The continuous popularity of this establishment over time is astonishing—not because it’s not deserving, but because there is so much competition for dancing, socializing and picking-up across the city. Still, Reflections reigns supreme over the scene, winning three categories last year and four in 2009. Maybe it’s the inclusive nature of the place, the kind […]
The Company House
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Video: Michael Jackson’s Thriller shuts down Gottingen
Not the first time the undead have taken over Gottingen, but we’ll never see this again. In the Dead of Winter’s annual fundraiser, For the Dead, is a musical exorcism, bringing the Carter Cashes, Patsy Cline, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison and more back to life for just one awesome night. It’s close to midnight and […]
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Cordell Barker’s perfect timing
Cordell Barker created a monster called The Cat Came Back. His 1988 animated short, which he made at the National Film Board, haunted him. “Oh yeah, I just lived under the shadow of that thing forever,” Barker admits on the phone from San Francisco, where later that day, he will present to Pixar. “In a […]
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The rise of fall arts: books, film, fashion
Word on the Street Sunday, September 27, 11am-5pm, Cunard Centre, free, thewordonthestreet.ca The annual lit festival happens this Sunday at the Cunard Centre. This year’s highlights include a special appearance by Margaret Atwood’s illustrious LongPen, the remote book-signing device she invented so she can sign your copy of her new novel The Year of the […]
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Petunia’s flower power
This guy is timeless. Sixty years ago he could’ve been honky-tonking with Hank Williams, 20 years ago he could’ve been singing behind an episode of Twin Peaks. This weekend, with music that’s been described as “life-giving,” Petunia is bringing his surreal, avant-country swagger to Halifax. Saturday and Sunday night you’ll find the last real McCoy […]
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Local poetry: For letter or for verse
When it comes to poetry, Halifax slams. And poetry is cool. Really. Don’t think so? Got the structured verse of a long dead white guy rattling your cranium? Been rejected by a now out-of-print literary journal? Whatever might have scared you off poetry, you’re in Halifax now. Halifax is one poetic town. Poetry rings through […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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Halifax’s gayest drink
“Your gayest drink, bartender,” I say to the bartender at The Company House as I climb onto a bar stool. She pauses and looks at me, heterosexual poser. I’m out on the town with my queer friend Lee-Anne, former bartender at the now defunct gay-friendly restaurant Mollyz, trying to find the gayest drink in Halifax. […]
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The Company House
Halifax is a music city. Some say it’s the Atlantic Ocean, others believe it’s the endless winters, the source or reason doesn’t matter to Mary Ann Daye. She just hopes to foster it with The Company House (2202 Gottigen). “My official deadline is to be open for the In the Dead of Winter Festival (January […]
