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 […]
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Halifax’s apartment buildings are a trash-sorting dumpster fire, residents say
L iving in an apartment building can have its benefits. There’s security, there are facilities and the buildings provide services for tenants. For every residential building with more than six units in HRM, one of those services is garbage collection. “Each apartment building is required to have five bins in the waste room in the […]
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Common Roots Urban Farm sows its seeds
8th Annual Harvest Hootenanny and Pumpkin Smash Bi-Hi Park, Bayers Road Sat Nov 2 1-5pm As its successful first season in a new location winds down, Common Roots Urban Farm only sees growth in its future. Despite a delayed opening as a result of heavy rains, CRUF has been prospering at its new location at […]
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Harbour rising: Halifax’s harbourfront in 2100, come hell or high water
As the eye of Hurricane Dorian spun around Halifax Harbour like a cocoon, it could have been any other grey day in Nova Scotia—were it not for the building floating in the water in Herring Cove. The large boathouse was home to Thomas Reyno’s three boats, two tubes and 45 years worth of memories. Now […]
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Hal-Con, a homecoming
Kristina Gillis has come a long way since her first Hal-Con three years ago. “I was a bit worried about being judged because I was also cosplaying for the first time, but I was amazed at how well it went over,” she recalls on day three of Hal-Con 2019. “Everyone was so friendly and accepting.” […]
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Show review: Halifax Pop Explosion’s Songs of The City is a love letter to all of us
Halifax Pop Explosion got off to a moving start on Wednesday night with Songs of the City, presented by United Way Halifax at the Spatz Theatre. The show featured six storytellers and five artists. Each storyteller told their own personal story of struggle, transformation and resilience. Each artist debuted an original song that was inspired […]
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How the Mighty is rising
Haviah Mighty w/Just John x Dom Dias, Hua Li, Yohvn Blvck Sat Oct 26 The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street, 9-11pm $15/$20 “T he past year has been a bit of a blur,” says Brampton, Ontario’s Haviah Mighty—and if you’ve been paying attention to Canadian music in 2019, it’s abundantly clear why that might be […]
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Annie-Marie Bungay-Larose’s fine balance
Spirited Away Oct 25-27 Various locations, Lunenburg nsspiritsfestival.com Anne-Marie Bungay-Larose was out for a drive one night when she noticed—while the air was cool and crisp—the smell of fresh flowers wafting on the breeze. In that moment, it felt as if winter and summer collided. “I wrote that feeling down,” Bungay-Larose (a Halifax bartender who […]
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Charity Doucette rises and shines
Shimmering opals, oceanic blues, cream white pearls; that’s Charity. Fresh sweetgrass, shapely moose antler, textured birchbark; that’s Mi’kma’ki. Charity Doucette, of Potlotek First Nation, combines the dazzle of trendy jewellery with the meaningful beauty of Indigenous beadwork to create show-stopping pieces that represent a restored pride in her heritage. “Know your worth—because that was the […]
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Settle Elsewhere belongs right here
Settle Elsewhere Oct 24-25, 5pm; Oct 26, 1:30pm, 5pm; Oct 27, 1:30pm, 5pm Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road $10-$20 T heatre du Poulet came onto the local scene in 2017 with The Extinction of Hong Kongers, a puppet show that tells a story of Hong Kong’s fraught past and uncertain […]
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BACKXWASH won’t back off
BACKXWASH w/Janette King Thu Oct 24, 8:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street free A shanti Mutinta—AKA the rapper BACKXWASH—fills the phone line with incandescent laugher, ready to soften the moment and appreciate a joke. She fills her songs with audio snippets from Mean Girls and Britney Spears samples, a cotton candy cloud foundation for infectious […]
