Moonwake w/Walrus, Carinae Friday, November 30, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 The seven-piece band Moonwake is difficult to categorize: Its new EP Phonetic Limbo begins with a short swell of strings, meanders through jazz, AM radio and indie rock, and ends with a ballad straight out of a Zuppa Theatre play. Sean […]
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Pause your life and listen to three new local songs!
Two comebacks and an alt version to tell you about on this sweet frosty Friday: In 2012, a ginger-haired dream named Jennah Barry dropped an instant classic called Young Men, entrancing full cities with her deft songwriting, incredible voice and aspirational stage banter. She played and played, and then she stopped. There was vocal surgery, […]
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Kaia Kater’s folk bomb
Kaia Kater w/Leanne Hoffman Sunday, November 25, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $17.50 Kaia Kater picks up outside of Buffalo, New York, on a coffee stop as she and her band head back to Toronto. It’s the biggest band she’s toured with yet, four in total, after a good stretch playing as a duo […]
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Film review: The Front Runner
For his second film of 2018, Jason Reitman follows up the remarkable Tully with a completely different beast. Where the former was a quietly scary, exquisitely wrought depiction of post-partum depression, The Front Runner is a political comedy about a real-life event: Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign, which was ruined by an affair uncovered by […]
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Film review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller made one of the most striking debuts in recent memory with 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the real and unflinching coming-of-age story of a California teen. It was tough, tender, funny and poignant—all qualities found here in her follow-up, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, though it’s toughness that dominates long before […]
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Mouthpiece’s brain matter
Mouthpiece To Nov 18, 8pm (2pm Sun mat) Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $35 ($25 underwaged) In Mouthpiece, Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava climb out of a bathtub to play both sides of one woman’s brain. They began creating her in 2013, put her on a Toronto stage in 2015, won two Dora Awards […]
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Film review: Widows
Steve McQueen’s Widows was ballsy before it even showed up: You know going in that all the men, including a famous one (Liam Neeson), die in the beginning. (Note to Hollywood: Start more films like this.) Following McQueen’s brutal, sobering Academy Award winner 12 Years A Slave, Widows looked to be a complete 180: A […]
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The most confident version of Erin Costelo
Erin Costelo w/Leanne Hoffman Thursday, November 8, 7:30pm Fort Massey United Church, 5303 Tobin Street $25 eventbrite.ca The 1974 ballad “Marie” by Randy Newman is three minutes of piano music that Erin Costelo believes comprise likely the most beautiful love song ever written. A man has fucked up, and “Marie” is this particular man’s apology, […]
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A veteran helping veterans
Patrick Murray Saturday, November 10, 8pm Codapop Studios, 6880 Quinpool Road by donation The folk singer Patrick Murray served in the navy and the air force first. “I flew on Sea Kings for a little bit and also was in the navy, basically hunting subs was my job,” he says. “Submarine warfare is the technical […]
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Here are your 2018 Music Nova Scotia Award winners
Couldn’t be more excited to win our first @musicnovascotia award for Group Recording of the Year! Hillsburn has always been very much a group effort, so even though Paul couldn’t make it in person to accept the award tonight, he was there in this awkward photo. ♥️ Thanks, everyone! A post shared by HILLSBURN (@hillsburn) […]
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Nocturnal Cities brings something new to Nova Scotia Music Week
Nocturnal Cities forum at Nova Scotia Music Week Saturday, November 3 Elm/Oak Ballroom, Holiday Inn Truro, 437 Prince Street $55 (forum only, included w/NSMW delegate pass, $100) nsmw.ca This year’s annual Nova Scotia Music Week—starting tonight in Truro—has a theme of “building stronger communities” and part of that is the brand-new Nocturnal Cities forum. It […]
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Film review: Mid90s
Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with the coming-of-age story Mid90s, which received a rapturous standing ovation when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. But let us push a pin into that festival bubble: Sunny Suljic leads a cast of mostly unknowns as Stevie, the son of a single mom (Katherine […]