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Category Archives: Great White North
Windom Earle on the Road
21-MAY-2009: WINDOM EARLE / ANGRY PARROTS / JENOCIDE @ green room (Montreal)
23-MAY-2009: OVER THE TOP – Tiny Masters, Windom Earle, The Superstitions (Toronto)
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A Couple Halifax Events
15-OCT-08: Third Wed – Halifax Social and New Media Meet Up
25-JAN-09: Halifax Podcamp
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Hanging up on the Pom Phone
The Pomegranate phone is the thrust of a $300 000 “viral” marketing campaign by the Province of Nova Scotia to lure ex-pats back home. It features a mythical mobile phone that can do all sorts of useful things (that actual cell phones can do nowadays) plus some extra “out there” features like a harmonica and [...]
Also posted in Consumerism, Media Watch, Music, Windom Earle 1 Comment
Meg Genius
It recently came to my attention that due to the prolific quality of his work, a Mr. Jack White of a rock band called the White Stripes is considered by many a genius. Having never heard this group who, as I understand, are quite popular in the Western world, I was able to catch them [...]
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Beefed-up Party Tracks
Stairway to Hamilton was recorded in Halifax—where he lived for a spell before returning to Hamilton two years ago—with Dave Ewenson at Echo Chamber. Noticeable on this album is the beefed-up sound on his party tracks, which benefit from the musical input of Windom Earle’s Stephan MacLeod.
From The Coast.
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Grow One
Win a Power Lunch* and a feature story – on you – in Backbone and an iPhone or a Blackberry
*with Dave Chalk, technology expert and our editor, Peter Wolchak
From a recent call from Backbone magazine to get it’s readers to fill out a survey. Very interesting approach, it you expect your readers to understand [...]
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HNiC
Over here at CBC Radio 3, we’ve sifted through thousands of entries and found six themes by six independent Canadian artists that we want you to rate for us on our blog. Will any of these five be in contention for the title?
:: Windom Earle “Get On Into It” (Halifax)
:: Eden Fineday (Vancougar) “The Speed [...]
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Dick Stacey’s Country Jamboree
A Forest of Guitars | MetaFilter
Also posted in Around the World, Halifax, Music, Post, Tee Vee 2 Comments
Tatamagouche tipped the scales on enthusiasm
We are expanding, but Tatamagouche is not a market we are expanding into.—Scott Samways, owner/manager of Hooters in Dartmouth
Hooters not opening in Tatamagouche | Nova Scotia Business Journal
In other Tatamagouche news:
The village in northern Nova Scotia has been chosen as the setting for the next instalment of the reality TV show, The Week the Women [...]
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The Perils of Peeing in the Woods
Two days after he got lost wearing only pants, a ball cap and shoes…Mr. MacIsaac seemed in pretty good spirits for someone who had spent two nights sleeping shirtless on the forest floor.
Two days in the bush, lots of bites | The Chronicle Herald
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Newfie Stroke
This story just disappeared/reappeared on the CBC website:
Ontario woman gains East Coast accent following stroke
Old file name: newfie-stroke.html
New file name: stroke-accent.html
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Dan Norman
There’s something about a recording that when you feeling like you’re going your voice is going on tape you’re liable to, well, do some little thing, make a little slip in saying a word or something in the song that just won’t be perfect. It’s human nature I guess to be a little bit nervous [...]
HELP HPX FIGHT HALIFAX CITY HALL
HPX NEEDS YOU HELP
Please take a minute to read this and write an email to help us get support for our funding application.
BACKGROUND
Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has never had enough funding for any festivals and events.
Halifax Pop Explosion has not received funding in several years, because we stopped applying because the city would only come [...]
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To Be Revisited
It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced everywhere else in the world. It’s no longer a novelty.
— Eamon Hoey from Toronto-based management consulting firm Hoey and Associates
Rogers inks iPhone deal with Apple | The Province
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