The Bus Stop Theatre’s last Hail Mary has paid off—for now. At regional council on Tuesday, every seat was full with members of the arts community, some of whom had to sit in overflow seating. Councillor Steve Streatch described the scene best when he said, “My god, the difference a week can make.” Last week, […]
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Juliette Lewis is Coming
her + gilbert grape = best couple It is my natural inclination to ruthlessly mock actors and actresses who also “make music” (Minnie Driver? Billy Bob Thorton? Instant hilarity!) but for some reason I can’t do it with Juliette Lewis. It might have something to do with the fact that some of her songs with her rock band, the Licks, are kind of good. Witness the video below. While there is no doubt the video itself is completely ridiculous, it also shows that she has a good raspy kinda-rock voice. She also seems really weird. Hooray! She’ll be at the
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John Dunsworth was once a Mall Santa
You probably know him as Mr. Lahey, the tipsy trailer park supervisor from Trailer Park Boys. But perhaps you once sat on his jolly ol’ lap at the mall and put in a special request for an Atari and a Lite Brite. Actor John Dunsworth reigned the red velvet chair in Halifax’s West End Mall, […]
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Best Male Theatre Actor
After a lot of moving around, Webb has decided to stay put in Halifax. “I love it here. I love performing and creating. Why the hell would anyone want to be anywhere else?” The multi-talented creative hypheante won a 2008 Merritt Award for playing Iago at Shakespeare By The Sea. He also wrote and produced […]
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Best Female Theatre Actor
In the past twelve months LeBlanc-Crawford has seen her theatre company Zuppa put on the widely adored Poor Boy, a short play called Very Secret Ceremony and she co-directed (with Alex McLean and Ben Stone) The Fairy of The Lake at Dalhousie’s Theatre Department. In 2010, expect to see a new work from Zuppa tentatively […]
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Best Male Film / TV Actor
Yeah, sure, he’s a celebrity thanks to Trailer Park Boys, but Mike Smith has the best of both worlds. As soon as he puts on those Bubbles glasses and hangs out with his buddies Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay he’s a superstar, but as soon as he takes them off, he’s anonymous. No one […]
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Best Female Film / TV Actor
After a lull where we didn’t see the Oscar nominee, now Ellen is everywhere, even in the streets of Halifax (there were frequent sightings over the summer—it’s good to know despite her Hollywood schedule she still gets to come home once in awhile). She starred in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It and will soon […]
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Depp impact
Johnny Depp is easily the silver-screen idol for women (and men) young and old. His on-screen personae and leading-man charisma are remarkable for their lack of definition and comfort—from making you cringe as the syphilis-afflicted Earl of Rochester in The Libertine, to making knees weak in the romantic drama Chocolat. His work from the last […]
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My summer: Kate Lavender, actor, producer
Splitting her time between Toronto and Nova Scotia, Lavender is a theatre and film actor who still regularly plays teenagers even though she’s 29. She went to high school in Moncton, where she first trod the boards, then studied at Acadia and followed that up with work at Neptune Theatre. She spent some years studying […]