Nine years strong, the Atlantic Jewish Film Festival is known for offering a feast of flicks from across the globe that highlight diverse Jewish stories. This year, the event is doing both an IRL event at Cineplex Park Lane and a remote option that lets you binge from your couch. Movie buffs know it’s the […]
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Jimmy Carr announces Halifax show for May 31, 2023
It’s the third time English funny guy Jimmy Carr has brought a new stack of material to Canada—and if past tours are anything to go by, it’s only a matter of time until his newest show, Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny sells out. Halifax is getting in on the joke, too: It was announced today that […]
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Here’s your 2022 Nova Scotia Music Week recap
It was a jam-packed few days in Sydney, Cape Breton as the Nova Scotia music industry coalesced for the constellation of concerts and networking events that comprises Nova Scotia Music Week. Things capped off on Sunday, November 6, with the annual awards brunch—which, alongside doling out 23 awards, also celebrated the legacy of Halifax a […]
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Neptune’s newest musical hasn’t even hit the stage yet and its run has already been extended
People are really, really excited that Neptune Theatre is staging a musical, play version of Will Ferrell’s greatest film, Elf: So excited, in fact, that tickets for the show are already 80 percent sold—a whopping amount, considering it hasn’t even hit the stage yet. But, the venerable theatre knows when to double down on a […]
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We’re giving away two tickets to see disco treasure Boney M. at the Scotiabank Centre Nov 22
Four-piece disco act Boney M. is returning to Halifax this November, just in time to remind you that it’s the group responsible for one of the GOAT-est holiday albums ever: The 1984 opus Christmas with Boney M. The band is bringing along original lead singer Liz Mitchell, too, meaning this is gonna be one red-hot […]
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North Preston R&B sensation Reeny Smith announces Nova Scotian tour
Just as the days have been growing oppressively short, a host of musicians have spent this week announcing upcoming shows around HRM. The latest of the pack is none other than Reeny Smith, who’ll be playing a Dartmouth show on December 15 at Monte’s Showbar as part of tour spanning the mainland portion of the […]
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Tickets for Shania Twain’s June 2023 Halifax gig go on sale today, November 4.
Let’s go girls! It’s time to bust out the credit cards and refresh Ticket Atlantic’s site in your browser, because Shania Twain’s 2023 Halifax show is going on sale today, November 4, at 10am. Part of an extensive tour stopping everywhere from Las Vegas to Moncton, Halifax’s show will be held June 12 at the […]
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The Rolling Stones: UNZIPPED comes to Halifax this December
While it won’t quite be reliving the muddy glory of the time Mick, Keith and the crew played on the Halifax Common, it’s a pretty good substitute: The Rolling Stones: UNZIPPED announced today it’s adding a third and final stop to its Canadian tour, right here in Halifax. A sweeping retrospective museum show crafted by […]
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Lisa LeBlanc will play Halifax as part of February 2023 Maritime tour
Music nerds and Acadians alike got a reason to get hyped this week when Quebec music label Bonsound announced one of its star signees, Lisa LeBlanc, will be touring the Maritimes this February. The jaunt of dates include two Moncton shows (February 8 and 9) as well as a Halifax gig at The Marquee on […]
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Joel Plaskett Emergency announces February 11 Halifax show
Ashtray Rock fans, get ready: Joel Plaskett is reuniting his never-really-broken-up band, Joel Plaskett Emergency, for a rare hometown show slated for February 11, 2023. Held at the Light House Arts Centre, the gig promises to be a mid-winter warmup, with a start time of 8pm. Plaskett is arguably Dartmouth’s most famous export, a singer-songwriter […]
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Sue Goyette’s new book Monoculture asks us to value the forest before we lose it
Sometimes, it feels like poet-author Sue Goyette has spent a lifetime parsing the forest for the trees. Long inspired by nature, wildness and humanity’s need for both, a Goyette work is never far from soil or seed—proved by almost every entry in her bibliography, from her 2015 Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award-winning book Ocean to […]
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John Mulaney is coming to Halifax on Nov. 4
John Mulaney will perform his newest hour of standup at the Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax on Friday, Nov. 4 as part of his From Scratch tour. After a highly publicized and eventful past year, the comedian’s latest title suggests he is embarking on something entirely new. So, in the spirit of looking forward, The […]