[Image-1] Dear Halifax and Nova Scotia. I love you but you are not the only province with youth exodus, people working in the west or difficulty providing jobs. You’re a big kid now, pull up your panties. Open up your eyes. Things aren’t easy but adult life rarely is and yours is better than it […]
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YOU’RE fat
[Image-1] Hey boyfriend, YOU’RE fat. Not me. Yeah, you. You know that gut you’ve had for three years, the one you keep saying you can get rid of in a week? Still there! So sometimes I eat more than you, and that grosses you out? Ever consider that I might just be hungry sometimes? I […]
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City Council Report Card 2015
[Image-1] It’s coming up on three years since this colourful coterie of city councillors was elected to govern Halifax, and the cracks are beginning to show. Maybe everyone’s just smelling that fall 2016 election on the horizon, but personalities are finally bubbling up. Any 17 people forced to put up with each other for this […]
Posted inFood + Drink
Back in the FRED. zone
For the past few weeks, sliding and sloshing through what have become claustrophobic tunnels had slowly chipped away at my moxie, the weight of winter pressing down on my shoulders as heavily as the year’s snowfall. It reached a point where I would rather sit at home, blankly watching the fog creep up and down […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19) “Choconiverous” is an English slang word that’s defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don’t get bogged down with preliminaries. Don’t get sidetracked […]
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#NSFilmJobs in limbo
“The Liberal government must already regret its cryptic messaging,” says filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald, referring to a potential cut to the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit that has many people in a huff. “A petition in protest of it got 10,000 signatures in one day. They’ve instantly turned Trailer Park Boys fans against them. No […]
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Half-heard, Chapter 31
At his house, he sat in his room and wondered: What else is there to know about the roommates? He’d been listening in on them for months by this point. Wouldn’t learning more about them just make them less reducible to media-constructed paradigms of twentysomething-ites? Wouldn’t all the incongruities, fluff and trivialities that fill in […]
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Paradise Sisters lost
Thirteen years after it formed and promised to bring independent cinema back to Halifax, Paradise Sisters Film Society is finally, officially giving up the ghost. But not before it passes on its torch (not to mention $20,000 and a long members list) to Halifax’s current hope for honest-to-goodness rep cinema: Carbon Arc Cinema Co-op. While […]
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Castle on a cloud
What makes a really sad song so wonderful? Why does it feel so fantastic to just bum yourself out sometimes? Toronto’s Jennifer Castle has apparently figured out how to channel the contently sorrowful spirit of Roy Orbison and puts it on full display in her latest release, Pink City. The record comes off as an […]
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Edge of Glory
Director Emmy Alcorn has high praise for Stephanie MacDonald. “She’s riveting. So connected. So focused. What she has goes way beyond just talent.” MacDonald, a two-time Merritt Award-winning actor, showcases this talent in Mulgrave Road Theatre’s production of Watching Glory Die, directed by Alcorn. The play, written by acclaimed Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, is inspired […]
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 2015/16 season announced
Upcoming AGNS exhibitions have a very local focus, with nearly 100 percent Nova Scotian content. See the list below and start planning your gallery visits: John Greer: retroActive Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1968-1978 Spring in Cambridge: the Visionary Drawings of John Devlin (more on Devlin here) Terroir: a Nova […]
