Arts + Music
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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Tower of song
At this point in time you could say Canadian song has reached a pinnacle—Leonard Cohen shedding tears as he considered his own journey up the tower of song during his recent induction in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. It was a lovely moment for a highly deserving artist and exemplar to younger artists everywhere. […]
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When a Stranger Calls/Final Destination 3
At the beginning of the remake of When a Stranger Calls, the camera cranes above a suburban house, where a girl is being attacked inside, until we see an amusement park lit up behind it. A division is made between the agony of being scared and the fun of being scared. That’s as far as […]
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By the Found
An Anablog operative was reading a recent issue of Found magazine — the one “dedicated solely to printing ‘found’ items, e.g., hilarious teenage break-up letters, fucked-up grocery lists, awkward rejection notices,” she clarifies — and noticed some Halifax content. One story is an interview with local MC and producer Classified (fun fact: he went to […]
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Showing off
Haligonians have been flooded with concert-going opportunities over the past week, providing us with lots of music-related talk other than Coldplay On the local hip-hop front is a new record from scene veteran DJ IV, the second volume in his Exit O series. He’ll release it February 3 at The Warehouse with appearances from Microphone […]
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A taxing problem
Sheila Fraser may very well be Canada’s most popular civil servant. After filing her February 2004 Auditor General’s report outlining, among other things, the shameful and probably criminal pilfering of public funds that we’ve come to know as “the sponsorship scandal,” Fraser started receiving cards and letters of thanks from Canadians. A couple from Cape […]
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Best of Music 2006
Best Canadian Male MusicianBest Local Male Musician Best Local Album La De DaJoel Plaskett Joel Plaskett indirectly made a long-term investment to receive at least some Best of Music votes when he wrote “Love This Town,” a song about his love for his hometown Halifax. “It used to be the question, ‘Do you know Sloan?’” […]
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Curry on
Don’t feel bad if you don’t know about Andrea Curry. The shy, soft-spoken 25-year-old admits that she’s been under the radar on the local singer-songwriter scene. But that could change after the East Coast Music Awards take place later this month in Charlottetown. The Cape Breton-raised, Halifax-based musician is up for three awards: female artist […]
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The Matador
Uptight suburbanites feel edgy when they befriend a killer. That shallow but funny joke in The Matador shouldn’t work at all — the target is both easy and exhausted. Movies that poke fun at middle-class values are mostly based in the experience of watching other movies. Kids who grew up in the suburbs develop an […]