This much is indisputable: The viewer is in control. Sure, we have to stay off Twitter on certain days or warn people not to spoil us or avoid the TV section of Entertainment Weekly. But in this ever-evolving age of box sets, PVRs and torrents, the way we consume television has changed so fundamentally that […]
Tara Thorne
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NXNE: Homeless Angel edition
The thing about Toronto is it kicks my ass, it’s hot and everything is far and I forget to drink water and my face breaks out from the smog and I sneeze a lot. So I had no energy left for blogging. Also I only went to three shows, one of which was my own, […]
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Death Cab for Cutie
Ben Gibbard now lives in Los Angeles, a town he’s decried numerous times (“Why You’d Want to Live Here,” Postal Service’s “This Place is a Prison”), so it’s probably no coincidence that the first single, “You Are a Tourist,” and the lead track, “Home is a Fire,” discuss an uneasy sense of place. But those […]
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Free love
“If The Beatles were around today, and they said, ‘We’re not gonna play anymore, we’re just gonna record CDs,’ they’d be a bunch of broke people living in their mothers’ basements,” says Richard Lann. Lann is one of many Halifax musicians who has free music available on Bandcamp, the simple, elegant streaming site that has replaced […]
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KABOOM
Gregg Araki has two modes: fun (Smiley Face) and artiste (Mysterious Skin, shudder). The sci-fi teen sex romp is the former, a ridiculous, funny coming-of-age starring the dreamy-eyed Thomas Dekker as Smith, who heads to college with his best friend Stella (Haley Bennett, an edgy Emily VanCamp). He’s got a hot surfer bro roommate and […]
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Daydream Nation’s Michael Goldbach
In my high school class there was always this girl who was really pretty and really intelligent and really separate,” says Michael Goldbach, the writer-director of Daydream Nation. “She just seemed to have her own thing going on, and always seemed to be in trouble with older guys. She was the kind of girl I […]
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Law & ORDER: Criminal intent
Let’s talk lady cops: Mireille Enos is holding down The Killing; Jennifer Beals is busting all kinds of balls on The Chicago Code; Mary McCormack is still killing it on In Plain Sight and three weeks ago, Kathryn Erbe returned to Law & Order: Criminal Intent as wry, understated Alexandra Eames. Last season, Erbe and […]
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Playing alone
“Bonnie Tyler’s a big one,” says Susan Leblanc-Crawford. “When we did the dishes, the person who dried—cause that’s the shittier job—got to pick the music. So we would rock out to Bonnie Tyler and Howard Jones and Jesus Christ Superstar, and play it really loud. The stereo was in the living room so we had […]
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Bossypants
Diablo Cody succinctly summed up the experience with a Sunday-evening tweet: “I read Bossypants way too fast. It should be a series, like The Baby-Sitters Club. You could get a new Bossypants at each school book fair.” Tina Fey’s slim, sharp new volume is aptly being compared to Nora Ephron (who, despite her diminishing screenwriting […]
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Reel Talk kicks off tonight at the Khyber
Women in Film and Television-Atlantic continues its steady progression into the local film community beginning this Friday, March 25 at the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street) with Reel Talk, a monthly series of Q&As with notable industry women. The list includes producer and scholar Rita Shelton Deverell (April 29), cinematographer Becky Parsons (May 27) and filmmaker/Carbon […]
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How Do You Know?
Reese Witherspoon stars in this bizarrely chaste romantic comedy (that cost $100 million!) as a professional baseball player past her prime. The movie has her waffling between playboy (speaking of primes passed) Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd, as if anyone with working eyes and ears would choose the former in any universe Wes Anderson didn’t […]
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Merritt nominees
The theatre community’s annual celebration of itself, The Robert Merritt Awards, goes down March 28. Kate Watson will be on hand to let you know the winners, so you best check out the nominees here.
