Fire up the Fitbit, you’re about to clock a lot of steps this Thursday evening (5-8pm). We take you through the Downtown Art Walk gallery by gallery, shop by shop, so you can plan a full night of walkin’, lookin’ and droppin’ your Gs. I assume you’re a visual person because you enjoy things like […]
Stephanie Johns
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off on a natural charge bon voyage
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Beach House, Halifax Urban Folk Festival, Halifax Celtic Festival and Nashville Pussy
Holy lord, warm up that credit card for this (wildly mixed) grab bag of concert and festival announcements. Baltimore’s dreamy Beach House hit Halifax on their Northern Exposure tour, beginning in Anchorage, Alaska and ending October 11 in Halifax at the Marquee Club. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 18 at 10am, $32.99 in […]
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Showing Resistance
The Anchor Archive Zine Library is a pillar of the Halifax DIY and politically active community. An wellspring of inspiring, healing and challenging material, it’s a resource we are lucky to have such free access to. Laura Grier, summer communications and events coordinator for the Anchor Archive, is an Indigenous artist and activist from Alberta. […]
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Animals with Sharpies
[iamge-1] Birds are racist and rejected, frogs are pathetic and rude, an anteater looks for a job, dogs are stupid and snakes need your help desperately in Dumontier and Farber’s beautifully painted and hand-lettered book. My main complaint is that it wasn’t 1,000 pages longer, I could have spent all day happily flipping and reading […]
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Mind the Bullock
TWO IF BY SEA Here’s a sense of what a real shitshow 1996 was: Even though Two If By Sea came out after Speed and While You Were Sleeping, when America was at peak Sweetheart re: Bullock, Denis Leary gets top billing. He also co-wrote the movie— hence its mild homophobia— which is a bad rom-com about […]
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LISTEN: Kirsten Olivia’s T.H.A.N.
Kirsten Olivia will be all over stages this weekend for the Halifax Jazz Fest, showing off her powerful R&B chops, but if you’re too scared of the hurricane (be brave) then you can cop a solid dose of Olivia by downloading her brand new EP, T.H.A.N. today, right here. Olivia’s focused on the present these […]
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Nova Scotia Super Soul Review
If ever there was a reason to make up a brand-new idiom, it’s for the Nova Scotia Super Soul Review. Forget the sum of its parts: each individual part of the Review is jammed packed with talent. Taken as a whole, you might have to bring the smelling salts for swooning. Organized by Erin Costelo […]
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Get the party started
On Asia & NuGruv’s newly updated website, asianugruv.com, the claim “Halifax’s Ultimate Party band” defies you to disagree–taking a look at its upcoming gigs is like browsing through a what’s-what of festivals and events all across Nova Scotia. Certainly they are one of Halifax’s hardest working bands, beginning as the backup band for Shauntay Grant […]
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Definitely not the opera
Most of us can remember our first foray into high school theatre. Usually in an auditorium, usually performing—with varying degrees of enthusiasm—a play carefully vetted by the drama teacher, usually about high school, usually written by someone you’ve never heard of, lucky if it was written in the last decade. Contrast that with the youth […]
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StanFest canceled
Sad news, everyone. The Stan Rogers Folk Festival made the difficult (but probably safest) decision to cancel this weekend’s festival entirely, all due to a total jerk named Arthur. Today’s statement from the festival: Festival management and staff made a decision at 11AM today (Wednesday, July 2) to immediately cancel the 2014 festival based on […]
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Truly the only World Cup coverage you need
National Geographic muses on the possibility of a Kenyan elephant soccer team (sadly, not very likely), an elephant game called “play kick-back” and which famous players the elephants most resemble (Ronaldo, Zidane). There’s also a video, the elephants are all wearing colourful blanket pinneys, and this charming conclusion: “Another little elephant rolls around on the […]
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Music video premiere: Quake, “Mellow Triangles”
It’s Halifax rap video week! Get in on it with Quake Matthews‘ newest for “Mellow Triangles”. Shot by BADFUN Media‘s Mat Barkley and Pat Campbell, with help from Byron Kutchera (camera operator for the Trailer Park Boys, if you’re the type who cares about credentials), the crew worked collaboratively with Quake, after he invited BADFUN […]