Outside In Carbon Arc Cinema, 1747 Summer Street Friday April 6, 7pm $8 carbonarc.ca Lynn Shelton makes small movies with high concepts, such as 2009’s Humpday, about two straight best friends who agree to have sex for an amateur porn competition; and Your Sister’s Sister, a single-location three-hander involving sperm-stealing. Both of those starred Mark […]
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OBEY Convention XI reveals full roster
OBEY Convention is always a head trip. The three-day fest, held the weekend of May 24, calls itself “Atlantic Canada’s most adventurous music festival”—a title it lives up to beautifully as it repeatedly exposes Halifax to sounds newly invented, or that few of us knew existed. This week, the fest announced the full list of […]
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Film review: Love, Simon
Greg Berlanti is more recently known as the shepherd of the superhero TV series The Flash and Supergirl, but his best-loved creation is Everwood, the earnest family drama set in Colorado starring Treat Williams, Emily VanCamp and Chris Pratt. Love, Simon, Berlanti’s first film since the 2010 rom-com Life As We Know It, traffics in […]
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OBEY Convention announces lineup
OBEY’s back to make your May long weekend wildly, wonderfully weird with sonic stylings like your ears have never heard before. The four-day sound and music fest boasts uber-dancable Kudro beats courtesy of Portugal’s Nídia, emotional catharsis with the energy-cleansing rhythms of duo ONO and classical lute playing by Chinese literati-inspired Liu Fang. Rounding out […]
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Feist announces one, two shows in Halifax
Feist fanatics will get two chances to feel it all with the indie singer-songwriter in Halifax this May. Born in Amherst, Leslie Feist released her debut album in 1999 and rose to international popularity several years later after her song “1234” was featured on an iPod commercial. Feist’s latest work, Pleasure, was released last spring. […]
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Cheesy James Bondage
Flashback Film Fest February 2-8 Cineplex Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Road See cineplex.com for times This week, Cineplex’s Flashback Film Fest—once known as the Great Digital Film Festival—returns with its usual dose of 1980s favourites: Tarantino, Coen brothers and the like. Anything with a robot, monster, alien, time-travelling DeLorean or a rug that really […]
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Stars announce Halifax concert
Known for its dreamy, decedent soundscapes and haunting vocals, Stars have been building sonic castles in sad-core style for over almost 20 years. Here, the band celebrates its impressive back catalogue (we hope “Take Me To The Riot” and “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” make the encore set list) and its latest effort, 2017’s There Is […]
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Brewery said they weren’t going to pull Hanging Oak beer, but now they are
A lot is happening in the local beer can discourse as of late. As a result, Tusket Falls Brewing Company has pulled its Hanging Oak red IPA. In the past few days, the image of four Tusket Brewing beer cans has been making the rounds on social media, including the controversial Hanging Oak. The label […]
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Levi Store opening doubles as a presidential homecoming
Not only did the president of denim dealers Levi Strauss & Co. come to town for the jean store’s grand opening celebration, but that president is from Halifax. For James Curleigh, better known as JC, helping open a store in his hometown is pretty spectacular. “I’ve been on a world journey, and I never thought […]
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Vandal wants you to eat this Tide Pod doughnut
A post shared by Vandal Doughnuts (@vandaldoughnuts) on Jan 19, 2018 at 5:20am PST Vandal Doughnuts has given us what so many have asked for (…?): a Tide Pod you can eat without poisoning yourself. The Agricola Street bakery shared an image of the treat on Instagram earlier today, warning followers that it’s “the only […]
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Film review: Call Me By Your Name
As is usual, Call Me By Your Name arrives in Halifax after nearly five months of rapturous response, beginning on the festival circuit in September, paralyzing gay Twitter in December and losing all of its Golden Globes last week. (Advice to men: Try not to make an awards bid when Daniel Day-Lewis is out here, […]
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America just doubled down on the war on drugs
When California started 2018 by formally legalizing weed, it felt like a blow to Canada’s cool cred. California has more people and a bigger economy than Canada, and it made legalization happen January 1, while prime minister Justin Trudeau is already losing his nerve for what had seemed a firm July 1 deadline. That’s weak, […]