Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #50 (Jan 27)
Ebay antlers, Mahone bagels, and several centenarians.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #49 (Jan 20)
Hit or pass, mustard gas and breaking glass.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #48 (Jan 13)
The price is always right, tiny golden monkeys and long live Santa's village.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Freelance: The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 30 (#383)
December 26 - January 9, 2002

ARTS> High class currency
Hip-hopper Buck 65 comes home for the holidays.
by Iain K. MacLeod

There was once a time when actually getting your hands on a Buck 65 release was a game of chance. Since the fall, Warner Music Canada has re-released five albums from his critically acclaimed back catalogue, including Language Arts, Vertex, Man Overboard, Synesthesia and Weirdo Magnet. On top of that, Buck released the highly anticipated Square, which has already been nominated for an East Coast Music Award for urban recording of the year. He was then promptly whisked off to make in-roads in Europe by way of an all-expenses-paid hip-hop sabbatical in Paris, France.

"I am back, basically here for the holidays and to finish up recording the new album with Charles Austin at Ultramagnetic," says Buck, born Richard Terfry, peering out from under his blue "Keep Nova Scotia Farming" ball cap. He has already made plans to return to Paris after his world tour in the new year, so his Marquee show December 27 will be your last chance to catch him for a while.

Terfry, a native of Mount Uniake, had never lived outside of Nova Scotia, so Paris was a bit of an eye-opener. "If there is a big city that is going to work for a country boy from Nova Scotia like me, maybe this is it," says Terfry, commenting on Paris's relatively slow pace and appreciation for the arts. With lots of time on his hands, he "cased" Paris by strolling the Left Bank, discovering weekly ragtime jazz jams and amateur readings. He found a really heavy record dealer who specialises in incredibly obscure European records and ingested copious amounts of cinema. Oh, and he also penned the first draft of a novel.

For more, pick up an issue of The Coast

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #47 (Jan 6): Riding the rails, rotten parenting and some religious news. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #46 (Dec 30): Caribou intestines, Cow's ice cream and Choice Tobacco. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column: A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #45 (Dec 23): Marijuana, benzene and furnace oil. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #44 (Dec 16): Maritime migration, piles of plastic and elder abuse. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #43 (Dec 9): A terrific tree, crazy chemicals and bizarre boxing blurbs. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #42 (Dec 2): Dangerous dumpsters, cat cages and jailed Johns. By: Iain K. MacLeod

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The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 26 (#379)
November 28 - December 5, 2002

Reverb's fourth annual CD Buying Guide
The best of 2002 -- and what you haven't heard yet. by Iain K. MacLeod, Matt Charlton, Trevor Savory, Tara Thorne, Simone McKenzie, Chuck Teed and Trevor MacLaren.

Reverb's 2002 Hip-Hop Top Ten (The Short Version)
10 - Sixtoo, Duration (Cease and Desist)
09 - Gruf, Druidry (Peanuts & Corn)
08 - Various, Goodnight Music Presents (Goodnight Musics)
07 - Atmosphere, God Loves Ugly (Fat Beats)
06 - EL-P, Fantastic Damage (Definitive Jux)
05 - Edan, Primitive Plus (Lewis Recordings)
04 - Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow (MCA)
03 - Buck 65, Square (Warner)
02 - J-Live, All of the Above (Coup D'etat)
01 - N*E*R*D, In Search Of... (Virgin)

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #41 (Nov 25): Terrorist threats, Kilbride vigilantes and tomb stone repossession. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #40 (Nov 18): Post-secondary awards, multi-toed cats and water-free urinals. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote: "You'll know that we jumped the shark when we finally do a special episode about the squeaky-voiced teen." Matt Groening on The Simpsons (RS 910)

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #39 (Nov 11): Halloween havok, Navy blues and destroyed developments. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Exclaim! - Canada's Music Authority
November 2002

Concert Reviews: Halifax Pop Explosion (Oct 3-6) By: Carla Gillis and Iain K. MacLeod.

Pick up your free copy of Exclaim across Canada and read my reviews of Chore, The Goods, K-Os, Greg MacPherson, Rockfour, Martin Tielli and Universal Soul.

Or check out this link!

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #38 (Nov 4): Training in Purcell's Cover, shooting up on PEI and surviving in Cape Breton. By: Iain K. MacLeod

The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 22 (#375)
October 31 - November 7, 2002

Hip to the groove
Sound and style come together at Metro's first Player's Ball. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Pick up your free copy of The Coast around greater Halifax and read about this hip-hop, semi-formal, fashion and music showcase taking place at the Prince George on Saturday.

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #37 (Oct 28): Stealing software, planning in Pippy Park and crushing crustaceans. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #36 (Oct 21): The Queen is seen, a barrack implodes and fires are started. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #35 (Oct 14): Stopping shopping, undonating money and homemade hockey stick art. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #34 (Oct 7): Tick terror, poster police and the rod of discipline. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #33 (Sept 30): New Brunswick men of adventure, people who live in concrete houses and military technology that will help you digest. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #32 (Sept 23): A new name, tales from the sea and religious wrangling. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #31 (Sept 16): Blowing smoke, baring it all for booze and by-law proposals. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #30 (Sept 9): A fire in a bird's nest, sleeping through a sentence and tearing down "The Barn." By: Iain K. MacLeod

The Coast - Halifax's Weekly
Volume 10 Number 14 (#367)
September 5 - September 12, 2002

Just brain folks
This squad of competitive computer scientists -- Steven Perron, Jonathan Sharkey and Chad West -- is the brightest team in the SuperCity. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Pick up your free copy of The Coast around Halifax to read the story or visit the Saint Mary's Department of Mathematics and Computing Science to learn more about the sport of programming!

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #29 (Sept 2): Tourism is Turning Japanese on PEI, Police Professionals meet in NS and Befriending Belugas in NF. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #28 (Aug 26): Unidentified Floating Triangles, different dunes and taking a gamble on horse racing. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #27 (Aug 19): People protesting, police protecting and parishioners paying. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #26 (Aug 12): Humanity, humiliation and hazardous husbands. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #25 (Aug 6) Taking a financial risk, getting really sick and smelling something funny at the town hall. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Possible career change? I doubt it. I did my first voice over work for a co-worker's short film called Rise of the Empire. It's a fake Star Wars trailer for Episode III done completely with Lego men (and women). I play a storm trooper that says "Halt!" It was submitted for competition at BrickFest 2002 and won the Audience Choice award.

I finally got around to scanning some older pics for the mirror project. I have a lot of mirror pictures, but only a couple of them have me in them and follow the site specifications. This one is a self-portrait using a series of mirrors at the Delta Prince Edward in Charlottetown, PE. It was during the ECMA weekend last year. This one was either en route or returning from a white water rafting expedition in Maine. We stopped in Fredericton and I snapped this picture. Ah, fun with mirrors.

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #24 (July 29): Parading around Halifax, people against pepper spray and hundreds of messages in hundreds of bottles.By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #23 (July 22): The masculine minority in Nova Scotia, racial tension in New Brunswick, dead fish in Prince Edward Island and ducking the law in Newfoundland. By: Iain K. MacLeod

My MeFi post on "Braincandy" (My first post was last week for Phil's Rockin' Blogroll).

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #22 (July 15): Bears, bonds, beaches and a bunch of support for Northern Exposure. By: Iain K. MacLeod

"The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form -- www -- takes three times longer to say than what it's short for," the late Douglas Adams on abbreviations (National Post)

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #21 (July 8): Glorious green spaces, mysterious Molotov cocktails and we are all bound to fall down sometime. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #20 (July 1): $2 million worth of hockey scores, over six thousand books read and a rare glimpse of "The Christmas Shoes." By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #19 (June 24): Rioting in the streets, anthrax hits the books and a downright hairy situation. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #18 (June 17): Promising prosperity in 2020, firefighting arsonists and an apple scab a day. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Revenge of the rap nerds
Freestyle champ ADeeM Sweet Talks Halifax.
by Iain K. MacLeod

Last summer, a spliff-smoking reporter from the Australian indie hip-hop publication Stealth referred to ADeeM as "possibly the nerdiest white rapper" at Cincinnat's Scribble Jam. ADeeM went on to freestyle his way past dozens of well-respected MCs like Sage Francis (Non-Prophets) and Slug (Atmosphere), and took home top honours during the hotly contested MC battle.

Pick up a copy of The Coast to read the rest of the story or visit The Dorian Three to get the latest news on underground hip-hoppers ADeeM, DJ MF Shalem and Adverse.

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #17 (June 10): Smelly situations, mechanical bug-eaters and a naughty flash on the tube. By: Iain K. MacLeod

A to Z: Atlantic News Perspective #16 (June 3): Underground midwives, runaway spools and the notorious bloodworm wars. By: Iain K. MacLeod

Idiots say the darndest things.