Make it a fall of YES with events, festivals, exhibits, concerts, productions and showcases in music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, visual arts, film. You don’t have to choose, you just need a good command of Google calendars and a willingness to become your best culturally-enriched self. We believe in you. CLICK HERE for your full […]
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The Coast’s Fall Preview 2013: Events, literary & comedy
Hal-Con 2013 November 8-10 World Trade & Convention Centre, 1800 Argyle Street day pass $30, weekend pass $70 hal-con.com Did you know that in early drafts of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Lando Calrissian dies in an exploding Millennium Falcon, taken out by the destruction of the second Death Star? If you […]
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Thom Fitzgerald’s divine intervention
Director Thom Fitzgerald has spent the past 16 years of his career bringing intimate character pieces to life on the silver screen, from his acclaimed debut The Hanging Garden to his most recent award winner, Cloudburst, a lesbian road movie popular enough to get a nod from Bill Maher on Real Time. But for much […]
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Dare to Caravan
Something you might wonder while listening to Halifax-based hip-hop group The Caravan’s eponymous album: who is that remarkable crooner singing throughout “The First Thing I Do”? “Niven Miller,” says MC Kyle McKenna, referencing an obscure Scottish-born gospel singer. “We went up to New Brunswick and we were trying to do a promo where if you […]
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Stack mentality
Will Robinson’s gone from the halls of NSCAD to the stacks of Dalhousie’s Killam Library, a monstrous concrete box of a building he plans on covering in black vinyl and spinning around like a record. “These are the original plans,” he says, bringing up the Killam’s blueprints on his laptop. “I might print them all […]
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Game theory
Can video games be art? Film critic Roger Ebert once infamously stated that “no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists,” and that “Bobby Fischer, Michael Jordan and Dick Butkus never said they thought their games were an […]
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Arc story
“Our projectionist came up with the name,” says Siloën Daley, founder and director of Carbon Arc. “A carbon arc is a kind of projector that used carbon rods instead of lamps. They were really cheap and would take 20 minutes to burn out, so you’d have to buy a whole lot of them. It was […]
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Nocturne by the hour
Zone 1 6 PM Sovereignty, Becka Viau, Aaron Weldon, Bonita Hatcher, Scott Saunders, Kat Frick Miller Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street Five emerging fine artists explore the idea of sovereignty in the Canadian context in this exhibition and conceptual installation. An investigation of Canada’s colonial past and the history of our nation’s development led […]
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Events/Literary/Comedy
Canadian Surf Film Festival Now celebrating its third year, the Canadian Surf Film Festival (September 27-30) showcases material designed to appeal to surfers and non-surfers alike. “We program the festival for surfers or surf culture enthusiasts, but we also program it for the general public,” explains development director and co-founder Keith Maddison. “We’re well aware […]
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Fall Arts Preview 2012
Click here to read up on a packed fall of fun with events of the visual art, film, musical, literary, theatre, comedy and dance variety.
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Laugh pack
Women are allowed to vote, drive and have children out of wedlock, but is an all-female comedy show going too far? Local comedienne Andie Bulman doesn’t think so, and would probably object to the narrowness of the word “comedienne.” “All types of women can do all types of comedy and it doesn’t matter that they’re […]
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Gonia baby gonia
Newcomers to the city are confronted by a number of uniquely Haligonian customs: boats on wheels cruising the streets, lunch breaks being celebrated by the firing of cannons and giant, ancient-looking churches situated on what seems like every other block. Visitors and recent arrivals might also find the word “Haligonian” a bit perplexing, considering the […]