An ambitious season from the Dalhousie Theatre Department comes to a close this week with anti-capitalist musical Urinetown. Staging a musical is a special kind of endeavour, says director and Dal theatre professor David Overton. “It’s simply more complex to do it in terms of the logistics,” he says. “The amount of work that has […]
The Scene
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MIR image
Pop rock trio MIR has secured a new European record deal with Silversonic Records in Germany, after having released its debut full-length Invisible Science on East/West Records in 2001. The agreement includes full marketing and promotion for 7 Directions, which originally hit record store shelves in North America back in the fall of 2004. This […]
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A long kiss goodbye
We began this journey back in the fall of 2004. The thought was that, in this horribly accelerating age of the kids and their crazy internets, we would bring things back to the page. Where there were weblogs with weblinks, we would provide a real page with a real link. Both activities centred on reading […]
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“Fog” bank
There’s news to report once again from the Wintersleep camp. Fresh from signing a management deal with Sonic Entertainment, the workaholics released their second video from their sophomore self-titled album at The Marquee Club on February 24. For “Fog,” the band was finally able to go the animated route it had wanted to go for […]
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“Outrageous” Fortune
We’ve refrained from mentioning JD Fortune in this space because there are a lot of things about that whole deal we don’t understand, including who was gunning for an INXS reunion in the first place and how popular the new line-up for a band nobody gave a shit about has turned out to be. Anyway, […]
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Break out the national distribution
Hi-octane rockers The Maynards are hoping Canadians are going to pick them up all over the place now that 2005’s Break Out the Make Out has landed a distribution deal with Scratch Records. The band’s second full-length will also be available internationally via the label’s website. “We’d gotten in touch with Scratch back when we […]
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Adventures in Press Materials, volume 3
This week we received a tube of “mermaid bait” (gummy worms) as promo for the late March release Aquamarine starring Emma Roberts — AKA niece of Julia — as a teen mermaid. It’s a waste of studio money, but we’re not going to spit in the face of free candy (except for the time we […]
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Carry on up the Khyber
Efforts to re-open The Khyber Club are still underway, but assuming this closing is official, the Halifax institution was given one memorable sendoff. The public paid its last respects on February 19 and reminisced along with surprise solo performances from two of the arts community’s most illustrious sons: Matt Mays and Joel Plaskett. The former […]
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Fair play?
The latest Vanity Fair — our annual favourite, The Hollywood Issue — has caused quite the brouhaha thanks to its guest editor, retired fashionista Tom Ford. The issue’s centrepiece is, as always, its portfolio of celebrities, which this year has a theme of “naked.” Keeping within the spirit of the festivities, you’ll find Ford on […]
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It’s an honour, et cetera
The Juno nominees were announced on February 15, determining the calibre of talent we can expect to see in town in six weeks. Adult contemporary stars Michael Buble and Diana Krall have five nominations each, with other multiple nominees including Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Nickelback and, ratcheting up the shriek quotient come awards night, Kalan […]
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ANABLOG
We shrieked with delight when a normally dreaded email forward fell into our inbox yesterday. The subject: Interview Opportunity with ELLEgirl Editor in Chief Christina Kelly. Anablog devotees know of our admiration for the formidable Ms. Kelly — the curmudgeonly guiding force of the late, great Sassy magazine; a bastion of credibility in the early […]
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Late-breaking news
As of press time, word was the city will lease The Khyber Club space to the Khyber Arts Society until February 19 after all, as previously agreed. What will happen after that date is still up in the air. Stay tuned. Search them What began as the fusion of musical talents between three New Brunswick […]
