Thom D’Arcy answers his cell phone through a sip of coffee. He’s standing outside a convenience store in the town of Hanna. “I don’t really know what province that’s in,” he says, the click of a lighter audible over the line. “Alberta or Saskatchewan.” Hanna, Alberta, is a town of 3,000 two hours northeast of […]
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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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Aeon Flux
The visual excitement of Peter Chung’s MTV series Aeon Flux is lost in transition from animation to live action. Weird pop art becomes routine. There’s a sincere effort to recreate a cartoon look. Director Karyn Kusama (returning five years after her festival hit Girlfight) imbues horizontal line structures through the designs of Earth’s last city […]
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Forum moment
Last December, OneLight Theatre hosted a day-long discussion about the state of Canadian theatre in The Crib, its intimate space on Gottingen Street. The response was so overwhelming that this year’s forum has expanded into the Dalhousie Arts Centre for an entire weekend of disussion, philosophies and performances. Beginning on December 10, the event will […]
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Back to the auteur
Bruce McDonald is Canadian cinema’s enfant terrible. The Kingston, Ontario-born director emerged from the outlaw auteur movement created when Telefilm came into being in the mid-’80s , along with Patricia Rozema and Atom Egoyan. They shared the new face of Canadian cinema; movies for us, about us and made by creative people here who needn’t […]
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Best of Music readers’ poll
Last chance to fill out your ballot to win a $500 shoppping spree at HMV.
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Hung up (on hate)
We love Madonna. Unabashedly. Her tenacity and ability to reinvent and reposition herself for as long as we’ve been alive is mind-boggling. And though the music peaked with Ray of Light, we admire her untouched status as a modern pop icon. So we were stoked when our Rolling Stone showed up this week, with an […]
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Conjunction Junction
The reputation of the band set to open for Bedouin Soundclash this Friday is somewhat ambiguous at the moment, but that won’t last for long. Brampton’s The Junction signed with Universal this summer and will soon return home to finish work on their debut full-length. Bassist Matthew Jameson says the deal came about slowly. “It […]
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Gas track
Back in 1997, seven years after the Kyoto Accord was born, HRM joined the 20 percent club. We committed to reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. Instead, our emissions increased. By 2002, SuperCitizens were producing 28 percent more GHGs than in 1997. One reason is simply there were […]
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Slean times
Sarah Slean is shedding skins, leaving pockets of herself all across the country before she flees to France. She stops in at Ginger’s Tavern on December 7 and 8 to peel off a few more layers. “It is true,” says Slean, with a hint of a French accent, on an early-morning conversation from Edmonton. “I […]
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Lend us your ears
Tori Amos The Beekeeper (Epic)Amos’s first album of original material since 2002’s epic Scarlet’s Walk is a return to the ballad-based times of Under the Pink, with a gospel choir and Damien Rice thrown in for new colour. A political bent pokes its way through the (overlong) narrative, most bizarrely and beautifully in the Rice […]