Beth Powning has the gift of drawing her readers into a work. The characters in The Sea Captain’s Wife are enduringly memorable. Set in the 1800s, Powning paints scenes of sea life and its pains, fears, wonders, joys and tragedies. Azuba Bradstock, a young woman from the Bay of Fundy, has recently married Nathaniel, a […]
Charlene Davis
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Members-only Bars: private drinking in Halifax.
Resolutes Club Membership is $10/year. Members get access to free pool, free darts, shuffleboard and the ultimate giveaway: occasional free drink tickets! Two members are needed to represent newbies, but don’t cause a ruckus and you can count yourself in. You can visit three times before signing up and are always sure to find a […]
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Busting a move against breast cancer
“It takes a community to kick cancer’s ass,” says Joan Helson, a breast cancer survivor. Helson learned she had breast cancer on her birthday. Since then, she’s become an advocate for the importance of early diagnosis and treatment and a participant of a fundraiser to buy the mammography equipment Nova Scotia needs. According to the […]
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Will East Coast Dynamics ring the New Year in right this year?
The New Year’s Eve party at the Cunard Centre last year was a fiasco: attendees complained of people not getting patted down at the door (or at least not properly, which caused fears that weapons could have been brought in easily), 20 minute-long drink lines and a coat check that got so out of hand […]
Posted inArts + Music
Kids’ play for IWK
It’s the fifth year for Crafts for Kids, a festival to raise money to buy craft, art and music supplies for children at the IWK. Organizer Lindsay Allain started the event to raise money for sick children, like her own little sister. Allain says her sister “gets excited to stay at the hospital because of […]
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The Wanton Troopers, Alden Nowlan (Gooselane)
Get past the overuse of flowery adjectives and moments where the plot skips ahead with no signal to the reader and Nowlan’s posthumously published The Wanton Troopers is a worthwhile read. Released for the first time with the final page of the original manuscript (plus interviews and a readers' guide with an afterword by David […]
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Art photo project gets bounced – hard
The weekend before last, NSCAD students on a school project ended up in a planned confrontation with an Alehouse bouncer. The controversy has raged ever since, perhaps giving impetus to a proposal to license bar security. The students were clearly on a mission to cause trouble. Bouncers “tend to get angry and tell you that […]
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Little Girls
At the start of the album, the music feels as if it is revving up for something, and then there’s a shift. Left with only the beat for a moment, you’re greeted with background talking and the sound of a singing voice with no discernible words, only to realize the “rev” has already happened and […]
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Peddler’s Closes for Renovations
Feel like a pint at Peddler’s Pub (1880 Granville Street, 423-5033)? Sorry, you’re gonna have to wait awhile. The pub closed down just this morning for a gutting and renovation. General manager Brad Hartlin says he “can’t give any details” about what the renovations will include, but he looked to be pleased about the upcoming […]