Fans of Turbine clothing no have longer to make the trip to Falmouth, or wait for the annual sale at the Westin Hotel, as owner Lisa Drader-Murphy has opened Turbine Boutique in Bishop’s Landing (1475 Lower Water). “Our clients have been asking for years,” says Drader-Murphy, who you might recognize from a recent Come to […]
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Final Fantasy
If you are a musician and you want to give props to another musician, perhaps the greatest, most grand way of showing your love is by recording a tribute album. And if you’re Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), you’ll outdo yourself by hiring an orchestra to back you up. For his new Plays to Please EP, […]
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The Class
Shot tight like a documentary, rarely straying outside the classroom, Laurent Cantet’s Oscar-nominated The Class straddles a fine line between reality and fiction. Former teacher François Bégaudeau, who also wrote the screenplay and the book upon which this fantastic film is based, plays François Marin, a jocular high school teacher in a working-class Parisian neighbourhood. […]
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Secret Theatre previews their new show
Secret Theatre, led by Dustin Harvey (if you were lucky you caught their cowboy show at One World, a couple of years ago or the wind-up toy version of Waiting for Godot), has been invited to attend the Rhubarb! festival, Feb. 18-22 in Toronto. It’s a fantastic fest (think fringe on ‘roids) but this is […]
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Michelle SaintOnge is a good thing
We still adore Martha Stewart, and her icy, self-righteous, souffle-rising. We’re still not over the disappointment from when she cancelled out of the pumpkin race in Windsor, or forgiven Cybill Shepherd’s yelly, made-for-TV skewering. So when we heard that one of our fave Halifax designers was making an appearance on The Martha Stewart Show, there […]
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Trailer Park Boys move south of the border
American satellite service DirecTV has huge ambitions to become the next HBO, according to an article in the NY Times. Or more like a more-expensive gateway to TBS or Peachtree—you know those channels where you can watch Deep Blue Sea 500 times in a row, or get your heroine-fix of Seinfeld. Anyway, the plan is […]
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Antony and the Johnsons
In late 2008, Antony fans were treated to the Another World EP, the devastating title song (suicide note?) which also appears on The Crying Light, their third full-length release. If you’re not moved, see a doctor. Antony Hegarty’s androgynous, alien voice soars above the piano and strings like an instrument, especially on torch songs like […]
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Karen Bassett previews Heroine in Toronto
Three local theatre artists are set to show Toronto exactly how violent Halifax can be. Fight master/director Robert Seale, actor/ playwright Karen Bassett and actor Francine Deschepper are heading to a conference hosted by University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. At the Festival of Original Theatre Conference 2009: Exquisite Corpses and Bloody […]
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Theremin-An Electronic Odyssey
Worth checking out: there’s a free screening of Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey on Sunday, 6pm at Utility Gallery (5224 Blowers). It’s a 1993 documentary film about the life of Leon Theremin and his invention, the theremin, featuring monologues by Robert Moog and Brian Wilson, among others. Apparently Theremin was kidnapped by the KGB in 1938 […]
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Puck stories
Are you a closeted Dave Bidini? If you’re a hockey fan or player, and think you could write about your obsession, Nimbus Publishing is seeking non-fiction submissions for a new collection of hockey-related stories. The editors are “particularly interested in pieces that inspire and entertain readers about hockey’s influence on us as Atlantic Canadians and its ability to teach us lessons that go far beyond the rink,” which I guess means avoiding stories about plowing little Johnny head-first into the boards. Prizes for best submissions are: $500 for best submission and $100 for honourable mention, as judged by an
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Poet’s night, and the feeling’s right
HRM’s poet laureate Lorri Neilsen Glenn is inviting all authors who have published (or recorded) a book or chapbook in 2008 to read at the inaugural HRM/Mount Saint Vincent University Authors’ Night, on Thursday, January 29, 7pm at the MSVU Library. The free night’s open to the public, and there will be readings, performances, a […]
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Art & architecture: Twisted Sisters architects delight
In yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Lisa Rochon wrote a great story about the new University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy building in downtown Kitchener (my birthing grounds). Since the demise of the manufacturing industry, the city’s downtown has gone the way of the shitter. In fact, King Street, where the new building is located, has […]