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Thank you to the person who picked up my bank card as I zipped out of the Main Street gas station off to Martinique Beach on Wednesday. After basking in the sun and floating in the waves, I went to buy a bottle of craft beer and discovered my bank card missing (thank you credit…
I would love it if you found my bike bag on September 5, and will return it for a reward of $200. Please help me get my life back if you picked it up off the road. —Cyclist
I’m a recording artist trying to lay down a track, but there’s been a big noisy stanky diesel truck idling outside my place for the last half hour. Turn off your engine and stop idling! Not only are you ruining the environment, you’re loud rumbling truck is bugging the shit out of those of us…
To the tall lady with dark hair who spoke to me today at the grocery store, saying you must really love your job bla bla bla and here’s to you. I know now it’s you who keeps drinking in the bathrooms. I know now it was you who put that beer can in the middle…
A big thank you to the guys in khaki from Gagetown, NB who arrived Sunday afternoon to cut my fallen tree down to size, done in 10 minutes, and neatly stacked curbside all ready for the HRM chipper. BUT I couldn’t help wondering what all this Hurricane Dorian clean-up is costing the taxpayer, much of…
To the lesbian couple holding hands on Quinpool Road last Friday: I was walking to school and passed you on the sidewalk. As a closeted teenager, seeing you made acceptance feel like a reality. —Thank You
Thirty-four years after The Handmaid’s Tale first published—and two years after the Hulu series of the same name sky-rocketed into TV stardom—Canada’s most famous author is back with the novel’s sequel. And she’s bringing it to our dearly beloved library. The Testaments, which picks up 15 years after the original novel takes place, officially drops…
It was back in April when PUP—the Toronto punk four-piece that’s garnering international attention and acclaim for its latest, Morbid Stuff—leaked it’d be playing a show at The Marquee Ballroom, during dates that lined up with Halifax Pop Explosion. And though cool kids around town made sure that set was sold out before it was…
Halifax Fringe 2019 went out with a bang, with much thanks to Hurricane Dorian. The final weekend of performances was cancelled as the city shut down in preparation for the storm. And so, here are the last of the reviews. See you next year for Halifax Fringe 2020! Women’s IssuesBy Katie Clarke Women’s Issues explores…
Hurricane Dorian is coming. Like the worst visitor ever (an uninvited one), that hot mess is going to show up, over-stay his welcome, lock us indoors, knock some stuff over and probably take our electricity with him as he storms his way towards Cape Breton to mess up somebody else’s weekend. If you’ve seen the…
Batten down the hatches, stock the pantry and hold on to your hats. While Haligonians prepare for Hurricane Dorian, which will likely be a category 1 storm by the time it hits the shores of Nova Scotia on Saturday evening, the province’s surfers are keeping an eye on swell reports. “Hurricanes bring the big waves,”…
Charlie Caper – Robotricks By Charlie Caper There have been an increasing number of magic acts at the Fringe (this year there are 3 or 5, depending on what you consider part of that category). Most magic acts follow much the same pattern—there are a few core tricks that may differ in minor details from…
Les Kurkendaal is a professional Fringer, the sort of performer who creates a show and winds around the world with it, stopping at every Fringe Festival in every city along the way. “I am a storyteller but I tell comedic, autobiographic stories,” he adds, speaking by phone from his home in L.A. This year’s Halifax…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VIRGO (August 23-September 22) I don’t know if the coming weeks will be an Anaïs Nin phase for you. But they could be if you want them to. It’s up to you whether you’ll dare to be as lyrical, sensual, deep, expressive and emotionally rich as she was. In case you decide that…
In an effort to listen to young voices when making policies, the United Nations is assembling the first global youth-led council to collaboratively strengthen resilience, food security and nutrition. Twenty-two year old Cassie Hayward from Dartmouth is on the youth council’s working committee and is helping to shape the council’s operational framework. This October, she…
Women in Hospitality: The Evolution of Hospitality As Told by Women Sun Sep 8 and November 17 Lot Six, 1685 Argyle Street, 3pm, $25 eventbrite.ca Jessica Babin is at it again. The 28-year-old wine connoisseur who conceived Mermaids and Merlot—a pretension-free wine club for women—to is pressing pause on that particular project to start something…
Since last month’s mass shooting in El Paso, Latinxs throughout the US say they no longer feel safe. The shooting, which killed 22 people and injured another 24, was driven by racism and xenophobia against the Latinx community. The shooting speaks to a troubling resurgence of white supremacist violence in the US, fueled by Trump.…
Giant Killer Shark: the Musical Sat Sep 7, 11am & 8:45pm; Sun Set 8, 2:55pm & 10pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $13/$10 Amanda Mullally has always had a flair for the dramatic. The co-star of Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, a comedic reworking of Jaws, recalls a PEI childhood heavy with dramaturgy:…
BZLY thebzly.com Intelligent life, out there somewhere: Peter Hemsworth, the creator behind streetwear-focused fashion line BZLY, doesn’t know if it exists—but he sure is fascinated by how it might dress. “I think the best part is the mystery of it all anyways,” he says. For the label’s latest limited-run collection, released last month, Hemsworth was…
QI don’t listen to your podcast religiously, but as soon as I told my best friend this story, she said, “That’s a question for Dan Savage!” Backstory: I have a monogamous partner who I live with. It’s a heterosexual relationship, but we are both bisexual. That little inkling of homosexuality really drew me to him…
The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail Thu Sep 5, 1pm & 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 8pm; Sat Sep 7, 6pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$7 Logan Robins tells people that it was a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors that saw the writer-director’s interest spark in puppets, but, in fact,…
Penny Sat Sept 7, 4pm & 10:05pm Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage $10/$7 Rebecca Wolfe wrote, produced and stars in Penny, a quirky, kitschy, darkly comedic glimpse into the life of a 1950s housewife who lives a Betty Crocker dream, cooking her husband’s favourite meals before a studio audience. This is Wolfe’s first time appearing at…
The best way to address climate disruption is…burn more fossil fuels? It doesn’t make sense, but that’s what industry, media and governments want us to believe. To profit as much as possible from fossil fuels before markets fall under the weight of climate chaos and better alternatives, industry and its allies tell us fracked gas…
Entangled August 30 and September 7, 7:30pm Studio in Essence, 1535 Dresden Row #203, pwyc Christy Sanford takes our emotions to new heights in Entangled. The spine-twisting, gravity-defying, award-winning Sanford—also known by her punny stage name SpiraLynn—is an aerial acrobat who spends a lot of time dangling high above her audiences. She has tons of…
Once a year, during that in-between-time of ever-crisper days that still warrant sunscreen, the city stirs. Posters for plays and one-person-shows begin papering poles. Streamers billow out of the mouth of forgotten places like the Old Company House. Professional performing artists present their pet projects that are too out there for anywhere else. They share…
Women’s Issues Sep 5-7, 8pm The Pit, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Road $8/$5 The certain election of a certain president puzzled writer/director Katie Clarke on both a logical and emotional level: “I go to King’s, and there’s so much conversation there about identity and taking up space. I started researching women who voted…
Great Kettle for the People Sat, Sep 7, 6:35pm The Old Company House Theatre, 2202 Gottingen Street Meet Troy Ginter. He was born in Halifax and grew up in Cape Breton, but he’s lived all over: he taught English in Busan and fixed airplanes in Sault Ste. Marie. He’s married and has a three-year-old daughter.…
Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act Fri Sep 6, 6:45pm Sat Sep 7, 7:30pm Sun Sep 8, 12:20pm & 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street PWYC T. Roy remembers watching TV as the Berlin Wall fell. “You could feel the emotion of people trying to break down barriers and it was of…
10 Things I Hate about The Taming of the Shrew Thu Sept 5, 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 4:30pm; Sat Sep 7, 7pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $15/$12 “My brand is feminism and anger,” says Gillian English. “I’m feminism and anger.” English is a brilliant, hilarious, award-winning, solo-show-performing Fringe favourite. She speaks fast. She is…
Sex Before Marriage? Thu Sept 5, 8:15pm Fri Sept 6, 9:25pm Sat Sept 7, 6:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $5/$3 Cue Salt-N-Pepa: Celia Rossiter wants us to talk about sex. Rossiter attended Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts. She dabbled in acting and directing with SMUDS. And, she appeared in Harbourtown by Mark Foster…
mercury Thu Sept 5, 9:30pm Fri Sept 6, 5pm Sat Sept 7, 2pm & 11:20pm Neptune Theatre 1593 Argyle Street $8/$5 Colleen MacIsaac sidles into a Quinpool Road coffee shop, bowtie matching her combat boots in a perfect, non-navy-shade of dark blue. She sits down with an iced coffee and so much energy she hardly…
September is good for crowding enjoyment into late summer days, much in the same way that the Bay of Fundy’s rising tidal waters push beach-goers together onto shrinking patches of sunlit shore. Domaine de Grand Pré’s Moscato ($25), launched in the height of summer this year, is my choice of wine to accompany the glow…
