Feb 12-18, 2009

News + Opinion

• City

  Urban chickens: What the cluck?

  Bureaucrats don't like urban chickens, but peninsula councillors want to take another look.

  By Erica Butler

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• News

  Icy sidewalks

  An interview with Gord Hayward, the guy in charge of clearing city sidewalks

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 16, 2009
• News

  Bayers Road widening: Chebucto Road meeting

  Residents irate at lack of details

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 12, 2009
• News

  1,075 Canadians injured or killed in Afghanistan

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 17, 2009

  
• News

  Violently bureaucratic

  Halifax council discusses the Clairmont report on violence

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 18, 2009

  
• Shoptalk

  Love that t-shirt

  Local artists transform your crappy tees into fashion pieces.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 11, 2009

  
• Shoptalk

  Staff of Life cafe closes

  Quinpool Street retail shop closes, but wholesale business is booming and moving to a bigger bakery.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Feb 16, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Superstore Basket Mystery Solved!

  Quinpool Atlantic Superstore's hand held shopping baskets stolen, not to be replaced. New green baskets for sale.

  By Carsten Knox

  Feb 18, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Invest in Nova Scotia Wine

  Colby Clarke, Valley whiz kid, and the Wine Association of Nova Scotia main grape pickers and stompers.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Feb 16, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Rodeo Lounge: barbershop

  Sandy Lyle opens a barbershop in the popular country and western bar in Burnside.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Feb 16, 2009

  
• Shoptalk

  Dine Out Nova Scotia starts

  Popular, affordable fine dining festival runs until March 1. Get Booking!

  By Andy Murdoch

  Feb 17, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Raw Food Rules

  Georgia Barnwell, Live Food Educator, hosts foodie course on the theory and nutritional aspects of live food.

  By Carsten Knox

  Feb 18, 2009
• Shoptalk

  ur.ban.i.ty boutique salon opens

  By Carsten Knox

  Feb 13, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Sincerely Shoes opens

  High end, boutique women's shoe store on the Bedford Highway opens.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 18, 2009
• Shoptalk

  Total Kneads Massage moves

  After 5 years on Beech Street, co-owners Sarah Letcher and Leah Castel have move to more expansive digs at behind the Oland Brewery.

  By Tim Bousquet

  Feb 26, 2009
• Opinion

  Rodney MacDonald's scrummy politics

  Tories decided to move cabinet scrums from a hallway to a shiny new room---where they stuck the premier onstage, behind a podium---it was a power move.

  By Lezlie Lowe

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Opinion

  No local news is bad news

  Irony of the Information Age: we're a click away from Washington or Ottawa, but when media like the Chronicle Herald cuts back, who will tell us what's happening here?

  By Bruce Wark

  Feb 12, 2009

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Soul's twist on faith

  Vision TV's Soul, the latest dramatic production from Halifax Film, is one of the first in Canada to chronicle black Canadian lives.

  By Tara Thorne

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  The Pink Panther

  Steve Martin's revamped Inspector Clouseau is, you know, for kids.

  By Mark Palermo

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Reed Jones: One angry man

  Spoken word artist, activist and filmmaker Reed Jones, AKA The Pr!ck, "thrives off negative energy and it fuels all my projects."

  By Angelina Chapin

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Arts & Culture

  Frozen River

  Directed by Courtney Hunt (Sony)

  By Tara Thorne

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  KD Lang rolls into Halifax (and environs)

  Howdy, Miss Chatelaine! Lang's Spring tour starts in March and she gets to Halifax in April.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Live shot: Marquee's Last Waltz

  End of an era, little dudes

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 13, 2009

  
• Music

  Wordburglar serves up a piping hot comic

  Snakor-sized

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 16, 2009

  
• Music

  Monotonix are coming back to swing on more things

  Tel Aviv teaches Halifax how to put on a live show

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 13, 2009

  
• Music

  Susanne Hou's natural born talent

  Yi-Jia Susanne Hou came into this world as her father played Beethoven's violin concerto. Now, she's performing it in Halifax.

  By Jane Kansas

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  Freedom to Read Week

  Banned books are a bummer.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 18, 2009

  
• Music

  Bad Brains and Idlers got that PMA

  Darryl Jenifer told you what to doooo, and how to do it!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 17, 2009

  
• Music

  Cabin Fever Rockfest cancelled

  OK, there goes my chance to interview Dokken

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 13, 2009

  
• Music

  Bon Iver

  Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar)

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  Black on Both Sides postponed

  Monday Night Movie event moved to March 9.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 13, 2009

  
• Music

  Living With legacy

  Photo exhibition at Dalhousie documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Rwanda.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 18, 2009

  
• Music

  Share documents well

  See? Halifax pop group Share returns from European tour. Watch their video tour blog and a clip from Balcony TV.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Feb 18, 2009

  
• Music

  Rep cinema report to be released on Monday

  Dalhousie Management Without Borders students make a business case for a rep cinema.

  By Sue Carter Flinn

  Feb 13, 2009

  
• Music

  Justice

  A Cross The Universe (Atlantic)

  By Caley MacLennan

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  The Hylozoists

  L'île de Sept Villes (Outside Music)

  By Sean Flinn

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  The Rhythm Method

  Celebrities With Low Self-Esteem (indie)

  By Laura Kenins

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Music

  A.C. Newman

  Get Guilty (matador)

  By Dave Hayden

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Comics

  Before we met

  By Joey Comeau

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Comics

  You're going in there

  By Jesse Jacobs

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Comics

  True Story

  By Mike Holmes

  Feb 12, 2009

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  Makin' it on love

  Valentine's Day is the busiest day in North America's food calendar. Why restaurants need to feed on our hearts.

  By Andy Murdoch

  Feb 12, 2009

  

Lifestyle

• Savage Love

  Free spirited, my ass.

  Don't come crying to Dan Savage when the man you married wants to swing. Especially when he said so before you said "I do."

  By Dan Savage

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Sex + Dating

  Jenn Grant's change of heart

  On Jenn Grant's gorgeous new album, she glows in the light and bleeds darkness. As she shares her new songs, she wonders how much honesty is too much.

  By Carsten Knox

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Sex + Dating

  The swinger's dance

  Swinging couples are getting together in Halifax, But what actually goes on is a little different than the popular image.

  By Allison Saunders

  Feb 12, 2009

  
• Sex + Dating

  Valentines to Halifax

  The best of our love the way we love section

  Feb 12, 2009