The Girls of Meru Sunday, September 16, 1:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $12.50 ($11.25 stu/sen) finfestival.ca “I just wanted to focus on the case,” says Andrea Dorfman of her documentary The Girls of Meru. She says it multiple times, speaking with empathy and care for the 160 girls she made the movie […]
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Fringe 2018: Door Play
Thu Sep 6-Fri Sep 7, 8pm The Pit, University of King’s College 6350 Coburg Road, pwyc “I heard this podcast and they have an episode all about how doors are really forgettable—a good door should be entirely forgettable,” says Zach Greenham. “Anytime there’s a door and you have to figure out how it works—that’s a bad […]
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Fringe 2018: Bubble Trans Pride
[IMAGE-1] Thu Sep 6, 9:10pm; Sat Sep 8, 8pm The Old Company Theatre, 2202 Gottingen Street, $10/$7 When Tyler (Tsholo Khalema) meets Bob (Mihaly Szabados), the attraction is instant. Bob has lost someone and Tyler’s art speaks to the pain. Meanwhile Tyler’s friend Jill (Karla Rae James), who has transitioned quite late in life, is […]
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Fringe 2018: Wicked Fountain of Youth
Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Fri Sep 7, 6pm; Sat Sep 8, 11am & 10pm; Sun Sep 9, 12:30pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $10/$7 Veronica Steele and Charlotte Weeks have spent the summer driving from London, Ontario with their show Wicked Fountain of Youth, a portrait of a teenager (Weeks) with fetal alcohol syndrome. […]
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Fringe 2018: Herbie Dragons and Oh Crap, My Scarf!
Oh Crap, My Scarf! Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Sun Sep 8, 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street, $7 Herbie Dragons Thu Sep 6, 8pm; Fri Sep 7, 7:30pm; Sat Sep 8, 1 & 8pm; Sun Sep 9, 5:30 & 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, $10 Kevin Hartford is having a busy Fringe: Oh Crap, […]
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Tim Baker’s elemental thing
Tim Baker and The Halifax All-Stars w/Lilly Hiatt, Brad Roberts, Mick Davis The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street, 8pm $50 ticketpro.ca One of the country’s favourite bands, Hey Rosetta!, called it quits last year, but Tim Baker has moved on alone. After a summer of festivals and an album in the can, he’ll offer up some new […]
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Juliet, Naked (and infamous)
Juliet, Naked Opens Friday, August 31 In the new romantic comedy Juliet, Naked, Rose Byrne is Annie, a small-town English curator living with Duncan (Byrne’s Bridesmaids co-star Chris O’Dowd) who is equally devoted to both her and a man: Tucker Crowe, a Nick Drake-style folk musician (Ethan Hawke, doing his own singing) who made one […]
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Chinese Festival Halifax announces inaugural lineup
Halifax’s first-ever Chinese Festival will kick off Saturday September 9 with a big event at the Rebecca Cohn and end with a free waterfront extravaganza on the 22nd, it was announced on Wednesday. The Canadian government named 2018 the Canada-China Year of Tourism as a way to celebrate and explore the history and opportunities between the […]
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Fall gets funnier with Chelsea Handler and Trevor Noah
A couple of comedy titans will drop by this fall, though separately: Chelsea Handler visits the Rebecca Cohn on Sunday, October 7 (tickets on sale at noon tomorrow), while Daily Show host Trevor Noah hits the Scotiabank Centre on November 2. Those tickets are on sale Friday at 10am. They may not be performing together here, but they do […]
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New Music 2018: Hear the artists
Here are all your new faves in one listening booth! Frail Hands: Jody Upshaw: Kids Losing Sleep: Maura Whitman: Smear Frames: Worst Part: Bear Le Friends: Alexander and the Great Ones: Hosta: I. by Hosta Shay Pitts: Related Stories
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The kid gloves come off at CFAT
Tiny Takeover: Kid Critics To August 31 Centre For Art Tapes, 2238 Maitland Street “I find the general public that’s not already interested in the media arts often will use the works that have a narrative to pull them in and get them to have a look at the other work,” says Tori Fleming, programming […]
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New Music 2018: Worst Part
“I’m that shy kid who never talks to people at shows,” says Lor Sangster, drummer for the trio Worst Part. But when her other band, Kilmore, played with a show with Scumgrief, she connected with guitarist Andrew Gagne. A year or so later, with bassist Sean McInnis, Worst Part was born. Its first EP, Heel, […]
