Boney M. Dec 18, 7:30pm Scotiabank Centre, 1800 Argyle Street $61.75-$73.50 Boney M. is not a perfect cult disco group. It is perfect, period. The foursome—including original lead vocalist Liz Mitchell—will scorch the Scotiabank Centre on December 18. Dig out your damn body glitter. Founded in 1974, Boney M. was always too out-there to be […]
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Where I record: Ashley Pringle’s Arrangements
Who he is Ashley Pringle has been kicking around the Halifax music scene for years: You might know his guitar noodling in the heavy-psychedelic band, Nor, or remember his face-melting prog-metal band MVMNTS—and then there was his stint in the two-piece prog-punk band Slashy that had a fan in The Super Friendz’ Charles Austin (“he […]
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The Supernatural Design Collective wants architects to play a bigger role in curbing climate change.
A group of Dalhousie architecture students is pushing for better green-design education from their faculty and the greater architecture community. It’s been four months since an informal meeting about environmental design principles (not previously covered in the university curriculum) led to the creation of the Supernatural Design Collective. The summer’s 36-person study group has now […]
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Avery Jean Brennan takes the spotlight
There’s a new set of cast members bringing a rainbow of representation to Neptune Theatre’s main stage. With the opening of the theatre company’s latest musical, Peter Pan, Neptune is making strides towards inclusivity. In fact, one performer is shining the spotlight on transgender representation. Her name is Avery Jean Brennan. She’s the first out […]
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How a doula training for Black women and non-binary people became a lesson in intersectionality.
We are constantly asked about our identities: Our gender, sexuality, abilities, disabilities; our ethnic, religious, cultural backgrounds; our style, economic status, trauma and sociological ideologies. Often, our identities are systematically categorized into neat little societal constructs, which many of us are frequently struggling to fit within. These identity checkboxes can be helpful. For example, self-identifying […]
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With a voice as big as the sea
There aren’t many instances where welcoming a group of 12 strangers into your living room—wet boots and all—makes sense. But on a cold December night last year, Maria Bartholomew, her brother Steven and their friends accepted such an invitation, no questions asked. “Don’t worry about your shoes, come on in,” said the man, tears in […]
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“We have failed you,” police chief Dan Kinsella tells Black community
It was an important day for Halifax’s Black community as it heard, for the very first time, the official apology from one of the institutions that has caused it harm and grief for generations. Halifax Regional Police chief Dan Kinsella addressed an audience of about 100 people Friday morning at the Halifax Central Library. […]
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Christina Martin knows it’s a Wonderful Lie
Christina Martin & Dale Murray Nov 29 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street 7pm $17.50/$20 Sometimes Christina Martin doesn’t feel like talking about it. “And my husband’s amazing,” she says. “He’s like, ‘Why not? Yeah, we need to talk about this. We need to do this.’” It’s a difficult subject. “We lost our brother Stephane to […]
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Rozina Darvesh walks the walk
The happy ending of The Wizard of Oz happens when Dorothy Gale realizes that as many wonders as there are over the rainbow, you don’t actually have to look that far to find your joy. She famously says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my […]
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Halifax’s lengthy budget process kicks off
Halifax Regional Council’s budget committee kicked off its 2020/2021 budget process this week, diving into preliminary discussions on how and where to spend the municipality’s—and the bank’s—dollar bills. First up this week was capital spending—better understood alongside its partner in crime, operational spending, which includes year-to-year costs of running a city: AKA groceries. Capital spending […]
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Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi moves from Penance to reconciliation
Screening and reception: Penance and Reconcile Nov 28 The Khyber, 1880 Hollis Street 6:30-9:30pm free Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi has been thinking a lot about the intersection of queerness and faith. “The faith I grew up in, the way that it’s practiced in my home country of Nigeria, is inherently homophobic and heavy on the shame,” […]
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The wonder of Whoop-Szo
Whoop-Szo w/Motherhood, Valerie Nov 28 The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street 9pm-midnight $10 Adam Sturgeon doesn’t know, exactly, what it means to be a warrior. His grungy band Whoop-Szo—which sounds as if a folky Dave Grohl decided to make shoegaze-streaked metal—wrestles with this question throughout the 10-track effort Warrior Down, but it’s still murky: “I […]