The Scene

“I was talking to someone about a white elephant table at a flea market or something,” says local author Ryan Turner, “and what a white elephant table is, is a place where people go to find a mixture of different treasures. And The White Elephant Cabaret, the name had a mystique that I like.” He’s […]

In the five months since The Grass graced a Halifax stage, the Dartmouth-born sextet relocated to Ottawa, embarked on a string of successful Ontario shows and had a main stage billing at the Ottawa Bluesfest. The band also recorded its third album, Calling All Ghosts. “Fans should expect our best album yet,” says drummer/vocalist Dylan […]

The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative has released its annual call for entries for the One Minute Film program, in which novice filmmakers create a one-minute, black-and-white silent 16mm film. It’s an involved six-month process, with workshops running from October through the end of the year, so be sure you’ve got the time to commit. “Super-short films […]

Haley Thomas is no stranger to the stage or studio. A noted session violinist in the indie community, Thomas has performed alongside such notables as Windom Earle, Jon Epworth, Down with the Butterfly and hey rosetta!, and spends her days working as an engineer at SoundMarket Studios. Thomas’ main squeeze, however, is The Orchid, a […]

Q Come on, Dan! Your response to You Gonna Eat That? was off the mark. I’m 100 percent gay and I occasionally watch hetero cunnilingus in porn, especially if the man is attractive. Another gay friend of mine feels the same way. Assuming my buddy isn’t YGET, that’s three of us right there. So there […]

Big news out of the TV world this week—chill dudes, Dwight D’Eon is still safe on Idol!—Andrew Cochran, of Theodore Tugboat fame, has been named regional director at CBC Television. Cochran is a producer, writer and director who has been involved in various capacities with Pit Pony, Blizzard Island, Canada AM and the CTV National […]

A chance MySpace message to Halifax’s Jon McKiel led to a deal with California-based label Wednesday Records and a recording date at Boston’s famed Fort Apache studios. “They were really into some demos I did in Calgary with The Cape May,” explains McKiel. “We started emailing back and forth about music and once they found […]

The National Screen Institute in Winnipeg funds a number of film and television projects and initiatives for Canadian artists every year, including an annual amateur short-film contest, the Drama Prize for a 13-minute dramatic short and a program for first features. It also runs Totally Television, “designed to help writer/producer teams fine-tune their TV series […]

Sue Gibson Garvey, beloved director/curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery, retired earlier this year after 17 years in the fold. This week, Dal announced her successor—local fave Peter Dykhuis, moving over from the Anna Leonowens Gallery, where he’s been administrative director since 1996. “Peter brings nearly 30 years of experience in the Canadian gallery system […]

If you are looking for the current elder statesmen of the Halifax music scene, look no further than The Sorrys. Sure, the band has only been around since 2004, but with two professors, an ESL teacher and an ad writer in its line-up, no one is going to mistake the band for students. Not that […]

Announcements are starting to come down from the Atlantic Film Festival, beginning with this year’s crop of Inspired Script participants. The program has gone through a change from previous years: It “goes forward by moving back—to the feature film outline,” says AFF programming manager Andrew Murphy. “Six talented Atlantic Canadian writers have been chosen to […]

Post-hardcore act A History Of kick off their upcoming eastern Canadian tour at Reflections Cabaret on Wednesday, July 11. They’re supporting their debut EP, Victory Atlas (Noyes Records). Made up of Noel MacDonald, Jeffrey Parker, Lance Purcell and Andrew Gordon Macpherson, A History Of brings “frantic energy built on angular rhythms and fiery guitar attacks.” […]