Tonight, the 35th Atlantic Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Hyena Road, the new Paul Gross–Allan Hawco joint about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan (7pm, Rebecca Cohn). There are a number of internationally acclaimed films and shorts screening in the next eight days, but there are also great batch of Atlantic-made features that show just how skilled […]
Brian MacQuarrie
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UPDATE: Brian MacQuarrie found
From Picnicface’s Facebook post this afternoon: “If you have shared the page on Brian on Facebook and Twitter, please let your friends and followers know that Brian has checked in to let us know he is safe. And please remove any of the original posts about him missing to avoid confusion. At this point we […]
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Halifax comedy on the laugh track
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Monday night at Gus’ Pub is a quiet affair, though the tables are dotted with tiny beer glasses. Chairs are filled with a mostly hoodie-wearing crowd. The disco twinkle of […]
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Zuppa Theatre release The Music Room Sessions
The Right Honourable Rich Aucoin will play a song or two on Friday This Friday at 7pm at the Music Room (Tickets are $35, which includes CD. For tickets/info please call 489-9872 or email info@zuppatheatre.com), Zuppa Theatre Co. are throwing a big party to release their Poor Boy CD into the world. “The CD, The […]