This week, it’s all about the rolling…film. Still. Cool shit abounds as the Atlantic Film Festival comes to a close, the coolest being Attack of the 50 Foot Reels. This annual workshop—taught by Flicker founder Norwood Cheek, husband of Andrea Richards, AFCOOP’s visiting artist—throws 16 novice filmmakers into the process with nary a moment to […]
Tara Thorne
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The small apple
We know you’ve been looking for ways to make September exciting, what with the dearth of culture available to you throughout the month. And while we fully support attending as much of the Atlantic Film Festival as possible, we also encourage you to check out another cinematic event. The Manhattan Short Film Festival will makes […]
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Boom town
The first thing you notice is the energy. Toronto is a fast town. Millions of people live here. They drive fast, they walk fast, they text fast. A normal day in Toronto is a fast one. Add some more people, then, and you’d think you might not notice. At Sundance every January, the tiny resort […]
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Burke be Frontin’
Since Hans Boggild announced his departure earlier this year, Eastern Front Theatre has been on the hunt for a new artistic producer. The role was filled this week with a familiar face—Scott Burke, the writer-director best known for his work with Ship’s Company Theatre, where he was AP for six years. “Eastern Front holds a […]
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From the Fringes
The Atlantic Fringe Festival unleashes its particular, delicious brand of insanity on downtown Halifax this week. So many days (10), so many venues (seven), so many shows (46)—how are you supposed to navigate this craziness? We decided to let some of the participants sell themselves to you, in one sentence or less. Charles Crosby, writer-director […]
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Festival express
Out of a record 1,778 submissions, the Atlantic Film Festival has put together an almost-record (tied with 2004) program of 223 films for its 26th edition, which opens September 14 and runs for 10 days. With shows on sale but no programs yet on the streets, here’s your inside look at 10 can’t-miss movies you […]
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The beef line
Hundreds of thousands of financially savvy Canadians felt a cold chill last week when Halifax-produced international phenomenon Street Cents got the axe from CBC after 17 years. The show is a seven-time Gemini winner and won an international Emmy in 2001. It helped put names like Jonathan Torrens, Demore Barnes, Brian Heighton (AKA Ken Pompadour), […]
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Fox news
Local filmmaker Michael Fox—of The Living Impaired and pointing-a-fake-gun fame—is back with the Halifax premiere of his new feature Entherance Online, Thursday, August 17, at Park Lane. Starring Charles T. Conrad, Charlotte Acadia Jewer and Allison Leadley, Entherance Online follows university student John (Conrad), who begins to lose track of his real life when he […]
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Taking you to school
Atlantic School of Theology Primarily a grad school, AST— which is “committed to excellence in graduate level theological education and research and in formation for Christian ministries, lay and ordained, in church and society, primarily in Atlantic Canada”—also has degree programs for people without a full undergrad degree (though you need five credits or at […]
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Pull my dinger
Whoever thought up the adage “Boys/girls are like buses—another one comes along in 10 minutes” sure as hell didn’t spend any phrase-coining time in Halifax. The truth is the oft, and deservedly, maligned Metro Transit is the best it’s ever been (and to use it costs the most it’s ever cost). There are 46 bus […]
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The rumour Park
Some major Trailer Park Boys rumours have come our way this week. Though neither Showcase nor Trailer Park Productions is in the business of confirming anything just yet, we hear the about-to-be-filmed seventh season of the comedy series will be its last. We also hear that Rush is scheduled to play the closing party of […]
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You try driving in platforms
A faithful reader, knowing of our gossip fever, has written in Gawker Stalker-style with a handful of Alicia Silverstone sightings from last week. The actor, best known for Clueless and the serial TV drama Miss Match, is in town filming MOW Candles on Bay Street. “I saw her on the boardwalk the night of the […]