Five-and-a-half years ago, after having one of her breasts removed at the IWK, Julie Vandervoort was sent home not with painkillers, but with a gift card for a lingerie store. “At the time I was told studies show that women do just as well with regular Tylenol,” she says. “So no painkillers, but there was […]
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Nocturne wants your project pitches
Nocturne, Halifax’s annual nighttime art extravaganza, dropping a week earlier than usual this year on October 19, is looking for project pitches. The year’s theme, as set by curator Tori Fleming, is SCAFFOLD, which aims to “explore how temporary structures can be used to make a larger commentary on the social, physical, and political structures […]
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Video premiere: Leanne Hoffman, “If I Leave Town”
Leanne Hoffman has been out on the road in support of her solo debut What Remains, which dropped May 10—produced by Erin Costelo, it’s the first release on Costelo’s new label Venue Records. Today we’ve got the premiere of the brand-new Mirror Image Media-produced clip for “If I Leave Town,” a string-laden mournful ballad, that finds her […]
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Film review: The Biggest Little Farm
In The Biggest Little Farm, we meet a host of characters: Todd the rescue dog, Emma the pig and Greasy the rooster as well as cows, snails, gophers, coyotes, bees, ducks, a cat, and on and on. These 200 acres in California—dusty, dead, dry soil when Molly Chester and her husband John, who directed and […]
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Biological art fare
IOTA bio art series To June 21, various venues, free Stelarc artist talk w/Andrew Pelling Wednesday, May 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, 5440 Spring Garden Road Full schedule at iotainstitute.com T he genre of bio art—less a genre, perhaps, than a way of life—is not an easy elevator pitch. “It’s a term that resists being […]
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First Aid Kit cancels all summer dates, including Halifax
The past weekend was made long in the bad way with an announcement that First Aid Kit, AKA sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, have cancelled all their summer dates, included a highly anticipated Halifax Jazz Festival appearance in July. The July 10 replacement act is set to be announced this week.
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Visit with The Realistic Joneses
I n the odd and moving The Realistic Joneses, on until this weekend at the Park Place Theatre, one married couple moves in next door to another. Jennifer (Kathryn MacLellan) and Bob (Christian Murray) are dealing with his rare terminal illness (well, she is, he’s fading into nothing). Pony (Gil Anderson) and John (Matthew Lumley) […]
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Film review: The Hustle
F or a film like The Hustle, dropped in the wake of Avengers before the summer’s riptide comes roaring in, you’d be right to approach with tempered expectations. But the film—a grifters’ caper starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Hollywood, please stop it with this)—immediately subverts those with its […]
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Film review: Ordinary Days
The Canadian festival entry Ordinary Days—it screened here at FIN—gets a theatrical release this week at Park Lane. Its concept—the same story told from three perspectives, each segment handled by a different director—could’ve played as pointless schtick, but here it’s deployed deftly enough to keep you guessing until nearly the final shot, which doesn’t seem […]
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A whole bunch of men won ECMAs
The remaining 2019 East Coast Music Awards were handed out last night in Charlottetown, after an initial round on Thursday. There were only three repeat winners amongst the multiple nominees—North Preston’s Reeny Smith, Enfield native Classified and Toronto resident Jeremy Dutcher—which is always nice (sweeps are boring). Album of the Year Classified, Tomorrow Could Be […]
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Where to stream ECMA action this week
Reup on the 2019 East Coast Music Award nominations ahead of tonight’s big Jonathan Torrens-hosted awards show in Charlottetown, where the event is parked until Sunday. Classified‘s big 2018 has rolled into 2019, with the rapper racking up seven nods. Other multiple nominees include Fortunate Ones, Hillsburn, Neon Dreams and Ben Caplan. If you can’t […]
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Hello City’s powerful play
Hello City presents: The Hello Baby Show Tuesday, April 23, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5/$10/$20 The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and […]
