Mikaela Dyke While performer Mikaela Dyke, who’s been receiving positive reviews for her play Dying Hard, has enjoyed being in Halifax for her Atlantic Fringe run, which ends this weekend, she hasn’t been as happy with the treatment she’s apparently received from the Fringe’s director, Ken Pinto. In fact, Dyke has written an open letter of complaint to the Halifax arts community, and now: “A number of local and touring artists are petitioning the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) to withdraw its affiliation with Halifax’s Atlantic Fringe Festival while under the leadership of the current festival director, Ken Pinto.”
Sue Carter Flinn
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SaintOnge for charity
Meet Pinky. He’s a 24″x36″ pigment screenprint on canvas. Starting bid is $50 If you’ve been coveting one of Michelle SaintOnge’s colourful animal prints, including the “Exotica” collection (perhaps you’ve seen the menagerie at Morris East) or the Martha Stewart-loving “Private Lives of Cats and Dogs,” or her fun bags, pillows and jewellery, now’s your […]
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Halifax Farmers’ Market open today, 4-8pm
Today, the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market will be open from 4-8pm, so stock up now. But if you really enjoy buying your veggies in a storm, the Market will be open again tomorrow, regular time and apparently most vendors will be there.
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Emergency cupcake kits from Gateaux Rose
Gateaux Rose wants you to be prepared for Earl. Their Emergency Cupcake Kits include: “three slender pocket sized travel birthday candles; five safety matches; one package of emergency raisins; nine compact (mini) emergency cupcakes in high energy producing chocolate flavored cupcakes with red cross topper or blueberry storm cupcakes with life vessel topper.” Cupcake Kits […]
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Cemetery Junction
Perhaps the biggest problem with Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais’ lukewarm 1970s coming-of-age tale is the anticipation of satirical bite. After all, this is the team reponsible for The Office and Extras. But the only teeth in the screenplay is given to Gervais, underused as a crusty father with a lifetime of factory work behind […]
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Full Atlantic Film Festival lineup unveiled
Bruce McDonald’s Trigger, starring Molly Parker, Tracy Wright and Don McKellar. On Tuesday, the Atlantic Film Festival revealed the rest of its schedule, and we managed to drag our sweaty fingers across the keyboard to pick out a few early favourites. For those who like to be the first to see big commercial films, there’s […]
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Ali Nickerson’s art starts at home
Ali Nickerson Frustrated by gallery bureaucracy, Ali Nickerson decided to take matters into her own home: Her exhibition Everyone Knew What Had to Happen is opening at 2387 Gallery (2387 Agricola), which just happens to be her new apartment, and an ideal place to show work that explores “my experience as a bartender and the […]
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Atlantic Film Festival line-up: Cdn and Atlantic highlights
Rock ‘n’ roll with Trigger’s Tracy Wright and Molly Parker. Highlights from the Atlantic Film Festival‘s Atlantic and Canadian film programs are out, and nothing has made me feel this patriotic since Douglas Coupland’s clothing line for Roots. The Atlantic Gala film on September 17 is Chaz Thorne’s Whirligig, written by Michael Amo and starring […]
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Reigning Spamalot
Nerd alert: if “it’s only a flesh wound” makes you giddy, this news is for you. Monty Python’s Spamalot is coming to the Metro Centre for three performances, Saturday, October 16 at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, October 17 at 2pm. Back in 2005, the theatrical adaptation of the film Monty Python and the Holy […]
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Pizza for Picnicface
If you order a pizza from Tomavinos Cellar Ristorante’s today, 10 percent will go towards helping Picnicface make their film, Roller Town.
