Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 17, 2010. It has been edited to remove outdated information. Atlantic Canada is the last stop on the path of Caribbean-formed hurricanes, if they even make it this far. We will often see wet weather as the storms lose speed and strength and shuffle across the province. […]
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Five Nerdy Things You Can Do at Hal-Con This Year
Hal-Con October 26-28 Halifax Convention Centre 1650 Argyle Street free-$125 hal-con.com 1Nerds in Intersection The white male empire has fallen: Meet activist cosplayer Akakioga and multidisciplinary Wolastoqikyik/Canadian artist and animator Tara Audibert. They’ve stormed the gates and raised their flags, and we’re all better for it. Sun, 10:45am 2Librarians: The Myth, The Mystery, The Misconception […]
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5 recommended picks from FIN’s global offerings
Ash Is The Purest White Sunday, September 16, 3pm, Park Lane 7 Ciao (Zhao Tao) is a gangster’s moll in a crumbling Chinese city. When she uses a pistol to protect her boyfriend from a gangland attack, she takes the fall and spends five years in prison. Getting out, she finds her country, her relationships […]
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AIFF 2018: Thom Fitzgerald’s very busy week doesn’t end when Splinters opens the festival
Splinters Thursday, September 13, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, 6101 University Avenue $50 finfestival.ca Thom Fitzgerald is having a busy week. Earlier he was in Toronto for the premiere of his new feature, Splinters, at TIFF. On Thursday night the film opens FIN: The Atlantic International Film Festival. And Friday is the first day of shooting […]
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AIFF 2018: Love, Scott brings a hate crime to light
Love, Scott Monday, September 17, 6:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $22.50 finfestival.ca Scott Jones’ life changed on the night of October 13, 2013, almost five years ago. The openly gay musician was attacked on a New Glasgow street by Shane Matheson, a teenager with a knife. The incident put Jones in hospital […]
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Cheesy James Bondage
Flashback Film Fest February 2-8 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road See cineplex.com for times This week, Cineplex’s Flashback Film Fest—once known as the Great Digital Film Festival—returns with its usual dose of 1980s favourites: Tarantino, Coen brothers and the like. Anything with a robot, monster, alien, time-travelling DeLorean or a rug that really […]
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Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown sees stars
Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams from a Harbourtown Wednesday, September 20, 7:15pm Cineplex Park Lane More info Jackie Smith and Diana Hart have a couple things in common. They’re both in their 50s and aren’t letting a little thing like age stop them from pursuing life goals associated with youth: he fronts rock band […]
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Play Your Gender slays
[IMAGE-1] Play Your Gender August 22-24 More info prismaticfestival.com A woman has never won Producer of the Year at the Grammy Awards and only five percent of women are music producers, despite the Taylors, Beyonces and Adeles dominating the pop landscape. The documentary Play Your Gender gets to the core of the problem— sexism in the […]
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Remembering Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke Days November 17-19 Strange Adventures, 5110 Prince Street Sometimes we’re in the company of a legend and most of us don’t even know it. So it was with comic artist, writer and designer Darwyn Cooke. His career started in his hometown of Toronto, working as an art director in magazines before moving into […]
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10 other films to see at the 2016 Atlantic Film Festival
With the Atlantic Film Festival launching its eight-day marathon of 200-odd movies Thursday night, you will already have a sense of a few of the hyped offerings. There are the Atlantic gems, Weirdos, Maudie and Werewolf (see accompanying story), the international pictures beloved of European festival-goers Julieta and I, Daniel Blake, and Kristen Stewart continuing […]
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Elvis Presley can’t let go of Annett Wolf
[Image-1] “Let me tell you a funny story about Elvis,” says Annett Wolf, the Halifax-based writer, filmmaker and wildlife advocate. “Elvis won’t let go of me.” This week Wolf, 79, is on her way to Bad Nauheim, Germany. Elvis Presley was stationed in the town during his stint in the US army. It’s hosted the […]
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Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival is the big draw in comics
Liz Mac was terrified. It was the first time she was presenting her work as an illustrator at the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival. And there she was, last August at Alderney Landing, beside local stars like cartoonist Andy Cotnam. A self-taught illustrator, she’d only been to DCAF once before, in 2014, and that was as an […]