MO KENNEY Mo Kenney is reserved and unassuming, a quietly quick wit. She saves it for the stage, as the saying goes—her demeanour is not one of meekness or deference to any of the men in her band, but of a measured confidence that borders on laconic until she leans into her guitar, a 1965 […]
2017
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Meaghan Smith wants to write your song
For singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith, the glamour of being signed to a major label and life on the road faded. Stepping away from music to start a family and focus on health, Smith missed the connection with her music and fans. Today she is back doing the music industry her own way with her Our Song […]
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We didn’t start the (garbage) fire
Lorne Grabher, Jacques Dubé, Jamie Baillie walks away Street check data, Jimmy Melvin, rockets in Canso Robert Bjerke, Lady Drive Her, Sea Bridge floating on the water Cheryl Blossom, Donkin mine, Whitman says “negro” Saltwire buys out Transcon, women march on Washington Moonlight beats out La La Land, Matthew, Bill and Jad are canned David […]
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Here’s to what Halifax is getting right
Most of the news in 2017 has been spent documenting and/or trying to hide from all the horrible garbage fires happening around us. Here, at the end of the year, we instead wanted to raise a glass of kindness to those who are making this city better—the local points of lights in an otherwise abysmally […]
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The year in visual art
In a year commemorating many anniversaries, 2017 is a landmark, for better or for worse. And with so much political upheaval it often felt like a landmark to come, history in the making. So with a historical lens pointed in all directions, it is no surprise that some of the most interesting exhibitions reflected this […]
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The year in music
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals at Halifax Jazz Festival Watching Anderson .Paak, one of the hottest current R&B artists, alternate between jumping around the stage to hyping the crowd from behind a drum kit seemed too good to actually be happening in Halifax. The crowd ate it up, singing along with every word and […]
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Nova Scotia wine’s time to shine
Twenty seventeen was a momentous year for Nova Scotia wine. At home, we organized a successful Atlantic Canada Wine Symposium, hosted the WineAlign National Wine Awards and launched our 2016 Tidal Bay, the sixth vintage of our appellation wine. Our wineries released innovative new styles like Pétillant Naturel and excelled with new-to-us grape varieties like […]
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902 BrewCast’s unranked favourite beers of 2017
Spindrift Brewing’s Killick Session Lager You knew this was coming. The BrewCast-proclaimed beer of the summer and a staple of every list we compiled. Refreshing, crushable and in an adorable 12oz can, this one had to be here. BrewCast consensus Big Spruce Brewing Co’s One Hundred This beer takes being local very seriously. One hundred […]
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The year on stage
The Boat, Theatre New Brunswick Presented by TNB at Neptune’s Studio Theatre, Ryan Griffiths’ The Boat is an adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s beloved short story of the same name. It is a deeply affecting memory play about the lives of Cape Breton fisherman, beautifully written and impeccably acted here. Bone Cage, Matchstick Theatre A great […]