Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke have added some Dartmouth flavour to their line-up in the form of ex-Guthrie Dale Murray. The alt-country band released a statement on their website on November 29 announcing their parting of ways with founding member Jeff Peers. “The deal is that I am taking over guitar, keyboard, pedal steel and […]
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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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Last chance
After four years of work and consultation, SuperCitizens have about six weeks left to submit final comments on the regional plan. “We’re asking for any input up until January 31,” says Peter Duncan, the regional plan team’s manager of environmental assets. The six weeks is an extra review period added at the request of the […]
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Tried and Truman
“It’s a time of his life where he has become what he realized,” says director Bennett Miller of Truman Capote. “He found what he was looking for, and suffered the consequences of getting it.” Miller heads a table at which the actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr. and the actor-turned-first-time-screenwriter Dan Futterman […]
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Dance card
Honesty is an attempt at which people often fall short. While searching to find the perfect terms and expressions, authenticity erodes and meaning is sacrificed in translation. With his third album, Spirit Dance, roots musician Dave Carmichael has composed 11 songs with the approach that what we want to say is always right on the […]
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The Chronicles of Narnia
The best moments of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe come early. But even once they’ve passed, this adaptation of CS Lewis’s children’s classic has a surprisingly humble charm. When Lucy (Georgie Henley), the youngest of four children evacuated from home during a WWII air raid, discovers a land inside […]
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Super 8 is enough
Whether it’s a lead who won’t work without his or her daily dose of whiskey, a snowstorm during a summer beach scene or surly extras who won’t listen to the director, every film presents different challenges. Each filmmaker showing their work at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative’s (AFCOOP) annual Super 8 Holiday Party screening tonight dealt […]
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Bit by bit (torrent)
Bit by bit (torrent) With the music industry’s Napster-related shitfit of a few years ago and the billion-dollar movie industry’s ongoing campaign against downloading (though we haven’t seen those commercials lately, the ones where the prop guy is like “You’re stealing from me,” which, sorry anyone working in the movie industry, you’re doing better than […]
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Urban surf Christmas
The first snowfall of the season and the Urban Surf Kings’ holiday bash are telling signs the holiday season is upon us. The former has already happened, and the latter’s 10th annual is on December 9 at the Khyber. It’s a time of year the band gets especially excited about. “It’s our once a year […]
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A handmade tale
Darryl Besch’s Cool cars and motorcycles were part of Darryl Besch’s childhood, but they weren’t the wee Hot Wheels you raced across the kitchen floor. “My Dad does custom bike and car paint and one of his things is flames, so I grew up around ,” Besch offers, adding he takes inspiration from comics and […]
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Lend us your ears
We’ve sorted through our carefully alphabetized cd library and plucked from it the 50 best albums of 2005.