In 2010, OUTeast co-founders Andria Wilson, Jenna Dufton and Krista Davis were working at the Atlantic Film Festival “and we saw all these line-ups of people whenever there was a film with queer content,” recalls Wilson. “We just kept seeing it, day after day, and we wanted this opportunity to reach that audience, to be […]
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Daniel Walker talks the folk
How often does Owen Meany’s Batting Stance’s Daniel Walker have to explain his band’s name? “Ninety percent of the time,” he estimates. “People either aren’t familiar with the book”—John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany—”or recognize the name but don’t know why.” While his band will be playing Friday at In the Dead of Winter […]
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Top 10 comics released in 2015
Astro City (Vertigo) Writer/creator Kurt Busiek has been scripting his masterpiece anthology series for two decades, and if you’ve never read it then you’ve been missing out on one of the best comic books of all time. I’ll say that again: of all time. Astro City explores every corner of its titular city and the […]
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Tune in to The Weather Station
If intricate, ethereal folk music sung in a soulful, husky voice is your thing, look no further than Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman, aka The Weather Station. She’s a Pop Explosion veteran, having played the fest in previous years both as The Weather Station, an act she formed in 2006, and with bands The Bruce Peninsula and […]
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The Dillinger Escape Plan’s plan
Expect the unexpected from The Dillinger Escape Plan at HPX. Or don’t? “Audiences should expect nothing like all the YouTube videos of us out there,” says singer Greg Puciato. “Those are all fake live videos we disseminate ourselves to throw people off from the reality that it’s kinda like a boy’s choir.” Dillinger’s first visit […]
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10 must-see plays at the Fringe Fest
1. A Tension to Detail Thu September 10, 8:10pm Fri September 11, 6:30pm Sat September 12, 4:30pm Sun September 13, 4:25pm Museum of Nat History, 1747 Summer St, $10 People often mistake going to the theatre as a passive experience. But a show like Gerard Harris’ is an ardent reminder that being an active audience member […]
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Get Around Me scores
Thursday September 10, 8pm Sunday September 13, 4:40pm The Living Room, 2353 Agricola Street, $10 Pictou County native Gillian English’s solo piece Get Around Me, one of three Fringe productions she’s appearing in, is the unlikely story of a Dal theatre grad playing fullback for Team Canada in Aussie rules football. That journey came to an […]
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DCAF is brewing
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Sunday, August 16, 11am-5pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street free Lacking the ticket price and Hollywood trappings of bigger conventions, this weekend’s Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival has both free admission and an emphasis on the east coast. “I wanted a show that focused on comics and the people who made them,” […]
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SoHo Ghetto’s last hurrah
Local indie rock outfit SoHo Ghetto will be playing its last-ever show on Friday at the Seahorse, three days before frontman Marc-Antoine Robertson departs Halifax for Toronto. “It was just a natural kind of ending,” he says, almost apologetic for the lack of scandal. “I wish there was more dirt there.” With diverging career interests […]
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Way into OUTeast
It’s a Netflix world, but OUTeast Queer Film Festival producer Andria Wilson suggests ditching the couch for a theatre seat once in awhile, “I was at [Toronto LGBT fest] Inside Out, watching Tab Hunter Confidential,” she says. “I was alone, sitting next to strangers, and on one side of me was this older couple, two […]
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Five ways to Macbeth
Macbeth is coming to Neptune, but not in the way you might expect—director Ken Schwartz has reimagined it as a five-actor enterprise, with Jeremy Webb as the titular would-be king, and actors Francine Deschepper, Sarah English, Margaret Legere and Jeff Schwager juggling multiple characters apiece. Deschepper, playing Lady Macbeth and others, says the balancing act is […]
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Reeny Smith’s pop-soul
Singer Reeny Smith will be performing at the upcoming Feel the Love benefit concert for Dartmouth’s Akoma Family Centre, a short-term care facility for children in the foster care system, and an organization that Smith has been involved with for “a few months on a few different occasions, I go in and play music, get […]