Catherine Robertson’s Comedy Hour Wednesdays, 8:30pm Bearly’s, 1269 Barrington Street C atherine Robertson is a fixture of the local laugh scene: For over a decade, she’s been performing and honing her incredulous and inviting comedy. When she isn’t holding it down at Bearly’s or MC’ing at Yuk Yuk’s Tinder Tales series, she’s on various mics […]
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Hal-Con, a homecoming
Kristina Gillis has come a long way since her first Hal-Con three years ago. “I was a bit worried about being judged because I was also cosplaying for the first time, but I was amazed at how well it went over,” she recalls on day three of Hal-Con 2019. “Everyone was so friendly and accepting.” […]
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Zomblet apocalypse
Zomblet Oct 24-25, 8pm; Oct 26-27, 2pm & 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15-$30 T en years ago, when Dan Bray and Colleen MacIsaac began helming Villain’s Theatre (then known as Vile Passéist), they mainly aimed to stage plays by Shakespeare’s unsung peers. But, after mounting many a show by Marlowe, Middleton […]
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Elizabeth Gilbert says relax
Soul Tribe Live Fri Oct 11-Sat Oct 12 Halifax Convention Centre 1650 Argyle Street $65-$490 In the 13 years since author Elizabeth Gilbert embarked on her soul-searching, page-turning journey Eat, Pray, Love, she says she’s been overrun by women grabbing her hand on the sidewalk, looking for reassurance about their own would-be wild quests. As […]
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Travis Lindsay is taking off
Travis Lindsay Thu Sep 26, Sat Sep 28 Yuk Yuk’s, 1181 Hollis Street, 8pm $12.18 Travis Lindsay is headlining this weekend at Yuk Yuk’s. But, before he takes the stage, the 27-year-old observational storyteller from Lower Sackville opens up about being self-conscious and superstitious. The Coast: “You’re headlining at Yuk Yuk’s—that’s unusual for a local. […]
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Behind the look: BZLY
BZLY thebzly.com Intelligent life, out there somewhere: Peter Hemsworth, the creator behind streetwear-focused fashion line BZLY, doesn’t know if it exists—but he sure is fascinated by how it might dress. “I think the best part is the mystery of it all anyways,” he says. For the label’s latest limited-run collection, released last month, Hemsworth was […]
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Award-winning comedian Tom Hearn tells us a joke
Aug 16-17, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $10/$12 We asked Toronto-based, Canadian Comedy Award-winning laugh-bringer Tom Hearn to tell us a good one before he brings his travelling solo sketch comedy show Slang to Menz & Mollyz this weekend. Hearn mentions the show sees Halifax drag queens Shayla Shenanigans, Brooke Rivers and […]
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REVIEW: Pardis Parker re-prioritizes your life at The Haviland Club in Charlottetown
The last time Pardis Parker visited PEI was 25 years ago, when he helped his grandfather—who was living there at the time—collect milk for making yogurt. To Pardis’s amusement, his grandfather and the farmer exchanged mafioso looks as the milk deal went down. This story, which Pardis shared from The Haviland Club stage on August […]
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Comic Travis Lindsay makes us LOL
Natal Day Comedy GALA Fri, Aug 2, 7:15pm; Casino Nova Scotia, 1983 Upper Water Street We asked comic Travis Lindsay—mainstay in the local scene—to tell us a joke before he hits the stage for the 10th annual Natal Day Comedy Gala, where he’ll share the bill with Pete Johansson, Cathy Jones and Mark Forward this […]
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Constellate’s group dynamics
Constellate: “Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.” Or, in the case of the local storytelling series of the same name, “to provide a space and opportunity for people who wouldn’t normally have their voices heard,” says Greg Puncher, one of its co-founders. For the past six months, Puncher and […]
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Why getting a hobby is a perfect form of punk rock rebellion
S ometimes the pulse of a moment is best tracked not in books or headlines or even philosophy, but a snippet of song lyrics that, looking back, tell more than any diary entry ever could have. Richard Hell and The Voidoids did just that with their proto-punk anthem “Blank Generation,” a niche hit that distilled […]
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Reclaiming your time
Maybe you read our feature on the serious benefits of getting a hobby. Or perhaps you just wandered by. It doesn’t really matter—the important thing is you’re here, ready to check out a half dozen ways to pick up a hobby in Halifax. The Big Sing Every second Tuesday, this pop-music chorus takes over Gus’, […]