There’s Something In the Water Sat, Sep 14, 9:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $18.50, finfestival.ca Nearly a year after publishing a book on environmental racism, the story has taken on a new life. There’s Something In the Water by Dalhousie professor Ingrid Waldron is now a 70-minute documentary co-produced by Ellen Page, […]
Park Lane Mall
Happiness is
Lexie Ivy is 30, a small-town business owner, fashionable and eccentric, funny and smart. She’s also the single, overweight one of a trio of sisters, a redheaded sheep sticking way out amongst a family of fantasy blondes. “Flawed yet lovable” is how director and co-writer Deanne Foley describes the protagonist of her second feature, Relative […]
Go local on Spring Garden Road
Strolling down the most popular shopping district in Atlantic Canada, from Robie down to Brunswick—including side-streets bristling with boutiques—the sheer number of vital businesses provides an embarrassment of riches for Shoptalk. More than anywhere else in our fine city, we slam up against the limitation of space on this page. A street that provides a […]
H&M opens and more fashion updates
A few weeks ago we wrote about Put Me On (upstairs, 1532 Queen), Pamela McInnis‘ new clothing shop. Now, local fashion and vintage hounds have more reasons to visit the stylish street. Clothes Horse, originally next door (1530 Queen) and upstairs from Elsie’s Used Clothing, has moved into the same building as Put Me On. […]

