Driving through the dark
By • March 22, 2013
David Adams Richards revisits his acclaimed 1976 book, Blood Ties
Andrew Mills, Arts Editor
Andrew Mills is a journalism student with an absurd yet sincere nose. He’s studied philosophy and international development, traveled, worked menial jobs and read long novels on a predictable quest for authentic living. When he’s not busy trying to piece together a decent folk-punk band, he enjoys loud music and weird films.
The voice on the page
By • March 8, 2013
The Lilah Kemp reading series celebrates three seasons this summer
We’re all dying to dance
By • January 18, 2013
Rich Aucoin is a kinetic thinker: his insight turns more on drum machine 32nd notes than Latin aphorisms. He runs with the big questions—half …
Something there is that doesn’t love a fence
By • November 9, 2012
Smashing pumpkins isn’t just a nineties thing. Children on hay bales raise orange globes overhead, throwing them to the ground with Dionysian abandon. This …
Heavy hum
By • October 19, 2012
Wintersleep isn’t Halifax’s secret anymore. After “Weighty Ghost,” a hit song that made depression seem fun, the world woke up to the sleep. And …
Immortal Tempest
By • October 5, 2012
On Tempest’s first single Bob Dylan channels Gollum over some repetitive, juke-boxey swing tune about a whistle. It’s the type of song that, after …
Even weighty ghosts can float
By • September 21, 2012
I want to dismiss Jon Samuel and his album First Transmission as just another sweet-hearted downer with an acoustic guitar. The first song is too …
How not to eat garbage
By • September 14, 2012
My incisors barely miss the sticker on the pear. I peel off a label that reads USA. I imagine the pilgrimage of this produce—the …
AFF films for freaks and geeks
By • September 7, 2012
Movies are for summer. Everybody knows that. So, in the fall, balls-to-the-wall action blockbusters (the actual phrase two separate friends used to describe The …
You can jam if you want to
By • September 6, 2012
There are rock stars hiding in the monolith of the Killam Library and George Woodhouse is going to find them. Woodhouse, the host of …
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