If you haven’t noticed, you might be blind—Halifax Pride week is in full swing, and this weekend brings the always-anticipated parade and closing parties. While you’re waiting for the ass-less chaps dude to swagger your way with Saturday’s floats, take a peek at some of these venues that are hosting parties through to Sunday. The […]
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The Creaking Tree String Quartet’s dance sounds
Toronto’s The Creaking Tree String Quartet is going to haul you out of St. Paul’s church pews and get your feet dancing at its Jazz Fest show this Friday. With threads of roots, jazz, bluegrass and flash inspiration weaving through their music, the quartet—with members Andrew Collins, Brad Keller, Brian Kobayakawa and John Showman—is bringing […]
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Laura Peek and her winning heart
The lady that wins our hearts with each piano key and sweet note is performing at the Khyber this Saturday, as half of a duo with Mike O’Neill. “It will be piano and bass, and lots of singing,” writes Peek. “Also, two of my favourite local ladies will be doing sets: Cactus Flower (Jess Lewis) […]
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Taddle Creek Travelling Series of Happenings
Taddle Creek magazine is hitting the road, and Halifax is its first stop. An arts magazine normally focused on Toronto, Taddle Creek just published its first Out-of-Towner issue and is marking the occasion with its first tour. “We run one Out-of-Towner piece in each issue by or about someone outside of Toronto,” says Conan Tobias […]
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Eyelevel Gallery’s Members’ Weekly 2010
Summer time normally means a slower, vacation-like pace, but this Gottingen Street gallery is going ahead full steam with five one-week shows featuring work from its members. Monday sees the opening of In Here & Out There, with work from artists Ella Tetrault and Carey Jernigan, Vince Vining, Robert Scott, Emma Fitzgerald, Keltie MacNeill, Howard […]
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Scoot, scoot!
Photographer Shehab Illyas has a story to tell: that of the personality and lifestyle of Halifax’s scooter owners. Walk into FRED on Agricola Street and you can follow his portraiture narrative, with local owners and their scoots placed casually in front of landmarks such as Gus’ Pub, the Common, Lost & Found and Pilcher’s Flowers. […]
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World Cup class
It’s the game that extended drinking hours in Toronto (hello, 10am beer) and had Haligonians spilling wine while cheering at the Italian Cultural Centre before lunchtime. Now it’s time for finals, and we’ve gathered some of the busiest spots to watch the World Cup until July 11 closes this tournament and sends all those vuvuzelas […]
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Glory Glory Man United CD Release
It might seem odd that a CD titled ZOMBIES!!! is a fit summer release, but the members of Glory Glory Man United are just having some naming fun with an album bandmate Adam Warren says really raised their bar in terms of quality. “We recorded ZOMBIES!!! at home, by ourselves, with the exception of the […]
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Fashionable music
Aside from shaking hands with the Queen on Canada Day (“What the fuck!” is what she says to that, but in an excited way), local singer-songwriter Christina Martin has been working with artist Tacha Reed to create fun items for her fans. “I thought it would be fun to work with a local artist to […]
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On the boardwalk
Canada Day brings a patriotic list of events to Dartmouth’s waterfront, filled with live music (see the shortlist on page 15), pancake breakfasts (see Events, page 18) and red-and-white painted faces. Walk along the boardwalk anytime between 10am and 6pm and you’ll find more than face paint—over 30 artists will be both showing and creating […]
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Multicultural Festival takes a leap
This year’s Multicultural Festival is making a move to the Halifax Seaport (by Pier 21), and is helping everyone adjust to the change by providing a free shuttle bus. Hop on the shuttle at Upper Water and Duke streets, Barrington and Duke or Barrington and Spring Garden if you want to hitch a ride, or […]
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Al Tuck vs. Shotgun Jimmie vs. Fred Squire
“We’re going to be fighting to the death,” says Jim Kilpatrick, AKA Shotgun Jimmie, when asked about the “three rounds, straight rules” Facebook description of his Saturday night show with Al Tuck and Fred Squire. Even if fighting to the death is only metaphorical—Jimmie’s playing The Company House show because he wanted to book something […]