The Best Brothers has received a lot of great reviews, but one that really stands out for director Dean Gabourie came from a woman in a coffee shop in Stratford, Ontario where the show had its debut in 2012. “She said that anyone who has a brother, a sister, a mother or a pet will […]
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Five ways to Macbeth
Macbeth is coming to Neptune, but not in the way you might expect—director Ken Schwartz has reimagined it as a five-actor enterprise, with Jeremy Webb as the titular would-be king, and actors Francine Deschepper, Sarah English, Margaret Legere and Jeff Schwager juggling multiple characters apiece. Deschepper, playing Lady Macbeth and others, says the balancing act is […]
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Counting Crows
Adam Duritz reckons you have a 50 to 60 percent chance of hearing “Round Here” or “Mr. Jones” at tonight’s show. The Counting Crows leader reveals the seven-piece has nearly 90 songs in rotation on its cross-Canada tour, ending this weekend in St. John’s, so deep cuts are just as likely as the hits to […]
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Bye bye Billie Dre and the Poor Boys
Pour out a little donair sauce for Billie Dre and the Poor Boys this weekend—the Halifax rock trio is calling it quits. After releasing Garlic Fingers and following their friends TWRP and We’re Doomed! to Toronto last year, the high-energy outfit—singer-guitarist William Dray, bassist Corey Henderson and drummer Dylan Ryan—is slowing to a natural stop. […]
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Submit to OBEY Convention 2015
Now in its eighth year, the OBEY Convention proudly waves the flag of the underground, the avant-garde, the experimental and all contemporary noise and art for four full days in May. It’s a chance to shine spring sun on the deep corners of the subterrestrial. Let’s hear it for the weird ones. In the jungle […]
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Wednesday’s skinny: 9 things you need to know today
1 Peter Kelly continues to fart and Halifax continues to sniff. The latest non-story in the disgraced former mayor’s future comes as someone—nobody knows who—has created a new website to “Draft Kelly” into running for mayor during next year’s municipal election. If you haven’t been on the Internet before, anyone can create a website for […]
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Tig on comedy
I’m always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something’s dark, I’ll do it. If it’s a sock puppet, if it’s a stool, I’ll do it. There’s no preconceived idea of who I think I might be now.” —Tig Notaro, from a 2013 interview with Sydney Brownstone in Mother Jones. Catch Notaro with […]
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Where I work: Gianna Lauren
WHO ARE YOU? An observer, a people-person, coffee nut, wisecracker, audiophile and I’m scared of stepping on sewer grates. When I was in my late teens I reached this harmony with myself, a clarity of being, so to speak, and suddenly understood deep-down who I was. And I feel lucky for that. But years later […]
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Haters gonna hate: NS Liberals are their own PR problem
[Image-1] It’s not a great time to be a Liberal in Nova Scotia. Online and in conversation, anger at the government is only outmatched by charges of incompetence. Every month seems to bring a new crowd of rowdy protesters down to the Legislature. In short order, Stephen McNeil’s Liberals have pissed off health care workers, […]
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Epic fails
Arbitrator out of order The Liberals’ approach to health care union arbitration bordered on ridiculous. The government tried using legislation to force health care workers into specific unions. Arbitrator James Dorsey would ultimately be fired (once by phone and three times by letter), and the Liberals would let the unions do what they originally wanted—keep […]