Starting on May 13 to October 30, passengers disembarking from cruise ships into Halifax will face some unusual sights: Colleen Wolstenholme’s collection of Alice in Wonderland-sized psychoactive pills, Thierry Delva’s chiselled granite Two 45 Gallon Drums, Gerald Ferguson’s cascading pile of one million pennies. This artistic haven, just next door to Pier 21 where over […]
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Heti games
Tucked away in an alley behind Toronto’s earthy Annex neighbourhood is The Green Room, a bohemian watering hole styled with worn couches, cheap beer and unreliable washrooms. It was on The Green Room’s bookshelves that writer Sheila Heti found her muse—a neglected copy of The Life of William Hickling Prescott, written in 1863 by Harvard […]
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Art History
It’s a sunny but shockingly frigid January afternoon on Barrington. A thick veil of condensation covers the front window of the Mud Room, hiding Emily Vey Duke as she walks in from the cold. She looks tired, but that’s not unusual—fatigue is the uniform for anyone employed by a not-for-profit organization, especially one that faces […]
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Best in the land
Look past the Botoxed parade of designer gowns and salivating paparazzi and you’ll find a distinctly Canadian story unfolding on this year’s Oscar red carpet. Canada’s public film producer, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), received two Academy Award nominations this year: one for Chris Landreth’s animated short film Ryan, and another for the […]
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Apathy for the record industry
Behind all the glitter and glam of music award shows, behind the emotional acceptance speeches and live performances, there are business deals being made. Record labels use the backdrop of award shows such as the East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs) as an opportunity to sign the next Matt Mays or Joel Plaskett. During the ’90s […]
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The F word
There are only a few celebrities whose last names are enough to inspire carnal fantasies. Pitt, Jolie, Farrell—hey, whatever floats your boat. For some people, their knees turn weak and their eyes roll with rapture whenever they hear the name Fluevog. For the uninitiated, Fluevog (such a delicious name; floo-vog rolls nicely off the tongue) […]
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New and improved
It was standing room-only on Saturday morning at a live broadcast of Brent Bambury’s neo-variety show GO at the CBC Radio studio on Sackville. The affable host gently poked fun at his former residence with the usual schtick: crappy weather, Keith’s beer and the disconcerting winter disappearance of Public Garden ducks. However, under all the […]