It’s a fact: Giving makes you feel good. Dressing up makes you feel fine. Dancing makes you look like a million bucks—unless you’re Elaine Benes. So why not combine the three for CFAT‘s fundraiser and digital-archive launch, Media Masquerade on Saturday, October 27 at FRED, 2606 Agricola. The line-up includes Lukas Pearse, DJ Kato, DJ […]
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Petting zoo
You might remember Elisabeth Belliveau‘s 2004 exhibition at the newly named Khyber Institute of Contemporary Arts. The talented artist filled the Ballroom Gallery with a delightful menagerie of ready-made sculptures, created by twisting and folding worn gloves and purses into whales, ducks and doves. Belliveau, a Nova Scotian native, who now lives in Montreal, is […]
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Cal Lane: Crude
Cal Lane’s vision is like no other in Canadian art. Turning everyday, hard-working objects into art, Lane elevates the potential meanings of wheelbarrows, oil cans, shovels and more. If we’re to use a spade, for example, to help beautify our landscape with a garden, why shouldn’t a shovel be a beautiful thing? She turns these […]
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I can zine
Get your DIY-on at Canzine East this Saturday, October 20 at Saint David’s Church (1537 Brunswick). Thanks to the combined efforts of Broken Pencil Magazine, Halifax Pop Explosion and local keepers of the indie spirit, Anchor Archive Zine Library, Canzine is the place to find a sweet patch for your homemade bag, buy a new […]
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Travel channel
Lisa Marr is no stranger to the road. From 1992 to 1997, as the bass player and vocalist for the beloved Vancouver “cuddlecore” band, cub (which really should be acknowledged for one of the best lines in Canadian pop: “Satan sucks, but you’re the best!”), Marr toured extensively, carrying her own gear around and hoping […]
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Turn and Pivott
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, statuesque ex-model (and new Project Runway Canada host) Iman says that her glammy rock star hubby David Bowie thinks that Toronto has the best modern dance in the world. Obviously Mr. Stardust hasn’t visited Halifax (I’d know), or he’d be singing the praises of Live Art. The contemporary dance presenters […]
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Pegging down
What’s the deal with Winnipeg? Statistically it’s the coldest city on earth, during the warm months the mosquitoes ravage bare skin, and it’s geographically isolated from other major cities by several hours. Yet the arts scene—chilly as the weather may be—is one of the hottest in the country. Think The Weakerthans. Vanity Fair-approved artist Marcel […]
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In memory
Last week I started getting excited about my new posting as arts editor, and especially about Dope Show (if not anxious about taking over from my good friend, the dopest of dope, Tara Thorne) and its possibilities as a place to celebrate achievements, spread good news and a wee bit of political venting—it’s about the […]
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All you need is love
Pick one defining connection between Albert Maysles’ documentaries from the last 50 years, and it would be their astonishingly vulnerable moments. There’s Little Edie Beale’s bizarre and flirtatious dervish dance down the hallway of her decaying East Hampton mansion in Grey Gardens. Mick Jagger’s mildly fearful gaze while watching footage of a murder at The […]
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Get off!
Listen to our soundtrack to the week MONDAY Impress the ladies (figuratively—we’re all about gender-free fun here) with your love of local culture by checking out the free exhibition openings at Anna Leonowens Gallery (5163 Duke Street, 494-8223), usually every Monday night starting at 5:30pm. If you play your cheese right, you’ll have enough time […]
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Meal ticket
SHHH…BEST-KEPT SECRET Former Bish chef Mark Giffin makes waves at the airy Coastal (2731 Robie, 405-4022), delivering stellar bistro-style breakfasts at diner prices: Don’t miss the fantastic huevos rancheros with fresh guacamole and salsa. In a city which honours crisply battered white fish, Phil’s Seafood (6285 Quinpool, 431-3474) knows how to please, and the only […]
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Keepin’ it realcore
In the early 1990s, a group of culturally minded Haligonians ran Peggy’s Queer Film & Video Festival, programming avant-garde artistic films at the now-defunct Wormwood’s Theatre on Gottingen Street. Many of those films involved graphic sexual expression. And you know what? It wasn’t a big deal. Peggy’s founder, internationally recognized writer and director Thom Fitzgerald, […]