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Reup on the 2019 East Coast Music Award nominations ahead of tonight’s big Jonathan Torrens-hosted awards show in Charlottetown, where the event is parked until Sunday. Classified’s big 2018 has rolled into 2019, with the rapper racking up seven nods. Other multiple nominees include Fortunate Ones, Hillsburn, Neon Dreams and Ben Caplan. If you can’t…
Within the last six years, you’ve probably heard Dalhousie boasting about strategic priority 5.2. This directive urges the university to “Foster a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness.” The fact that this is not strategic priority number one tells you a lot about Dal’s priorities and foreshadows the climate of the campus. Many of…
Propeller Brewing Co. (2015 Gottingen Street) is providing some nostalgia to pair with your pint. The brand new Propeller Arcade Room—complete with its own little bar—opens below the existing taproom this Thursday, January 31. There’s no cell phone reception in the basement which—in the spirit of escapism—may be a blessing in disguise for dates or…
Just as avoiding climate catastrophe isn’t the only reason to phase out fossil fuels, it’s not the only reason to curtail meat consumption. Phasing out fossil fuels will reduce habitat destruction and land, air and water pollution—and leave us reserves for fuels that remain necessary and for other petrochemical products. Reducing meat consumption has similar…
You added me on social media and I kinda felt bad for you despite your reputation as being a man to avoid. Turns out yes you should be avoided. Do you have a life? Or do you sit on your computer all day being a slime? Not my first rodeo with online men and, as…
Hey, I was crossing on the light! You hang a fast left off Spring Garden Road and I am literally running for my life. Had I been 20 years older, I’d be another dead pedestrian. I looked at you through the drivers side window as you careened around the corner but your eyes were locked…
Tell me, this coffee establishment so dearly loved by Canadians: Why is it that when I bring a re-usable mug you fill your own cup to transfer to mine only to go ahead and throw it away? The whole reason I brought mine was to avoid yours going into the landfill! Honestly, if other coffee…
Not to sound like a bro, but could I kindly ask that when I am doing my morning exercises at the gym that you not fart near the weights? As you may or may not know, breathing is a huge part in getting those “gains” and…yeah breathing that is not pleasant. I would like to…
Shout out to the woman who paid for the groceries of the man in line behind her without telling him. He was in disbelief when I told him and it made both our days. Warms my heart to see there are people doing things like this!—The cashier
To the woman in the T-Rex cardigan: Thanks for making it so enjoyable to listen to terrible truths. I needed a reminder that live music—that a great performance—is a distinct way to experience music.—Practicing to sound as clear as you
A dinosaur-themed show opens at the Museum of Natural History, Matchstick Theatre brings a play with big Kerouac vibes to Neptune, Afua Cooper talks poetry as the city’s new poet laureate and more! Sip ‘n’ Shuck Friday Satiate your bivalve cravings until 2019’s Oyster Festival with this seafood-filled feast at the Delta Halifax Hotel. more…
I’ve been out of this abusive relationship for six months. I never reported what you did to me. I’ve been the one to step away from our mutual friends, who I love and which has been harder than our actual breakup. I’ve changed my entire schedule and life just so that I don’t have to…
This year, Halifax is alight with junior hockey excitement. For the second time in the Halifax Mooseheads’ history, the Memorial Cup—Canada’s nationwide junior hockey championship—will be played right here, at the Scotiabank Centre in May. The team is also celebrating its 25th anniversary this season, as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commemorates its own…
Let’s talk about the exciting world of bylaw simplification! Right now, there are a couple dozen planning strategies and land-use bylaws on the books in HRM, along with a plethora of other outdated bylaws and regulations, many of which pre-date amalgamation. It’s a patchwork of civic governance, amended piecemeal over the past 20 years—if amended…
QI’m an early-30s hetero woman in a monogamous relationship with my mid-30s hetero guy. We’ve been together 10 years, married seven, no kids. We have a lot of fun—travelling, shared hobbies, mutual friends. We have sex fairly regularly, and it’s not bad. However, his primary sexual fetish and main turn-on is furry porn—namely, cartoon images.…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18) A motivational speaker and author named Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from getting married, raising a family of four children and writing eight books. One book is entitled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for…
Dan Mangan w/Matt Holubowski Friday, January 24, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $39 adv/$44 show “When you’re making records you kind of just follow your gut. It happened to take me back in this direction that’s a little more direct, a little more sincere,” says Dan Mangan of his fifth, most tender album…
Shauntay Grant’s words are thoroughly embedded in Nova Scotia’s cultural fabric: She is Halifax ‘s third poet laureate; the author of children’s literature including last year’s picture book Africville, a 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award nominee; she’s taken her work all over the country and the world to competitions and literary festivals. This week Grant’s…
In the Dead of Winter January 24-26 inthedeadofwinter.com In hindsight, the birth of the In the Dead of Winter festival in 2006 feels like a perfect storm of talent and timing. Heather Gibson hosted the first event at the Khyber Club on Barrington with Jill Barber, Rose Cousins, Amelia Curran and Jenn Grant—names that now…
Get rail The argument Martyn Williams puts forward in his “Forget commuter rail” piece—that a Bedford train isn’t fair to people who live elsewhere and thus have to “carry on with the cramped car commute”—is so perplexing to me (Fix the City issue, January 10). These transitions do not happen overnight. As of now the…
Handmade Film Screening Tuesday, January 29, 7pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street free Of the art forms, filmmaking is usually one of the most collaborative—anyone who’s sat through the credits of a Marvel movie (all of you) knows this. But there is a different kind of filmmaker, one who makes movies alone, by…
