[Editor’s note: As of June 2020, a pamphlet version of Chris Murdoch’s talk, titled Black Dots: An Afropunk Primer, can be purchased via Pentagon Black. Buy your copy here.] Two thousand one was a very important year for me. After discovering punk rock in elementary school, and attending my first local show in the spring […]
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Truth, then reconciliation
Acknowledging we are on Mi’kmaw territory is planting the seed of reconciliation in Nova Scotia. Last week the Halifax Regional School Board voted to include an acknowledgement during morning announcements that schools sit on Mi’kmaw land, and in October the department of Education and Early Childhood Development will introduce treaty history into Nova Scotia’s education […]
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Catch Bahamas at StanFest this weekend
Bahamas at StanFest mainstage Sunday, July 2, 10pm $50 day pass/$140 weekend pass “In some ways I’m grateful people still want to come see us play after three years of no new music, which is really nice,” says Afie Jurvanen, the laconic guitar wizard better known as Bahamas. “And also playing in the summertime in […]
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Beatriz at Dinner: deeper than it looks
Beatriz at Dinner has the hallmarks of a typical Sundance feature: Goats as pets; Chloe Sevigny; a very attractive actor—in this case, Salma Hayek—saddled with bad bangs in an attempt to make her look “regular;” a Duplass brother (Jay) and underwater dream sequences. It’s a lot. But it was written by Mike White—he of the […]
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Council promises new home for Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre
Plans for a brand new Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre are one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to a surprise motion from Halifax Regional Council. After an in-camera discussion that began Tuesday evening and spilled into Wednesday afternoon, council voted to once again look at selling the former Red Cross building in the north […]
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Premiere: Strongboy’s “Then Again”
Strongboy‘s upcoming album, Steady, is some sweet summer riffage. Mellow, twinkly, a little bit sad with a sheen of optimism, it’s a tight half hour that will take you from home to the beach this summer. Guitarist and vocalist Brett Jerrett describes the album as inspired by “a ton of love, and a touch of loneliness.” […]
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Carr’s life
The Fabulous Allan Carr Saturday, June 17, 4:30pm Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street $12 Full festival schedule and tickets at outeastfilm.com Producers make Hollywood run—they get the money, the industry accolades and to make the speech for Best Picture—but it’s rare their names are known. Outside of Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin, the […]
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Let’s go to the movies
The summer’s usual reboots (The Mummy, Spider-Man), second sequels (Despicable Me, Cars) and franchise-continuing (Planet of the Apes, Transformers) remain in full effect, but you can still piece together a worthy alternative moviegoing experience in amongst the tentpoles. As always, Halifax dates can vary. June 15-18 OUTeast Queer Film Fest Now in its sixth year, […]
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The beat of Mobius Percussion
Mobius Percussion Thursday, June 1 at 7pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $35 The Mobius Percussion group is often described as a chamber music quartet, but to hear them perform is to know they don’t fit squarely into any box. “We are all over the map,” says member Mika Godbole. The quartet, which […]
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Sa-Roc with you
Sa-Roc w/Ghettosocks, Uncle Fester, Shevy Price, Realeyez, Kxng Wooz, Iyari, DJ Anderoc, DJ Fadzwa Friday, June 9 at 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $9 After a seemingly endless winter and spring, you no doubt need a blast of heat that warms you from head to toe, lifts your spirits and makes you say, “hell […]
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Baywatch is exactly what you expect
We’ve been here before—pop-culture footnote recast as big-budget comedy with current big-time stars, featuring throwbacks to the original, not-great TV series, everyone having fun. That was 2012, when 21 Jump Street became one of the year’s best comedies, before we’d all burned our senses out on nostalgia. That movie also benefited from being helmed by […]
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Deadmau5 headlines Halifax’s FREE Canada Day concert
No problem A post shared by deadmau5 (@deadmau5) on Nov 10, 2016 at 1:31pm PST After months of waiting (OK, maybe that was just me), the headliner for the year’s biggest outdoor birthday party has finally been announced! Today the city confirmed that Deadmau5 will be rocking The Common with what he calls “the world’s […]