Following in the footsteps of Chester Brown’s Louis Riel biography, NSCAD alum Kerry Byrne tells the story of Lillian Alling, a young Russian immigrant seamstress living in New York who decides to return to Russia by walking across the Bering Strait. Alling’s story is captivating and beautifully retold by Byrne. Her journey begins in the […]
Laura Kenins
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Nocturne by sight
Sense it Saturday night: This year Nocturne offers even more public art
happenings: from six to midnight, with 30 galleries and 34 special projects, the streets of Halifax will be overflowing with images, performance and energy. To help get your night started, we’ve mapped out two routes. Follow the visual arts trail.
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This One’s Going to Last Forever, Nairne Holtz (Insomniac)
Young Montreal anglophone explores sexuality, finds self, maybe. The novella that makes up the bulk of this short-story collection is Holtz’s addition to that particular genre of young CanLit. But the Montreal-based writer doesn’t limit herself geographically in the other stories here, with plots spanning from Vancouver to Sudbury right down to Spryfield (and, charmingly, […]
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Pop Montreal: Saturday and Sunday
The Happiness Project brings joy to a festival of otherwise miserable music fans, Faust and Black Feelings rock out, Thee Oh Sees get caught up in the crowd
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Pop Montreal, Friday night: Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Sam Shalabi and the Egyptian Light Orchestra
No-wave, noise, and indie rock drone orchestras at Pop Montreal
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Pop Montreal: Slim Twig, The Butthole Surfers and Sister Suvi
Slim Twig, The Butthole Surfers and Sister Suvi at Pop Montreal, Thursday October 1
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Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
Adapted from crime novelist Richard Stark’s (AKA Donald Westlake) novel about a cold-blooded killer, The Hunter is local cartoonist Darwyn Cooke’s first foray into literary adaptation, after working on Marvel and DC titles. Set in a New York full of 1960s smooth-talking, cocktail-swilling white-collar criminals, Cooke’s graphic retelling draws you in. Illustrated with beautiful brush […]
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Patterson’s past
There’s something weird going on in Canadian art, easily evidenced by this year’s crop of Sobey Art Award nominees. Fantastic, dark, playful and pop-culture influenced, nominees David Altmejd, Shary Boyle, Marcel Dzama, Luanne Martineau and Graeme Patterson all share similar sensibilities and themes, making the award exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia one […]
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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The rise of fall arts: books, film, fashion
Word on the Street Sunday, September 27, 11am-5pm, Cunard Centre, free, thewordonthestreet.ca The annual lit festival happens this Sunday at the Cunard Centre. This year’s highlights include a special appearance by Margaret Atwood’s illustrious LongPen, the remote book-signing device she invented so she can sign your copy of her new novel The Year of the […]
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York Redoubt
If York Redoubt’s main vision was to make noise, they’ve succeeded. But there’s more than just noise here: heavy distortion and feedback play into a math-rock, post-punk aesthetic. Recorded partly in an abandoned schoolhouse, warping floorboards and haunted basements seem completely in line with the music. Arty, weighty but still accessible, the different elements of […]