Momentum in support of alternative rockers Great Plains is building faster than the trio can keep up. The band, just returning from its first Maritime tour with Down with the Butterfly and Jenn Grant, has accepted an offer to head back out on the road in Quebec and Ontario the first week of May. “It’s […]
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Live theatre, art exhibits, comedy, literary, spoken word – The Coast guide to Halifax and Dartmouth, NS . The downtown, local arts scene – plays, writers, actors, artists and performers. Painting, sculpture, photography, stand-up, stage.
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Lucky Number Slevin
It may seem unlikely that Lucky Number Slevin and The Benchwarmers have entirely different filmmaking philosophies; they’re both, after all, failed comedies. The distinction lies between the extremities of their attitudes. One is deathly in love with itself. The other just doesn’t give a fuck. Slevin displays one of the worst influences of Tarantino- inspired […]
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A breath of canned air
“It’s so fuckin’ great out here,” says Ben Mulroney to anyone in earshot near the corner of Argyle and Carmichael in downtown Halifax. It is fuckin’ great out here. It’s Thursday, March 30 at 10 in the morning, and spring-like weather has come early, though only a fool would suggest it will stay. I am […]
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Teresa MacInnes, British Columbia born-and-raised, has been a Nova Scotia resident for seven years. She came to filmmaking through social work, and found that by telling stories through the lens she was able to make more of a difference in people’s lives. “After a couple of years in social services you realize very quickly the […]
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Koala’s beats
Kid Koala possesses a short attention span. That’s not a knock—he freely admits he has an overactive mind—but it goes a long way to explain his creative process. Kid Koala (AKA Eric San) is a man who can ingest much more information than the common person and make it into something exciting and original. At […]
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Short shorts
A handful of new filmmakers will screen their works on Friday—or, in Variety-speak, Digitial Doc Denizens Drop Debuts—as part of a journalism school workshop taught by noted local movie maven Sylvia Hamilton. “The one that I did is about band names,” says King’s student Karley Tabak of the tentatively titled Name, which she made with […]
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The hockey song
There was certainly no shortage of chirping between The NHL All-Stars and The Rockers before the Juno Cup hockey game on March 31. Animosity was high as the two clubs prepared to face off in this year’s installment of a fierce rivalry some compare in passion to that of the Sens and Leafs in recent […]
