Awards season rolls on with today’s announcement of the 2023 Merritt Awards nominees, the top honour for live theatre in Nova Scotia. The celebration itself will be held March 27 at Alderney Landing Theatre, and here’s a rundown of who’s in the running to win in two of the major categories: Outstanding performance in a […]
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Video premiere: Leona Burkey’s “Groundrush” is about to make mom rock a thing
Leona Burkey knows it couldn’t have happened any other way. A self-described musical offspring of Brandi Carlile and Jimmy Rankin, the singer-songwriter swam against the popular current, coming home to Nova Scotia to launch her music career (instead of the common reverse route). Her landing on the scene was interpolated with the arrival of her […]
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5 new Halifax records you need to hear, now
It’s time to spring clean your playlist: to pick up some fresh, new music to go with the (as-of-yet alleged) arrival of warmer, brighter days. As always, Halifax’s music scene has your back, ever at the ready to help you discover your next favourite album or artist. Here, we’re rounding up some recent album releases […]
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Great Lake Swimmers announce May 26 Halifax show
Great Lake Swimmers announced today that the band will be coming to Halifax for a May 26 show at St. Matthew’s Church. A Canadian indie staple that’s 20 years strong, Great Lake Swimmers has been compared to Neil Young, Gram Parsons and Sufjan Steeves, making over a dozen albums that sit on the sonic spectrum between […]
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This week in Halifax
Get ready to light up the group chat: here’s your going-out guide for March 13-15, proof that there’s tons to do and see in the city every night of the week. See Isabella Samson take the stage with Factory Girls (March 13) The Stage at St. Andrew’s makes Mondays lit with its series of women […]
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Halifax is one step closer to a reopened Khyber building
“I think at some point, I thought that I was running a marathon. And then I realized that it was an Ironman,” Emily Davidson,​ president of the Turret Arts Space Society says. After almost a decade of working to preserve Halifax’s original Khyber building (the gothic-looking manse at 1588 Barrington Street that’s been closed since 2014—not […]
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From long shot to contender: A Halifax outsider’s chances in the 2023 Juno race
You’ll be excused for thinking that the only red carpet being unfurled right now is the one for this year’s Oscars (happening Sunday, March 12). But, on March 13, the 2023 Juno awards kick off in Edmonton. This year, as Halifax preps for its turn to host Canada’s answer to The Grammys (it was announced […]
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Halifax-shot series Sullivan’s Crossing airs March 19
When you’re in the mood to see and be seen, Agricola Street is always a safe bet—but perhaps never more so than last June, when the north end street’s busy-ness reached a new crescendo as it became a central filming location for the new series Sullivan’s Crossing: Scott Patterson (of Gilmore Girls fame) was snapping […]
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This weekend in Halifax
The days are slowly getting longer and Halifax’s calendar of events is filling up with all kinds of must-see, must-do fun, from a screening of Ashley McKenzie’s buzzy new flick to Villages’ big album release show at The Marquee. Here’s where to go and what to do to maximize those precious weekend hours: Witness War […]
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Meet the fibre artist who made a sweater of her favourite Maud Lewis painting
Fibre artist and avid crafter Grace Tompkins wasn’t expecting to go viral when she started sharing pics-in-progress of her latest creation, a crochet sweater inspired by Maud Lewis’s famous painting “Three Black Cats”. “I think the best part has just been connecting with other people and their love for something that I made: That’s so […]
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Halifax will host the Junos in 2024
Next year is already shaping up to be a big one for the local music scene—and for your eardrums: An announcement from the Junos released this morning says that the 2024 awards will be held in Halifax, at the Scotiabank Centre. Days of programming from March 21 to 24 will precede the March 24 ceremony, […]
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Women in art history celebrated with new national exhibit that highlights 3 Nova Scotians
It feels like the sort of art show Hannah Gadsby would love, an antidote to the male-focused visual histories the comedian spent ample time dismantling in her 2018 breakout special, Nanette: This women’s history month, the National Gallery of Canada is highlighting what it bills as “a lesser known chapter of art history”—that is, the […]
