The Canadian festival entry Ordinary Days—it screened here at FIN—gets a theatrical release this week at Park Lane. Its concept—the same story told from three perspectives, each segment handled by a different director—could’ve played as pointless schtick, but here it’s deployed deftly enough to keep you guessing until nearly the final shot, which doesn’t seem […]
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Between the light with shadow
After a long but gentle gestation, shadow—a five-piece band led by Bethany Fulde—is ready to release the fruits of its two-year labour: A double EP, one titled the dark and the other, fittingly, the dawn. “In the end, some of it was recorded between three studios,” says Fulde, laughing. The album travelled with Charles Austin’s Echo […]
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Halifax breakfast experts on how they like their eggs
Heman Lee Robie Street Station (2394 Robie Street) “I can’t give you an answer, I just love eggs. It is the underappreciated protein. It can be so versatile. It can be a creamy sauce to a elegant dish, a simple tie to a more exotic eccentric dish or a proper appetite suppressant in the middle […]
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How Nova Scotia can move forward from 300 years of coal and fossil fuel extraction
“No more coal, no more oil, keep the carbon in the soil” chanted Halifax high school students and their supporters outside Province House last Friday. They joined millions of other students around the world striking from school on Fridays protesting inaction on climate change, following the lead of Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg and fuelled by […]
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The Children’s cross-generational climates
The Children May 9-19 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5-$50, tickethalifax.com Martha Irving first laid eyes on Laura Vingoe-Cram when she was just a baby in a bassinet. Fast-forward some three decades: The two women are in conversation, listening carefully to each other, sitting in a top-floor rehearsal studio at Neptune Theatre. Vingoe-Cram […]
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Bibimbap is the best brunch dish ever
It’s the weekend. Maybe you got to sleep in. That’s great! Now you’re ready for an egg. And carbs. And maybe some meat. It sounds like you need the best brunch on the damned planet: Bibimbap. That delicious Korean dish (in a regular bowl or a piping-hot stone one) has all the elements of a […]
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A whole bunch of men won ECMAs
The remaining 2019 East Coast Music Awards were handed out last night in Charlottetown, after an initial round on Thursday. There were only three repeat winners amongst the multiple nominees—North Preston’s Reeny Smith, Enfield native Classified and Toronto resident Jeremy Dutcher—which is always nice (sweeps are boring). Album of the Year Classified, Tomorrow Could Be […]
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A proposed overdose prevention site on Gottingen raises concerns about location and consultation from community members
More than 40 community members and overdose prevention site advocates attended a meeting at Halifax North Memorial Library this week to discuss the location of a proposed Overdose Prevention Site in the community. Members of the African Nova Scotian and greater north end community spoke about the historic importance of the proposed location at the […]
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Breaking the cycle of period poverty for low-income Nova Scotians
Gayle Collicutt was 17 when she saw her first women’s shelter. “My mother was an alcoholic and I was out of control,” she says, so eventually she was dropped off at Adsum House for Women and Children. The dramatic change in surroundings “was very eye-opening. “I got stolen from a lot,” she says. “I even […]
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A peek inside Tin Can
Seth Smith works quietly, switching his glance between an an oblong tunnel and the set as it is captured on a camera monitor. The director is surrounded by actors in metallic suits and crew members confirming scene numbers, but he looks as if he’s in his own world. As the take is called with a […]
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City plans to make an online registry of landlords
H alifax city council is preparing to create a mandatory registry for rental properties in Halifax that will show you their basic information and by-law violation record. An amendment to by-law M-200 was approved Tuesday to increase compliance with new standards. Almost three years ago, M-200 was passed to redefine standards for rental properties. On […]
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Halifax announces Dan Kinsella as next regional police chief
T he long-awaited replacement for retired regional police chief Jean-Michel Blais will be Dan Kinsella. Currently the deputy chief of operations for the Hamilton Police Services, Kinsella doesn’t officially start until July 1. Residents will have to wait and see if he’s the future face of change in the Halifax police force. “He just rose […]
