Sageev Oore wants to engage either your heart or your tongue for Valentine’s Day, or both, if you’re up for it. The pianist and Gyposophilia member presents a show from his Sonic Silents series, combining projections of silent films with improvised piano and sometimes projections of drawings or photographs. Oore was inspired for the upcoming […]
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Entire Cities
Entire Cities’ follow-up to its impressive 2008 debut, I Hope You Never Come Home features more complex instrumentation than Deep River, but still dives into the myths that pervade the first record. Songwriter Simon Borer is a fine storyteller, constructing poems and myths with a sense of the rural and a loneliness permeating them. These […]
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The Olympic Symphonium’s season
The Olympic Symphonium is a winter band. “The music we play is more suited towards the winter, I think,” says Kyle Cunjak, who is, like his bandmates, a multi-instrumentalist. The Fredericton-based band launches its third album—and third winter release—at In the Dead of Winter on Thursday, and at the Shivering Songs festival in Fredericton on […]
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Badminton
Badminton has been played in some form since ancient China, Greece and India. In Halifax, the Nova Scotia Badminton Association is here to give you information on the modern game. At Dalhousie, the Dalplex offers court bookings for Dalplex members—also daily, monthly and yearly rates available for non-students, $11-$550 —and they can also access the […]
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Cross-Country Skiing
The snow in Halifax rarely piles up much, but walking trails at any HRM parks can be used for cross-country skiing; a city employee recommends the former railway lines at the Musquodoboit Trailway and the Timberlea trails. Martock is the official Winter Games venue, and has cross-country programs offered for adults and kids (see also […]
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Figure Skating
The first place you’ll want to inquire about how to throw a triple lutz is the Halifax Skating Club at Centennial Arena. Founded in 1862, the club now has more than 200 members and offers a variety of programs for adults at all levels of skating. Unfortunately, the current programs are all full for this […]
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Snowboarding
Canada Winter Games athletes will hit the hills at Martock, near Windsor, to compete. At 45 minutes outside of Halifax, it’s an easy place for you to snowboard, too. Group and private lessons are available, with lessons for first-time snowboarders offered twice a day on weekends and holidays, $49.95 (equipment rental included), and an eight-week […]
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Alpine Skiing
You’ll have to head out of the city to find a hill big enough to ski on, unless you want to nose-dive down Citadel Hill. Ski Wentworth, an 80-minute drive from the city in the town of Wentworth, will be home to the downhill skiing events at the Canada Games but, for now, amateurs can […]
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Getting Evin
Mike Evin’s got the whole world in his album. Do You Feel the World?, his fifth record, is a collection of “songs about travelling, songs about staying put.” Evin, a pianist and one-time Haligonian, returned to his hometown of Montreal at the end of 2008 (his last record Good Watermelon came out in the summer […]
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Giant Hand-crafted
A standard drum kit isn’t built from wicker baskets and loose change, but a non-drummer learns to improvise. “You think of some crazy stuff when you’re by yourself for a week,” says Kirk Ramsay, AKA Giant Hand. He’s talking about the instrumentation for his first album, recorded in 2009 by himself at home. “I didn’t […]
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Critics’ Picks 2010: music
Aloe Blacc, Good Things (Stones Throw) Apollo Ghosts, Mount Benson (independent) It’s criminal to have so many equally passionate and comical pop songs squeezed into 25 minutes, so I plug in my air guitar and press repeat. –RH Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (Merge) Mature and grown-up without losing their trademark energy, Arcade Fire take on […]