Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival April 24-28 various locations theemerginglens.com With the 9th annual Emerging Lens Film Festival kicking off yesterday, Halifax is lit with the talent and flair of homegrown BIPOC filmmakers. One of the festival’s freshest offerings on the itinerary is an entire segment dedicated to music videos created by up-and-coming artists on […]
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Street Cents is back, sort of!
Jonathan Torrens announced via YouTube yesterday that he’s back with a 2019 version the beloved CBC show Street Cents, a new webseries appropriately titled Your Two Cents. Street Cents was produced out of Halifax from 1989 to 2006 and its roster of hosts included Entertainment Tonight‘s Kim D’Eon, Cavendish‘s Andrew Bush and actor Demore Barnes. My […]
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Watch the trailer for Jason Eisener’s new wrestling series
Viceland has dropped the trailer for its new wrestling doc series Dark Side of the Ring. Conceived by Dartmouth’s own Jason Eisener with Evan Husney, each episode follows, 30 For 30-style, a veteran wrestler including Bret Hart, Randy “Macho Man” Savage and The Fabulous Moolah. Dark Side of the Ring premieres Wednesday, April 10 for fancy cable-havers. Related […]
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Jazz Fest announces First Aid Kit and Bahamas in first round of headliners
We were a little worried when the Halifax Jazz Festival was still conspicuously silent this week, having announced its big gets in January of previous years. But it was all for naught—today HJF made its initial lineup announcement, and it was worth the wait. Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit will headline the waterfront stage […]
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Thrush Hermit returns September 28
Halifax faves Thrush Hermit will reunite this fall in honour of the 20th anniversary of their 1999 album Clayton Park, which will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 13. Tickets for the September 28 show at The Marquee are available now for $44 right here. Don’t sleep!
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Thug’s life
The premise of the local short Thug comes from real life: Three aspirational actors—Simon Mutuyimana, Emmanuel John and Joshua Schlagenweit—shoot a film in the streets of Halifax. So, too, does the film’s critical story point, when a scene of violence is mistaken for truth. “They’re in a Starbucks parking lot and the cops pulled up […]
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Rich Aucoin and Classified nominated for Prism Prize
The seventh annual Prism Prize announced its finalists today, with two familiar names in the top 20: Rich Aucoin, for Meags Fitzgerald‘s cleverly animated clip for “The Middle,” and Classified‘s “Powerless,” an ode to MMIW shot in the Millbrook First Nation and directed by Andrew Hines. The Prism Prize will be handed out in Toronto […]
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OBEY Convention announces first wave of 2019 lineup
Promising “a four-day narrative of radical sounding, a forward-thinking festival like no other,” OBEY rings in year 12 from May 30 to June 2 in a host of venues around town. The date announcement also featured a teaser of its lineup, which includes New York’s Eartheater, who has a Robyn aesthetic and—according to the fest— […]
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Erin Costelo doc airs Saturday on CBC
Sink into winter Saturday afternoon with a look behind the scenes of one of 2018’s best local albums, Erin Costelo‘s Sweet Marie. Directed by Newfoundland songwriter/legend Amelia Curran, it covers the 10 days Costelo and her band spent in a very nice rural Nova Scotia house. “I imagine it’s what the Desperate Houseiwives of Atlanta […]
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Tattoo regulation sorely needed for scarred clients
Alexis Clarke has taken to social media to warn others about a local tattoo studio that she says has left her with scar tissue and nerve damage. Clarke was a former client at the Bedford Tattoo Guest Spot last year. Two days later, she says the sunflower design on her forearm was filled with fluid. […]
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Pause your life and listen to three new local songs!
Two comebacks and an alt version to tell you about on this sweet frosty Friday: In 2012, a ginger-haired dream named Jennah Barry dropped an instant classic called Young Men, entrancing full cities with her deft songwriting, incredible voice and aspirational stage banter. She played and played, and then she stopped. There was vocal surgery, […]
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Film review: Widows
Steve McQueen’s Widows was ballsy before it even showed up: You know going in that all the men, including a famous one (Liam Neeson), die in the beginning. (Note to Hollywood: Start more films like this.) Following McQueen’s brutal, sobering Academy Award winner 12 Years A Slave, Widows looked to be a complete 180: A […]