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The Commoners’ Almanac: Spring Break From Capitalism The Living Room Theatre 2353 Agricola Street To April 15 While many folks can’t afford a tropical March vacation, plenty of us could stand to take a break from the daily grind of our capitalist society. That’s the premise behind The Commoners’ Almanac: Spring Break From Capitalism—a project…
Sort of a cheerful doomsday warning, the Canadian documentary Call of the Forest offers a look at the history of trees across the world, and what man taking them away has done to the earth over time. Using the amiable Irish botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger as a guide, Jeff McKay’s film travels to Japan, California, Ireland…
Shawn Cleary’s plans to freeze council salaries will have to wait a few more weeks. The Halifax West Armdale councillor proposed holding remuneration for the next eight months in a motion at Tuesday’s meeting of Regional Council. Cleary’s motion would have restricted any further increases to council’s pay until either November 1, or the arrival…
Comedy Bootcamp with James Mullinger, Catherine Robertson, Travis Lindsay and finalists Martin Edwards, Daniel Allen, EmmaLeigh Rivera and Ryan Fried Wednesday, March 29, 7:30pm Bearly’s House of Blues and Ribs, 1269 Barrington Street $5/$10 Tickets Comedy Bootcamp finalist Martin Edwards is no stranger to the stage. Edwards, who is a dad, husband, full-time cafe manager and…
BurgerFriesPop EP release w/Jessie Brown, FM Berlin, Bad Partys Friday, March 24 at 9pm The Local, 2037 Gottingen Street $7 “It was totally on purpose,” says guitarist and vocalist Dale Boudreau on new wave trio BurgerFriesPop’s decision to release their EP during Burger Week. With all of the online rumbling about The Coast’s ever-popular week-long…
While essentially pointless, the surprisingly good live-action Beauty and the Beast is more than an exercise in cash grabbery. Emma Watson is an excellent Belle, and though the men are played by guys named “Dan Stevens” and “Luke Evans” (the male movie star is truly a non-event these days), they too comport themselves well, facially…
We recently highlighted the faulty logic of a pseudoscientific argument against addressing climate change: the proposition that because CO2 is necessary for plants, increasing emissions is good for the planet and the life it supports. Those who read, write or talk regularly about climate change and ecology are familiar with other anti-environmental arguments not coated…
What a difference a new council makes. After approving a 29-storey limit for the Willow Tree development last year—against the recommendation of planning staff—this week Halifax Regional Council voted to shrink that height restriction down to 62 metres (or about 20 storeys). George Armoyan’s Armco Captial, through its APL Properties, first proposed the development at…
You can thank Just for Laughs for bringing my boyfriend John Mulaney to Halifax with his Kid Gorgeous tour. May 11, 7pm at the Rebecca Cohn you’ll be laughing so hard you might think you’ll never be able to stop laughing, trust me. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 24 at noon, available online, by…
My bed, and my partner, are the best combination of comfortable I have ever experienced. There has not been one day that has passed since I have met this woman that I have not had the most comfortable sleep of my life. Every sleep that goes by is better than the last. How could that…
Why are there so many “photographers” at every event and concert in this city? We all know the trend of today—everyone and their dog is a photographer now but why do we need 10 amateurs with a DSLR walking around a stage like they own it? They are not respecting the performance or the audience;…
Want to share a bottle of red wine together sometime? I hope you’ll break the rules and find my info to contact me… —Blue-haired Apple TV customer
I think about you all the time. I know you’re still here with us and increasingly I believe and understand that we’re all connected. Lately I’ve been wondering if you have already learned all the secrets of the universe by now though. Maybe you have or maybe you realized that you already knew. Maybe it…
Whatever idiot that started this BOGO crap should be shot in the eye with a ball of his own excrement. Of course, if I buy one, I expect to get one. If it is a sale (at an inflated price) and I get an additional one then it is BOGT Buy one get two or…
“Do you deny institutional racism exists!?” shouts a man, rising to his feet, to cheers and rumblings in a crowd of more than 70 people. There’s a pause. Then Halifax Regional Police chief Jean-Michel Blais responds: “What do you mean by institutional racism?” This is just one of many charged exchanges that broke out during…
Vulva Culture w/Husband & Knife, Special Costello Saturday, March 25, 8:30pm-12am Timber Lounge Vulva Culture w/Chudi Harris, AquakultureMonday, March 27, 8pm-12am The HMCS Wardroom, University of King’s College After a four-month hiatus, Vulva Culture is hitting up two live shows in Halifax at the end of March. “We’ve still been working in-between, just not playing…
My boyfriend recently returned from a seven-month deployment with the royal Canadian navy. After a long day of work we met up for a much deserved beer at a Spring Garden drinking establishment . After getting settled in our booth we were approached by a waitress and asked to present our IDs when ordering drinks.…
Diana Gabaldon in Halifax Wednesday, May 3 at 7:30pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium $23 Diana Gabaldon is the superstar author of the addictive #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series, the story a mix of historical fiction, romance, sci-fi, mystery, fantasy, adventure and general hotness. Gabaldon is coming to Halifax thanks to the Bookmark, and will be…
As always, click each event title for full details, and happy weekend-ing! 12 The King’s Chorus Chichester Psalms Sunday A rare chance to hear Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 classic live. 11 Saint Paddy’s Dance Friday A totally twee way to be Irish for a day? Celebrate at an old-fashioned community dance. 10 St. Patrick’s Day Mega-Puketacular…
Actor Madelaine Petsch—AKA Cheryl Blossom from the CW’s BRILLIANT (I do not care what any hater has to say on this topic) series Riverdale—is in town, shooting a horror movie at Dartmouth’s Prince Andrew High School, called Polaroid (high school weirdo finds old Polaroid camera that mysteriously kills those who appear in its photographs, if…
Cave Small Cave Big screening Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street Friday, March 17, 6-9pm Cave Small Cave Big workshop for children aged 5-7 The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street Saturday, March 18, 10am-6pm Registration required at info@thekhyber.ca Cave Small Cave Big is a surreal journey through the unfiltered depths of…
Weekly Wednesdays Comedy & Improv Jam The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street 5:30pm workshop, 8pm show $10 It’s Wednesday night at The Company House. The taps are open, along with water pitchers. A dozen people are standing in a circle. They’re swaying forward and backward, rocking on their heels. A man makes eye contact with…
Weirdos Opens Friday, March 17 It’s 1976, and Kit (Dylan Authors) is restless. It’s summer in Antigonish and he wants an adventure. He devises a plan with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) to hitchhike to Sydney where his bohemian mother (Molly Parker) lives. She’s travelled the world, hung out at The Factory in New…
The NSLC and local craft beer are in a relationship, but it’s complicated. The topic has caught the attention of beer lovers across the province, especially since Unfiltered Brewing filed a lawsuit against the NSLC last summer. The suit involves what the corporation calls the Retail Mark-Up Sales Allocation: A fee the businesses pay the…
“I remember being in really good shape when I worked downstairs,” John Allen says. He’s leaning back in his chair at a desk in the tiny corner office tucked at the end of a short twist of a hallway that runs behind the storefront and tasting room of Propeller Brewing. The air in the office—on…
HALIFAX 1. 2 Crows Brewing 1932 Brunswick Street 2. The Auction House 1726 Argyle Street 3. Gahan House 1877 Upper Water Street 4. Garrison Brewing Company 1149 Marginal Road 5. Good Robot Brewing Company 2736 Robie Street 6. Granite Brewery 6054 Stairs Street 7. North Brewing Company 2576 Agricola Street 8. Propeller Brewing Company 2015…
Down with big weed No, you cannot have ethical weed grown by mega producers (“Ethical weed,” Voice of the City by Luke Johnstone, March 9). Given the choice of scrapping a $20 million crop of weed, which will trigger a sell-off of shares by shareholders, or rolling the dice on using banned pesticides, herbicides or fungicides.…
Q I went to Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, the big kink event in DC in February. There was one thing I saw there that is messing with my head, and I hope you can set me straight. There was this lovely little six-person orgy going on with two cute-as-could-be hippie girls and four older dudes.…
Big Spruce’s 4th Anniversary: RA RA Rasputin Fest Sat, April 1 Stillwell, 1672 Barrington Street Saint John Annual Beerfest Sat April 8 1 Market Square, Saint John, NB saintjohnbeerfest.com Nova Scotia Craft Beer Week May 5-14 nscraftbeer.ca 3rd Annual Stillwell Open Sun May 7 Stillwell, 1672 Barrington Street Craft Beer Cocktail Face-Off Tue May 9,…
Pride & Prejudice Thursdays to Saturdays, March 16-April 8, 8pm Sunday March 26 and Sunday April 2 at 2pm Pond Playhouse, 6 Parkhill Road $18 Costume designer Susan Hall has watched Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth walk in the garden so many times that, by now, she must have the engagement scene memorized. As the head…
[IMAGE-4]“It depends on my mood and the weather and if I’ve had a long day at work or not. I like a clean lager after a long day at work, but if I’m having a meal I’ll have something with more flavour—right now I’m liking Tatamagouche’s Deception Bay, Abyss by Spindrift, or Roof Hound is…
North Brewing Company Gus’ 65m Ale Jill Jackson—owner of Jill + Jack Paper—was one of the artists behind North’s series of illustrated labels all designed by women. She first worked with the brewery last summer, when she designed the label for its Lawrencetown Blonde. More recently, she revamped the look of Gus’ 65m Ale, one…
2 Crows Brewing Co. Liesse Table Beer Citrusy. Refreshing. Bright. Smooth. These are the words emblazoned on each can of Liesse from 2 Crows Brewing on Brunswick Street, one of the newest breweries in town. Weighing in at 3.5 percent ABV, this table beer packs so much flavour that you’ll wonder if the ABV really…
The Donahue Sisters March 16-25 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20 tickethalifax.com The four actors who founded LunaSea Theatre more than a decade ago did so to serve a function that should’ve been unnecessary for actors of their stature and experience: Work. Mauralea Austin, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Martha Irving and Sherry Smith were all in…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20) Would you like some free healing that’s in alignment with cosmic rhythms? Try this experiment. Imagine that you’re planning to write your autobiography. Create an outline that has six chapters. Each of the first three chapters will be about a past experience that helped make you who you are.…
1. Sid’s Cider Wild Blueberry The newest member of the ShipBuilders family re-imagines some of Stutz Cider’s familiar flavours—like this sweet treat Wild Blueberry, Crisp Apple or Chai Spice—in a snazzier, single-serve (and super affordable) bottle. This one’s for those who like to blush. $2.99 2. Bulwark Hopped Cider Because cider isn’t just a counterpoint…
The morning hangover—remember it? The pounding headache and nauseous sensations after a night of chugging back brew at your local watering hole are not easily forgotten. But what if the opportunity arose to forgo those symptoms, and others, by making the decision to drink beer created specifically for its health and wellness benefits? In ancient…
