The Pocket Dwellers rumble through the mountains of Montana following a show in Tofino, BC. “It’s beautiful and desolate, man,” observes MC/vocalist NiGel (AKA Nigel Williams). The rocky landscape hurtling past Williams’s window couldn’t be more appropriate considering the shout-out he gives on “Stop,” the first track of the band’s new album, PD-Atrics: “This is […]
Sean Flinn
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The drawer girl
Shary Boyle gets her hands dirty when she works. The Toronto-based artist’s self-described “live, animated drawing performances,” often in concert with a musician, leave her hands smeared with ink. Boyle makes her mark from Berlin to Brooklyn, Paris to Halifax. She returns to town for a performance at the Khyber on Saturday November 12 with […]
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Niro and far
Shelley Niro sounds wiped. Calling from her home on the Mohawk reservation Six Nations, near Brantford, Ontario, it’s not surprising; she just attended the busy four-day imagineNATIVE media arts and film festival in Toronto. There she screened her new 57-minute film of connected shorts, Suite: Indian. Niro, a member of the Turtle Clan, only had […]
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Tiny Town adventures
Matthew Reichertz sits squeezed behind a table in a windowed nook, a sandwich and salad in front of him. A tiny lamp lights the surface of the rickety table. Gottingen Street foot and car traffic flows by in the angled panes of glass behind him. He looks a little hemmed in, a contrast to the […]
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Modern problems
Let’s say on your way to work every day you follow the same route heading north on Barrington, toward downtown. You pass the curved steel and glass Sexton gym—on Dalhousie campus—every day with no more than a passing glance. With his recently published overview of 50 years (1950-2000) of exemplary architecture in Atlantic Canada, including […]
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Inside the Fringes
Challenging the very definition of the term fringe, this year’s Atlantic Fringe Festival includes three established companies: Angels and Heroes, Foghorn and Exodus Theatres. Alongside Angels and Heroes’s raunchy Hard-On House (a take-off on George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House) and Foghorn’s emotionally raw I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates, Exodus’s production of […]
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What do we want? Help. When do we want it? Now.
Angela Bischoff and Tooker Gomberg were the model couple for grassroots organizers. They were passionate about their work to protect the wild and urban ecology from industrial and automotive pollution, rampant development and corporate interests. They advocated cleaner and more efficient transportation, social justice and equality. And they biked everywhere together, living the issues like […]
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Alternative CKDUniverse
This year CKDU turns 20. Two decades of FM broadcasting after a start on closed-circuit radio hooked up to Dalhousie University residences. Like most campus/community stations across Canada, CKDU lasts because of volunteers. Each September, with the flood of new students on campus, people keep making the climb to the fourth floor of Dalhousie University’s […]
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Urban legends
Two people meet up on a busy street corner, the traffic a welcome distraction from the tension between them… Decaying buildings stir emotions, making someone wonder why they ever moved back to this place… These are the kinds of everyday occurrences Samson, who lives in Winnipeg, sets against the larger cityscape in a way urban […]