peers. “The deal is that I am taking over guitar, keyboard, pedal steel and […]
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Last chance
After four years of work and consultation, SuperCitizens have about six weeks left to submit final comments on the regional plan. “We’re asking for any input up until January 31,” says Peter Duncan, the regional plan team’s manager of environmental assets. The six weeks is an extra review period added at the request of the […]
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Bit by bit (torrent)
Bit by bit (torrent) With the music industry’s Napster-related shitfit of a few years ago and the billion-dollar movie industry’s ongoing campaign against downloading (though we haven’t seen those commercials lately, the ones where the prop guy is like “You’re stealing from me,” which, sorry anyone working in the movie industry, you’re doing better than […]
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Urban surf Christmas
The first snowfall of the season and the Urban Surf Kings’ holiday bash are telling signs the holiday season is upon us. The former has already happened, and the latter’s 10th annual is on December 9 at the Khyber. It’s a time of year the band gets especially excited about. “It’s our once a year […]