The Art In Fest festival brings a visual arts component to the Obey Convention underground music festival, adding five sound and media-based projects to the festival (including Emily Pelstring’s Khyber exhibition and performance as The Powers). All projects are new work created specifically for the festival—Khyber director and Art In Fest director Hannah Guinan has […]
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Tragic and hopeful Vulva Culture
Moss Lime, Bonnie Doon, Vulva Culture Saturday, May 23, 12pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10 “There was a girl at our show in Newfoundland who told me ‘You guys sound like a lot of drugs on a rocking chair underwater,’” says Vulva Culture drummer Bianca Palmer. “I was like ‘Shut up, that’s […]
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Development and the views from Citadel Hill
Developers are constrained by them. Tourists are lured by them. The city is shaped by them. But how exactly do the protected views from Citadel Hill work? At last you can see. A video information service from PLANifax and The Coast.
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A tale of two convention centres
The Globe and Mail published this Animated view of Halifax’s Nova Centre yesterday with its story about the convention centre. Unlike the video, the story looked at the pros and cons of the centre, including developer Wolfgang Thiel’s issue: Thiel Group took the Nova Scotia government to court last year arguing that the Nova Centre’s […]
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Market Street shut-down
[Image-1] The businesses along Market Street almost got an extended Labour Day weekend. Earlier today the city announced the stretch of Market between Sackville and Prince streets would be closed to all traffic and pedestrians for the next two weeks. That came as a surprise to Inkwell Boutique owner Andrea Rahal, who only found out […]
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Halifax’s XANADU
The Nova Centre now under construction downtown is by far the largest development project in Halifax history. Revised plans for the project submitted by developer Joe Ramia’s company, Rank, Inc., show two towers for the site–a 17-storey hotel facing Market and Prince Streets, and an office tower along Argyle Street, consisting of two connected bulbs, […]
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Nova Centre architect appointed to committee that will pass judgment on Nova Centre design
Construction cranes are swinging above the site, cement tucks line up on Argyle Street to deliver their loads and four floors’ worth of parking garage are materializing in the slowly filling pit, but there’s still no approved plan for the Nova Centre complex, no development agreement, no building permits issued. That’s because Halifax council has […]
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Special treatment for Nova Centre mocks HRM By Design
At its meeting tomorrow, Halifax council will almost certainly approve a staff suggestion that in effect exempts Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia from the planning and building rules that apply to every other developer in the city. I say “in effect” because what’s being contemplated is not an actual legal exemption. Rather, the suggestion is […]
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Halfway to Hal-Con
Hal-Con, Halifax’s sci-fi, fantasy and gaming convention, may not be until November (Nov 8-10 see hal-con.com for more info, but it’s not too early to get excited about the impressive line-up for this fall. The announcements have already started streaming in and will have fans of Doctor Who, Star Wars and Star Trek alike pining […]
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No permits have been issued for new convention centre
An observer might look at the gigantic hole in the ground between Argyle and Market Streets, feel the blasting for excavation and see the bulldozers loading up dump trucks to haul away the rock and think, “that new convention centre is really moving along.” That observer would be wrong. In fact, the city has not […]
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Should the city be responsible for Fred MacGillivray’s million dollar pension?
Thanks to auditor general Larry Munroe, we now know the details of how Fred MacGillivray, who was then the president of provincial crown corporation Trade Centre Limited, lifted the ticket operation away from the city-owned Metro Centre and made it part of TCL’s operation. As a result, the city has been shorted about a million […]
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Halifax council OKs convention centre deal
At its regular Tuesday meeting, Halifax council OKed the framework for a contract with the province and Rank, Inc. for a new convention centre. Council did not vote on a specific, detailed contract because “the details are still being worked out,” said deputy CAO Mike Labrecque, who however assured council that those details would reflect […]