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Monday June 3, 2013
Peter MacKay in a Chevrollac
Posted by Alex Mason
This sculpture by Fenn Martin is on display until the end of June in New Glasgow, at 195 Forbes Street in front of the Celtic Circle. Stephanie talked to Fenn on June 3.
Categories: Sticky
Wednesday April 17, 2013
Bad dishwasher, good cause
Posted by Alex Mason
If you'd like to help Gerry Leblanc's daughter Sophie raise money for the Crohn's And Colitis Foundation Of Canada, here's a link.
https://secure.ccfcfindthecure.ca/ParticipantPage.aspx?PID=24809&L=2&CCID=107&GC=GTv2
Wednesday April 17, 2013
Classic wax with Rita, and Lennie
Posted by Alex Mason
Stephanie brings together songs from one of Rita MacNeil's 'best of' collections, and interview clips from the CBC Archives, to pay tribute to Cape Breton's first lady of song.
Lennie Gallant's classic album "The Open Window" was released in 1994. He dropped into Studio A with stories about how the songs were written, and how the recordings were made.
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Monday April 1, 2013
Classic wax - The Open Window, by Lennie Gallant
Posted by Alex Mason
Lennie Gallant's classic album "The Open Window" was released in 1994. He dropped into Studio A with stories about how the songs were written, and how the recordings were made.
Thursday March 28, 2013
David Myles, Rose Cousins, and more
Posted by Alex Mason
Hear Stephanie Domet and Mainstreet live from the 25th anniversary East Coast Music Awards, with special co-host Ted Blades.
Performers and panelists in the first hour include Thom Swift, Joella Foulds, Ian MacKinnon, Karl Falkenham, Ria Mae, Scott MacMillan, Cam Smith, and Meg Warren.
Performers and panelists in the second hour include Tom Power and The Dardanelles, Colin Grant, Crissy Crowelly, Rose Cousins, Rich Aucoin, and Ben Caplan.
Performers and panelists in the third hour include David Myles, Chris Kirby, Jenn Grant, Christina Martin, and Tim Chaisson.
This audio cannot be downloaded because of copyright restrictions.
Categories: Sticky
Tuesday December 11, 2012
The bright lights of Mainstreet
Posted by Alex Mason
Congratulations to our winners! Ted and Cynthia Siegel of Middle Ohio
You voted their home best decorated for the holidays in Nova Scotia.
Thursday June 9, 2011
Special podcasts on the concert cash report
Posted by Alex Mason
We've done many interviews, and had many calls and emails from you about the Auditor General's report into the concert cash scandal at city hall.
If you want to read the report yourself, find it here.
And if you missed some of our coverage, we've compiled it into two special podcasts. (As of 6pm Thursday, the second audio file is still on the way to our server.)
Categories: archive
Thursday May 12, 2011
S.S. Khandalla on their Studio H experience
Posted by Alex Mason
A few weeks back, School of Rock contest champs S.S. Khandalla spent a weekend collecting their prize. Ryan Langdon, Justin Tousignan, Evan Stoney and Danaan Pederson won a recording session in CBC's Studio H with ECMA-winning producer Karl Falkenham.
Stephanie chatted with Ryan and Karl about how recording in the CBC studio was different from recording in a basement in Windsor. "We had no idea what to expect going into a studio that nice," Ryan said. "The electrician who did Studio H probably did a better job. We get shocked by our gear pretty often."
You can hear that interview, and the Studio H recording of the band's song "Rufio" on Monday's Mainstreet. In the meantime, click the picture below to watch the band in an audio slideshow, set to their song "Sleep" (also recorded in Studio H).
Three bands performed for our judges in our inaugural School of Rock contest.
Jailyn Cry, from Antigonish, had won the online vote in the semi-finals.
The Trips, from Mahone Bay, were picked by the judges as first runners up.
Categories: archive
Monday April 11, 2011
Local guy wins Hobo With A Shotgun contest
Posted by Alex Mason
We've updated our Hali-wood Goes Horror-wood podcast. It's a special hour-long compilation of all our interviews with movie director Jason Eisener, and it now includes his April 11th appearance on Mainstreet with Keith Hodder from Mineville. Keith's trailer Van Gore just won the Hobo With A Shotgun trailer contest, and will be featured on the Hobo DVD & Blu-ray. In this podcast, we also meet Rutger Hauer (who plays the Hobo) on the Hobo set during production in Halifax. Another local guy, Mark Palermo, talks about how he got a big break and ended up co-writing the horror/comedy Detention. And finally, Mainstreet's Alex Mason talks about the appeal of movies where horrible things happen to the characters on screen, including the (say what?) sexual attraction one woman confesses to feeling toward a notorious pop culture serial killer.
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Also: we have a mini podcast with the entire Mainstreet crew doing a tag-team review of Hobo With A Shotgun, the day after it's red carpet premiere in Halifax.
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(You can also subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store - search for Mainstreet Halifax.)
Thursday March 3, 2011
Another podcast - sexy babes, Big Foot '76, and stadiums
Posted by Alex Mason
Stephanie Domet talks to a poet, a pastor, and a philosopher about why little girls wear sexy clothes. Alex Mason remembers a pop culture moment from 1976. And Bill Roach asks half a dozen Nova Scotians whether we can afford to build a stadium in metro, and whether we can afford not to. Stream it here...
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(Or follow this link if you want to be able to right click and save the audio to your computer. You can also subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store - search for Mainstreet Halifax.)
Wednesday February 23, 2011
School of Rock highlights, and other 2011 podcasts
Posted by Alex Mason
We've just created another podcast full of highlights from our first School Of Rock contest. Listen in as the three finalists play live for our judges.
Click here to listen (Or follow this link if you want to be able to right click and save the audio to your computer. You can also subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store - search for Mainstreet Halifax. This podcast might take a few hours to show up at iTunes, and on the download page.)
LAST WEEK, we compiled the most dramatic moments from our conversations with the judges -- as they picked five semi-finalists, and then three more when several bands pulled out and were disqualified. You'll also hear excerpts of songs from ten of the bands that competed.
Click here to listen You can subscribe for our podcast and download audio at the iTunes store. Search for "Mainstreet Halifax."
OUR OTHER FEBRUARY PODCAST...
There's talk in the news about the amount of property tax businesses pay downtown, compared to the amount paid in the suburban business parks. Bernie Smith - formerly with a merchant's group on Spring Garden Road, and now promoting businesses in the Agricola Street neighbourhood - is calling for a freeze on taxes downtown. And some of the basis for this is an analysis done by accountant Andrew Murphy a year ago. Andrew Murphy tells us one of the reasons his analysis continues to have an impact is because a lot of people heard two detailed interviews we did with him last February. So we've packaged those into a podcast.
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MORE PODCASTS, from last month...
The CBC's Nina Corfu finds out why a waiter in Halifax doesn't like paramedics, and tells guest host Bill Roach about other things she learned reading a very entertaining local blog. And we ask Bill Black and Lars Osberg if our provincial government can afford to do anything other than cut, cut, cut, as it tries to reposition Nova Scotia's economy in 2011.
Click here to listen (Or follow this link if you want to be able to right click and save the audio to your computer.)
IN ANOTHER PODCAST from January, hear our phone-in on whether schools should stay open on storm days. Also, Mainstreet's Alex Mason wonders why some people insist on acknowledging the "and" in the acronym for Utility And Review Board. And Bill Roach gets a skating lesson with the Mayor of Halifax (let's hope it doesn't turn into a "crash course") at the speed skating oval on the Common.
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Categories: Podcasts
Thursday November 4, 2010
School of Rock audio archive
Posted by Alex Mason
We've archived all Stephanie's conversations with our contest judges, and the bands that made it to the semi-finals.
Stephanie introduces the judges
Snow & Blackbirds named first semi-finalist
S. S. Khandalla named second semi-finalist
Snow & Blackbirds disqualified, Callum Moscovitch is in
Callum Moscovitch withdraws, Always Distracted is in
The Trips are in; Eco-Shock is in and then withdraws
The judges sample several bands, and settle on Autumn Falls
Jailyn Cry wins a wild card draw and the vote is on
Stephanie talks to members of Always Distracted
Stephanie talks to members of S. S. Khandalla
Stephanie talks to members of Jailyn Cry
Stephanie talks to members of The Trips
Stephanie talks to members of Autumn Falls
Categories: schoolofrock
- Jonathan DeRouchie
- Stephanie Domet
- Nov. 27 – Free For All!
- Oct. 5 – Squash pie!
- May. 29 – Win a sweet ride!
- Apr. 19 – Memorable movie lines
- Jan. 30 – Under the sea!
- Dec. 19 – Books for kids
- Dec. 15 – Speaking Volumes recommends...
- Dean Gallant
- Feb. 6 – Searchlight
- May. 31 – Bicycle Beater Contest
- May. 15 – The Ultimate East Coast Workout Playlist
- Dec. 8 – Children's Book Reviews
- Kathy Large
- Apr. 4 – April 4, 2013.
- Nov. 19 – A Letter to HRM Council
- Alex Mason
- Jun. 3 – Peter MacKay in a Chevrollac
- Apr. 17 – Bad dishwasher, good cause
- Apr. 17 – Classic wax with Rita, and Lennie
- Mar. 28 – David Myles, Rose Cousins, and more
- Dec. 11 – The bright lights of Mainstreet
- Nov. 4 – School of Rock audio archive
- Katy Parsons
- Nov. 27 – Obscured Crosswalks
- Jan. 30 – Football Coach Mike Tanner
- Zahra Sethna
- Apr. 21 – S.S. Khandalla unveils new tracks
- Apr. 19 – Washmill underpass - a modest proposal
Cogswell Interchange Forum
On March 27th, CBC Mainstreet hosted a forum on the challenges and opportunities for developing the 16 acres of land.