In case you missed Saturday’s free Virgin Fest show, or if you need to explain to mom why you tracked dirt through the kitchen—here’s some live photo and video proof of the show. Photos: Ashley LeBlanc What were your highlights? J Mascis’ hair? Handsome Furs’ high kicks? Seeing Dog Day on a stadium stage? Let […]
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Khyber building unavailable for rentals
Some of the best events I’ve been to in the last couple months have happened in the Khyber building—like the Obey Convention and the Totally Wicked Music Festival. Well kids, just when you think that things are finally getting settled under that old turret, last week we heard from Steven James May, one of the […]
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Niedzviecki watches the watchers in The Peep Diaries
If Broken Pencil founder and new-media thinker Hal Niedzviecki needed proof for his theories on “peep culture,” he should thank Michael Jackson. The circumstances surrounding Jackson’s death—the almost instantaneous delivery of news via celebrity gossip pariah TMZ and the subsequent traffic toll it took on social networking websites—is a perfect example of our obsession with […]
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Dirty Projectors
Proving that summertime jams don’t need to sound like they were regurgitated from ELO’s back catalogue, Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca is definitely a breezy pop album, but a smart one. Trace this band’s lineage back to cerebral art-rock musicians like Talking Heads, where playful experimentation doesn’t overwhelm accessibility or become too painfully precious. There’s a […]
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Seven magnificent faces of Johnny Depp
Johnny be weird but misunderstood In 1993’s Benny & Joon, Depp plays an eccentric young man who falls in love with a mentally ill woman (Mary Stuart Masterson). Not to be confused with What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, which also came out in ’93, where he plays a confused young man who takes care of his […]
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Off The Cuff with Argyle’s fashion police
Make it work, people. As Project Runway enthusiasts cry into their designer hankies over the fashion competition’s uncertain future (still no word whether the TV show will make it through its legal business—-for once in your life Mr. Weinstein, do the right thing!), there is a much better, homegrown solution that will get you off the couch: Off The Cuff. Hosted by Argyle Fine Art, the four-week competition pits local designers against each other in a series of weekly challenges. Each Sunday in July (starting on July 5) at 1pm, there’s a mini-fashion show at the gallery, where the final
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Amelia trailer flies high
The trailer for Amelia, Mira Nair’s Amelia Earhart biopic, starring Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor and Richard Gere, is now online. Set for release this October, scenes from the film were shot right here, but sadly without McGregor.
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Is Stephen Harper taking our advice on Pier 21?
In tomorrow’s paper, Sean Flinn writes about Pier 21’s 10th anniversary and its pursuit of national museum status. Already a national heritage site, Pier 21 hosts Stephen Harper tomorrow, and the PM is planning an announcement with premier Dexter at 10:30am. Hopefully this means good news for Canada’s immigration museum, putting it on par with […]
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Halifax fashion weathers Montreal
So I arrived in Montreal on Thursday and tore down to the Festival Mode & Design, an outdoor fashion festival off of Ste. Catherines, to see local designers deux fm, Turbine and Orphanage wow the crowds. Obviously my Halifax attitude of shrugging off the rain wasn’t shared because once I got there I found an […]
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How to pick a summer book
Summer is all about compromise and eating popsicles before they melt. It might not be the best time—humidity kills ambition—to pick up that 1,000-page tome you’ve been telling everyone you’re going to read. The purists are gasping, but if Jane Austen can be torn apart in terrible “chick” movies, why not let the undead have […]
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Doug Mason
Doug Mason, AKA Michael Jackson and friends, makes an imaginary award shortlist for best album to listen to stupidly loud when annoying neighbours cut their grass again. Fox Pirate is joyful, easy-to-please, summer power-pop for fans of early Fountains of Wayne, with plenty of fuzzy guitars and big ol’ drum hooks, played by dudes who […]