Eyelevel Gallery’s annual fundraiser—and chance to get glamourous—is coming up this Saturday night. In its fifth year, Silver and Gold is a semi-formal art function: part exhibition, silent auction and raffle, part cash-bar dance party. The fundraiser takes place at sponsor location Maitland Terrace, to familiarize supporters “with the space of our February exhibit,” director […]
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The more you Know
Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Until the advent of the birth control movement, both practical considerations and societal expectations placed women firmly on the path of this schoolyard rhyme. In What a Young Wife Ought to Know, playwright Hannah Moscovitch explores the emotional and physical costs of living in a time where fertility could only be […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) In 1899, the king of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just four months old. It took awhile for the new king to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from […]
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Half-heard, chapter 22
“It’s kind of a weird story.” “I got time,” Myles said, awkwardly. He caught himself remembering a detective from a Dick Tracy-type movie saying the same thing to a distressed client at a bar and felt a little embarrassed. Myles waited for her to share. Quiet between people scared Myles. As it—the quiet—lengthens it becomes […]
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Letters to the editor, January 29, 2014
There goes the condo-hood YES to Kris McCann’s anger towards people who move into downtown condos and then complain about the noise (“Not in my backyard,” Voice of The City, January 22). I live in a condo in a boring, quiet part of town because my kid needs sleep. I knew that about my family […]
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New Art: Peter van Gurp
Wandering into Peter Van Gurp’s recent exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d mistakenly walked into a room under construction. A pallet, cardboard boxes, a road work sign, an orange barrier, a length of chain, cinderblocks—Van Gurp’s pieces are so unremarkable in their everyday familiarity that you may not notice […]
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New Art: Kyle Martell
“Right now I’m focusing on Ancient Aliens theories,” says artist Kyle Martell. “I’ve been watching it a lot on TV and thinking about that. There’s this weird racism in show—it’s like watching a train wreck.” Much like Ancient Aliens, Martell’s work, images of which can be seen on his website/digital sketchbook gorgeorwell.tumblr.com, dwells in the […]
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New Art: Merray Gerges
Merray Gerges started CRIT in 2012, with NSCAD’s then-student union president Sarah Trower. Three years later, CRIT is still going strong, producing quarterly broadsheet issues—on newsprint. Let it sink in that someone started a physical newspaper in 2012—packed with essays, reviews and interviews about art and artists in Halifax and beyond. Today, Gerges is editor-in-chief […]
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Telus also offers support for mental health
[Image-1] Many companies talk about mental health, but did you know Telus puts its money where its global telecommunications leader of a mouth is? Last year, Telus—home of Canada’s most reliable 4G mobile network—donated (in part) $450,000 of funding to mental health initiative The Sandbox Project. “TELUS is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing […]
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It’s a shed! Not a f**kin garage!!!
[Image-1] Ok…so looking to buy a house and we gotta have a garage (it’s a guy thing apparently). I sort on MLS/viewpoint with ‘garage’ checked then scroll through the results. Do I see a ‘garage’? Yes…only…there’s no way to drive a car into it….unless you count driving over your back lawn and creating your own […]
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I suggest you both read Emily Post’s Etiquette
[Image-1] To the two women at Pavia on the fifth floor Central Library, who spilled a coffee on the floor which also splattered across my newspaper which was on my table : You both are educated self observed slobs with the manners of a pig.One of you wiped my table using the same napkin one […]
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Common courtesy in common places
[Image-1] Life 101; when you share a kitchen with your fellow humans you gotta make at least a little effort to clean up your shit when you’re done using that common space. Don’t you know this by now?? Be careless, spill a bunch a your shit, make a mess, walk away, leave spills to dry […]
