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Postponement
February is a graveyard. From the perspective of a Hollywood studio head, now is the time to release all the movies that have tested poorly or in which he or she has little confidence. The studio marketing budgets for the past few months have gone towards winning the high-end product, the pictures that were released […]
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All hands on decks
A dance floor filled with throbbing, sweaty and pink dancers. No, it’s not a case of food colouring exploding under the disco ball. It’s what organizers of the Chicks with Decks event want to see this weekend at Club Rain. The bill features the best female DJs in Atlantic Canada as well as national talent […]
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Cold comfort
As the season of discontent rolls through town, there is a bright spot—one that’s created not by a SAD therapy lamp, but through the sweet sound of voices. The In the Dead of Winter festival, running from February 17 to 19 at The Khyber Club, joins 18 artists who refuse to be bullied by one […]
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ANABLOG
We shrieked with delight when a normally dreaded email forward fell into our inbox yesterday. The subject: Interview Opportunity with ELLEgirl Editor in Chief Christina Kelly. Anablog devotees know of our admiration for the formidable Ms. Kelly — the curmudgeonly guiding force of the late, great Sassy magazine; a bastion of credibility in the early […]
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Late-breaking news
As of press time, word was the city will lease The Khyber Club space to the Khyber Arts Society until February 19 after all, as previously agreed. What will happen after that date is still up in the air. Stay tuned. Search them What began as the fusion of musical talents between three New Brunswick […]
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Love actually
“I’m lookin’ at your face and I just wanna smash it,” says Barry. “I just wanna fuckin’ smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You’re so pretty.” “I want to chew your face,” says Lena. “And I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck […]
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Behind the music
The love song. It is the single most powerful form of expression in musical language. Don’t believe me? Case in point: Chris Martin, a lanky, crook-toothed Brit fresh out of university transformed into a sensitive heartthrob with “Yellow,” a cleverly sappy song that compared the colour of the stars to being in love. From your […]
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That Thing he does
Daniel MacIvor likes the use of the word genesis. As co-writer and co-star of Whole New Thing, opening February 10 in Halifax, he’s well-aware of the good fortune that brought this project together. Working on the script with the movie’s director, Amnon Buchbinder, Whole New Thing was written in two weeks. In an industry where […]
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Lying in wait
Long before Oprah bitch-slapped James Frey for the semi-truths in his memoir Million Little Pieces, confessional poetry—made famous in the 1960s by Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg and Anne Sexton—tinkered and toyed with autobiographical truth-telling. Written in “I,” confessional poetry draws on the author’s own deeply personal and often painful experiences. Some critics claim these wordsmiths […]