Hello City presents: The Hello Baby Show Tuesday, April 23, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5/$10/$20 The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and […]
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Cavendish‘s Island oddities
“The goal was to piss on Cavendish and everything they believe,” says Mark Little. “It’s government-funded revenge.” His new sitcom Cavendish, premiering January 8 on CBC, stars Little and former Picnicface colleague Andrew Bush, also executive producers The show revolves around the adventures of Andy (Bush) and Mark (Little), brothers who return to Cavendish, Prince […]
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Balancing books and band practice in university
[Image-1] It’s no secret that being a student eats up your time, body and spirit like a hungry piranha. University demands a lot. It’s an all-consuming beast that spits out an exhausted version of yourself who probably just wants to spend any free time playing beer pong or hitting The Dome’s dance floor. The majority […]
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Keep ’em rolling
Of the 15 roller-skaters circling the Olympic Community Centre, almost every one has fallen down at least once. The guy in racquetball goggles and a red tie-dye tank top might be the most adventurous, but the newly formd Halifax Roller Derby Girls are clearly the most skilled; there’s a white-and-blue afro wig, a heavy-set gentleman […]
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Pizza for Picnicface
If you order a pizza from Tomavinos Cellar Ristorante’s today, 10 percent will go towards helping Picnicface make their film, Roller Town.
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Pardis Parker on Implants and awards
Pardis Parker, who just won three awards at the Montgomery Film Festival in Alabama for his film Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns, has a new digital short, Implants. Written and directed by Parker, it also stars Evany Rosen from Picnicface, with cinematography by Tarek Abouamin. Parker is up for FOUR Canadian Comedy Awards (Stand-Up […]
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Help Roller Town help you
Picnicface has received Telefilm funding to go ahead with Roller Town, but movies are expensive shit. So big spender, if you donate to the cause, you’ll receive a gift. For a full list of donation prizes, visit rollertownthemovie.com. Who wouldn’t want to be part of this?
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Picnicface’s Roller Town gets distribution
Yesterday we received word that one of our favourite trailers for a non-existent movie may soon get the big screen that it deserves. D Films, a Toronto-based indie distributor, has acquired Canadian rights to Picnicface’s first feature-length film, Roller Town. While the comedy troupe is still patiently waiting to hear back about funding from Telefilm, getting a distribution deal for a Canadian movie that doesn’t star Paul Gross is huge news. According to director Andrew Bush, the script was actually born at Bearly’s. Inspired by Bush’s copy of Roller Boogie (starring Linda Blair!), Bush, Mark Little and Scott Vrooman ate
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Parched for Powerthirst 3
Red Bull may give you wings, but Powerthirst gives you birds! And now it’s real at powerthirst.ca. Comes with a bottle.
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Peter White wins regional Laugh Off
Not actual audience. From many accounts, it was a bizarro start last Wednesday when judge John Dunsworth apparently heckled the host comedian, but Yuk Yuk’s Great Canadian Laugh Off regional finals recovered and concluded with laughter and no tears. Peter White won, followed by a Picnicface one-two jab, thanks to runners-up Kyle Dooley and Evany […]
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Tonight! Brave the snow for the laugh payoff
Hopefully these guys will stay home tonight. Tonight at Yuk Yuks, 10 comedians will compete in the Great Canadian Laugh Off, the winner of which flies to beautiful sunny Toronto for the national finals (and boy, will their arms be tired. Hi-yoo!). No pressure either, considering that last year, Halifax’s Mark Little took home $25,000 funny bones. Little’s Picnicface pals are well-represented in the local finals, with Kyle Dooley, Evany Rosen and wildcard Cheryl Hann all competing, along with Josh Dunn, Catherine Robertson, Steve Mackie, Scott MacLean, Kyle Hickey, Peter White and Matt Labouki. We asked Coast cover laugh-lady Robertson
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Halifax comedy on the laugh track
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Monday night at Gus’ Pub is a quiet affair, though the tables are dotted with tiny beer glasses. Chairs are filled with a mostly hoodie-wearing crowd. The disco twinkle of […]