Gosh darn IE 7 is giving the website trouble. It looks great on all four mac browsers, but on IE 7 XP there are • all over the sidebar. Dots! Dang. Will work on that tomorrow. I am going to start posting articles again anyway, even though it is not perfect.
Education
Of Myspace, Politics, and other
Short bullet posts seem order of the day today. * I am amused how many dear old friends are suddenly on myspace… when Ben and I created our personal and HPX pages everyone was younger than Ben, and he was 23 at the time. Then slowly the core mid to late twenty set of volunteers and coordinators all registered, then nine or ten months ago, people in their 30s started showing up. Now pretty much – read more –
Halifax
GUEST BLOGGER: It is Africville all over again
“It is Africville all over again,” Reverend Rhonda Britton said at City Hall after council voted to approve the sale of St. Patrick’s-Alexandra school, in the heart of Central Halifax, to a developer. That’s a hard thing for residents of Halifax Regional Municipality to hear, judging from letters to the editor and comments on-line at cbc.ca. – read more –
Music & Culture
RIP Kate McGarrigle
Kate and Anna played HPX in 2005 or 06. It was the day after the CBC strike had ended, and it was really hard to get the word out to the Kate and Anna audience without CBC. I had been told by other, older promoters that Kate and Anna were really hard to work with, with one memorable show in particular where they were they refused to go on stage at the Cohn for hours – read more –