Written by Caley Baker, Jodie Barnaby, Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Victoria Foley, Austen Gilliland, Stephanie Johns, Carsten Knox, Lindsay McCarney, Kate Watson and Shannon Webb-Campbell. ARTS BURNING RUBBER AT SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY Show curator and documentary filmmaker Ariella Pahlke is attuned to the world, the details that tell a bigger story. Around […]
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Written by Caley Baker, Jodie Barnaby, Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Victoria Foley, Austen Gilliland, Stephanie Johns, Carsten Knox, Lindsay McCarney, Kate Watson and Shannon Webb-Campbell. ARTS ACTUAL AT DALHOUSIE ART GALLERY Emerging artists find a welcome home at Dalhousie Art Gallery, whether in solo or group shows. This summer a new group of young […]
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Hot summer guide
Over 100 eventsWith hiking, cycling, swimming, lazing & more. Dig into the 11th annual treasure trove of ideas and tips for fun in the sun.
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Taking flight
The Winston Churchill statue that stands in front of the Spring Garden Road library is a Halifax institution. Forever fixed mid-pace, the great leader frowns and guards the library’s path. Stephanie Domet describes the statue as “calming and encouraging.” It’s fitting, then, that the library is where much of Domet’s new novel Homing takes place. […]
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Well versed
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” says Lorri Neilsen Glenn. The Halifax poet laureate is quoting Joan Didion in the midst of a discussion about her own writing. She punctuates the words with her hands as if conducting an orchestra. Glenn is an astonishing listener, incisive in her comments. Her eyes don’t waver, […]
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Little’s lone figures
Whether by choice or circumstance, some people live in isolation, but even these lone figures eventually find connection in, and to, this world. Linda Little’s second novel Scotch River offers readers a chance to contemplate this idea through her two main characters, Cass Hutt and Pipe Holmes. “For me one of the main themes is […]
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History repeating
Tonight New Yorker and ex-pat Dartmouthian Laura MacDonald will be on the Boston Common, a special invited guest to the lighting of the now controversial Boston Holiday/Christmas tree. This year’s tree is a 14-metre white spruce from Chester Basin. “No one I ask in Boston ever has any idea why the tree is from Nova […]
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John Ralston Saul
Renowned Canadian author and philosopher John Ralston Saul will be in Halifax on Tuesday to give a lecture as part of The Canadian Institute of International Affairs’ annual lecture series. The focus of this year’s lecture series is “Wielding Power in a World Without Borders: Exploring Visions of a Fairer World.” The topic of Saul’s […]
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Life’s a Riche
According to Newfoundlander Edward Riche, no writer is an island. The award-winning novelist is making the trek from St. John’s to the mainland to read from his latest piece of fiction The Nine Planets. Riche is stopping in Halifax on October 27 to read at the Dalhousie University Club. “I’ve dared myself never to read […]
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Not-so-instant star
Stephens Gerard Malone’s first novel, Miss Elva, sat in a trunk for 10 years after he wrote it, before it was published this year by Random House. Actually, that’s not strictly true. His first first novel was called Endless Bay. He wrote it in 1994 and published it under a pseudonym. It’s not what you’re […]