Landry has been a comedian for nine years and he’s been funny for six. Those are his words, not mine. “You can quote me on that,” he says. In fact, Landry describes his demeanour during his early stand-up as “very rigid.” “I was very shy onstage,” he recalls. “It took me years to get comfortable […]
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Anne Hathaway’s monstrous talent in Colossal
Anne Hathaway is one of our best working actors, even when the parts don’t deserve it—think of her winking poise in Tim Burton’s messy Alice in Wonderland; her relentless energy in the haggard face of Robert De Niro in The Intern; her, uh, correctly enunciated line readings in the turgid Interstellar—and she’s not been rightly challenged […]
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Poet laureate heartened by council’s Cornwallis vote
While Halifax Regional Council was debating the legacy of Edward Cornwallis on Tuesday afternoon, Rebecca Thomas was following along from the other side of the country. 
The municipality’s poet laureate is in Vancouver this week, competing in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. So she wasn’t able to attend Tuesday’s council meeting, where it was approved […]
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Their Finest is a dashing film-within-a-film
The Danish director Lone Scherfig returns after 2014’s sour rich boy drama The Riot Club with this dashing film-within-a-film, starring Gemma Arterton as a screenwriter hired for a propaganda film set around the battle of Dunkirk. (Note to Christopher Nolan: This is how you get women into your war movie.) The always-welcome Bill Nighy is perfectly […]
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Maudie: wrongly located, but beautifully shot
Maudie, a very Nova Scotia story, was very clearly shot in Newfoundland. Only Nova Scotians will care about this. (The production moved when the film tax credit was mangled.) Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins, excellent) lived an awful life made even worse by a terrible man (Ethan Hawke, of course), as Maudie depicts while also curiously […]
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Cornwallis naming debate will return to council
Rebecca Thomas’ words have not fallen on deaf ears. The city’s poet laureate delivered a powerful message this week, and it’s inspired city council to reopen a heated debate about how Halifax commemorates its controversial founder. Thomas appeared at City Hall to perform her poem, “Not Perfect,” at the start of Tuesday’s council meeting. The […]
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Addicted to The Drug Rugs
Aftermath 2017 – An NSCC Last Class BashFriday, April 7, 9pm-2am The Marquee Ballroom and The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street NSCC Students: $5 advance/$7 door Public: $10 advance/$12 door Psychedelic pop group The Drug Rugs are dropping in to a two-level concert on Friday, lined-up with popular locals such as The Town Heroes and […]
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Anna Taylor’s hoop dreams
Anna Taylor’s needle work is making waves in Halifax, but be warned—this isn’t your grandma’s embroidery. The 33-year-old NSCAD grad, crafter and sex work activist makes radical feminist-oriented hoop art, banners, buttons and ceramics. Taylor’s naturally dyed hoop art, Taylor Made Embroidery, has especially gained popularity due to their edgy phrases, such as “Sex work […]
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Kristen Stewart waits for a ghost in Personal Shopper
So much has been written of Kristen Stewart since her Twilight era began in 2008: She slumps! She’s sullen! She looks like she hates the red carpet! Fuck her, Edward is mine! Even though she starred alongside a similarly dour, similarly slumpy man clearly just as unhappily stuck in a Hollywood-engineered romance. Even though she […]
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Aparna’s out there
Aparna Nancherla w/Cher Hann and Sandi Rankaduwa Wednesday, April 5, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 “As comedians, it is up to us to overturn and shake and deconstruct and weigh every system that governs life,” wrote Aparna Nancherla in the Village Voice last December, after Donald Trump had been elected but before […]
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Jessica Chastain carries The Zookeeper’s Wife
The Zookeeper’s Wife, though it has the usual WWII hallmarks of pathological Nazi cruelty—sudden shootings, a gang rape—differs from the likes of recent violence-drunk entries like Hacksaw Ridge and Fury by focusing on the human elements rather than the awfulness (by now, nearly 80 years on, we surely know). That is due in no small part […]
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Tegan and Sara in Halifax July 27
Your favourite JUNO-nominated indie-pop duo, Tegan and Sara, come back to Halifax touring their latest release and eighth album, Love You To Death, at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium on Thursday, July 27 at 8pm. Tickets are $49.50 in advance and $54.50 day of show (including tax and CIF) and will be available this Friday, March […]
