Review by guest blogger Jon Tattrie. There’s a nervous titter that infects a Neptune Theatre audience when it’s not sure if it’s watching a comedy or a tragedy and so laughs every 90 seconds to be on the safe side, and then wonders what it’s laughing at. The Beauty Queen of Leenane starts out lightly with Mary Colin Chisholm’s comedic …
This week, Halifax hosts a conference that’s going to feature some fascinating discussion about the art and business of film-making. Writer-director-producer Patricia Rozema is speaking at Women Making Waves, a conference hosted by Women in Film & Television-Atlantic from March 4 to 6. “We are absolutely thrilled about Patricia Rozema’s participation,” organizer Jan Miller says in a press release this …
In the Chronicle Herald today, there’s a story about a man in Liverpool named Stephen Bolton, who killed his terminally ill wife. Barbara had Stage 4 breast cancer and probably weeks—at most, months—to live. Stephen says she was in terrible pain and deeply depressed. He told the Herald he finally gave her a lethal injection of morphine and Nozinan. A …
I’ve never been one to “season jump” and am still bundling up in wraps, arm warmers and toques galore. It’s a wonder anyone can even recognize me out on the street. Despite the current wind-chill factor, it’s occurring to me that I might need to open my heart to elusive springtime, just a little bit. I’m not ready for …
When I met Robert Dinning at the Canterbury Tales Literary Festival last year, he explained to me that he had written a love story. I mumbled something polite and, since I wouldn’t read a love story with a gun at my head, immediately began looking for a way out of the conversation. But Robert turned out to be a hell …
Hot events in Halifax this weekend. Know another good one we should include? Post a comment with the details. Friday 7:30pm: Quebec and British Columbia meet for the gold medal in Canada Games men’s hockey at the Metro Centre. 9pm: The Motown DJs take over at the Paragon on Gottingen Street. Saturday 8pm & 1030pm: Comic Allyson Smith (Video on …
When I pictured myself snowshoeing for the first time, it involved me gracefully bounding through fluffy snow with nary a hair out of place. Well, let me tell you – in reality, snowshoeing can be a lot of hard work! I found this out last weekend when my friends and I visited Sugar Moon Farm and completed a 6.2 km …
Randall Kennedy is kind of like a Santa Claus for elevators, travelling across the province, visiting each and every elevator on his own and signing the permits that appear inside them.
When the Canada Games kicked off in Halifax on Friday, it seems a lot of Haligonians were dismayed to discover they couldn’t watch the event on TV. There are 80 hours of coverage over two weeks on TSN2, but about 99.8% of Haligonians either don’t watch or, based this Herald article, have never heard of the network. In the Herald …
Cool events in Halifax this weekend—know a good one we should include? Post a comment with the details. Friday 7pm: If you’ve been living in a cave on Mars for the last few months, you may be unaware the 2011 Canada Games Opening Ceremonies are tonight. The Metro Centre hosts the event, which promises “pomp and pageantry, diverse entertainment, seeing …
It’s one of the fastest, most-explosive, high-octane sports in the world, and later this month, Halifax will host a world-class …
Halifax’s dining scene has dramatically transformed in the past few years—with a variety of new restaurants offering flavours from around …
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