The Scene

Those unfamiliar with the simple concept of snot rockets would do well to do a little research before BA Johnston’s show at Gus’ this Friday, September 28. The show is a DVD release for This is What 110% Smells Like, the product of two nights’ no-holds-barred on-stage antics from Johnston and some of his closest […]

For years the Atlantic Film Festival has been running a program for emerging screenwriters, in which a handful of scribes spend the summer workshopping an original script each with legendary Canadian story editor Allan Magee, then pitch it to producers during the fest itself. Last year, which focused on first-draft features, was the first time […]

Applewood, Ontario sounds like a pretty quiet place. A nice place to raise a family. It’s 10 minutes from Toronto and relatively suburban. However, Keeping 6, Applewood’s most raucous homeboys, are not as quiet. Touring Nova Scotia in support of their summertime fresh debut CD, Uncensored, the lads are set to harm some eardrums at […]

You know how near and dear the CTV Evening News is to us, so it’s only our duty to report that weather dude Peter Coade has defected to CBC. (Man it’s like we work for Frank all of a sudden. Insert “Frisky Frisko” jokes at will.) “Nova Scotians have come to count on Peter’s forecasting […]

When Siobhan Murphy arrived on Wednesday morning for her shift at the One World Cafe, she found the Agricola Street hotspot closed, windows covered over, people removing kitchen equipment and other furnishings through the side door. Murphy has worked at One World for the last two-and-a-half years, and was deep in negotiations to buy the […]

Country music is alive and well, and it’s living at Ginger’s Tavern. On Tuesdays, at least. Halifax hurtin’ country unit The Whiskey Kisses launched Honky Tonk Hiccups—a weekly roundup of local country and folk musicians—two months ago, and the response has been stellar. Initially a way for the band to improve its live chops, the […]

Film festival season is upon us as of this week, but the Atlantic Film Festival is not the only game in town. The Salon des Refuses, the annual one-night festival of AFF rejectees, has announced its selected-by-lottery line-up. The all-Atlantic slate of films includes: Bread for the Journey, “a 30-year journey in the lives of […]

Six in Under Sixty: For our money ($6 in this case), the best bang and talent pool for your buck. This play, which reminds us of film experiments like Paris je t’aime and 09/11/01, brings together six of the city’s best directors to produce, as you might have inferred, six plays in under an hour. […]

Looking for a sweet deal? How about 10 cents a track? Instrumental rockers Benefit Party will release their self-titled debut album at Gus’ Pub on September 1, with discs going for the low, low price of 99 cents. Why sell the disc so cheap? “We’d give them away for free but we’re not putting out […]

House of Sugar author and Coast alum Rebecca Kraatz picked up the Emerging Talent award this week at The Doug Wright Awards, “named for a cartoonist who created a wordless syndicated strip called Doug Wright’s Family, AKA Nipper,” says Kraatz. “He lived from 1917 to 1983.” The award was created in 2005 and designed by […]

Anyone who thinks vinyl has gone the way of the 8-track needs to take a look at the local LPs and EPs that have recently been released by Joel Plaskett, Wintersleep, Be Bad and The Hold, for example. The Establishment joins the vinyl revolution August 23 when its releases its split seven-inch at Gus’ Pub. […]

Most bands spend lots of time naming themselves, but apparently it’s not as hard to find a tour tagline. Greg MacPherson and Horses‘ current east coast trek—including a stop at the Attic August 23—was christened the We Quit Our Jobs and Moved to Another City for a Woman Tour, but not before they came up […]