Those brilliant little TED videos can trap you in front of your computer screen for hours. Imagine the power of seeing and hearing those words of wisdom in person, and from someone who might just live in your neighbourhood. TEDxNovaScotia is giving you the chance to do just that, bringing together an incredibly eclectic lineup […]
Allison Saunders
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Eric Desmarais and Palimpsest take the Khyber
This may be the busiest weekend the Khyber’s seen in a while. Quebec-based artist Eric Desmarais brings Le mot traduit le bruit des contingences passées (The Word Reflects the Noise of Past Contingencies) to town, an installation that examines the impermanence of sound by playing with its relationship with words and images. Also Palimpsest, an […]
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Snailhouse comes out of his shell
[iamge-1] Mike Feuerstack (AKA Snailhouse) has just given Europe a taste of his new record and now it’s our turn. Sentimental Gentleman may be his sixth full-length, but Feuerstack’s starting to see a growth in his songwriting that’s resulted in a record that is both honest and humourous. “I think it’s just a sign of […]
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The Express’ family ties
It’s a wonder Hey Rosetta!’s Kinley Dowling and her cousin Liam Corcoran (Two Hours Traffic) have time to make more music on the side. But after Corcoran shared some softer, folkier songs with Dowling that stepped outside the lines of his regular rock gig , the two decided that a collaboration was in order. In […]
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Audrey and the Agents
“I used to listen to only country…and The Beatles,” says Audrey and the Agents’ commanding frontwoman Chantal Caissie of her seven-year-old self. It wasn’t until her brother bestowed No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom upon her, and Gwen Stefani’s hardcore on-stage pushups blew her mind, that Caissie began to think about leading a rock band, looking to […]
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Chloe Jones
Chloe Jones is starting over. Well, sort of. After getting warmed up with her debut EP, Old Palace, the UK native, who’s a classically trained pianist with a master’s in pop music, has a new plan. During a recent trip to London for some festival gigs, Jones and her like-minded bandmate Matt Fudge, decided to […]
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Nick Everett
If you see Nick Everett recording that grinding noise that the ventilation system up the street makes, don’t think twice. The man is hardwired to make music. He hears potential in subtle sounds that your ears might miss. “If you’re looking for music, you’ll find it—everywhere,” says the London, ON, native who used everything—from a knocking […]
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Surf’s up at The Seahorse
Every year One Life women’s surf school celebrates the start of summer with a glorious dance party, and now that the sun has finally shown its face, the sixth annual shindig seems pretty timely. Of course the dancing will be in full force with a lineup like this one, but that’s not all that’s on […]
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Miesha & The Spanks are back for more
Miesha Louie calls her fourth release Gods of Love, “a picture of everything that can happen when you’re in love.” The full-length snapshot captures a “love saga” of hers, from one-night stand, to relationship, to heartbreak and all the way back again. And she’s travelling east with that saga for what will be her fifth […]
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Solid Goldstein
Radio wasn’t necessarily a field Jonathan Goldstein sought out in the beginning of his career. As a freelance writer on a mission to get published, it turned out writing essays for radio worked for him. Without realizing it, his conversational narrative-style writing, with cleverly placed jokes, leant itself to being read on air. “Initially I […]
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Good dirt
Usually people don’t care to notice the delicate intricacies of dirt, detritus and vermin, but these works by Cal Lane, Sarah Saunders and Janice Wright Cheney have managed to transform what at first glance looks like a mess into a beautiful and thoughtfully detailed scene. Curators Katie Belcher and Ingrid Jenkner brought the works together […]
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Party time, excellent
The two inner lanes surrounding the north Common are reserved for active transportation this Sunday. Rather than look at those streets as “closed” to traffic, the Halifax Cycling Coalition and the Halifax Regional Municipality are looking at those lanes as open…wide open. Cyclists, skate boarders, roller bladers, unicyclists and yeah, you pedestrians too, are invited […]