Get Rich or Die Tryin’ combines two movements of hip-hop movies: The gangsta rap manifest ghetto films of the early ’90s (Boyz N the Hood, Juice, Menace II Society) and this decade’s tales of careerism (8 Mile, Hustle & Flow). Its message — crime doesn’t pay — is, like much of the film, too familiar. […]
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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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The drawer girl
Shary Boyle gets her hands dirty when she works. The Toronto-based artist’s self-described “live, animated drawing performances,” often in concert with a musician, leave her hands smeared with ink. Boyle makes her mark from Berlin to Brooklyn, Paris to Halifax. She returns to town for a performance at the Khyber on Saturday November 12 with […]
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Dangerously zone
From his initial introduction to the world of hip-hop through Public Enemy and The Fresh Prince almost a decade ago, one-time indie jazz drummer Jesse McDonald has always been a big music fan. Now known as rapper Jesse Dangerously, there’s been no looking back, who admits he’s come a long way since his humble beginnings. […]
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LETTERHEAD
Readers respond to Lezlie Lowe’s “Take a Pill” column from last week.
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In the Radar
We first used the term “publisister” in this space on June 16 of this year, in our first item about Tom Cruise’s Summer of Crazy. A publisister is a publicist who is also the client’s sister, in the familial vein of momager (a mother who is also her child’s manager, like Hilary Duff’s). Cruise’s sister […]
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Drum roll please
If this year’s DRUM! is any indication, Halifax is a thriving, underappreciated percussion hot spot. But the event shouldn’t be confused with the seven-year-old Drumfest, which aims to expose various forms of percussion on a global scale as performed by local talent. To be held November 4 and 5 at Saint Matthew’s United Church, each […]
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At your service
The most recent issue of Naturally Green, the glossy and colourful newsletter produced by HRM’s communications department to promote the city’s collective environmental efforts, includes a story entitled, “Scavenging, A Blight on the Community.” The hyperbolic headline has provoked reactions from some SuperCitizens. “It blew my mind how insensitive and inflammatory it was,” says Dennis […]
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A cut below
A strange thing happened when i was watching the new DVD of Francis Coppola’s The Outsiders. I waited for the monologue that gets me every time. Johnny is stargazing with his friend Ponyboy and says, “It seems like there’s gotta be someplace without Greasers, Socs. There must be some place with just plain ordinary people.” […]
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The Weather Man
The Weather Man finds director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) in Alexander Payne (Sideways) mode. Verbinski’s lack of distinct style makes such excursions possible, and this one mostly works. He’s better at being Payne than Steven Spielberg. Pitched between empathy and fatalism, the title character is minor Chicago celebrity David Spritz (Nicolas Cage), who’s […]
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HOPE’s up
Dana Robertson has just given away a loaf of bread. During an in-studio radio appearance earlier this week, his band, Moncton punk rockers HOPE, partook in an interview and gave away concert tickets, CDs and a loaf of bread (as a mystery bonus prize) to a lucky caller. Foodstuffs aside, HOPE has another bun that’s […]
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Good gourd
It’s taken a few weeks, but news of Martha Stewart’s Nova Scotia-based pumpkin debacle has reached the inboxes of American glossy editors. The story got some coverage as it was happening, but now that it’s over it’s starting to hit “best of the week” lists in tabs like Star and InTouch. Our favourite is in […]
