Talking with Lisa Fischer about singing is a spiritual experience. Both an accomplished backup singer and a solo artist, Fischer’s views on both types of performance veer close to Errol Morris-documentary-subject territory. Sure, she’s talking about singing, but she’s laying down some pretty heavy truths about life. You may recognize her from 2013’s Oscar-winning 20 […]
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Return of the PIG
There are very few eternal truths in this world. You shouldn’t be a dick to animals, shows don’t start at 10pm and the internet is the shittiest place to hang out (thanks Be Bad). But there’s maybe one more beyond those: Truro has housed some of the most wildly inspiring, chaotic and punishing music this […]
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The Seagull takes flight
Could there be a more fitting play than Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull to launch the graduating class of Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts? The show’s director, Tanja Jacobs, doesn’t think so. “This play explores what it is to be an artist and to want love and life in the arts. That’s very much what’s […]
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On the Verge
Even off stage, crammed into a tiny office, the youthful energy of Votive Dance’s Verge production team Andrew MacKelvie and Kathleen Doherty is palpable. Exuding a very Frances Ha-like eager enthusiasm, the pair dissects their first big performance—a collaboration that will reframe how you think about live music and dance. “Typically, it’s one accompanying the […]
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Where we practice: Vulva Culture
WHO THEY ARE Last summer, Amy V (Scribbler) realized she needed more elements for her new solo experimental-pop project, Vulva Culture, so she recruited certain friends with special talents: Kayla Stevens brings harmonic and effects guitar, Evan Matthews drums with a classical background, Hannah Guinan (Old & Weird) owns unconventional basslines and Bianca Palmer locks […]
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Half-heard, Chapter 30
Friday afternoon. Myles’ shadow descended over a mountain of combusted garbage bags hurled carelessly over the uneven tufts of dried, blonde grass outside his and Welnot’s house. In typical pre-party cleanup fashion, the Northwood roommates put everything that couldn’t fit under couches or in closets into garbage bags and tossed it out the door. Sarah […]
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Papillon soars
Gabrielle Papillon May 2, The Company House “I was reading the newspaper a lot and I was frigging mad,” says musician Gabrielle Papillon about her recent lyrical influences. “Newspapers are depressing.” Girl, you said it. Papillon’s latest album, the swirling and diverse The Tempest of Old, released last Tuesday, is darker than anything else she’s […]
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How is this fair?
[Image-1] How the hell is making the buses free until Monday fair to the paying customers of Halifax Transit? The folks that pay for their monthly pass, every month, without fail… So now instead of sharing a cramped ride in a tin can with the regular passengers, we’re going to have to share an even […]
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Looking at the 2015 Merritt Awards
If art reflects life, then the 2015 Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Awards show was a perfect reflection of the mood right now in snow-bound Halifax. There was recognition that making a life in theatre can feel a lot like trying to forge a path through a world of six-foot snow banks. There was a sense […]
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Negative Nancies
[Image-1] I’m fed up with debbie downers that drown out any voice of reasonability in this city. Whether it be obviously bias media headlines (Councillor spends $25,000 on robot tree), to uneducated twitter spats and all around inability to see past your own circle of influence, people need to learn to consider that outrage for […]
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You think THAT was why I haven’t contacted you again?!
[Image-1] I hooked up with you once. After that one night, I realized I wasn’t feeling it and decided to never contact you again. You never contacted me again either, so I moved on. Then I found out the other day, you apparently said I didn’t contact you anymore because I was ashamed of my […]
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nuggets
[Image-1] just got to say that i’m a little disappointed with the dog people this winter… not anyone’s favorite to see or step in all the little brown nuggets all over the park – as you enter the park next to the BAGGIE stand, mixed with festive yellow snow further down the path, in the […]
