Riley Stearns began writing The Art of Self-Defense in 2015, when the internet had accelerated and highlighted terrible behaviour acted out by men along traditional gender lines: Violence and action over words and feelings, now very commonly known as toxic masculinity. “I was questioning who I was as a man, and what society was telling me […]
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Constellate’s group dynamics
Constellate: “Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.” Or, in the case of the local storytelling series of the same name, “to provide a space and opportunity for people who wouldn’t normally have their voices heard,” says Greg Puncher, one of its co-founders. For the past six months, Puncher and […]
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Fungus follows its bliss
Fungus w/Kaledioscope Horse, Juice Girls Thursday, July 4, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, $8 T he rock trio Fungus goes with the flow: When the music calls for something else, the band follows. When a music video isn’t coming together, they throw some paint on the floor and start over. “When a new […]
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In the Dead of Winter takes 2020 off
Following last month’s announcement that a cease-and-desist from artist Shepard Fairey will force the OBEY Convention to change its name for 2020, comes the announcement from another small-and-tough festival, the 14-year-old In the Dead of Winter: It’s taking next year off. “It’s expensive and it’s hard to do this right now, so we’re taking a […]
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Park Wizards
The Wizard of Oz June 30-August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park by donation ($25 sweet seat) shakespearebythesea.ca We’ve had a lot of conversations about, ‘What is iconic? What are people going to be expecting?’” muses Jesse MacLean, director of Shakespeare By The Sea’s season opener, an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. “We don’t […]
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10 excuses to go to the movies this summer
June 28 Yesterday Danny Boyle returns with a new Patel in tow—Himesh, no relation to Slumdog Millionaire star Dev—for an alternate timeline comedy in which The Beatles don’t exist, allowing Patel’s Jack to become a huge star. There’s too much Ed Sheeran in the trailer for our liking, but there’s also lots of Kate McKinnon. […]
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Assassins creed
Assassins June 25-30, 8pm (and 2pm Sat-Sun) The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10-$25 whalesongassassins.eventbrite.com A ssassins gets straight to the point in the title: It’s about the nine men and women who have attempted to or did murder an American president. It’s also a musical, giving each assassin an opportunity to explain themselves […]
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Film review: Late Night
Nisha Ganatra’s Late Night ignited a bidding war at this year’s Sundance Film Festival—and as in nearly every Sundance bidding-war story, save Once and Garden State, it has ended with disappointing box office returns. But what other reaction could you possibly expect to a movie this sharp, feminist, self-aware and fresh? Booksmart was a financial […]
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Moonrise kingdom
Spryfield will get a free outdoor movie festival this summer thanks to the Spryfield Community Association, which has erected a theatre on the Spryfield Urban Farm on Rockingstone Road. “The idea for the theatre came from just hanging out at the farm and thinking ‘This would be a great place to watch movies,’” says Veronica […]
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Visiting A Colony
“There are a lot of coming-of-age films, a lot of teen films, but my goal was to have an honest image of teenagerhood,” says the writer-director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. “I really wanted to give them that space and take them seriously.” Dulude-De Celles’ second feature A Colony (Une Colonie) arrives at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ […]
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Autumn concert announcements: Lucinda Williams and Japanese Breakfast
Even as summer’s heat remains a distant memory, the crispness of fall can already be felt in a pair of excellent show announces today. On September 15, the iconic (actually) Lucinda Williams will bring her 20th anniversary celebration of the seminal Car Wheels on a Gravel Road to the Rebecca Cohn. “The influence of Car […]
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Corey Hart’s joyful comeback
On March 17, Juno Awards host Sarah McLachlan began her induction of Corey Hart into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame: “At the age of 17, Corey Hart recorded five songs on five cassettes and walked them into the lobby of the Montreal Forum to leave them for Billy Joel and his band. At 1am […]