Heritage Minutes: If you lived in Canada in the ’90s and had a TV, you’re probably familiar with them. Closing with the tagline “a part of our heritage,” the Minutes’ subjects include the invention of basketball, the origin of the word ‘Canada,’ the Halifax Explosion, the Underground Railroad and many more. Historica Canada began to […]
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Welcome to Harbourdale
Earlier this year, the television landscape felt bleak, rudderless without a good teen drama to act as guilty-pleasure viewing while we awaited the return of Serious Dramas like Twin Peaks and Game of Thrones. What a treat, then, when Riverdale landed on the scene—and wasn’t only a guilty pleasure, but a full-on feast in its […]
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Best local productions of 2016
Black Cop (feature film) White police officers mistreating black civilians—it’s a story we’re now too familiar with. But imagine the outrage if a black cop was mistreating white civilians! Cory Bowles sets up this premise in his short film Black Cop. It played at this year’s Atlantic Film Festival and it punched me in the gut. […]
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The feminist guide to summer screens
Streaming now (CRAVE) Casual This sleeper dramatic comedy, now in its second season, stars the great Michaela Watkins as Valerie, an older divorced woman trying to navigate a drastically different dating world, and Tara Lynne Barr as her sex-positive teenage daughter. Airing now (Lifetime) UnREAL The eternally underappreciated Constance Zimmer teams up with Shiri Appleby […]
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Carols everywhere
A piano, a gentle drum shuffle, a children’s choir: The opening notes of A Charlie Brown Christmas, scoring a lightly falling snow, are not just familiar, they’re iconic. The 22-minute television special, which debuted in 1965, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, five decades worth of festive feeling, holiday transportation and warm nostalgia. JazzEast’s […]
