Vol. 18, No. 16
Dal forum hears scathing critique of higher education
CBC panellists accuse universities of exploiting students and teachers
By Bruce Wark
CBC loses one of its best
Veteran radio host Costas Halavrezos calls it quits
City employees to be paid to "volunteer" at Canada Games
By Tim Bousquet
Steve Streatch discusses traditional farming methods
Idiot spray painter strikes again
Stupidly attacks Gottingen Terrace
Moncton and Halifax "rivalry" discussion on the CBC
CBC board approves Halifax plans
Sale of radio building, expansion of TV building, keeping production capabilities
Responding to Darrell Dexter
Documenting the Dartmouth Common Act
BC Winemaker at Bishop's Cellar
Grant Stanley pours at Halifax wine store
Brooklyn Warehouse is Three!
Local eatery celebrates third year
By Carsten Knox
Mills reopens
Fire can't keep legendary local department store closed
Hami's Cafe & Catering Open now
Dartmouth’s newest cafe-pizzeria
Organic food and more
Home Grown to arrive on Gottingen Street in 2011
Yves Rocher opens in Nova Scotia
French spa and beauty company comes to Mic Mac Mall
Fid Resto parties with the AFF
Restaurant offers special menu until September 25
Halifax Naturopathic Health Centre has its grand opening
Clinic is open at Windsor and Almon
Mo’ Better blues
We can’t save the planet so long as we continue to increase our level of consumption.
Native green
The new Mi’kmaq Heritage Garden on the outskirts of Truro shows how greenspace planning should work.
By Chris Benjamin
Shorts and Suspense
Short notice on Atlantic shorts, good directors make Good Neighbours
By Matt Semansky
AFF: A Canadian Legend and Let Me In
Pinsent soothes, vampire film disturbs
AFF Midnight Shows: Tis Better to Give'r...
Fubar II doesn't suck, but hopefully Let Me In will
Shorts and Art
Audacity and ambition; realized, thwarted and otherwise
By Hillary Titley
The Lonliness of the On-Set Photographer
Film stills and the people who love them.
A Trigger response
Rock 'n' roll is the vehicle, not the destination for this dialogue-driven film.
By Sean Flinn
Still thinking about Rhonda's Party
Ashley McKenzie's short film leaves an impression.
TIFF DAY 07: Raining, pouring, going home
Thanks again
By Tara Thorne
Play It Again (And Again, And Again)
Do filmmakers get bored of their own work?
Gainsbourg goes for fantasy
Biopic of the legendary French singer uses fantastical elements to delve into duality.
Tierney Talk
The Good Neighbours director on Montreal, MODRA and Baruchel's beard
Channelling TV Carnage
TV Carnage founder Derrick Beckles started collecting bad TV clips on VHS tapes. Now he’s sharing the best of the worst at Gus’ Pub.
By Alison Lang
Bylaw busting
Want to open a secondhand shop in downtown Dartmouth? First, get a licence, then forget all about selling music, movies or toys.
The Way We Filmed
Office productivity may plummet as all eyes go to a YouTube channel of local films from the 1920s through the 1940s.
AFF director spotlight: Chaz Thorne
It was a struggle to get made, but Chaz Thorne's coming-home film Whirligig was chosen as AFF's Atlantic Gala.
Creating the Best Movie Never
Argyle Fine Art asked artists to make posters of the best movie never made---they responded with a fantasy land of inspiration.
By Holly Gordon
AFF writer spotlight: Josh MacDonald
MacDonald's words are all over the fest, with two new features, The Corridor and Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage.
Don't ask yourself: Should I Be Doing This?
Because you should, definitely, go see Ryan Doucette's new play.
By Kate Watson
AFF newcomer spotlight: Laura Dawe
Talk about defying the odds: With no experience and little money, Dawe's first feature Light is the Day premieres at AFF.
Peeking Behind the Scenes
ViewPoint Gallery hosts a film stills exhibition, just in time for the Atlantic Film Festival.
30 by 30
For the Atlantic Film Fest’s 30th birthday, we’re giving you 30 film reviews from this year’s lineup.
By Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Carsten Knox, Matt Semansky, Tara Thorne and Hillary Titley
The Disappearance of Alice Creed intrigues
Tantalizing connections between the kidnappers and the kidnapped keep this film unpredictable.
Resident Evil: Afterlife will never die
Yet another round of mindless action and gore gets pushed into decent, dumb-fun territory.
Flipped needs to pick a side
A he-said, she-said style of narration takes away from Rob Reiner's film about young love.
AFF Gala (or as Gavin Crawford put it, GAY-la) Screening and Party.
Hockey, music and beverages
Full Atlantic Film Festival events guide
Everything that's going on is only a click away
By Kyle Shaw
Atlantic Gala Shorts and Uncle Boonmee
The best of the local bunch and a spicy Thai noodle-scratcher
The Canal Street Madam/In A Better World
Saturday at the AFF
AFF DAY 5: Schedule changes
Some movies don't come to town, and others show up unexpectedly
AFF DAY 5: Atlantic Shorts 3 and Submarino
More of what we do well and more Danish drama
AFF DAY 6: The Corridor/You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger/Daydream Nation
A good day at the movies
He's Got a TV Eye
chatting with TV Carnage's Derrick Beckles
Weekend Diary: Bad Vibrations and Evil Face-Dolls
a pox on me! a pox on you!
Rudd’s route
Activist-musician Xavier Rudd finds it’s not easy being green.
By Hilary Beaumont
Great Bands, Free Tunez
everyone wins
Back to School Rules with Bad Vibrations and Friends
embrace your inner spicoli/john belushi/steve urkel
Pon de Replay this Sunday
Elephant Man is on the way TURNITUP
Movies on music
Get a free backstage pass for Dalhousie Art Gallery’s music documentary series.
Not just The Once
This Newfoundland folk trio is discovering that the music they make on the rock appeals to a much larger audience.
Brooding for Elliott
Coming off a whirlwind European tour, the alt-country rockers land in Halifax expecting a party.
Dave Sim comes to Halifax
Cerebus creator does his Final Signing
Superhero Girl
By Faith Erin Hicks
True Story by Kate Leth
By Mike Holmes
Starry heights
The Nova Scotia Fall Wine Festival uncorks the province's surprisingly wide range of wines.
By Melissa Buote
Travelling for food
The producer of Food, Inc. is in town to explain how travelling eaters can help build a local food economy.
By Anna Duckworth
Festival hijinx
The Atlantic Film Festival's opening gala rolls the red carpet onto Citadel Hill. Roll yourself to one of these bars post-party.
Free Will Astrology
Choose between opium and bagels, Leo
By Rob Brezsny
Tampon play for straight men
Go ahead, though Tampax probably won’t go for the marketing idea. Plus, porn purity pledges for Mormons.
By Dan Savage
Go Local: Quinpool
Quinpool Road is a street at the crossroads.
New road safety framework allows increased road violence
By Matt Stickland
Start by apologizing
By Julie Lawrence
Enfield’s Classified steps back into the booth for Luke’s View
By Martin Bauman
Restoring an unsung hero: How eelgrass is making its comeback in Nova Scotia
By Alison Auld, Climate Story Network
