Maybe next time Halifax. I just received this from the Atlantic Film Festival: To those who added The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights to their B-Side schedule, I am sorry to report that due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to cancel the screening. If you have already purchased a ticket […]
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Video: Off the Cuff finale
Despite the threat of more rain, a large group of style-minded Haligonians gathered this afternoon at Historic Properties for the Off the Cuff fashion competition and show. After the outdoor runway was wiped off (thank god—MC Eureka Love was sporting a pair of mile-high heels), the show kicked off with a collection by Brandt Eisner. […]
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Walter Forsyth at TIFF’s Talent Lab
Please donate to the Miranda July Fund. Halifax’s Walter Forsyth was one of 25 filmmakers chosen to be part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Talent Lab (September 9-12), an intensive program where lucky participants spent time with heavy-hitting industry professionals, like Tilda Swinton, Miranda July and Brian De Palma. On his way to a […]
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NS Archives launches new photo archives
Congratulations to the NS Archives, who launched an amazing site of WWII images and video of Halifax. The collection includes photos, records, personal correspondence and diaries, rare print material, cartoons, documentary art and film footage. Many are being shown for the first time, including “the press censor’s private photo collection capturing in meticulous detail the […]
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It’s rapture: Blondie at the Casino!
The Halloween fairy comes early with this amazing tip: Blondie will be performing at the Schooner Room, October 30 and 31!! According to the platinum diva’s website, tickets go on sale September 11, so expect to be hanging by the telephone tomorrow. Ladies, hopefully this announcement will mean improvements in the costume department: no slutty […]
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Snoop on film
Snoop does what he does best: play Snoop. Here’s one of two cameo appearances on Entourage. Really though, even when he changes names and characters (Murderess on Monk, Slim Daddy on The L Word), he’s Snoop. And that’s what we want. Riding high on Soul Plane: “I’m the captain of the motherfucking ship!” Snoop reinvents […]
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In the Kitchen, Monica Ali (Scribner)
Gabriel Lightfoot is the executive chef of the once-thriving Imperial Hotel in London. Pumped by his backers as a future star-chef, Gabe has a secret partnership to open his own restaurant, and plans to marry his gorgeous lounge-singing girlfriend. But then Yuri, a porter, is found dead in the hotel basement, and things start to […]
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Punk Rock Fun Time Activity Book, Aye Jay (ECW Press)
Sharpen your pencil and your inner mohawk for Aye Jay’s latest activity book (following Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book, among others). Sticking to the oldies, you can draw on Henry Rollins’ tattoos and graffiti the CBGB walls, colour in The Ramones and Patti Smith, or try your hand at Punk Libs (Dead Kennedys’ “California […]
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Heather Young’s best in show
When you’re picking up tickets for the Atlantic Film Festival, grabone for Atlantic Shorts IV (Monday, September 21, Park Lane, 7pm), soyou can give Heather Young an extra clap—-the NSCAD grad just wonMontreal’s Canadian Student Film Festival. Dog Girl was inspiredby a teen Young worked with in New Brunswick, who was “very optimistic,happy and hard-working,” […]
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09.09.09
It’s the big Number Nine. And yes, it’s another Beatles review. The Beatles: Rock Band (Harmonix) is now available in stores, as well as the remastered editions of the band’s studio albums on CD, both individual albums and in two box sets. There are no digital downloads available yet, but MSNBC is speculating that there […]
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The Infinite summer’s not over at Spring Garden Library
Be honest: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is one of those books that people lie about reading, like James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Wallace, who suffered from clinical depression, also had many passionate fans who were devastated when the author committed suicide on September 15, 2008. In fact, many of them spent the summer as part […]
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Jody Zinner is provincial winner of the BMO 1st Art! Competition
Jody Zinner, Circle of Hair, Ink on watercolo.ur paper 22 x 30 in; 55.8 x 76.2 cm Jody Zinner, a NSCAD grad and Khyber ICA interim director, was named the Nova Scotia winner of BMO 1st Art! Competition (other than Sobey’s, banks are the only ones doling out substantial arts cash these days). According to […]