Kerry’s cause Pogue Fado will host a fundraiser for injured busker Devlin Kerry (AKA Kerry Holland) on October 30. Kerry, an August Coast cover subject, received extensive head injuries when he was attacked from behind by unseen assailants. The day runs from noon till close and though bands were still being finalized at press time, […]
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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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Disaster Drama
It began with a bump. A big bump. On Thursday, October 23, 1958 at 8:06pm, a series of shock waves thundered through the Number 2 Colliery of the Springhill Coal Mine, creating an intense, localized earthquake that was felt 23 kilometres away. One hundred seventy-four miners were trapped or crushed as floors smashed into ceilings […]
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Rogue airwaves
Michael Catano’s voice starts to fade on the car radio just before Portuguese Cove. Static overtakes the CKDU-FM station coordinator’s cheery read of more than a dozen names of listeners who support Moxieland, an eclectic cartoon/pop program. Host Stephen Cooke, a Chronicle-Herald reporter who started his CKDU show in the late 1980s, is inching the […]
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Make-out music
The members of the Maynards have an enviable relationship. Guitarist Heath Matheson, bassist Kristina Parlee and drummer Chantal Tardiff are the kind of friends who always one-up each other’s jokes, finish each other’s sentences and almost look alike. Perhaps not coincidentally, all three wear black-rimmed glasses. The Halifax indie-rock band has been together for five […]
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Immaculate collection
The members of Victoria-based Immaculate machine are earning a reputation for their remarkable live presence, but few dates are as memorable as those they travel over 6,000 kilometres to reach. Since forming in late 2002, the band’s handful of gigs in our city have included two venue closings—one of which happened unexpectedly in the middle […]
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Dreamer, Doom
Only occasionally does Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story stretch credibility. Its problems aren’t its claims to truth so much as its letdowns of genre. The sentiment in a story of friendship between a girl and a horse is so expected it needs ways to hook the audience. Writer-director John Gatins is left keeping his […]
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Snack-o’-lantern
Pumpkins aren’t just for making pie or jack-o’-lanterns. They’re also the perfect source of the raw ingredient for one of fall’s most underrated snacks: pumpkin seeds. With a little bit of time and effort, you can turn your pumpkin’s innards into a snack that’s healthy and delicious—and which will put any Halloween candy to shame. […]
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Niro and far
Shelley Niro sounds wiped. Calling from her home on the Mohawk reservation Six Nations, near Brantford, Ontario, it’s not surprising; she just attended the busy four-day imagineNATIVE media arts and film festival in Toronto. There she screened her new 57-minute film of connected shorts, Suite: Indian. Niro, a member of the Turtle Clan, only had […]
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Campbell’s soup
If you are a B-movie fanatic, chances are you’ve run into Bruce Campbell at least once in your movie-renting career. The 47-year-old actor, who is best known as Ashley J. “Ash” Williams from the Evil Dead trilogy, has appeared in over 50 films, including such classics as Maniac Cop, Lunatics: A Love Story and the […]
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In Blume
In other Best of , Time has released its list of the best 100 all-time novels. There are the predictables — Catcher in the Rye, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse Five, The Blind Assassin, et al. But a happy surprise is Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, which […]
