Just when you thought flying Air Canada couldn’t get any worse, the latest issue of enRoute twists the knife. The same month AC announces you have to pay for meals on all North American routes, the in-flight magazine comes out with its annual Food Issue. Nothing like making hungry travellers read mouth-watering descriptions of Canada’s […]
The Scene
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Cuff stuff
Oshawa alt-country darlings Cuff the Duke’s lone Halifax show in August was so successful they will be doing double duty this time around. The pair of performances on November 18 and 19 at Stage Nine will also be purposefully dissimilar, which frontman Wayne Petti says will make it worth forking out the $15 to attend […]
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In a fix
Angela Weal has been trying for five months to get her front and back doors fixed. Despite repeated promises, her landlord simply wouldn’t do the repairs. So Weal went to the city and the province for help. After months of phone calls, a hearing, and three separate orders to repair (all of which expired, with […]
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Sneak preach
Have you heard of the latest musical trend, teen sibling pop? The best of the lot is Smoosh, a California guitar-and-drums duo with Death Cab ties and remarkable ears for hooks. And there’s already a subgenre: white-supremacist teen sibling pop! When teen twins Lynx and Lamb Gaede (AKA Prussian Blue, also the name of a […]
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X marks the spot
Grunge-disco fivesome controller.controller are back with a new album and two more shows. The group, whose sound is exhaustively compared to that of (a female-fronted) Franz Ferdinand, will play both the Pavilion and Stage Nine on November 12. While Halifax is all but the last stop on the band’s first tour in promotion of x-amounts, […]
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LETTERHEAD
Readers respond to Lezlie Lowe’s “Take a Pill” column from last week.
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In the Radar
We first used the term “publisister” in this space on June 16 of this year, in our first item about Tom Cruise’s Summer of Crazy. A publisister is a publicist who is also the client’s sister, in the familial vein of momager (a mother who is also her child’s manager, like Hilary Duff’s). Cruise’s sister […]
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Drum roll please
If this year’s DRUM! is any indication, Halifax is a thriving, underappreciated percussion hot spot. But the event shouldn’t be confused with the seven-year-old Drumfest, which aims to expose various forms of percussion on a global scale as performed by local talent. To be held November 4 and 5 at Saint Matthew’s United Church, each […]
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At your service
The most recent issue of Naturally Green, the glossy and colourful newsletter produced by HRM’s communications department to promote the city’s collective environmental efforts, includes a story entitled, “Scavenging, A Blight on the Community.” The hyperbolic headline has provoked reactions from some SuperCitizens. “It blew my mind how insensitive and inflammatory it was,” says Dennis […]
