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 […]
The Scene
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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 […]
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Good gourd
It’s taken a few weeks, but news of Martha Stewart’s Nova Scotia-based pumpkin debacle has reached the inboxes of American glossy editors. The story got some coverage as it was happening, but now that it’s over it’s starting to hit “best of the week” lists in tabs like Star and InTouch. Our favourite is in […]
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Kerry’s cause
Kerry’s cause Pogue Fado will host a fundraiser for injured busker Devlin Kerry (AKA Kerry Holland) on October 30. Kerry, an August Coast cover subject, received extensive head injuries when he was attacked from behind by unseen assailants. The day runs from noon till close and though bands were still being finalized at press time, […]