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Sue Carter Flinn
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Atlantic Fashion Week night one recap
Last night, the Mercedes Benz showroom on Kempt Road was driven by another type of power: the exceptional talent of young, east coast fashion designers. Now to me, Kempt Road might as well be New Brunswick (pretty happy tonight’s at Hunter Street), but I’ll admit that the industrial, high-ceilings and steel beams work well as […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week: night one
Emerging designers night at Atlantic Fashion Week, October 2009 Additional Slideshows
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Let the urban revolution begin: Spacing Atlantic launches
If the last week is any indication, there’s reason to be hopeful when it comes to conversations around Halifax’s urban affairs and public spaces. In the past, any discussion about architecture, development, transit, etc., has been monopolized by two groups: the rigid heritage-savers vs the tall offices=economic progress crew. The debate has been shrill and […]
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City Dress Codes
We sent photographer Megan Tansey Whitton and stylist Aundrea Bell out with a limited time and budget to create these last-minute DIY Halifamous costumes.
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City dress codes: local costume inspiration
JIMMY MELVIN JR. Hat, sweater, sweatpants and shoes from Source for Sports (5657 Spring Garden). Previously owned necklace. Fake “there is no rats in the Melvin family” rodent, $0.49 from the Salvation Army Thrift Store (5280 Green, also available at Glow Parties, 3600 Strawberry Hill). Start working now on your “five o’clock shadow.” MAYOR PETER […]
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Various Artists
Unless you find Rod Stewart or 10cc’s “The Things We Do For Love” frightening, stick to Jerry Goldsmith’s score for The Omen or spit your pea soup over The Tubular Bells’ The Exorcist. Better yet, track down John Carpenter’s original Halloween soundtrack, and give those trick-or-treating kids and their parents sugary nightmares.
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Coco Avant Chanel keeps tight focus
Anyone hungry for fashion gluttony should continue to wait patiently for the Vogue doc The September Issue, or rent Valentino: The Last Emperor. Adapted from Edmonde Charles-Roux’s biography, Coco Avant Chanel, starring the always-endearing Audrey Tautou, focuses on Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s early days. Life is bleak—Chanel and her sister are abandoned at an orphanage by […]
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Atlantic Fashion Week night two recap
Night two of Atlantic Fashion Week is always dedicated to professional or established designers, as compared to Wednesday night’s emerging talent event. This season though, we felt the absence of Katrina Tuttle, who wowed them at Toronto Fashion Week, deux fm (Anna Gilkerson has a new addition that doesn’t involve eco-fabric) and Turbine, who has […]
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Ecoholic Home, Adria Vasil (Vintage Canada)
Popular NOW columnist Adria Vasil follows up her book of environmentally sound Canadian products and services with more practical tips, this time focusing on the home. Leaving the Birkenstock crew in the dust, Vasil understands that her readers don’t want to be scolded, and most don’t have thick wallets or time to make homemade laundry […]
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Scare tactics: 3 concerts, 3 costumes
GWARw/Lamb of God, Job for a Cowboy</p> Thursday, October 29 at 8pm, Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road, $45 adv/$50 door, ticketpro.ca, sonicconcerts.com, 888-311-9090 “Some people see the glass as half-empty, some people see the glass as half-full, I see the glass as broken and being rammed up someone’s butt.” Such is the philosophy of GWAR’s […]