Hey! Guess what guys? School shootings suck! That’s the message that Just Another School Shooting tries really, really hard to convey, but falls flat at pretty much every turn. The play is centred around four high school students who survived an attack in their Hamilton high school. All the high school archetypes are here – […]
Ian Gormely
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Lager league
With doping marring the reputations of many established sports like Major League Baseball and the Tour de France, it’s reassuring to find a game that embraces the blatant use of a controlled substance. At the World Series of Beer Pong, not only is the consumption of alcohol accepted before, during and after competition, it’s encouraged. […]
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Golden ticket
“Hey!” Dave Azzolini shouts to someone in the room. Azzolini, on the phone from Toronto, is trying to spend the afternoon relaxing. “My brother’s in town,” he explains. “He’s filming me, making me feel uncomfortable…and I’m only in my underwear so it’s even more embarrassing. Leave me alone!” That evening, Azzolini is attending a friend’s […]
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Starting to happen
Allison Lickley wants to move to Halifax. Currently living in Montreal, the singer-songwriter is using her current month-and-a-half long pseudo-tour of Atlantic Canada as an opportunity to quiz anyone and everyone about our fair city. The thumbs-ups she’s received are encouraging. “Not everybody feels that way about their hometown,” she says. Lickley’s desire to move […]
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The two Joels
The Joel Plaskett Emergency is set to go on stage in five minutes. Outside, at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth, roughly 3,000 fans wait patiently in the unseasonable chilly July fog. This is the band’s first hometown gig in support of its latest record, Ashtray Rock, a semi-autobiographical album of teenage love and music set in […]
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Rise’s shine
Tim McIlrath remembers the advice Alexisonfire gave him two years ago: go to the Maritimes and they’ll love you forever. “They get ignored and it’s not fair,” the band told him. It’s something his band Rise Against experienced first-hand when the two groups toured here in the spring of 2005. “We met some really cool […]
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Evensong
Ian MacKaye, punk rock God, is fixing his rose trellis. It stood in his backyard in Washington, DC, for years, but now the weight of the vines has snapped the wood. MacKaye still wants to try and salvage it, so he’s outside when I call, trying to decide if it’s a lost cause. He apologizes […]