Vol. 20, No. 1
Cole Harbour Place workers in second week of strike
Issues are pay and holidays.
By Tanya Kunwongse
Halifax council pays $359,550 concert bill
Control of Metro Centre ticket sales to be subject of auditor general report.
By Tim Bousquet
Airport bus, bags and the lessons we should be learning, but likely won't
Metro Transit should change its anti-mother stroller policy.
Wild surprise as proposed park doubles in size
Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness now a priority for city staff.
Breaking news: Cobham Tracking lays off 17 more local employees
High-tech gear developed in NS with help of Canadian taxpayers now made in Florida.
Red Fox gets a makeover
Broader menu, more entertainment aims to make the Fox a neighbourhood destination.
By Sarah Mateshaytis
Caribbean Twist opening second location in Discovery Centre
"Spicing up downtown," says owner Lyndon Hibbert.
Bedford Electrolysis is moving
Sonos subwoofer
Ace Burger Company to open
Pre-fast food burgers made with wholesome and local ingredients.
Tails to Trails
Dog walking service brings your pet to the woods.
Little Burgundy Shoes comes to town
Halifax Shopping Centre location for "retro pin-up styles."
Turnstile Pottery Co-op's Spring Show & Sale
Annual event is perfect for wedding and Father's Day gifts.
White Sails Bakery & Deli retooling
Poutine and fries on the way.
Repairing Halifax
North end residents hope to turn an intersection for cars into a public square.
By Chris Benjamin
The complete lockpick pornography
By Joey Comeau (ECW Press)
By Frances Dorenbaum
Funny Bone
Christian Murray’s *Bone Boy* shakes up the tragic, the comic and the afterlife.
By Matthew Ritchie
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
Created by Craig David Wallace (eOne)
Christian Murray’s Bone Boy shakes up the tragic, the comic and the afterlife.
Eversion
Available on Windows and Wine (Zaratustra Productions)
By Kyle Walsh
The Walking Dead
Available on PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 (Telltale Games)
By Colin Chisholm
Sara Hartland-Rowe watches people
Then makes installations about what she sees, like her new show at MSVU
By Leah Batstone
Domestic Train Wreck sets the table
New Angels & Heroes show takes a look at the homemaker
Gus-Con Sci-Fi-Con
Museum of Natural History marries knowledge and obsession
By Tara Thorne
Men in Black 3
A money grab, but a watchable one
By Molly Segal
Snow White and The Huntsman
Gold is promised, but not delivered
The Samaritan
A dash of Oldboy-inspired drama? I'm in
By Jacob Boon
Piranha 3DD? More like Piranha 3Zzzz
But boobs! Don't forget those.
OUTeast and at ‘em
Queer film festival plans four days of film, fun and copious amounts of pink popcorn
By Stephanie Johns
Roll the dice with Copeland
Eric Copeland’s almost alien psychedelic sounds are pure raw exploration
By Jon Dempsey
Bloodshot Bill’s crackle and hiss
The pomade-slicked tumbleweed rolls into town with nostalgic barn-burners to keep your hips shaking
By Adria Young
Hey Mother Death live
The local experimental art-goths perform live, for the first time, at OBEY
Take a trip with Gary War
Brooklyn’s experimental psych rock outfit wants to evolve the genre of 1960s acid rock
Heather Rappard’s Chromatic Visions
Music video-maker crafts charming, clever and cheeky spots
The Soupcans heat it up
Trashrock villains bring energy and a charming lack of rules to Halifax
By Alex Mitchell
Bill Orcutt’s musical gestures
Experimental noise idols brings primitive sounds, tapes
You’ll Never Get to Heaven start praying
Dreamy duo Chuck Blazevik and Alice Hansen look through an opaque soundscape, darkly.
The Fringe abides
As reported by a 2011 Fringe Hit director, nbd
Regina Spektor
What we saw from the cheap seats (sire)
Dream boys
PS I Love You bring that sweet double neck guitar and jam-laden songs off new album Death Dreams to Halifax
By Jaime Forsythe
Ketamines
Spaced Out (Mammoth Cave)
Beach House
Bloom (Sub Pop)
By Doug Taylor
Best Coast
The Only Place (Wichita)
Live Music Thursdays goes off
Winston's kicks off a new weekly hip-hop night
Halifax Jazz Festival full lineup announced
Hot summer fun for your ears
Crowd mentality
Crowd Control Sound & Art Fair is DIY or die
Everyone's a Centaur
By Miriam Gibson and AJ Morales
True Story
By Mike Holmes
Chef central
The 2012 Canadian Culinary Convention is bringing some of the industry’s heavy hitters to the city---from big name corporate food companies to local entrepreneurs---to discuss where they can meet in the middle.
By Melissa Buote
Free Will Astrology
Capitalize on the negative, Virgo
By Rob Brezsny
Sexual ambitions
Wannabe straight male escorts, the women who (might) want them and the Dan Savage oral report.
By Dan Savage
Will short-term rental regulations increase Nova Scotia’s housing supply?
By Brendyn Creamer
The provincial government is making it easier for you to get evicted
Campus bike shop encourages students to get biking
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
How NDAs are perpetuating a culture of gender-based violence
By Julie Lawrence
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