With its origins in Japanese fashion, cosplay has become a comic-con phenomenon and a form of art and design that reaches competitive levels. Hal-Con’s own Costume Contest has strict criteria and various categories of awards depending on the intensity of fabrication. For local cosplayers, it’s game time. “I started going to Hal-Con in the ‘80s […]
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Comics’ lost stories
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…Nelvana? Nelvana of the Northern Lights is Canada’s first superwoman, an Inuit demigoddess whose job was to protect the Arctic in the 1940s. Her history, including her adventures, was forgotten until Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey resurrected her story. This tale of Canadian comic book history is part of […]
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Heaven can’t wait
Vision and elbow grease. It’s taken a lot of both to transform the former Acadian Lines bus terminal on Almon Street into The Waiting Room, Halifax’s newest black box theatre. The vision belongs to Kazan Co-op, a theatre company founded in 2011 with a mission to produce compelling contemporary Canadian works. “We started thinking about […]
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Home is where the art is at Young Offenders Gallery
When Laurel Wagner and Jacob Perry first moved into their new condo on Gottingen Street, the large white walls of their kitchen screamed “art gallery” immediately. The couple, who both study at NSCAD, debuted the Young Offenders Gallery almost three weeks ago during Nocturne. “There aren’t many places to show art in this city anymore, and that’s […]
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Mending Fences down to earth
Mending Fences is the story of 28-year-old Drew (Iain Stewart) who returns to a farmhouse in rural Saskatchewan to re-connect with his emotionally-distant and difficult father after 13 years apart. While this set-up may not sound laugh-out-loud funny, in the hands of playwright Norm Foster, there are plenty of comic moments and zingy one-liners to […]
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Camp Fires flames on
Spiked black leather teapots and massive golden phalluses have taken up residence at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery and these conceptual works are ready to challenge any and all humdrum ceramic stereotypes. *Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette* surveys five decades of subversive ceramics produced by three gay, francophone Canadian artists. *Camp […]
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Don’t-miss G250 events
106.9 GotAVoice FM kicks off the festival: Your hub for all things G250 Tuesday September 9, 10am Gottingen has seen “dramatic change over the course of history, it’s gone through a bunch of very distinct periods and eras and I feel like we are really capturing that with a lot of the interviews and storytelling,” […]
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Mario Kart 8
Sometimes a game works so well, the images so beautiful, controls so perfect, you can’t help but sit there with a stupid grin on your face and let it happen to you. The latest in Nintendo’s titular Mario Kart series accomplishes this almost instantly. I knew as I was literally driving on clouds, with the […]
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Saying goodbye to the YMCA
Its closure has long been discussed as part of the plan for a nice new fitness facility, but now the South Park Street YMCA’s last days have arrived, and the community that’s grown up with the Y for the last 61 years is just starting to face the loss. Click here for our stand-alone features […]
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Beauty Slammers: Ladies of Wrestling calls all the singlet ladies
In 1985, hundreds of Hollywood actresses answered a casting call for a new TV entertainment program. Hoping for a big break, these beautiful women soon realized they were auditioning for an all-female wrestling show meant to rival the popularity of the then-WWF. Soon, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling–a glitzy mix of sketch comedy, campy musicals and […]
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Board game empire
We hold these truths to be self-evident, not all games are created equal. If you’re staying up all night eyes-to-screen with Call of Duty or geared up with a headset and World of Warcraft with 46 of your closest avatars, crushing candies on the commute to work or creating a Dance Dance Revolution—think about turning […]
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The right game for you
For TV addicts Strange Adventures 5110 Prince Street, 425-2140 “Game of Thrones definitely,” says Kate Leth. “Zombies is super-fun so anyone who likes The Walking Dead or horror shows—it’s cooperative, versus, challenging and really fun with a lot of expansions. We also have My Little Pony Monopoly and Big Bang Theory Clue.” For tyrants Quantum […]