Tara Thorne

Big news out of the TV world this week—chill dudes, Dwight D’Eon is still safe on Idol!—Andrew Cochran, of Theodore Tugboat fame, has been named regional director at CBC Television. Cochran is a producer, writer and director who has been involved in various capacities with Pit Pony, Blizzard Island, Canada AM and the CTV National […]

The National Screen Institute in Winnipeg funds a number of film and television projects and initiatives for Canadian artists every year, including an annual amateur short-film contest, the Drama Prize for a 13-minute dramatic short and a program for first features. It also runs Totally Television, “designed to help writer/producer teams fine-tune their TV series […]

Sue Gibson Garvey, beloved director/curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery, retired earlier this year after 17 years in the fold. This week, Dal announced her successor—local fave Peter Dykhuis, moving over from the Anna Leonowens Gallery, where he’s been administrative director since 1996. “Peter brings nearly 30 years of experience in the Canadian gallery system […]

Announcements are starting to come down from the Atlantic Film Festival, beginning with this year’s crop of Inspired Script participants. The program has gone through a change from previous years: It “goes forward by moving back—to the feature film outline,” says AFF programming manager Andrew Murphy. “Six talented Atlantic Canadian writers have been chosen to […]

Summer theatre is off on its merry way these days, and jumping into the pool this week is Festival Antigonish, celebrating its 20th frakkin’ season. (That’s for all you Battlestar fans whose Emmy hopes were dashed by an inside source this week.) It’s kicking off musical-style, the best kind, with No Way to Treat a […]

The Picnicface crew is on the move this week, headed to Toronto’s annual Fringe Festival for seven performances of The Welcome to the Show Show, but not before testing out its material on the hometown. And even that format will get a little tweak—though the local sketch comedy troupe has made its name at Ginger’s […]

We’re gonna stomp on Scene’s turf a little bit here, but word has just come down from the CBC that it has lined up a new show, East Coast Sessions, six half-hour eps featuring two locals a show. And you can attend the tapings free! We highly recommend doing this sort of thing whenever you […]

In December we told you about Andrew Hines, the local filmmaker who turned a carjacking into a dramatic short called This One Night…. Hines made the film to help him deal with the experience, even setting the film’s violent act in the same alley, beside the Blowers Street Paper Chase, where he was held at […]

It’s drifting into our least favourite time of year, that of sweaty, over-cologned, under-clothed summer. If you’re asking us, there’s only a tiny handful of reasons to go outside between June and Labour Day—they include alFresco filmFesto, Canada Day fireworks and charcoal barbecues. There’s also the old Halifax tradition of getting the hell out of […]