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To the young-ish guy on the sitting up front on the 60, knitting away like it ain’t no thing: I dig it bruh, you do you! Hope that blue and orange scarf (?) turns out great! —Jealous Of Your Knitting Skills
Contrary to a common perception, ignoring climate change won’t make it disappear. Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity—mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands—is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly,…
Ryan Coogler is 31 years old. That means he was 24 when he made Fruitvale Station, his first film with Michael B. Jordan (and his first film); 27 when he rebooted the Rocky franchise, of all things, with Creed; probably not yet 30 when he was handed Black Panther, the latest entry in the infinite…
Neighbourhood Witch—owner Pamela McInnis calls it “Halifax’s most magical shop”—is expanding. “We were coming to the point where we just had to get more space, ’cause we’re a growing business,” says McInnis. “We maxed out our space out here.” Neighbourhood Witch General Store (1526 Queen Street) initially opened above Put Me On vintage clothing in…
Came into your shop for a haircut and almost melted into the chair. Your stunning eyes and smile were so amazing. Not to mention your kind and caring personality. Really made my day. —Wishing My Hair Would Grow Faster
Three and-a-half million spent on makeover of Fort Needham Memorial Park? What the hell is Fort Needham Park? Where the hell is Fort Needham Park? Can I have my tax money back? Shouldn’t that have been spent on affordable housing? —It’s My Money Too
So Matt Whitman retweets a certain group that a lot of people don’t like…Sooo what.Obviously a lot of people like the group or they wouldn’t have a group.Are these arsehole people going to tell Matt what to tweet or not to tweet from now on?He should have done the right thing and told them to…
Did you attend a Valentine’s day improv show? And maybe work at a toy store? If this reaches you, let’s hang. —Looking For A Good Book
Teacher unions and education. Do you really know that the quality of education is going to be significantly downgraded? Of course you don’t. Why? Because there is plenty of evidence to suggest teachers incomes do not translate into better educations. You claim that teachers vote against their own best interest in order to vote in…
Propeller Brewing Co. has just released the first in a series of barrel-aged beers. Last week, Propeller launched its Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout—a new take on the original Russian Imperial Stout. Head brewer Cameron Crerar was keen on putting out some barrel-aged creations, so he picked up some Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels to get the…
Halifax EDM outfit Neon Dreams has announced it has pulled out of a cross-Canada tour as allegations of sexual misconduct against the members of Hedley pile up this week. The trio has been on the Cageless tour since it kicked off February 5 in Abbottsford, BC, and was scheduled to open all 32 shows to…
Rebecca Thomas has some advice for whoever replaces her as Halifax’s next poet laureate. “Grow thick skin, but keep your heart soft,” she says. The poet’s two-year term as the municipality’s supreme scribe is ending in April and HRM is already seeking nominations for her successor. Applicants can be a poet, storyteller or spoken word…
Just in time for our annual celebration of the city’s new art, peep these creative ways to fill the best days of the week. Righteously Political Poetry: Canticles vs. Slavery and Imperialism with George Elliot Clarke Saturday Celebrated poet George Elliott Clarke tackles five centuries of slavery and imperialism with recent poetry, including his ongoing…
A melange of medium, background, purpose and inspiration await with this year’s crop of New Art. Here are the art-makers, free-thinkers and heart-cradlers to watch in 2018. Emmanuel Nwogbo Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Kevin Cormier Kelsey Borden Ben Waye Carrie Allison Waka Okabayashi Eyelevel Gallery Related Stories
The Halifax Regional Police department is on the hunt for a new chief information security officer to develop and then manage its IT security, strategy and operations. Until the newly-created CISO position is filled, HRP’s systems are presumably more vulnerable to outside cyber attacks. Just how vulnerable, though, the department isn’t saying. “The field of…
The community my father grew up in went without a school for 40 years. My father, Charlie Wilson, was born into segregation in 1927. He grew up during a time when schools were funded by the communities in which they were located. If your community could not afford to build a facility and pay a…
Honouring our heritage can be educational, sobering and life-affirming. And expensive. Much of the cost of last year’s centennial commemoration of the Halifax Explosion covered the makeover of Fort Needham Memorial Park in the north end. That job came in at slightly more than $3.5 million, according to figures provided by city hall. The refurbishment…
Flipping through Ben Waye’s sketchbooks feels like bringing an image into focus—the NSCAD student’s fashion designs come together slowly, from colour palettes, material samples and collages into stunning completed looks. Waye, 19, says his first two years at NSCAD have been a whirlwind. Since moving to Halifax from Mirimachi in 2016, he has grown his…
Kelsey Borden, Thoughts and Confessions February 27-March 3 Anna Leonowens Gallery 3 1891 Granville Street Kelsey Borden’s interest in embroidery didn’t click in one moment. It unfolded slowly: “I come from some very crafty women. My grandmother was Depression-era, so she sewed all her kids’ clothes, and my mother grew up with the craft of…
Faces, Places Friday, February 16, 7pm & 9pm Carbon Arc Cinema, 1737 Summer Street $8.75 carbonarc.ca The great French filmmaker Agnès Varda combines forces with the street artist J.R. in Faces, Places, a unique and fascinating documentary that follows the pair around the countryside talking to people and creating building-sized portraits of them on giant…
Public beading circles Treaty Space Gallery, NSCAD University Port campus 1107 Marginal Road February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 6-9pm What does it mean for a place to be called home? It’s a question that’s become inescapable for interdisciplinary artist Carrie Allison. Living in Halifax for several years after being raised in British Colombia and…
“I had this one really turbulent Tinder date where they decided ‘Let’s meet at your studio at 12 o’clock in the morning on a Friday.’ We had this big bag of booze and we were just tearing through my work and this boy was like ‘You’re Taylor Swift!’” Kevin Cormier laughs, leaning forward in his…
Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke, The Illuminations Project To April 29 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street “Meet Bloodie,” reads the promotional material for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s latest exhibition. A naked, dirt-encrusted girl stands in murky darkness as colours burst from her body: Rainbows stream from her arms and…
Lea Bertucci w/Taral Naik, Daniel MacNeil Friday, February 16, 7:30pm The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street $20/pwyc/free under 19 It would be a fallacy to call composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Lea Bertucci merely a musician, because she’s so much more. “When people ask me what I do I say I’m an…
Emmanuel Nwogbo’s favourite James Bond is Sean Connery. Growing up on tales of spy missions and perfectly gelled hair, he’s seen all the Bond films, but it’s Connery’s ’60s capers that stand tall above the rest: “I keep watching those ones because they’re so ridiculous. Some of the names are hilarious, stuff that you could…
The last few years have seen some serious redesigns for Halifax’s artist-run centres. Around the same time that the Khyber was pushed out of its home on Barrington Street, Eyelevel Gallery—one of Canada’s oldest artist-run centres—also moved out of its space downtown, due to high rent costs. The Eyelevel board and then-director Katie Belcher took…
Waka Okabayashi, I want to be a plant To February 17 Anna Leonowens Gallery 2, 1891 Granville Street In the mind and work of Waka Okabayashi, life really does imitate art. The NSCAD student, who moved from Japan to Canada after middle school to begin studying English, says she draws inspiration for much of her…
Get fracking facts Premier Stephen McNeil appears to be doubling down on his fracking ban, notwithstanding some recent self inflicted confusion and in spite of a report that values our onshore natural gas reserves at between $20 billion and $60 billion US. In fairness, there is anti-fracking hysteria and popular backlash for any government pursuing…
Food Hack Nova Scotia Sobey School of Business Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street Mon Feb 19 and Tue Feb 20 free, foodhacknovascotia.com Nova Scotia has a wicked problem. It’s not the kind of wicked problem a teenager in Bangor might have with their high school boyfriend, though. It’s the kind of “wicked problem” that is…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) The posh magazine Tatler came up with a list of fashionable new names for parents who want to ensure their babies get a swanky start in life. Since you Aquarians are in a phase when you can generate good fortune by rebranding yourself or remaking your image, I figure…
Q I’m a 24-year-old nonbinary person living in Florida. I have two wonderful girlfriends. One I have been with for four years (we live together). The other I have been with for a year and a half. They’re both brilliant, interesting, and kind. Both relationships have their issues, but they are minor. They know each…
