Profile: Todd MacLean

by Jane Ledwell

Todd MacLean (photo: Alanna Jankov) Everything in life is about community. It’s a continuous chain of community,” says Todd MacLean, whose community activities range from playing keyboards in the rock band English Words to writing about musical performances for The Guardian to working on his wife Savannah Belsher-MacLean’s fashion magazine, Panache. We are chatting on Victoria Row, a street that Todd’s brainchild, the Nigwek street festival for an organic PEI, will soon transform into a celebration of music and organic food under the banner that “something good is growing.”

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I’m Dining Out Here
by Andrew Sprague

Halifax is one of my favourite cities. I always enjoy myself there. My sister has lived there for almost ten years. Several life-long friends call the Maritime capital home as do a good many fairly new ones. I tend to spend a lot of time there. When I go to Halifax for reasons other than business my itinerary is fairly standard; dinner somewhere nice, followed by drinks which vary in quantity from just a few to how do you do, followed by sleep, followed by breakfast. Rinse, repeat. There might also be some shopping, some sight seeing or some event of some sort thrown in. It’s predictable, granted, but by no means dull. I always have a few laughs and I almost always wake up aching for food. Lately, that all important morning after breakfast in Halifax has been acquired exclusively at what may be the best breakfast joint around, Jane’s on the Common.

Notes from the Road
by Catherine MacLellan

Nina Khosla and Tim Isaac are Lovestorm I’ve been wasting time; a lot of it, working on my garden in bits and pieces but leaving most of the weeds, mowing my lawn when the mood hits me (which isn’t very often) and thinking about possibilities and ideas. Somehow this constitutes a job for me. Middle of August, relaxing, worrying about not doing enough but not doing anything about it.

The Harbourfront Theatre, in partnership with Kool Breeze Farms, is producing and staging a 7-acre “Haunted Cornfield” at the Kool Breeze site on Read Drive in Summerside, with 6 evenings of tours scheduled from mid to late October.

CD Launch

Devin Casario (photo: Sarah DeVenne) Fans of Mars Hill and front man Devin Casario—poet, songwriter and musician—can look forward to the launch of Casario’s latest project, Rooftops & Alleyways. A double album effort reflects Casario’s foray into solo song writing and is supported by way of his latest band and artistic tribe, The Illusion. Rooftops & Alleyways will be presented at Charlottetown’s The YLofts, on October 1. Doors open at 8:30 pm.