You’re invited to AFCOOP’s Super-8 Handmade Holiday Screening and Party! Join the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative staff, members and friends at 8pm, Wednesday December 14 at the Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen Street). You’ll get to witness never-before-seen holiday-inspired Super-8 films on the big screen and enjoy a holiday drink or two.
The Bus Stop Theatre
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Good Food, great party
Your good friends at the Good Food need your help. When they moved from their well-worn-in home on Gottingen over to their bright new digs on Windsor Street something really bad happened. Their oven broke. And replacing it was really expensive. Former employee and Caravan drummer (who snacks at the Good Food daily) Mark Bachynski […]
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Get your brain going with When It Rains
Lives are busy and entertainment opportunities are plentiful in Halifax, but I’m telling you to make time to see 2b Theatre’s original and gorgeous When it Rains. Projection designer Nick Bottomley has created a fantastic world painted with shadow that delights and amuses, and writer-director Anthony Black has peopled it with four memorable characters played […]
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A killer cast makes The Revenger’s Tragedy
The last time I saw actor Matt Peach, he was strutting his stuff in towering heels and skin tight pants in the sexy, savage The Obedients. I loved his performance there, but I’d have to say he’s even better in Vile Passeist Theatre’s production of Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, where he turns in a […]
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Melissa McClelland enchants IDOW festival
Melissa McClelland “I’ve never played in a church,” says Carmen Townsend, with her bright red shaggy bangs falling in her face. The Cape Bretoner is all charm. Her vocal play is reminiscent of Rebekah Higgs meets Jenn Grant, but her sound is entirely her own. Townsend takes listeners on a journey through the tumbling acrobats […]
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Pedal to the mellow
Gus’ Pub & Grill “Whenever we have big metal shows, we order extra Olands,” says Jake Cuming, a bartender at Gus’. He stresses Olands, Olands, and more Olands. Plus cheap draughts. And whiskey shots—“The hard stuff.” 2605 Agricola Street, 423-7786 The Company House CoHo owner Mary Ann Daye suggests a bit of the hard stuff […]
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Record sale at the Bus Stop Theatre!
December 16th to 23rd! Old and new records that would probably make either great gifts or gag gifts. You decide.
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Best Effort to Keep it Real
Here’s a story about how even when things don’t quite work out, a lot of good can come of powerful intent. Lee-Anne Poole used to be the event coordinator for Halifax Pride and she worked for filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald as a festival producer and in administrative postions. In theatre she’s studied and taught at Neptune […]
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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The rise of fall arts: performing arts
THEATRE A Beautiful View October 13-31 at Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, $15-$35, 429-7070, neptunetheatre.com Love without labels. That’s what actor-writer-producer Jackie Torrens feels the two women in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View have spent 20 years working towards. “As humans, there seems to be a need for us to define something, to label it,” […]
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Stop Kiss goes slow
While the process of falling in love is infinitely exciting and engrossing to the people involved, the Open Concept production of Stop Kiss proves that is much less so to outside observers. The play is actually two intercut storylines: one about a pair of seemingly straight women, Callie (Annie Valentina) and Sara (Kristin Langille), and […]