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Two projects aiming to create cultural hubs in the downtown will both depend on public funding, but organizers for the renovated Khyber building and Culture Link Inc. aren’t worried about stepping on each other’s toes. Earlier this month the newly created Culture Link Inc. announced plans to convert the former World Trade and Convention Centre…
Thank you for picking me up after the McKay shuttle drove right past me and catching up to it so I could get on! You’re the best! —Grateful bus rider
Why not just ask me for liquor money? I always give the the guy in Montreal five dollars for beer; at least that’s for what he says it is that he wants the money. “Look, I’ll be honest with you. I’m an alcoholic and I’m looking for beer money…” I respect and reward his honesty.…
Behind me during cardio, beside me during stretching, and almost into me at the coat section. Had I not been shy, I might have been more than awkward as all hell. —From the brunette woman in black at the downtown gym
“We were there since we opened!” says Meg Ryan of the news that her beloved Barrington Street boutique, Bowtique Hair & Makeup, had made a move to Granville Square— 1861 Granville to be exact. “But change is good. Everyone here is really excited.” The move means instead of over-looking a busy downtown strip, the salon…
Sometimes you fill your free time with walks in the park, hangouts with friends and meandering mornings at the market, and sometimes you start a small business. At least that’s what you do if you’re Graham Ereaux. A touring musician (Ereaux is known as Devarrow on stage), he was looking to keep busy and employed…
Seasons Friday, April 21 & Saturday, April 22, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $10 tickethalifax.com When you think of classical music, the tune that comes to mind might be Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It was re-composed as a minimalist piece by Max Richter in 2012, and once again is the subject of re-imagined post-modernity.…
Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway April 22-July 9 MSVU Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition explores the work of Canadian photographer Brenda Francis Pelkey in the artist’s first-ever retrospective. With a career spanning over three decades, the subjects of Pelkey’s photographs range from empty strip clubs and courtrooms, to…
Dialect Saturday, April 22, 7pm NSCAD Port Campus, 1107 Marginal Road $15/$25/$100 Toronto high-fashion brand Beaufille, full of neutral-hued separates and slick slip dresses, is a study in restrained volume that begs to be shown off at the city’s chicest spots. But swirling amongst the bell sleeves, shooting through oversized tartan re-imagined as a fluid,…
Dear Ask Hole, I’ve always thought that a little gentle ribbing was endearing. But, recently one of my jokes didn’t go over so well. My friend “Julie” is a textile artist, and when she asked if I’d be at her opening, I joked that “If I wanted to see some old afghans, I’d go to…
The plot of Free Fire is like a Syd Field screenwriting exercise: “Set a gunfight in one room. Make it last 80 minutes. One person lives.” The options include Armie Hammer as a cocky arms dealer, Cillian Murphy as the gun-buyer, Brie Larson as The Girl, Sam Riley as a dirtbag and Enzo Cilenti as…
SmartPhone Film Festival Screening & Awards Party Friday, April 21, 7-10pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library $10 tickethalifax.com It’s that time of year again: We’re getting ready to share some big stories told through some small devices. On Friday, you can hit up the 3rd annual SmartPhone Film Festival awards show—affectionally called “the Spiffies.”…
I am tired of going on runs downtown just to be catcalled/yelled at/hit on by men (mostly older, mostly white). This happened on three separate occasions during my run yesterday. I have headphones in, I am breathing heavily, I am clearly by no means looking for social interaction of any kind. Stop trying to hit…
The Danish director Lone Scherfig returns after 2014’s sour rich boy drama The Riot Club with this dashing film-within-a-film, starring Gemma Arterton as a screenwriter hired for a propaganda film set around the battle of Dunkirk. (Note to Christopher Nolan: This is how you get women into your war movie.) The always-welcome Bill Nighy is perfectly…
Since June 2015, cyclists have not been allowed to cross the Macdonald Bridge on their bikes. While drivers have only had to deal with bridge closures on evenings and weekends, the bridge has been closed to cyclists all of the time. As the bike lane re-opening keeps getting pushed further and further ahead, I continue…
The longlisted artists for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award—Canada’s pre-eminent contemporary art award—have been announced and of course we are celebrating extremely hard on behalf of the five Atlantic artists: Eleanor King, Graeme Patterson, Lisa Lipton, Melanie Colosimo and Ursula Johnson (complete list of artists below). The prize is given annually to an artist aged…
How sad you once again killed off the commenters on LTWWB. You realize they are the best part of your rag, right? Was it in response to challenges made to your reporters? And closing comments before allowing them? How sad. —Sad LTWWB Fan
Science isn’t everything. But it is crucial to governing, decision-making, protecting human health and the environment and resolving questions and challenges around our existence. Those determined to advance industrial interests over all else often attack science. We’ve seen it in Canada, with a decade of cuts to research funding and scientific programs, muzzling of government…
Woah, wowow do I ever have some amazing people in my life. You all have contributed to give me such a beautiful, beautiful gift. It’s a dream come true! Thank you to my partner for orchestrating it all—you’re the best! I will honour this treasure for as long as I can. Let the music flowww.…
Well that was fun while it lasted! The comments section was the best part! Oh well, the end of the era, I guess I have no reason to bother coming back. I guess the only way to get my kicks now is doing LSD, that crazy acid. —Poor Uncle Pennybags
I get that it’s an off leash area in a park, but when I’m driving past on my bike and not 1 but 6 dogs come running at me you obviously do not have control of your animal like the law requires. Use your common sense! —Next time I’ll use my mace
Once is the simple story of a man and woman who meet in Dublin, connect over a song, and tip toe around their quickly deepening love because they both know it just won’t work. The story is sweet and almost without serious conflict because the characters behave like rational adults who don’t keep secrets to…
We met in line while waiting at Willy’s for Poutine. You: Donair, and me: Bacon poutine. I showed you mine, you showed me yours. The Penguins won. I got freaked out because my d-bag boyfriend was nearby. He literally showed me during the cab ride home why I should have stayed and talked to you…
I recently had a conversation with my bro and my husband about what life would be like stranded on a desert island. I said I’d enjoy time in the sun and living on coconuts. They informed me I would not be able to survive off whole coconuts because apparently they give you one of two…
You had an Easter Egg hunt on “GOOD FRIDAY”? at a Bedford Christian church? — dan-da-man
10 Tristan Perich’s artist talk Saturday The composer and sound artist who specializes in one-bit symphonies shares a peek into his process. 9 Spring Fling: A Queer Slow Dance Friday An old-fashioned slow dance complete with dance cards. 8 Billow and Well & Bone and Bough Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday Figurative paintings…
In one of the biggest Atlantic Canadian media stories in recent memory, the Chronicle Herald has purchased all of Transcontinental’s 28 newspapers, websites and four of its printing plants. All of Transcontinental’s media outlets in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have been sold and will operate—along with the Herald’s…
There’s a new council in town. Last fall’s election went and disrupted the political DNA at City Hall. Some heavy hitters—at least in terms of career lengths—are gone from council chambers and a new team of fresh, young faces are finding their footing and taking over the city’s reins. It’s a strong group that already…
Stewart Legere album release Wednesday, April 19, 7:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen St. $20/$25 tickethalifax.com Stewart Legere walks in the side door of Tom’s Little Havana on Dresden Row wearing a mix of denim and leather, taking off tortoise-shell sunglasses to reveal blue eyes sparkling with excitement—and for good reason. The multi-disciplinary artist is…
7th Annual Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 19-22 various locations free The Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival has come a long way since its first year, co-founders Tara Taylor and Shelley Fashan remember. “We had one day and one sponsor in our first year,” Taylor says with a chuckle. The festival focuses on diverse,…
As the final resting place for about 150 people who perished in the April 15, 1912, sinking of the Titanic, Halifax draws a steady stream of tourists to the local cemeteries where the dead were interred: Mount Olivet Catholic, Baron de Hirsch and Fairview Lawn. The three graveyards comprise the largest burial ground for Titanic…
There has been much discussion in the news regarding sexual abuse and the way that lawyers (defence and the Crown), police and professionals-at-large treat victims. I have read and heard people wax poetic for better training, the end of victim blaming and the end of re-victimization by a system that is supposed to help survivors.…
Fossil fools I am visiting Halifax from Calgary, just reading your paper for the first time. There is a letter, “Fossil fuel flop” by Alison Petten, and I’m wondering if there’s any chance she could let us know which subsidy she is referring to when she writes about Justin Trudeau’s budget cutting subsidies to the…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19) Before visiting Sicily for the first time, American poet Billy Collins learned to speak Italian. In his poem “By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa,” he describes how the new language is changing his perspective. If he were thinking in English, he might say that the gin he’s drinking while…
Yeah Yeahs 66 Ochterloney Street Opening in May It’s a little bit smoky in the prep kitchen at Yeah Yeahs. Josh Nordin and Dean Petty are testing out dough with their head dough maker, Sal Mosca. He stretches and tosses one of the half dozen dough balls he has with him and then tops it…
Q I’m a 27-year-old male with a 42-year-old girlfriend. We met at work; we were both going through divorce. At the beginning, holy moly! My dream girl in the bedroom. We’ve been together for a year, and the sex is still the best I’ve ever had—she says she feels the same—but it’s vanilla. I am…
Name: Ashley Wells Age: 29 Occupation: Barber, Oddfellows Barbershop Spotted: Halifax Shopping Centre Wearing: Coat, from Korean shop online; dress, Value Village; choker, Urban Outfitters; undershirt, Tommy Hilfiger; fishnet socks, ASOS; Doc Martens How would you describe your style? I currently love so much of men’s street wear. I am also heavily influenced by hip hop…
