Loud Luxury w/Neon Dreams, Fama, Karate Kactus Tue, Nov 26, 7pm Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road $41.50-$52.50 This has been more than just a coming out year for Halifax’s Neon Dreams. After 2019 witnessed the release of the band’s debut full-length album (that’d be the long-awaited Sweet Dreams Till Sundown) hits like “High School Dropout,” […]
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Award-winning journalist Patricia Evangelista on trauma, ethics and the power of journalism.
Reporting the voiceless: Mainstreaming stories from the margins with Patricia Evangelista Friday, November 22, noon-1:30 KTS Lecture Hall, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Road Patricia Evangelista provides a platform for the stories and voices that aren’t typically heard in the media. The Manila-based multimedia journalist for the online news publication Rappler, has worked in […]
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Let’s go to the movies
Working Women (2018) Hebrew w/English subtitles Nov 21, 7pm, Cineplex Park Lane In her first feature-length fiction film Invisible (2011), director Michal Aviad explored the longterm effects of stranger rape. In her most recent film, the feminist filmmaker tackles the immediate consequences of a kind of sexual violence that is less definite and more diffused. […]
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The quiet brilliance of Hannah Moscovitch
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story to Nov 23, 7:30pm with matinees Sat-Sun at 2pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$60 If you suggest that Hannah Moscovitch is a genius within her earshot, she reacts like a cardiologist being told they’re a hero might: a short laugh, a humble gaze cast downward and a tidy, […]
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A Nova Scotia teen is suing the federal government in the name of the environment
Last month, 15 kids and teenagers filed a lawsuit against the federal government for putting their lives at risk through dangerous climate change. One of them was 15-year- old Ira Reinhart-Smith from Caledonia—almost two hours outside of Halifax, on the way to Kejimkujik National Park. “This is the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced,” says […]
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NS municipalities call for inquiry on offshore drilling risks
Tonight, Offshore Alliance is meeting in Mahone Bay to speak about international efforts from municipalities to stop offshore drilling. This comes on the heels of a Tuesday press conference held just prior to the start of the Fall Conference of the Federation of Nova Scotia Municipalities, where twelve Nova Scotia municipalities—Halifax not included—announced their request […]
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The man show
Q I am male. A close female friend was raped by an old acquaintance of mine. I knew this guy when we were tweens, I didn’t really care for him as we got older, so it goes. It turns out that a few years ago, he raped my friend in an alcohol blackout situation. I […]
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Paper Beat Scissors shakes again
When Tim Crabtree—the brains and diary entries behind the vulnerable chamber folk of Paper Beat Scissors—pulled through the Cobequid Pass yesterday, “it felt like a homecoming,” he says, laughing into the phone as he talks about the feeling that swept over him as he stretched his legs at the rest-stop that marks the halfway point […]
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Tell me a story
My Hair is Beautiful In the late aughts, comedian Chris Rock released a documentary called Good Hair. Rock was inspired to get to the root of the relationship between Black women and their hair when his three-year-old daughter asked him, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” It’s a shame she didn’t have Shauntay […]
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Maureen Batt’s playlist is Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders: Traversía Latinoamericana Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road Oct 31, 6:30pm, free H alifax soprano Maureen Batt launches her fourth Crossing Borders recital series here at home before heading to South America on tour. On Thursday, October 31, Crossing Borders: Traversía Latinoamericana will be presented at the Halifax Central […]
