When not showcasing, hey rosetta will be conducting tours of the greater Corner Brook area. (photo Julé Malet-Veale) Not everybody (AHEM) could make the long, pricey trek to Corner Brook, NL for the East Coast Music Awards this weekend. So feel like you’re there by watching the show at 8pm on Sunday on Bold (the […]
Tara Thorne
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New Dog Day!
You might have heard that Dog Day has a new record out in April. Perhaps you would like an ear gander? You’re welcome.
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A Premier correction
Superstarr DJ Premier will drop by on Friday, but not, as today’s paper says, at Rogue’s Roost. The show is going down at Peddlers Pub. This ticket link comes up “sold out” but maybe there’s a line you can stand in for door tix. Call Peddler’s at 423-5033 to double check.
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The Rocker
Everything about The Rocker is a minor version of something else: Rainn Wilson is a lesser Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate is the underwritten sort-of love interest usually played by Maura Tierney and the movie itself is sub-School of Rock. But director Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) infuses the film with enough homage, sight gags and […]
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MacLellan on home ground
“One of the reasons I wanted to move back home was because I wanted a better garden—the house we had in Halifax had a shaded-in yard,” says Catherine MacLellan. “This has been a snowshoeing year for me. That’s the culture I live in right now—skiing and drinking rum.” That culture is located in MacLellan’s home […]
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Frozen River
Ray Eddy lives in a sagging trailer with two kids who’ve just been abandoned by their gambler father. She works part-time at a dollar store where the manager is half her age. She carries a gun, and she uses it. It’s the kind of role Charlize Theron and Halle Berry gummed themselves up for to […]
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Soul’s twist on faith
There’s a line outside the club. Inside it’s packed as patrons throw back drinks, groove to the beat and grind up on each other. Three teens, two girls and a dude, appear on stage to rapturous response and sing a song that includes lyrics about being touched tenderly deep inside. The refrain: “This is how […]
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Facing the music
Jason MacIsaac and David Christensen have collaborated for over a decade, but they don’t write songs together. “We each take half,” says MacIsaac. “I don’t want to be absolute about that, but that tends to be the case. Certainly Dave arranges a lot of my contributions to Zuppa, but he writes his stuff and I […]
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JCVD
If Mickey Rourke can get an Oscar in 2009, then Jean-Claude Van Damme can be lauded for his acting abilities for the first time in his long, largely artless career. JCVD is an intriguing meta experiment by 30-year-old French director Mabrouk El Mechri: After losing custody of his daughter, a misunderstanding leads the locals to […]
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Zuppa powers
On a frigid Saturday afternoon, the cast of Zuppa Theatre’s Poor Boy is gathered in the Neptune Studio, where in four weeks they’ll launch a show that’s changing every day. The set is beginning to come together—long strings through a series of paper sheets, dangling record sleeves, actual vinyl and a suitcase here and there, […]
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Baghead
The Duplass brothers (The Puffy Chair) have the distinction of making the first mumblecore film in which the timeline is definite: we know it will take place over a weekend, unlike predecessors Dance Party USA and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which drift aimlessly and seemingly endlessly toward neither progress nor resolution. Baghead has a typical […]