Arts
2b, now and forever
Homage, 2b theatre's new production, is a story about art-making and legacy set inside a massive wooden sculpture.
Veni Vidi O yeah!
This Saturday, 8pm at the Khyber ICA, you’re in for a real treat as the fourth Veni Vidi O, a free night of video-based art and performance, comes to Halifax. A creative project of artists Stewart Innes and Alison Kobayashi, the first three nights were hosted at Toronto’s Lennox Contemporary. Innes tells me that there will be one formal room that will show a loop of narrative-based work, plus installations and more experimental videos in the Ballroom, and a musical performance by electro-demon Snow Picnic, featuring projections by Noah Logan. (There’s a secret late-night performance too. I know what it
Elaine McCluskey gets punchy
Last Thursday, Elaine McCluskey launched her new novel Going Fast, at the Ultimate Dojo in Dartmouth. This may seem like a bizarre location for a literary event, but McCluskey’s book is set ringside to Halifax’s lively boxing scene. Although McCluskey’s boxing club is a composite of many gyms she’s visited, there is one commonality: Her novel “opens with one of the fighters walking up a flight of stairs and coming into this little gym on the second floor, and even though the book isn’t based on the Dojo, you also walk up a flight of stairs into a second-floor
Halifax tales: Enter our postcard fiction contest
The winning story wins $100 prize, and will be published in The Coast.
Merritt Awards Results
We walk the red carpet to honour the finest in Nova Scotian theatre.
Comics
Food & Drink
Seaport looks for new markets
The Farmers' Market is moving to Seaport Market, and they're asking community groups for inspiration.
Life & Style
Safe words
If you and your partner want to enact rape fantasies, make sure to lay down ground rules: safe words, written consent; even better, record the agreement, just so everyone knows the boundaries.
Atlantic Fashion Week hits Spring Garden
Events Friday and Saturday feature catwalks in Spring Garden Place and live mannequins in Park Lane.
Outside the Lines Moving Down the Street
After four-and-a-half years, the Outside The Lines: Books For Critical Minds (6297 Quinpool, 422-3544) bookstore is picking up its political texts, guides, children's books, quality fiction and free-thinking tomes, and moving a few doors east, to the former location of Kung Fu T-Shirts. "My lease was almost up, the building was sold, there was a rent increase," says owner Bob Haywood, offering reasons for the change of address. "The usual sorts of things." In our hazy memory of the t-shirt and kitch shop that was Kung Fu, it seemed a lot smaller than the current location of Outside The Lines.
Little Mysteries sale and anniversary
Mind, Body, Sprit bookstore Little Mysteries Books on Barrington celebrates 14 years next week. Check out their sales!
More on Fizz and new Agricola cafe.
Champagne bar on Argyle bought up by neighbours to be separate biz, and Caf Aroma Latino & Italian Gourmet coming to North & Agricola.
Classical gets a pass
Why does The Coast operate on the assumption that most of your readers are not interested in classical music.
Abandon all cash
Have you contested a parking ticket recently? Here's how it works. There should be a sign above the door leading into court that reads "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
Love the way we bitch
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Tabby Genocide
To the fucking twats that have hit two cats on Summit Street in the past 5 days- a big, fat FUCK YOU! Do you not have the fucking courtesy to at least knock on SOMEBODY'S door, or even to just fucking stop?! It's a small neighbourhood- someone will know who's cat you just massacred. And slow the fuck down! There's kids here, too. Will you stop and ask around when you hit one of them?! ---sad
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Who Am I Now?
My son grew up and left home. Nobody warned me he'd take my entire identity and all of my happiness with him... and he's so far away. What am I if not Mom? Nobody warned me about this. I hate my life now. Why don't we hear about this from other women before we think procreation is a good thing? It's horrible! I don't even want to feel better about it. I raised a great kid who's independent. I'm considered a success by my peers. I feel I've died inside. WTF? ---wasAmom
Movies
Changeling
Directed by Clint Eastwood (Universal)
The Best Worst Movie
Sometimes a movie hurts so bad, it feels good. Like Troll 2, voted one of the worst films ever made.
The Last House
Remake of Wes Craven's 1972 classic registers its violence with disgust.
Miss March
Stuck in the 90s, this movie more grating than endearing.
Pontypool
Leave it to Bruce McDonald to put a twist on the usual zombie fare.
Music
Nerd Army powers up
Saves princess in process
Joy Ryder
Serena Ryder's Is It O.K. was born out of personal loss, but she hopes her music will bring "peace of mind or peace of heart" to others.
John Fogerty ahoy
For a university town, we sure do well on the state fair circuit
U2
No Line on the Horizon (Vertigo)
And did we mention...more wins?
Myles, Plaskett and Carroll (again!) throw down, song styles
Disturbed drops into the Forum
photo Michael Montes Remember Disturbed? Relive your past on May 30 when the Chicago quartet rocks the Forum (nice to see shows there again!). Tix on sale Friday here and here.
The Creeps
These Walls (Black Pint)
Kelly Joe Phelps
Sunday, March 22 at The Carleton, 1685 Argyle, 9pm, $30, 422-6335
Andrew Hunter and the Gatherers
self-titled EP (indie)
Fiction Family
Fiction Family (ATO Records)
Joel Plaskett
Three
Live gig: Kiran Ahluwalia
Sunday, March 15, 8:22pm, at St. Matthew’s Church.
News
First report on Halifax Homeless released
The Community Action on Homelessness released its first report this week. (Read the full report here) The group found that last year 1,252 people stayed in a shelter at least once; that figure breaks down as 753 men, 340 women, 82 youth aged 16 to 19 and 77 children. The average length of stay in a shelter was 26 days. The group stresses that those numbers arent complete; they counted just 154 of a total of 194 shelter beds, and they didnt attempt to measure those living in vehicles or couch surfing. Nor does it count people sleeping outside, which
Victims of the Herald
Halifax Herald staff reductions result in 24 jobs lost, 24 lives disrupted. But their pain is only the beginning of the pain for the community.
Streetcar desires
We used to have trams in Halifax. We used to make them here, too. Who wouldn't want to ride the rails again?
Bad bus drivers
An epidemic of bad press about its drivers causes Metro Transit to re-evaulate driver training.
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