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The documentary Honeyland tells a relatively minor story concerning a small group of individuals. Yet, the Oscar-nominated film manages to communicate so much about how human nature values the environment against its own interests. The movie is that special kind of documentary that is able to present a narrative in a similar manner to any…
[Editor’s note, April 3, 2020: As of late March, the National Film Board has released Ice Breakers on its website—NFB.ca—for free streaming. Add it to your self-isolation watch list.] When filmmaker Sandi Rankaduwa saw the National Film Board’s call for a short film program called Re-Imagining My Nova Scotia, she thought back to a book…
Since my birth, my family has brought me into this world as a strong Palestinian woman. Surrounded by influential political figures, I have been given the gift of perseverance. In the media, my people have been depicted to be either a terrorist or statistic—or, that we just don’t exist entirely. From Halifax, as I watch…
Filmmaker Phyllis Ellis hopes to send you scrambling to the shower to search out labels on your soap and shampoo. After all, her eye-opening documentary Toxic Beauty (trailer below; streaming now on CBC Gem) not only follows the class-action suit against Johnson & Johnson—and the company’s cancer-linked baby powder—but Ellis also uncovers an unregulated amalgam…
The Wearable Art Show Feb 28, 6-8pm & 9-11pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$20 I n the mental space between haute couture and your best outfit—somewhere between the wardrobe changes on a Madonna tour and a well-accessorized variety show—rest the knotty, throbbing aspirations of the Wearable Art Show. “The first time I…
Q I’m a 31-year-old cis bisexual woman. I’m hetero-romantic and in a monogam-ish relationship with a man. We play with other people together. I’ve never liked giving blowjobs because I was taught that girls who give blowjobs are “sluts.” Phrases that are meant to be insulting like “You suck,” “Suck it,” “Go suck a dick,”…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PISCES (February 19-March 20) If you’re like most of us, you harbour desires for experiences that might be gratifying in some ways but draining in others. If you’re like most of us, you may on occasion get attached to situations that are mildly interesting, but divert you from situations that could be amazingly…
Halifax Black Film Festival Feb 28-Mar 1 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road and Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road It may only be marking its fourth year, but the Halifax Black Film Festival has high expectations. “We show the Black reality from around the globe. It allows us to celebrate shared values,”…
Forest Town Feb 27-Feb 29, 7:30pm; Mar 1, 1:30pm; 7:30pm The Park Place Theatre, 5480 Point Pleasant Drive $15/$20 If every man had to hold a branch each time he mistreated a woman, would men change, or would the world look like a forest? This is the counter-factual reality explored in Forest Town, an anthology…
Getting to Africville on foot is next to impossible—there’s no way to safely (or legally) get there without putting yourself in danger. The site of the former community is severed from the rest of the city by the four lanes of Barrington Street, a rail corridor and Africville Road; no sidewalks lead there, and no…
Shigeru Fukuyama has made sushi for more than 40 years. During that time, he worked alongside the likes of Jiro Ono, moved his life from Tokyo to Toronto to Halifax, and cultivated a reputation as one of the greatest chefs in Halifax. Yet, Fukuyama hasn’t lost his sense of childlike wonder. He’s humble, sincere and…
Dive below the waves somewhere along Nova Scotia’s coastline and you might encounter a thriving ecosystem that is vitally important to our fisheries, our ways of life and our climate: An underwater eelgrass meadow. See the play of sunlight in the meadow’s swaying underwater forest, fish darting between the blades of grass and discover other…
This week Halifax Regional Council heard from the province about the QEII Health Sciences Centre New Generation project—a result of pressure from councillor Waye Mason for more clarity on expansions of the QEII site that could see a large parkade built beside the Museum of Natural History on Summer Street. The need for parking, explained…
There have been movies casting Niagara Falls as a central setting, but none have quite captured the split personality of the kitschy tourist town quite like Disappearance at Clifton Hill. “I have some personal history with the city,” says Falls-bred filmmaker Albert Shin recently about his latest feature, opening February 28 at Cineplex Park Lane. “It’s…
This month the province of Nova Scotia released the Tourist Accommodations Registration Act—which will require anyone operating a short-term rental that isn’t their primary residence—to register with the province and pay a petite fee. The point of the regulations, says minster of business Geoff MacLellan, was to “level the playing field” for the tourism industry.…
