There are a few surprising things about Battle of the Sexes, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton’s fun and breezy retelling of the 1973 novelty tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs: It’s Emma Stone’s movie, first of all. As King, the leading women’s tennis player and budding lesbian, Stone is as sharp and […]
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Elevate Your Quality of Life and Go Float Yourself
Lindsay MacPhee enters the dark, sensory deprivation tank to get cozy with her intuition. She experiences discomfort, sits with her thoughts, and starts to make sense of what she’s feeling and why. Floating is a way to enhance her meditation practice, to be able to feel her body, get a sense for her physical awareness […]
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Film review: Burn this mother! down
T he best reason to see mother! is Michelle Pfeiffer, one of our finest and least working actors, as she snarls and simmers and makes Jennifer Lawrence feel bad. There is no other reason to see mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s latest. Not since Scream 2 has a movie with a top-secret plot made you feel so […]
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Quake just wants to Celebrate
H alifax rapper Quake Matthews (AKA Matthew Arab) says his newest album, Celebrate the Struggle, packs heavy messages and a personal philosophy sculpted by his experience in the local rap scene. “I still feel like maybe I have a lot more to learn, but I have a lot of years under my belt and I’ve […]
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X man, Mitch Pileggi
T wo things about Walter Skinner on The X-Files stand above the rest: He was the badass of all badasses; and Scully kissed him. She kissed him on the lips. Skinner was that recurring character that when first introduced, we were not sure if he was one of the good guys. But season after season […]
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Review: Sleepless Nights w/Mardeen at The Seahorse
If you’re looking for a solid pop/rock band, look no further than Mardeen. The classic two guitar, bass, and drums setup doesn’t disappoint with these folks. Mardeen was a great pre-cursor to the main event: Sleepless Nights. This was my first ever Sleepless Nights show, and potentially my last. The band reunited recently for a […]
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Brian Wilson Sounds off
Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds: The Final Performance Saturday, September 16 $99-$144.50 Scotiabank Centre, 5284 Duke Street It seems almost inconceivable that the now 75-year-old Brian Wilson was only 23 years old when he produced The Beach Boys’ magnum opus Pet Sounds, an album widely considered by many to be the greatest pop album of […]
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Hopscotch Halifax 2017 announces Joyner Lucas as headliner
Hopscotch Halifax‘s 2017 headline is Massachusetts’ own Joyner Lucas. The unconventional MC will perform September 30 at Dartmouth Cove, 20 Canal Street with City Natives, $5/$10/$20. Tickets are on sale September 5 (presale September 1, Message Hopscotch for a presale code), with the first 200 tickets being given away for free. How nice! Hopscotch’s mission is to […]
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Video premiere: The Brood’s “First Day of School”
Sit down and have a watch of The Brood‘s extremely timely video for “First Day of School”, directed by bassist Billy Habib-Taylor, a song off of its upcoming album Transistor, due for release October 27, with an album release party at Riverport’s Old Confidence Lodge on October 28. Tickets will go on sale September 5. […]
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Florence Pugh nails it in Lady MacBeth
Lady Macbeth has long been a go-to scapegoat descriptor for a manipulative woman, a crazy bitch with a sexual and/or emotional hold over her man, using him to do her dirty work. Once considered flaws of character; in 2017 Lady Macbeth is an aspirational hero. Our eponymous lady is Katherine (Florence Pugh), barely out of […]
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Taste of Nova Scotia is hungry for your nominations
It’s probably obvious to you by now that we’re fans of voting, nominating and giving out awards around here. But today, we’re interrupting our usual Best of Halifax programming to remind you that Taste of Nova Scotia‘s annual celebration of province-wide culinary greatness is looking for your nominations. It’s the 10th year that Taste of […]
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Ingrid Goes West continues Aubrey Plaza’s summer of weirdness
Aubrey Plaza continues her summer of weirdness, following up July’s improvised convent romp The Little Hours with the very black comedy Ingrid Goes West. Plaza’s Ingrid is depicted as insane from the outset—the opening scene sees her pepper-spraying a bride after not being invited to the wedding and we soon find out they barely knew […]