That’s all we know right now. Ticket info’s coming… Update: All-ages show with a licensed area. Advance tickets are $39.50. On sale at ticketpro, October 23. Presale starts October 21 through www.wilcoworld.net.
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The Coast returns from Toronto’s Nuit Blanche
Jeff Koons’ Rabbit Balloon, in the Eaton Centre When I go to Toronto, I binge on cheap noodles, beer, burritos and art, so for me, Nuit Blanche, the city’s all-night contemporary art festival, is an art mess dream come true. Vanity Fair, 1991 Wisely, I decided to visit the galleries during the day, guessing that there was no way you could get close to the Vanity Fair photos (an extensive collection of iconic photography from the mag) at the ROM with millions of other art-lovers, or observe all the nuances of the paper fish-penises created & worn by Isabella Rossellini
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Thinking creatively: TEDx Halifax and 4 Days Thinking Forward
Multidisciplinary design firm Breakhouse Inc., the innovators who brought the popular Pecha Kucha nights to Halifax, together with Envision Halifax, is hosting 4 Days Thinking Forward Halifax, from October 21-24, “an open ‘unconference’ of community conversations on the power of design to reshape economies, improve public services and enhance our quality of life.” All activities […]
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The English Beat goes on
First it was old-old-school hip-hop. Then it was grey-hair metal. And now, nostalgic new wave (Blondie at the Casino) and ska fans are reclaiming their past. The English Beat is skanking its way to The Paragon Theatre on November 26 at 9pm, with openers The Idlers. Still fronted by Dave Wakelin (but tragically no Ranking Roger, who now performs his own version of the band), expect Beat and General Public hits, plus new material. Advance $25 tickets ($30 at the door) go on sale Friday, through Ticketpro (1-888-311-9090, or in person at any outlet), sonicconcerts.com.
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Invisible Publishing takes Toronto
This past week local publishers Invisible Publishing took their act on the road, with a mini book tour of Anna Quon‘s Migration Songs and our very own Mike Holmes’ This American Drive. I caught up with the crew at Quon’s launch at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore. Sadly I missed Holmes’ party, which sounded like a […]
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Review: Lisa Phinney’s Analogy for Solid Bones
Conservationists take note: If you want people to pay attention, partner with an artist. Lisa Phinney’s Analogy for Solid Bones, inspired by the behaviours and plight of the loon, whose ecosystem is being destroyed by mercury poisoning, is a provocative and ultimately heartbreaking dance piece, subtle and yet strong in its message. Seven dancers dressed […]
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Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman collaboration on Bravo this weekend
Tanya Davis is all Alone If you missed Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis’ videopoem How to Be Alone at Atlantic Film Fest last week, it’s going to be on Bravo!FACT Presents this weekend, Friday and Saturday at 10pm, and at 8:30pm on Sunday. It’s the filmmaker and singer/songwriter’s second collaboration, after Art, and Davis describes it as being “about… being alone. Or being one person in the world. Or being okay spending time with yourself. Or all of the above.”
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Secret party: AGNS keeps ArtRising location under wraps
Pastoralia in the studio, Go North! 2009 Remember that episode of 90210 where the gang had to take an egg to a convenience store, in exchange for the party location? Well, keep the produce at home, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is going to release the location of its fundraising party, ArtRising, on its […]
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Tell the truth about The Invention of Lying
Writer-director-star Ricky Gervais cleverly disguises a philosophical debate on religion by wrapping it in a breezy romcom with amazing star cameos. Mark Bellison (Gervais) is the first person to discover lying in a world where everyone tells the truth. The “little fat man” with the shit-eating grin is still a second-class citizen, competing for the […]
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Stretch out to Cannes
Last Wednesday before the Atlantic Film Festival’s screening of Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, a short film by Andrew Stretch had its fest premiere. Last February the Halifax filmmaker entered a competition sponsored by AFF, Alliance Française and the French Consulate. The prize: Sending young directors to the Cannes Film Festival. Winner Stretch, along with […]
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Ted Danson’s comedica genuis ensure you won’t be Bored to Death
Sunday has quietly become a gold-star TV night, with cable nerds replacing their taste for True Blood with the one-two hitter, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the new Jason Schwartzman noir-farce comedy, Bored to Death. Schwartzman has found the perfect (30-minute) vehicle for his neurotic, self-absorbed persona, as white-wine-sipping writer Jonathan Ames who, inspired by a […]
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Wright on the Mark
She calls herself a terrible hostess, but you know wherever Carolyn Mark goes, the party follows, especially when she brings along a few friends, including the man of your dreams, Luther Wright. Several years ago, Mark, who just released Let’s Just Stay Here, a collection of duets with NQ Arbuckle, was hosting her Victoria-based open […]