What do yarn wrappings and the new Halifax Central Library have in common? Imagination, which is just what the people behind the Central Library’s steering committee are looking for. Bring your knitting apparel—or use what’s provided—and help make tree wrappings at the Foggy Goggle knit-in on Monday. After the pieces are done, the wraps will […]
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Opening Hidden Windows
Taking a few minutes to talk over the phone about Hidden Windows while making her way to Halifax for Obey, artist Stacey Ho finds a quiet place to explain the exhibition’s inspiration. “The show takes its name from Kevin and Vanessa’s piece,” she begins, saying that Kevin Hainey and Vanessa Rieger recorded a single-channel video […]
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Screening of Broken Deer/Alice Cohen Video
Brooklyn-based artist Alice Cohen and Broken Deer (AKA Lindsay Dobbin) have collaborated on a stop-motion collage video, with Cohen providing the images and Broken Deer sitting on the musical end. The catch? They’ve never met. “The video collaboration came about after Lindsay saw another video I made on the internet—she sent me her music, and […]
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That Bloody Joey Comeau
“One bloody thing after another” is something you might say during a hectic day at work, but in Joey Comeau’s newest novel it’s literal: coughed-up pieces of bloody, dead animals eaten by what was a human character. The co-creator of A Softer World launches his latest work, One Bloody Thing After Another, in Halifax today (Thursday, May 27 at Strange Adventures, 4-8pm, free)—-it’s a horror novel that saw Comeau pick up a bloodier pen than usual to create a grisly tale, while still keeping his funny, sexy and sweet writing style intact. It tells the story of an old
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Wassabi Collective with special guests
Getting hold of the members of Wassabi Collective is tough when they’re weaving through Toronto traffic to pick up copies of their new CD, Get It. Luckily, guitarist Brent Hongisto (Gisto for short) has an endless supply of dying and charged cellphones and the patience to talk about the band and its work amidst cut-outs […]
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Julie Fader, The Luyas, Rebekah Higgs, Laura Barrett, It Kills
For Toronto-based musician Julie Fader, heading out east to play Halifax’s new music and arts festival is a spring treat. “Getting on a plane with my guitar to come and see so many friends and put together a Hali band over the weekend before my show? Crazy fun,” she writes, emailing on a short coffee […]
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Royal treatment
Victoria Day weekend may not be hugely celebrated for its royal-birthday beginnings any longer—Halifax doesn’t even have fireworks!—but there is one thing Canadians do well over the three days: drink. And whether it’s Prince Harry’s $670 cocktail or the queen mum’s daily gin and Dubonnet, we’re pretty sure the royal family’s into it, too. So […]
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Heroine effort
The question of what makes a hero(ine) is something local actor and playwright Karen Bassett (pictured, left) has asked herself for years. “I saw a play about male pirates”—with male characters playing the rebellion and adventure—“and the female roles were all about relationships,” says Bassett. “I thought: That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? Then I […]
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Long Live The Queen Literary Lunch
This weekend’s Long Live The Queen festival isn’t just about the music—it’s bringing in the wordsmiths. Organizer Nathan Doucet says Sunday’s Literary Lunch was inspired by good friends of the festival who are writers, and when local writer Stephen Patrick Clare joined as host the literary ball started rolling. With musicians Daniel Ledwell, Terra Lightfoot […]
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The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture
On the cover of The Age of Persuasion is a cow and a no-name sneaker. Between the two images sits a sentence: “Remember when cows wore brands and you wore sneakers?” It’s with that thought that Terry O’Reilly and Mike Tennant—researchers, writers and producers of CBC Radio’s series The Age of Persuasion—open the history books […]
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Michou
“I got kicked out of music lessons when I was a kid because I wasn’t learning anything, I was just writing my own stuff,” says Mike Hargreaves, vocalist for Michou, a pop-folk band from Windsor, Ontario. He can laugh at that now: Having just opened for Dashboard Confessional (an artist Hargreaves says is one of […]
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On tap with apps
Best of Food results are in, which got us to thinking—where are good spots to go for budget-friendly happy hours when you want to both eat and drink? The four spots below boast decent deals, but if you know of any more, put your typing where your mouth is and let us know at thecoast.ca. […]