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In Blume
In other Best of , Time has released its list of the best 100 all-time novels. There are the predictables — Catcher in the Rye, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse Five, The Blind Assassin, et al. But a happy surprise is Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which […]
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Pimp my drive
CKDU’s annual fundraising initiative gets underway this week with a variety of events happening across the city. The extensive range of cultural activities was chosen because it is a reflection of the distinct nature of the station, says funding drive coordinator Adam Binet. “With about 17 live events happening during the nine days, we are […]
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Wheels in motion
This past spring HRM council budgeted the largest amount yet toward implementing its bike plan: $200,000. While an improvement on the $120,000 spent last year, it’s still well below the $300,000 minimum recommended in the 2002 council-approved bike plan, and still sadly not enough to even come close to completing a major bike project. The full bike plan fund this year, besides $25,000 set aside for a multi-use trail in Sackville, was devoted to the Bedford Highway bikeway. Or at least 1.2 kilometres of it. Over the summer HRM paved the shoulders of the Bedford Highway from Millview Avenue to
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Turn, turn, turn
Scarcely a month has gone by this year when we haven’t found ourselves at our computer in a rage blackout, pounding out an enraged letter to Spin. The music magazine has spent its quite commendable 20th year publishing lots and lots of lists. (It’s possible we’re in the minority here, but we think the “people […]
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Free education
Believe it or not, the Halifax Pop Explosion is more than just boozing, show-crawling and rocking out to some of your favourite underexposed bands. Saint David’s Church on Brunswick Street will house a number of educational workshops and panels, all free of charge. Saturday kicks off in classroom A at 12:30pm, with a DIY seminar […]
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Dwell on this
Mammoth how-to-live mag Dwell (“At Home in the Modern World”) celebrates its 5th anniversary, and has dropped a Halifax plug amongst its celebratory issue. A look at “Modern Across America in Print” includes Plain Modern, Malcolm Quantrill’s book about local architecture wunderkind Brian MacKay-Lyons (full disclosure: we once lived in an early BM-L design in […]
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I see London, I see Francey
I see London, I see Francey In terms of starting a music career, David Francey is a late bloomer. His debut, Torn Screen Door, was released in 1999 when the roots artist was 45 years old. “I wrote for myself and was happy doing so. It was my wife, Beth Girdler, who convinced me to […]
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Road to nowhere
Even though HRM has been one big, amalgamated SuperCity for going on 10 years now, transportation is still a bit of a fractured affair. You’ve got HRM Council responsible for transit services, bikeways and most of the urban and suburban roads in the region. Then you’ve got the provincial department of transportation responsible for roads […]