Arts
MacLeod in motion
Alexander MacLeod's Giller-nominated first book, Light Lifting, looks at human actions and consequences.
Dance review: Burpee and SINS
Get greedy with two impressive premieres on one bill.
Big Voices present A Little Something for Everybody
Kristi Anderson and Ann Doyle join DaPoPo's Live-In with a funny show about body image.
Almighty Voice and His Wife
The Prismatic Festival and Native Earth Performing Arts bring a heart-breaking story from Canadian history to the Halifax stage.
DaPoPo moves in
The theatre collective hosts its second annual Live-In at Theatre Nova Scotia's Living Room.
Start your pumpkins!
The Windsor-West Hants Pumpkin Regatta floats by this weekend.
Opening the curtain on Prismatic
Onelight Theatre's festival aims to bring mainstream attention to aboriginal and culturally diverse artists, starting this week.
Comics
Food & Drink
Meet Melissa Buote
One year into the job, our restaurant reviewer tells us why writing about food matters.
The Hunt Club opens
A new business concept opened this week, just adjacent from the coming-soon new side of Bubba Ray’s upstairs in Spring Garden Place---but with its own entrance off Dresden Row---called The Hunt Club (5640 Spring Garden Road). It’s a lounge, bar and clothing store. The theory is that guys don’t tend to go out shopping for clothes much, so this is something they can do while they’re having a drink or a bite to eat. The clothes run in denim styles, casuals and boots. Plus, you’ll find clothes and accessories for women, too, since, as manager Krissy Schofield explains, “men like
Slow Food NS goes abroad
Local food association delegates off to Torino
Life & Style
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Free Will Astrology
Name a storm after yourself, Pisces
Making it get better
Dan and hundreds of others reach out to bullied LGBT teenagers. Plus, wailing lovers and closed doors.
7th Avenue is closing
Fashion boutique has inventory clearing sale
Lost & Found showcases north end art
Art, vintage, kitsch store boasts “Best group art show of 2010.” And it just might be.
Classy Tattoos opens
Recently opened is Classy Tattoo Company (6100 Young Street, Suite 114, 455- 5256) featuring Al and Amanda Ferrish, Josh Dobbs and Amanda Crews. They’re three experienced artists and one piercer (Amanda Ferrish), who does everything from dermals to the more personal piercings. The shop’s service is 100 percent custom tattooing: You bring a design or reference or just an idea and they make your tattoo dreams come true. Walk-ins are welcome and students and military receive a 15 percent discount. The website for more information is classytattooco.yolasite.com.
pur alternative October sale
The local online-only company, which passed its one year anniversary at the beginning of October and made a brief stab this year at retail storefront business at the Barrington Place Shops, is offering 15 percent off everything until the end of the month. They offer a wide selection of non-toxic, natural and safe personal care products and household cleaning products. For more info visit their website.
Love the way we bitch
Movies
Welcome to Fubar country
Hoser heroes Terry and the Deaner return to the big screen, minus one testicle and a few brain cells.
Swinton’s swagger
From indie royalty to ice queen, Tilda Swinton defiantly sticks to her personal vision.
Don't spoil Catfish
This doc is infuriating and untrustworthy, but try to stop watching.
Lavish I Am Love
This melodramatic Italian family epic radiates, thanks to Tilda Swinton's presence.
Suck
Directed by Rob Stefaniuk (E1)
Frozen
Directed by Adam Green (Anchor Bay)
Halo: Reach
Xbox 360 (Bungie)
Solving Case 39
You don't need many clues to guess why Rene Zellweger's film stayed on the shelf for two years.
Logging into The Social Network
The Facebook-based film brings a high IQ, without preaching a social discourse on its network.
Secretariat wins by a nose
While the rest of the film lags on, director Randall Wallace makes his money shots with the racing sequences.
Nothing left of My Soul to Take
Wes Craven carves up teenagers in a predictable, boring way.
Life as We Know It ends with this rom-com
Katherine Heigl’s “I’m Julia fucking Roberts!” masquerade lopes futilely onward.
Getting Buried
Ryan Reynolds brings depth to a film that keeps you locked in a buried coffin with his truck driver character.
Music
CANCELLED: Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn unfortunately is canceling his Maritime tour due to a collapsed lung and pneumonia. He was scheduled to perform at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on October 20th. He's planning to reschedule the dates. Get well soon!
Of Montreal Are Coming
You look like a playground to me, player.
North of America releases complete discography online
Check out these beans: http://northofamerica.bandcamp.com/ Listen. Buy something, even. They play two Halifax Pop Explosion shows: one at the Pavilion Friday Oct 22 and the other on Saturday Oct 23 at the Seahorse.
Khyber Doom Love Party
burn your ears, bring your money
The Establishment falls
After eight years The Establishment calls it quits, but they leave behind a parting gift, their new album, The Consumer.
Bend Sinister goes all Canadian
Vancouver band Bend Sinister joins Regina’s Library Voices and PEI’s Paper Lions at the Seahorse, Friday night.
Slowcoaster turns inward
The Cape Bretonners release their fifth album, adding confessional lyrics to the still danceable songs.
Kate Reid tells it like it is
The Vancouver folk artist gets her feet wet with east coast fans.
Flamenco plays it local with Con Brio and Compania Azul
Halifax flavours take the Flamenco Festival stage this week.
The Walkmen
Lisbon (Fat Possum)
Ryan Bingham
Junky Star (Lost Highway)
Small Sins
Pot Calls Kettle Black (Thomas D’Arcy Music)
News
Who hates downtown?
The Chronicle-Herald and Chamber of Commerce abandoned downtown; now they lecture us on how to save it.
The downtown Dartmouth shuffle
Major employers are leaving the downtown core all at once. They’ll soon be replaced, but can merchants survive the transition?
'Mouse vs. rottweiler': update on Ocean vs. Economical
Update on second week of Ocean lawsuit against Economical Insurance in which Ocean continues to argue she feels threatened by the insurance company.
Saving the worst of the worst
Halifax’s intervention program for young criminals is at risk of being cut.
Ottawa vs Halifax convention centres
Which one is a better deal?
Bill Estabrooks says building convention centre is "right decision"
Transportation and infrastructure minister Bill Estabrooks sent an email Wednesday to the NDP's rank-and-file members throughout the province. It explains why "your NDP government has released the financial detail for a proposed new convention centre in Halifax." Near the top of the message, Estabrooks clearly says the government "has not yet made a decision on the project." But by the end it's also pretty clear he's kinda sorta made up his mind: "I believe that this is the right decision, should we choose to go forward with the project." That's a little cart-and-horse, isn't it? If it's the right decision,
Why the convention centre sucks, part 1
No alternative uses for the public money have been suggested, and the alternative proposals for a convention centre were discarded without public explanation. Moreover, the proposed public/private arrangement is a disservice to the public, giving us a crappy convention centre for the money, and handing a huge bill to the future.
Mary Wile gets angry
Clayton Park West councillor says asking people to carry their own coffee mugs is rude
Why the convention centre sucks, part 2
The jobs lie: "person years" become "jobs," and stupid, lazy or complicit editorialists repeat the untruth
Opinion
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