Joanna Barker has only been playing music in public for about two years, her guitar-and-voice proficiency coming to light in living room jams with Newfoundland pals like Matthew Hornell and Michael Dalton while living in Antigonish. “I had three or four tunes I liked enough to show people,” she says from St John’s. “When I […]
Tara Thorne
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Authorpalooza
This is the time of year—now that it’s been 20 degrees for more than three days straight—that we start piling our totes full of books and heading for nearby docks, rocks and shores. Saturday, June 16 will help you pick out your summer’s worth with writers running all over the province in celebration of Atlantic […]
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Shaping culture
This week the museum at Pier 21 will officially launch its exhibition Shaping Canada: Exploring Cultural Landscapes, which features contemporary and archival photography, oral histories, public programming and events throughout the show’s summer run. Last year staff met up with photographer Naomi Harris, a Torontonian based in New York, while Harris was travelling across the […]
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Not your Garden variety Party
“It’s our annual coming-of-summer fundraiser,” says the Ecology Action Centre’s Stephanie Hughes of the centre’s 15th annual outdoor brouhaha. “It’s our largest fundraiser so through this event which includes a plant sale—hence garden party—silent auction and live auction, we raise thousands of dollars for EAC projects and core expenses.” Hosted by CBC Radio’s Olga Milosevich, […]
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Fish House Festival pitches a tent
“The house I’m living at right now is a really beautiful property, and I’ve always pictured something like this happening there,” says Klarka Weinwurm. “Just for the fun of it, really: music outside.” She’s talking about the Fish House Festival, a day-long event in her West Dublin backyard featuring a dozen bands including Willie Stratton, […]
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The Fringe abides
After a near-year off, a dramatic last-minute rescue and subsequent roaring success, the 2012 Atlantic Fringe Festival is open for plays! The fest runs August 30 to September 9. Get your business in by July 7 via this application.
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Gus-Con Sci-Fi-Con
“I’ve been calling it a ‘love letter to Comic-Con,’” says the Museum of Natural History’s Jeffrey Gray. “It’s things you would usually find in a museum but squeezed into one weekend of fun.” Running in conjunction with the Out of This World costume exhibit, seen all over your Facebook feed—“There has never been this kind […]
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Regina Spektor
On her fourth album, Spektor ditches the producer superteam of Far for Mike Elizondo solo, and together they’ve created a bittersweet sampling of her special brand of cerebral pop. With her piano at the core, Spektor—who NPR aptly called an “oddball sentimentalist”—sings of loves lost and treasured, lives wasted and resurrected and it’s mostly beautiful […]
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Tim Outhit
2012 grade: C+ 2011 grade: C+ 2010 grade: C- 2009 grade: C Judging by the actions of their elected representatives, the biggest concern facing Bedfordians is evidently commuting to Halifax. Peter Kelly, who was mayor of the old town of Bedford and then an HRM councillor representing Bedford before becoming mayor, has spent decades advocating […]
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Pariah
A quiet triumph of 2011’s festival circuit—landing Independent Spirit, Gotham, Sundance and GLAAD Media awards—Dee Rees’ Pariah is part coming-out story, part family portrait. Alike (Adepero Oduye, 30 passing for 18) is leading a double life—straight at home, gay everywhere else, including school and New York’s lesbian clubs. In a bit of a switch, it’s […]
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Greta Gerwig’s Method-free mumblecore
The future of American acting yawns. “Sorry,” she says, embarrassed. “I have film festival rundown.” Greta Gerwig is 28 and has almost as many acting credits. You may have seen her in studio fare like No Strings Attached or Arthur, or Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, stealing the movie from Ben Stiller. But she emerged from a […]
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Stillman’s back with Damsels in Distress
Whit Stillman hasn’t made a movie since 1998—The Last Days of Disco, with Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny. He’s back now with Damsels in Distress, a mannered, high-falutin cupcake comedy about a quartet of girls (led by indie It girl Greta Gerwig, The Future of American Acting TM) who have decided that they would live […]
