The red carpet rolls out on top of Citadel Hill tonight for the Atlantic Film Festival’s opening gala, which seems like a safe place to party until it’s time to figure out how to get tipsily home—and off the Hill. Tuck and roll to one of these spots, or you can even follow the road […]
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Not just The Once
“To be able to play at a film festival is perfect,” says The Once’s instrumentalist and singer Phil Churchill. “It’s the exact mix of the two things we love most in the world.” Those “two things” are music and performing—the balance that composes the Newfoundland folk trio, who met at a theatre company in the […]
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Brooding for Elliott
“Well, this European tour was pretty special,” emails Mark Sasso, lead vocalist in Toronto’s alt-country trio, listing off an extensive number of festivals and shows. At the time of the email, Elliott Brood members Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin are enjoying a rare day off in Amsterdam before flying to this side of the […]
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The Royal treatment
If my camera’s USB cord worked, you’d have a live photo. But hey, he’s still damn handsome. OK, maybe not the pants right off—-he is married to lovely lady Sarah Slean, after all—-but last night’s show left nobody wanting. In a cheeky mood, Royal Wood started his set with the new single “On Top of Your Love,” from his latest album The Waiting, telling the audience that he “made a racy, probably politically incorrect video” that he doesn’t plan on showing his wife. The track’s meant to be a bit rockier than Wood—-on his gorgeous, stage-hogging piano—-and supporting man Joel
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Christina Martin’s happiness
“I just have to find a spot,” Christina Martin says while walking onto a beach in Pugwash, NS, before lunch on a Sunday morning. The singer-songwriter just arrived home from a whirlwind, week-long trip to Montreal and wanted to do this phone interview via her cell on the beach. With seagulls calling distantly in the […]
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On the Fringe
The Fringe Festival descends this week, and while the plays you choose to see can be a coin’s toss away from confusing or brilliant there’s no need to take chances with your meal and drink choices. Keep yourself well-fed by checking out one of these four places, all surrounding the festival’s venues. –Holly Gordon The […]
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The Modern Men keep it real
“It’s been a time of birthing, so we’ve been birthing CDs and we’ve been birthing babies,” says Seth Bernstein, one of the three men that make up synth-pop group The Modern Men, when asked what he and his bandmates have been focusing on the past few years. Fionn Chin-Yee and Seth’s brother, Jonah, make up […]
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Harder, better, faster, stronger
It’s time to face it: We’re never going to see the day when French DJ duo Daft Punk flies around the world to land in Halifax. Luckily, Humber musicians Michael Carrillo (drums), Liam Morin (bass), Michael Eckert (guitar/funktronics), Matthew Giffin (keyboards), Nevin Dunn (tenor sax/EWI), La-Nai Gabriel (alto sax/vocals), James Ervin (robot/trumpet/tambourine/EWI), Joanna Mohammed (vocals) […]
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Layering on the Urban Sprawl
New Brunswick artist Jack Bishop is back at Gallery Page and Strange for his second solo show, and his paintings are just as gorgeous and haunting as the first. Bishop continues to play with the theme of consumerism, this time painting landscapes of business parks and sprawled areas that you’d likely recognize from your own […]
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Contemporary Verse 2‘s Travelling 35th anniversary bash
Quarterly magazine Contemporary Verse 2 is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a coast-to-coast tour, and it’s pulling up to the Halifax stop Sunday for an evening of readings from local poets Matt Robinson, Jeanette Lynes, Miki Fukuda and Sue Goyette. “I jumped at the chance,” says Robinson, explaining that CV2 contacted him as a former […]
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Giving Notice:Words on Walls appears
“New!” reads a gallery wall-sized red bubble, slightly to the left of Dalhousie Art Gallery’s entrance. Garry Neill Kennedy’s painted wall projection yells at you as a Future Shop flyer would, but his installation for the gallery’s newest exhibition, Giving Notice: Words on Walls, is inspired by a small stamp placed throughout a medal catalogue […]
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Hope for Wildlife Society’s Annual Open House
The Hope for Wildlife Society’s hosting its ninth open house this Sunday, and Hope Swinimer and the animals are waiting for your visit. “We’ll have the wildlife garden open, the learning centre, the rooftop garden, the flight cage—the only area that’s off limits is the white-tailed deer unit,” says Swinimer, who runs the facility. The […]
