Oct 13-19, 2011

Vol. 19, No. 20

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City

District boundary recommendation to be made public at 5pm

Public has little chance for comment.

By Tim Bousquet
Oct 14, 2011
City

Staff recommends District Boundary Scenario 1, with revisions

By Tim Bousquet
Oct 14, 2011
News

War is not the answer

Ship contracts and convention centres don't bring about lasting economic development.

By Tim Bousquet
Oct 17, 2011
News

Premier Darrell Dexter's PR ship has arrived

"Ships start here" campaign supports union-busting Irving.

By Mairin Prentiss
Oct 13, 2011
News

Ships Start Here campaign spawn parody web sites

Starships, S&M designs, among others, compete with shipbuilding.

By Tim Bousquet
Oct 13, 2011
News

HRM Planner raised concerns about Ingramport connector road

Maureen Ryan said Exit 5 1/2 would upend the city's regional plan.

By Tim Bousquet
Oct 13, 2011
Shoptalk

Fid rocks Nocturne

Downtown resto offers plates late in the evening

By Carsten Knox
Oct 13, 2011
Environment

Bloomfield sees green

Imagine Bloomfield and the Ecology Action Centre celebrate the grand opening of the Bloomfield Community Greenhouse.

By Allison Saunders
Oct 13, 2011

Arts & Culture

Epic in a Box knows how to party

Lohifi's teeny tiny tabletop show is travelling and your living room could be the next stage.

By Kate Watson
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Video game tournaments in Halifax

Fight club: Video game tournaments aren’t just the domain of online addicts. It’s a real-life Halifax community, too. And Street Fighter rules.

By Colin Chisholm
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Analog Stereograms from Synthetic Space takes Alderney Theatre

Robert Drisdelle and Heather Rappard go 3D for Nocturne, and invite you along on the trip.

By Allison Saunders
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Not The Thing of beauty

Horror prequel plays it too obvious, lacks mystery

By Matthew Ritchie
Oct 16, 2011
Arts & Culture

Star struck

Ilan Sandler’s Ursa Major’s Visit is art for the starry-eyed.

By Hilary Beaumont
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Get in the van

Noah Derek Logan’s Six White Cubes is a collection of galleries on the go.

By Stephanie Johns
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Footloose cuts loose

New version of 1984 dance movie makes some good moves

By Matthew Ritchie
Oct 16, 2011
Arts & Culture

Sentimentality ruins The Big Year

Heavy-handed life lessons spoil the comedy fun

By Molly Segal
Oct 16, 2011
Arts & Culture

Language art

Gerard Choy’s *The Phrase Book of Migrant Sounds Vol. 1* gives participants a chance to experience the tricky business of navigating a language.

By Jaime Forsythe
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

The Maiden Danced to Death is clumsy

Canadian/international co-production fails to impress

By Molly Segal
Oct 16, 2011
Arts & Culture

Nocturne Quick Picks

Must see events for Saturday's free public art crawl

By Stephanie Johns, Hilary Beaumont, Allison Saunders and Shannon Webb-Campbell
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick)

Available on iOS

By Colin Chisholm
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Roadsworth (Goose Lane)

By Roadsworth and Bethany Gibson

By Dave Hayden
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans

By Jorge G. Castaneda (Knopf)

By John Delaney
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Dumbstruck

Directed by Mark Goffman (Mongrel)

By Matthew Ritchie
Oct 13, 2011
Arts & Culture

Call Me Fitz Season One

Created by Sheri Elwood (eOne)

By Carsten Knox
Oct 13, 2011
Cultural Festivals

One Hundred Dollars’ story time

The powerful psych-country group weaves manly tales Tuesday at the Seahorse

By Alison Lang
Oct 13, 2011
Cultural Festivals

That’s Rich

Rich Aucoin brings everyone up on stage for his Pop Explosion extravaganza Wednesday at St. Matthew’s Church

By Allison Saunders
Oct 13, 2011
Cultural Festivals

Born again

From the ashes of Gobble Gobble rises Born Gold. Catch their enigmatic electronica at Gus’ on Wednesday.

By Matthew Ritchie
Oct 13, 2011
Cultural Festivals

House party

Bloodhouse hit you hard this Wednesday at Reflections

By Stephanie Johns
Oct 13, 2011
Cultural Festivals

BRAIDS get tighter

The Montreal-based experimental popsters have had a hell of a year and thanks to Halifax Pop Explosion you get to be part of it.

By Allison Saunders
Oct 13, 2011
Music

HPX 2011: Tuesday

Die Brücke, VKNGS, i'm old

By Alison Lang
Oct 19, 2011
Music

Rent

Rock your world with this powerful production

By Kate Watson
Oct 15, 2011
Music

Vibe alive

Bad Vibration’s Black Train is coming. Get on or be screwed.

By Alison Lang
Oct 13, 2011
Music

HPX 2011: Tuesday Highlights

time to power up

By Alison Lang
Oct 17, 2011
Music

The King's College Orchestra goes indie

Inventions, a beautiful collaboration with Nick Everett and Willie Stratton makes for a major, yet intimate, performance.

By Allison Saunders
Oct 13, 2011
Music

Ohbijou

Metal Meets (Last Gang)

By Doug Taylor
Oct 13, 2011
Music

Girls

Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther)

By Andrew Patterson
Oct 13, 2011
Music

Tinie Tempah

Disc-overy (Capitol/EMI)

By Trevor Savory
Oct 13, 2011
Music

Laura Marling

A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin)

By Adrian Lee
Oct 13, 2011
Music

The 2011 Sobey Award winners are...

...Daniel Young and Christian Giroux!

By Stephanie Johns
Oct 14, 2011
Comics

Superhero Girl

By Faith Erin Hicks
Oct 13, 2011
Comics

True Story by Vincent Waller

By Mike Holmes
Oct 13, 2011

Restaurant Reviews

Elementary schools

Elements’ brand new locally inspired menu is a good start, but there is still a ways to go before it all runs smoothly, says Kristen Pickett.

By Kristen Pickett
Oct 13, 2011

Free Will Astrology

Free Will Astrology

Don’t be a slave of the trends, Libra.

By Rob Brezsny
Oct 13, 2011
Savage Love

No sex pictures without consent

If you blow a guy, you can blow up at him for using his camera, says Dan. Plus: Not being out of the closet is a choice, but ultimately a difficult one.

By Dan Savage
Oct 13, 2011

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