[Editor’s note, April 3, 2020: As of late March, the National Film Board has released Ice Breakers on its website—NFB.ca—for free streaming. Add it to your self-isolation watch list.] When filmmaker Sandi Rankaduwa saw the National Film Board’s call for a short film program called Re-Imagining My Nova Scotia, she thought back to a book […]
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Walrus works it out
Diet Cig w/Walrus, Luna Li, Diamondtown Sat Oct 26, 9:15pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street C ool To Who, the latest full-length album from local band Walrus, opens with a soft, electronic beat that blossoms into warm synths that recall Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips in their simple spaciness. “Feels good to breathe again,” frontman […]
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Review: The Lighthouse shines on
Anyone who’s ever stood at the edge of the ocean shore and gazed over a roaring Atlantic at night can attest to its eerie nature. What lies beyond the rocks, where we can only catch glimpses of whitecaps, small changes in grey shades of darkness? Add a storm and the tension of survival sets in. […]
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Review: Clifton Hill plays all the angles
Niagara Falls, with its gambling and theme park gaudiness sidled up beside one of the country’s most majestic natural wonders, is rife with potential for Lynchian strangeness. It doesn’t take director Albert Shin long to tap into that disquieting feeling with Clifton Hill. Just past the intense but terrifically understated opening sequence—in which the protagonist, […]
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Wares’ passion and place
Wares W/Lizbrain&Doug, Goldbloom, Matty Grace Wednesday, June 20, 8pm RadStorm, 6050 Almon Street $7 Wares’ self-titled 2017 debut makes gargantuan sonic leaps throughout its 38 or so minutes. It opens with the lackadaisical, hazy “City Kids,” shows the band raising its fists for sinewy, anthemic punk on “Mission Hill” and goes positively ballistic with the […]
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Rich Aucoin celebrates life
Rich Aucoin Hold EP release w/Chudi Harris Thursday, March 15, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gotttingen Street $15 After talking bit over the phone about his meditative songwriting method—a process influenced by his King’s philosophy degree—Rich Aucoin off-handedly sums up his artistic ethos in one succinct sentence: “You don’t have to wait around for a […]