It’s Saturday night at the Pavilion and music fans of all ages have gathered for the kind of performance most of the young crowd wouldn’t usually be able to attend if it was at any other space in town. In a bar-dominated city like Halifax, most performance venues tend to be 19-plus. For youth who […]
Matt Dalton
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Protest the Hero stopping in Halifax for its Fortress 10th anniversary tour
Canadian progressive-metal band Protest The Hero announced it will be having an extensive North American tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its gold-certified album, Fortress. The 10-track LP was released in early 2008, debuting at number one in Canada. The band will stop in Halifax at the Marquee Ballroom on Tuesday, April 24 at […]
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The Halifax pop culture explosion
Non-fiction Catastrophe and Social Change, Based upon the sociological study of the Halifax disaster by Samuel H. prince (1920) T.N.T. by Allan Baddeley (1931) The Story of Dartmouth by John Patrick Martin (1957) The Town that Died: The True Story of the Greatest Man-Made Explosion before Hiroshima by Michael J. Bird (1962) 17 Minutes to […]
