An alert reader [points out] claims that although musician Denis Ryan is one of Nova Scotia's most successful investors, he is not now and has never been a restaurateur. Perhaps that's why he is such a successful investor. [Update: Several readers report that Ryan once held an interest in the Antigonish bar now called Piper's Pub. I think that makes this a correction within a correction to a correction.] Darn. All those Irish folksingers look alike. I've corrected the original post, which, ironically, was prompted by another news organization's similar flub. In strict blog etiquette, I should leave the original mistake in place, but...

13 December, 2010

In the window of J.W. Doull Bookseller, on Barrington Street in Halifax, today: Our Sincere Apologies To the owners of The Palace, Bubbles' Mansion, Peddlar's Pub, The Alehouse, The Dome, The Lower Deck, Maxwell's Pub, The Midtown, The Old Triangle, Cheers, The Split Crow, Durty Nellie's, &c* It is clear that one of our customers, upon leaving our shop after browsing in the mind-altering world of books, must have gone on to cause some sort of upset in one of your establishments. Whereupon some brave customer of yours in a fit of most laudable loyalty, then saw fit to smash...

07 November, 2009