The Halifax Jazz Festival continues to brighten your summer: On the heels of its First Aid Kit/Bahamas back-to-back comes the news that the rapper Common will open the event on the waterfront stage Tuesday, July 9. Tickets to see Common, who won the Oscar for Best Song for “Glory” from 2015’s Selma (he’s actually a […]
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Film review: Birds of Passage
Friday, April 12, 7pm Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer Street $8.75 carbonarc.ca Ciro Guerra’s Academy Award-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (2015) was gorgeously photographed in black and white, spanning 40 years in the Amazon, whose main character was a shaman and lone survivor of his tribe. That is to say: Ambitious. For Birds of Passage, […]
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The blazing Color Purple
The Color Purple: The Musical To June 2 Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$86 neptunetheatre.com On a sharp and sunny Tuesday morning, the lobby of Neptune Theatre is quiet. Behind the doors of Fountain Hall, backed by a six-piece band, a choir swells. After three weeks of rehearsal, it’s the first day in the theatre […]
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Sam Wilson’s strings and a heartbeat
Sam Wilson Groundless Apprehensions release Sunday, April 7, 6:30pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $10 The jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, a St. FX music grad, is just 25 but she moves through music like an old soul. Her favourite guitarists are Americans like the octogenarian Kenny Burrell and the late Michael Hedges and Jim Hall; […]
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Street Cents is back, sort of!
Jonathan Torrens announced via YouTube yesterday that he’s back with a 2019 version the beloved CBC show Street Cents, a new webseries appropriately titled Your Two Cents. Street Cents was produced out of Halifax from 1989 to 2006 and its roster of hosts included Entertainment Tonight‘s Kim D’Eon, Cavendish‘s Andrew Bush and actor Demore Barnes. My […]
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Watch the trailer for Jason Eisener’s new wrestling series
Viceland has dropped the trailer for its new wrestling doc series Dark Side of the Ring. Conceived by Dartmouth’s own Jason Eisener with Evan Husney, each episode follows, 30 For 30-style, a veteran wrestler including Bret Hart, Randy “Macho Man” Savage and The Fabulous Moolah. Dark Side of the Ring premieres Wednesday, April 10 for fancy cable-havers. Related […]
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Film review: Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Neither Wolf Nor Dog comes to Halifax this weekend on a wave of grassroots success—crowdfunded to start, nearly 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, starring a 95-year-old Lakota elder who lived through D-Day, worked with Marilyn Monroe, was Errol Flynn’s stunt double and was born and died at 97, in 2016, on the Cheyenne River Sioux […]
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Jazz Fest announces First Aid Kit and Bahamas in first round of headliners
We were a little worried when the Halifax Jazz Festival was still conspicuously silent this week, having announced its big gets in January of previous years. But it was all for naught—today HJF made its initial lineup announcement, and it was worth the wait. Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit will headline the waterfront stage […]
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Here are your 2019 Merritt Award winners
The Merritt Awards, Theatre Nova Scotia‘s annual celebration of the year in local theatre, were handed out last night at the McInnes Room in a ceremony hosted by Kim Parkhill and Ian Sherwood. The queer Holocaust musical Kamp was a big winner, picking up five awards including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Original Score for Garry […]
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Thrush Hermit returns September 28
Halifax faves Thrush Hermit will reunite this fall in honour of the 20th anniversary of their 1999 album Clayton Park, which will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 13. Tickets for the September 28 show at The Marquee are available now for $44 right here. Don’t sleep!
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Film review: Gloria Bell
An absolutely effervescent Julianne Moore lights up Gloria Bell, Sebastien Leilo’s remake of his own 2013 Spanish film Gloria. Leilo’s last film Disobedience had Rachels McAdams and Weisz literally spitting in each other’s mouths, a highlight to be sure, but in an otherwise sullen and drab drama. He does a complete turnaround here, setting the film […]
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Film review: The Hummingbird Project
It’d be interesting to figure out exactly how the diminutive and unimposing Jesse Eisenberg has crafted a career out of playing total pricks: All the way back to 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, his Walt felt confident enough to claim ownership of Who song as his own, to say nothing of Mark Zuckerberg and […]