A word of advice to the handlers of mayoral wannabe Adam Giambrone: lose the U2 Beautiful Day bit. Try Ice Cube’s We Had To Tear This Mothafucka Up on your next big campaign stop. Cuz kickin’ up dust is a must in this campaign if there’s any hope of winning it.

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Andy Bichlbaum is an easygoing guy. Campy, animated GIFs dance on his laptop, and he cites beer as a big factor in his work. He’d make an awesome-cool prof, and in fact, he is one.

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Black History Month

1. Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia set sail in a convoy of 15 ships across the Atlantic to found a colony of free blacks, appropriately named Freetown, in Sierra Leone in 1792. It’s a mere 30 kilometres from the notorious slave transit point Bance Island.

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I arrived in Haiti in the middle of a perfect vacation.

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Festivals

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