“If you want to make cookies, you’re breaking the law.” Last month a batch of pot cookies made it to the Supreme Court of Canada. Owen Smith was baking the fancier-than-average cookies in his Victoria, BC home for a marijuana compassionate club when the cops busted him. That was in 2009. Six years later, after […]
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That’s So You
“I feel my character was raised on another planet, and the only connection to Earth was through cable TV and the internet,” says Vancouver’s Out Innerspace co-artistic director David Raymond. He’s speaking about his Astro Boy/Leon: The Professional/pop culture amalgam character from the hyper-realistic Me So You So Me, a duet between Raymond and fellow […]
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Stupid offensive bullshit budget
[Image-1] I don’t get where our current government gets off taking from those who have little or nothing to give. I’m talking about those who have to depend on provincial Income Assistance to survive and who are now being cut and slashed by this budget decision. It’s wrong and should be stopped. If you have […]
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From the Editor
Keeping track of all the money the film business brings into the province would be impossible. In 2001, K-19: The Widowmaker was shooting in Halifax, and one of my side gigs was doing occasional reporting for People magazine. When the celebrity rumour mill said Harrison Ford was up to something salacious, I got the call […]
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The Elle word
“I’m sorry, I’m scatterbrained today,” my server says after I’ve been seated for almost 10 minutes. I hadn’t gotten a menu until just a minute or two before when another server walked by and asked if I was ready to order and the lack of menu was pointed out. She swung back with the menu, […]
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Half-heard, Chapter 33
It wasn’t until Trevor started crawling on the ground blindly, having an intense hand-covering-mouth crying fit and moaning “Ow, why would you do that” in step with his arrhythmic palpitations and sobs that the crowd became incrementally less and less interested in the scene and leisurely began wandering back into the hazy, strobing house. After […]
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Mocean Dance’s survival in a wild land
The barren, windswept landscapes of Sable Island have inspired artists and travellers for centuries. Among its recent devotees is Vancouver-based choreographer Serge Bennathan, who joins forces with Halifax’s Mocean Dance to create a new piece, Sable Island, which premieres as part of Mocean’s new show, Close Reach, debuting this month at Alderney Landing Theatre, along […]
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Everything you need to know about Halifax’s budget
[Image-1] No one was praying yesterday at City Hall, but there weren’t many moments of silence either. Despite a quiet period of reflection to open city council’s meeting (instead of the usual invocation), the preceding committee of the whole was swollen with chit chat. Finally, after months of high-level discussions and dozens of hours of […]
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Humble Pie’s humble brag
Move over pizza slice, step aside poutine: meat pies are hitting the streets of Dartmouth. Humble Pie Kitchen has been selling New Zealand-style meat pies at the Alderney Farmers’ Market for over a year now, and owners Shauna MacLean and Denise and Mike Noakes have pie-in-the-sky hopes for the pastry-encased street food in Nova Scotia. […]
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Just SPEW it
“Anything that pisses us off will inspire new material. From our own destruction of our environment for economic gains, televangelists like Peter Popoff or the fact that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is probably going to make money. But [we’re] just saying it how we see it, not being preachy, it’s up to you to […]
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Choose your own comedy adventure for Ha!ifax ComedyFest
Ha!ifax ComedyFest To April 25 halifaxcomedyfest.ca
