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Air Canada’s oxygen, Halifax nation’s crime capital and mourning John “Junior” Hanna
November 28, 2005 – 4:20 pm
Atlantic News Perspective #160 | Aliant.net
Update
November 23, 2005 – 9:14 am
Warning: This post contains no pictures.
* ‘Sloan’ to join CBC as satellite radio DJs
* The Canadian Podcasting Tour - Halifax: November 23 (7:30 p.m.)
* Ninjatune update:
S&N ‘Homages’ Double 7″ EP
Sixtoo (1200hobos/Sebutones/etc.) and Norsola Johnson (Godspeed/Mollases/etc.) are S&N. No need for some witty snapping sales pitch here. Shit is hot. 4 sides of heat…with Sixtoo on [...]
Dating Jimmy Kimmel, meta-bigotry and Zoloft
November 22, 2005 – 10:40 pm
Sarah Silverman | Onion AV Club
Irony Maiden | Slate
Sarah Silverman Interrogation | Slate
Quiet Depravity | The New Yorker
Jesus is Magic
Muskrat meat, deep fried SUV fuel and the “pass-out game”
November 22, 2005 – 3:54 pm
Atlantic News Perspective #159 | Aliant.net
Portland Road Trip?
November 17, 2005 – 10:05 pm
Sigur Ros
FEB 6 @ 7:30pm
On-Sale Friday, November 18
Tickets are $30.50, general admission, all ages.
http://www.liveatthestate.com/
Working for the Man
November 16, 2005 – 12:13 pm
“Members of Congress have increased their own pay by $30,000 per year since freezing the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour (the lowest among industrialized nations).” - Jimmy Carter (This isn’t the real America | LA Times)
Live Music Reviews
November 15, 2005 – 6:35 pm
Jill Barber
Standing confidently in front of a capacity crowd with a guitar in hand, Jill Barber strummed, dipped, swayed and, most importantly, sang her way through a selection of songs from Oh Heart and A Note To Follow So (recently liberated from obscurity by Zunior.com). Older beyond her years, Barber delivered a blend of pastoral [...]
US Politics
November 15, 2005 – 2:38 pm
On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don) by John Cusack.
Rose hips, prison tattoos and young vets
November 14, 2005 – 2:34 pm
Atlantic News Perspective #158 | Aliant.net
Stuff
November 13, 2005 – 10:27 pm
Moleskine planners are available at The Bookmark (5686 Spring Garden Road) in Halifax. If I wasn’t hooked on my Palm and iCal, I would probably buy one.
Danger! Danger!
November 12, 2005 – 7:40 pm
Dangerously clever
Halifax ‘rap nerd’ to launch latest CD at Seahorse
By STEPHEN COOKE, Entertainment Reporter, The Chronicle Herald
Dangerously zone
Halifax hip-hopper Jesse Dangerously brings a crew along for the first time on his guest-laden EP Inter Alia.
By Jon Bruhm, The Coast
MP3>Jesse Dangerously’s “Outfox’d (When Pacitists Attack)”
The New Math
November 9, 2005 – 11:37 am
Geek Alert: Linksys WRT54G ($89.99) +
The Open Source WRT54G Story = $600 router?
Nerd Alert: GTD + 43 Folders + Lifehacker + $19.86 Brother PT-65 Electronic Labeller = productivity porn
Great Video
November 9, 2005 – 12:27 am
The White Stripes - The Denial Twist (d. Michel Gondry) (QuickTime)
Free crack pipes, the Tolosa International Choral Festival and millions of gallons of manure
November 7, 2005 – 11:57 pm
Atlantic News Perspective #157 | Aliant.net
Critical Confessions
November 6, 2005 – 5:19 pm
“It’s a dirty little secret among critics, I think, that we don’t always feel today what we felt yesterday, yet I think that’s a secret that we keep as much from ourselves as from our readers.” - Scott Tobias confesses in The Onion AV Club.
Ignorance = Bliss
November 5, 2005 – 7:49 pm
“People who do things badly…are usually supremely confident of their abilities — more confident, in fact, than people who do things well…One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.” - New York [...]
Awards
November 3, 2005 – 11:34 pm
Best of Halifax 2005
Best local website: halifaxlocals.com
Wi-five! Halifaxlocals.com wins for the second straight year as the best local website, keeping us all in the loop about the Halifax music scene. The site relies on an open-source, message board-style format that keeps things current—and unpredictable. “On the front page of Halifaxlocals, you’ll typically see a lot [...]
Column
November 2, 2005 – 12:19 pm
Atlantic News Perspective #156 (Nov 1, 2005)
Immoral theatrical performances, tomato fights and churches for sale.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
