When asked whether he’d marry, kill or sleep with Sarah Palin, Henry Rollins stutters, tripping over his words. After a few moments of silence, he chuckles, dissipating the awkward tension. “Neither. None. I don’t want to, um… No,” he sputters. “No. None of those options work for me.” Coming from a man who threatened to […]
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Frank Warren’s secret life
Once the domain of diaries, trusted friends and closets full of skeletons, secrets found a new outlet in 2005, when Frank Warren launched the website PostSecret.com. Since then, PostSecret has collected secrets—written on postcards and mailed anonymously to Warren’s home in Germantown, Maryland—and posted them online. To date, Warren has received over a half-million cards, […]
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The rise of fall arts: performing arts
THEATRE A Beautiful View October 13-31 at Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, $15-$35, 429-7070, neptunetheatre.com Love without labels. That’s what actor-writer-producer Jackie Torrens feels the two women in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View have spent 20 years working towards. “As humans, there seems to be a need for us to define something, to label it,” […]
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John Prine tells a few tales at the Rebecca Cohn
Storyteller extraordinaire (both in song and in prose) John Prine comes back to the Rebecca Cohn on August 20 and 21 to regale audience members with stories about farm life and ex-wives, tickets are, unfortunately, sold out at artscentre.dal.ca/box.html, but wishing really hard might help (or kijiji-ing really hard).