The Right Honourable Rich Aucoin will play a song or two on Friday This Friday at 7pm at the Music Room (Tickets are $35, which includes CD. For tickets/info please call 489-9872 or email info@zuppatheatre.com), Zuppa Theatre Co. are throwing a big party to release their Poor Boy CD into the world. “The CD, The […]
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Best Comedian
“How peculiarrr,” writes Mark Little in an email upon hearing that he’s been voted Halifax’s Best Comedian again this year. He’s had a good 2009: he won a Yuk Yuk’s competition and the Just For Laughs Homegrown Competition. He’s been working with his Picnicface cohorts on a variety of projects, including a screenplay called Roller […]
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Picnicface in the Huffington Post
Picnicface’s spoof of the Cameron Diaz moral-headscratcher The Box was picked up by the Huffington Post, only the most linked-to blog on the internet. That’s gotta be worth something… This should save you a few bucks at the theatre: The Button – watch more funny videos
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Photo gallery: Atlantic Film Fest gala
Last night’s Atlantic Film Fest was an odd affair, but definitely memorable. You still had your sparkle-gowned ladies and skinny-suited men, but they were eating chips under the halo glow of trailer lights. Some looked confused; others, relieved to be let loose in an arena (someone suggested a few were helped by cocaine, but I know that doesn’t happen in Halifax, right?), and the familiar smells of ice, zamboni trails and male musk. I agree with my blogging peeps Carsten and Hillary that the removal of the VIP area was really great, in terms of seeing more people and making
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Best Comedian
Professional comedy often comes from a dark place, born of anxiety and frustration, channelled into making people laugh. It can also just be a reaction to frat boys who yell at you from passing cars. “Frat boys is just a generalization for that kind of guy,” explains Mark Little, the Picnicface member, stand-up comic and […]
