“I think it’s quite different,” says Christina Martin of her new album, I Can Too, produced by Dale Murray. “It’s got way more punch rhythmically; sonically, it’s 10 steps forward for both of us, I think. That may just be because I had been talking about it for so long, and we had more experience […]
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David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream
The busy video installation artist, who lives and creates in Lethbridge, AB, beams his Scenes from a Dream House into the AGNS for nearly three months after a run at the National Gallery of Canada (in between trips to the Yukon and the Olympics). Hoffos’ “multi-year, multi-phase” project consists of five dioramas of everyday spaces, […]
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Oceans opens our eyes to the deep blue sea
Disney’s newish nature arm—oh African Cats, we can’t wait to roar for you—re-releases this multi-country co-pro in honour of Earth Day. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud’s Oceans traverses the normal Lorne Greene territory of baby turtles crawling out of the sand, cavorting dolphins, lounging (and hilarious) sea lions. And then the […]
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Slam dunk spirits
In honour of the Premier Basketball League’s All-Star weekend at the Metro Centre, here are some slam dunk beverages—one kind of booze, inside another kind of booze, for a perfect combo of grace and taste. Nothing but net. PBL All-Star weekend, May 1-2, Halifax Metro Centre, Brunswick at Duke Streets, $20/$15 ($25 weekend pass), 451-1221, […]
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Granola bars
Every day should be Earth Day, but if you can put in some time on April 22, the planet would greatly appreciate it (and you could also consider expanding to Earth Month, or Earth Life). Help celebrate the 40th anniversary of this movement with a globe-friendly cocktail at these local establishments. Morris East The downtown […]
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Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers w/Bang Bang Burlesque
One of the best-named bands in town launches an interesting seven-week stand at the Elephant & Castle tonight. Caplan and crew—“layered, complex melodies, gruff and powerful vocals, good old rock ’n’ roll mixed with flavours of Eastern Europe,” he says of the music—will play with a special guest each week, an impressive variety including up-and-comers […]
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Manuela lalic’s meeting accessort is “a metaphor for a collective movement”
The French artist Manuela Lalic uses found objects from her daily life to create installations and structures—apparatuses—that comment on modern society’s production and consumption excesses. For her Eyelevel exhibition—“a metaphor for a collective moment,” she writes from New York, where she’s been “adapting my work with the garbage that I find on the street” in […]
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Erica Sigurdson
“When I started, I thought if I could just be a touring comic and make money at this, that would be it,” says comic Erica Sigurdson. “But it isn’t quite as fun the fourth time you’ve gone through Moose Jaw.” The easygoing performer will make her third appearance at the Halifax Comedy Festival this week, […]
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Ani DiFranco cancels IDOW appearance
We don’t make the news, we just report it. Full refunds available at the Cohn box office, 494-3820. Opening night party at The Company House goes off at 7:30.
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Decade in review: Theatre outta space
“There’s not enough to share around,” says Ben Stone. He’s talking about space, permanent performance venues. His company—founded in 1999 as Zuppa Circus, now known as Zuppa Theatre Company—has utilized venues large (the Halifax waterfront) and small (North Street Church). Other than Neptune’s two stages, Fountain Hall (occupied by the company) and the studio(beautiful, but […]
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Decade in review: movie stars witnessed
Michael and Paul Donovan, Salter Street Films No one in Hollywood would finance Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore’s searing look into gun violence in America, so this Halifax company, which closed in 2003, stepped up—and got an Oscar for its gamble. Jason Eisener Eisener has been making genre shorts with his band of Dartmouth renegades […]
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In-Flight Safety + Jenn Grant holiday jam
Right here: Fairytale of New York, downloadable and dope!