The attentive reader will recall my passing reference to David Swick of last month. He is time and again amazing me with what one reporter can do with a thrice weekly column. His column today in the Halifax Daily News is local reporting at its best. A political blow hard opens his yap trap and …

Why are first things so interesting to us? I had no idea that hack was a 1920's invention at MIT for a gag or prank or that, as we learn in page 41 of the 9 June 2003 New Yorker, that hip-hoppy scratchity records was invented in 1975 by a guy, perhaps only later called Grandmaster Lester, trying …

I like magazines. On the weekend, we took advantage of a Saturday morning with pocket change to troop down to the Market area to get supplies. There is a great newspaper and magazine shop on King Street East right behind the Town Hall called The Towne Crier which has, among other things, The New …

Some of the best writing I have ever read on the web is that of A.A. Gill, the restaurant reviewer in the Style section of the Sunday Times of London. I had stopped reading it for the last few years due to the paper's use of a survey blocking immediate access to their site. I found him again today …

Some of you may know me. Few that do have missed the fact that I like all things ale. I say that specifically as I really have not taken to lagers, those johnny-come-latelies of the zymurgical - based on a yeast isolated only in the late 1830's which ferments at 50 F. It might as well be Koolaid …

I am used to resentment by Gen Xers such as me of Boomers.  Boomers are the bosses who don't get it, the collapsers of their depression-kid parents' pension schemes for the sake of post M&A "rationalization", triumphailists who leave others to pick up the pieces, hippies turned neo-cons. Why …

The next book I am going to read is this one by a guy from Truro, Leo McKay Jr. Well, he works in Truro, gets paid to walk the halls of CEC and - unlike every other person I know who walked the halls of CEC and thought about getting a book published - he actually gets books published. Truro …

Gen X.   Should have been copyrighted by somebody.   Coupland for his book?   Billy Idol for his band?    Common elements I see:  •  Expo 67 as a kid  •  punk rock began just around puberty  •  recessions hit just around started looking for work  •  All the emotional drag of the Cold War without …