Tomorrow night at The Company House, Toronto/L.A. comedy duo Cheap Smokes (Kaitlin Mamie and Laura Danowski) are presenting a variety show that’ll satisfy all of your comedy cravings (8pm, $7). The show will feature special guests Adam Christie (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Heidi Brander (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), local comic Dan Hendricken and appearances […]
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AFF Review: Sloan at The Marquee
On Saturday night, Toronto-Halifax’s Sloan returned home to celebrate the 35th Atlantic Film Festival at a pass-holders special event at The Marquee Ballroom. There were also performances by The Brood, Rose Cousins and Buck 65 but I only made it for my Sloan dogs. Just after midnight, Sloan appeared and jumped right into “If It […]
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AFF Reviews: Bound, Undone, The Stanford Prison Experiment
This weekend, several selections at the 35th Atlantic Film Festival explored human psychology through various narrative styles. On Friday, I rolled into the Lord Nelson Hotel at 1:30am to catch 1980 sci-fi musical, The Apple, which was one of the best worst movies I’ve ever seen, a terribly awesome, tacky romp through the exploitative music […]
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AFF Review: Hyena Road
This week, Paul Gross (Due South, Passchendaele) premiered Hyena Road, the first Canadian contemporary war film, which he wrote and directed, at TIFF and last night at the Atlantic Film Festival. The Afghanistan-based, Jordan-shot film also stars Allan Hawco (The Republic of Doyle) and Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland). And, just like the film, I’m conflicted. It […]
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Retro vibes: the 2015 Atlantic Film Fest full program announced
The 35th Atlantic Film Festival announced the full program this morning at The Lord Nelson Hotel. There was cake, popcorn and coffee and I also met my childhood hero, CTV‘s Liz Rigney. Along with the earlier-announced Atlantic Canadian selections, AFF 2015 offers an exciting lineup of award-winning domestic and international features and shorts hitting Halifax theatres from […]
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Tales from the Cryptorips & Viet Cong show tonight
Mark Mullane knows what’s up. The former frontman of Halifax’s ’90s phenomenon North of America got pals together last year and started Cryptorips, a semi-nostalgic return to the math-rock of his youth. After only a few shows, the band was exciting music nerds everywhere; in July, Cryptorips opened the Toronto reunion of ’90s indie-shoegaze legends, The Swirlies. Not […]
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Nova Scotia Music Week nominees announced
The first round of nominees have been announced for Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week, taking place in Yarmouth this year from November 5 to November 8. YEAH DOGGY. The NSMW Super Show closes it out on the Sunday night at the Mariners Centre. This year’s top nominees include In-Flight Safety with six nominations, Christina Martin and […]
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Check out all these locals playing Pop Montréal
From this Wednesday until this Sunday, the city of Montréal will be “fire,” as they say. The kids say that. Dozens of music’s ‘coolest’ acts (Thurston Moore, for one, and Motörhead, for some reason) will take over the land of smoked meat sandies and cheap gross ’40s for Pop Montreal. I wish I could go but alas. Luckily The […]
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From the car: a text-interview with Montreal’s Babysitter
Babysitter, one of Montreal’s gnarliest rock bands, will play in Halifax tonight and tomorrow night and you should almost definitely check them out. Do it for me. Originally from Victoria, B.C., the prolific trio of dudes relocated to the east last year and recently released a seven-inch split on Toronto’s Pleasance Records with Calgary’s Hagface (side note: last fall, […]
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Ghost Tango’s political timbre
Ghost Tango September 16-19, 8pm Sir James Dunn Theatre 6101 University Avenue $25 Bradyworks and Vocalypse’s latest joint production, Ghost Tango, tells the story of a Canadian woman facing a moral dilemma–whether to forgive or exact revenge on the man who tortured her during Argentina’s Dirty War after fate finds them run aground on a […]
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Country Christmas
Brett Kissel Wednesday, September 16, 8pm Casino Nova Scotia, 1983 Upper Water Street $25 Halifax turns into a gat-dang rodeo this weekend to host Canadian Country Music Week and the Canadian Country Music Awards, with performances by some of pop-country’s biggest stars—like Alberta’s own Brett Kissel. While Halifax seems like an unlikely place to celebrate […]
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‘Liberated’ Matthew Good plays Halifax, tickets on sale Friday
Matthew Good, the king of early 2000s Can-rock, is coming to Halifax on his cross-country tour in support of his new album Chaotic Neutral. He will play on December 9 at The Marquee Club. Tickets go on sale on Friday, September 11 (10am) via ticketpro.ca or by phone. From the press release: In his two […]