Hopelessly Devoted To You Wed-Sat 12-5pm, to Aug 24 Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street If you’ve ever imagined the end of the world—or wondered if it’s happening right now—the Khyber’s latest exhibition (titled Hopelessly Devoted To You) is for you. The group show is at the intersection of contemporary consumer capitalism, Olivia Newton-John […]
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The Magic Flute blows on at the Halifax Summer Opera Festival
The Magic Flute Aug 8, 7:30pm; Aug 10, 2pm Sir James Dunn Theatre 6101 University Avenue $20 W hen Nina Scott-Stoddart, artistic director of the Halifax Summer Opera Festival, steps into the spotlight to introduce The Magic Flute, she tactfully draws our attention to both the beauty of the music and the antiquated libretto. She […]
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Easy excess at Rinaldo’s
Rinaldo’s 2186 Windsor Street Tue-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri 11:30am-1am, Sat 10am-3pm and 5pm-1am, Sun 10am-3pm and 5pm-10pm As I walk down Cunard Street towards the bus stop, two little boxes sitting as heavily in my bag as the slowly digesting carbs sit in my stomach, I make a promise to myself: I will never go back […]
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Weed review: What is shatter and why does it get me so high?
My cannabis fairy godmother Ren recently chauffeured me to Hemptation Smoke Shop, the Fairview headshop with sweet customer service and the friendliest store dog roaming around their spacious, well-stocked aisles. I dropped a pretty penny on my first vaporizer: Pax’s third generation dual-use model, the Pax3. Selected based on online customer reviews and Ren’s testimonials […]
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Weed review: What is shatter and why does it get me so high?
My cannabis fairy godmother Ren recently chauffeured me to Hemptation Smoke Shop, the Sackville headshop with sweet customer service and the friendliest store dog roaming around their spacious, well-stocked aisles. I dropped a pretty penny on my first vaporizer: Pax’s third generation dual-use model, the Pax3. Selected based on online customer reviews and Ren’s testimonials […]
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Marijuana reviews: Pink Bubba, Death Cannapy and Eagle Scout strains
Well jeez. Fall is here and I only swam in the ocean twice, wasting another summer ashore overcaffeinated, hungover and trying to suppress my trusty seasonal head cold while meeting various deadlines. These melancholy autumn breezes are gusting in a craving for a deep comforting strain, and so I’ve been reaching for the twilight embrace […]
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Review: Once
Once is the simple story of a man and woman who meet in Dublin, connect over a song, and tip toe around their quickly deepening love because they both know it just won’t work. The story is sweet and almost without serious conflict because the characters behave like rational adults who don’t keep secrets to […]
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Review: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams To March 12 Tue-Fri 7:30pm; Sat-Sun, 2pm and 7:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $33-$65 From its opening scene of a familiar seaside winterscape, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a distinctly and proudly Atlantic Canadian play. Adapted by Robert Chafe from the beloved novel by Wayne Johnston, the production […]
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REVIEW: How Do You Know, Angela Glanzmann, Sam Kinsley and Anne Macmillan
Hermes, 5682 North Street To Feb 7 How many different ways can we know things? You can know, for instance, the world’s highest building is in Dubai. You can also know that a fear of heights will mean simply stepping foot in it will cause your skin to prickle with terror. Both forms of truth, along […]
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Dance review: Live Art’s New Works succeeds in the abstract
Live Art Dance is presenting two new works featuring some of Halifax’s most accomplished dancers: Jacinte Armstrong, Lisa Phinney Langley and Gillian Seaward-Boone. The first piece, I Chart, performed by Armstrong and choreographed by BC-based Sarah Chase, is a short, minimalist piece where gestures are matched to words and combined in various patterns and repetitions. […]
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Review: The Lobster
What if being single was a crime? A dystopic future of marrieds is the world posited by The Lobster, but that’s just the logline. Here’s what actually goes on: There’s a place where eligible singles gather. They have 45 days to find a mate—hetero, natch—and if they fail they’re turned into an animal of their […]
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The Future is now
Tucked away in the corner of the Dalhousie Art Gallery—which is also currently housing Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?, an exhibition of artist run centre archives—is a collection of an entirely different sort of archive. Archives of the Future, organized by Centre for Art Tape’s programming committee, examines […]
