“It really crystallizes everybody’s energy for writing, performing, thinking about it,” says Ross Burns, after a weekend of recording live off the floor with Gypsophilia at Charles Austin’s Echo Chamber. “There’s a bunch of new compositions and new insights on old stuff.” The band—Ross Burns, Sageev Oore, Matt Myer, Nick Wilkinson, Adam Fine, Alec Frith […]
Sarah Greene
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Photo finish
It’s Wednesday evening at Argyle Fine Art and Chr!s Sm!th and Argyle director Adriana Afford are surrounded by a few dozen half-packed frames containing Sm!th’s photos of musicians and artists’ responses to them. Sm!th and Afford are getting ready to take Repixxto Nova Scotia Music Week, and this is the first time that all the […]
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Under cover
Ian Gosbee explains how his band, 1 Lady Driver, morphed into a Kiss tribute band last Halloween. “We did one classic-rock set,” he says, “and for the second set we came out as Kiss.” The response to the Kiss set was great: “People were freaking out.” The band has continued to get a great response […]
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Home furnishings on a budget
Perhaps you forgot to wave goodbye to Ikea on your way past Montreal, yet despite the Bring Ikea to Halifax, NS, Facebook group and its 2,092 members, it’s true: There’s no easy-to-assemble Swedish furniture store in Halifax. But don’t let the lack of easy access to Billy bookcases and cheap European kitchenware discourage you as […]
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Right to rent
“It’s important for people to know what rights they don’t have,” Cole Webber says to me on a hot afternoon on Gottingen. It might sound like a strange perspective to have for the new coordinator of Dalhousie Legal Aid’s Tenants Rights Project, but Webber says we are badly in need of an overhaul of our […]
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Marissa Gough drawn to the flame
Marissa Gough has done comedy, slam poetry and burlesque, but she’d never thought of performing with fire until Ash Circle’s Ivan Bellari made her an offer. Gough, mohawked and travelling in the same pair of pants for weeks, was applying to be a cigarette girl at a cabaret. Bellari, a big guy smoking a cigar […]
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Best Catering
Editor’s note: With its latest Best Catering win in 2008, Scanway was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Passersby on Quinpool Road can stop to admire bright, fanciful wedding cakes through the window. Leafing through Scanway’s catering menus you will find everything from simple picnic baskets to food for elaborate receptions. Scanway […]
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Tanya Davis’ Gorgeous talk
When Tanya Davis performs, her fingersmove fluidly over guitar strings. She sings in a low and clear voice, annunciating each word. Some say they hear a hint of a PEI lilt in it. Her lyrics are personal—“straight ahead,” as she puts it. Davis says she didn’t look for her voice: It was there as soon […]
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Bike tune-ups across Halifax
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and bikes arecoming out of the garage. Some of them are squeaking, creaking and moving slowly. Al Barbour at Nauss Bicycle Shop (2533 Agricola Steet, 429-0024) says a lot of people wait until their bikes don’t work before they come in. His advice: Find out how much air […]
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Bette & Wallet w/Leapfrog
Four years after moving to Quebec City, Mary Beth Carty is returning to Halifax to release a CD with her (romantic and musical) partner Gabriel F. Ouellette. Carty brings the Bette and Ouellette brings the Wallet to Bette & Wallet, a bilingual duo driven by accordion, violin and Ouellette’s stomping feet. Carty (The Johnson Sisters) […]
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Bike! The Movies life cycle
As a kid she made up dance routines on bikes. Now, on a sunny Sunday behind Citadel High, shes calling out names of configurations: peanut-butter cup, tootsie roll, zipper, spaghetti. Last winter, before the first snowfall, Rebecca Singer got a group of eight friends together to form a synchronized bike team. She called it the […]