Arts & Culture
Feeling Our-shelves: With Lili and Reanna
We recommend four of our favourite books taking place in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s.
Read MoreArt house films return to Halifax
On Oct. 15, Carbon Arc Cinema hosted a full-capacity screening of French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s new film Bergman Island, and for the first time since March 2020, people in peninsular Halifax had a place to see a movie other than Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane. “We show things because they’re not getting shown,” said Kenny Lewis, the chair of Carbon…
Read MoreCooped up no longer
With 27 years of experience in the comedy world, comedienne and writer Anne Fenn reflects on her experiences in the past and the present of comedy. Fenn is a University of King’s College alumna who graduated in 2018 from the master’s program in creative nonfiction, and currently teaches at Humber College in Toronto in the school’s comedy program. Fenn is a co-founder of Comedy-Coop, an all-female and female-identifying online comedy school. A career in…
Read MoreWhat’s the buzz?
The Dalhousie Beekeeping Society had its first general meeting on Oct. 5, 2021. The society’s executives, Sydney Carroll and Lara Roth Millman, were excited to spread their knowledge and share their love for beekeeping. Origin and goals of the society Carroll, a transfer student to Dalhousie’s college of sustainability, and Millman, who is taking a PhD in philosophy, met this summer at a…
Read MoreFeeling Our-shelves with Lili and Reanna
We recommend four classic, spooky reads that will get you into the Halloween spirit.
Read MoreWhat’s new with CBC’s Diggstown?
CBC’s Diggstown struggled against the COVID-19 pandemic before it could bring Atlantic Canada to the world stage for its third season.
Read More“Dirty nature writing”: your new favourite genre?
David Huebert’s new book Chemical Valley is fiction with a deep tradition and a fresh take. His collection of short stories examines the toxicity, pollution and technology that is woven into our everyday lives.
Read MoreRock On!
Jaime Becker had little hope. The Instagram post was made hours ago. But when she walked to class, Becker, a second-year oceanography student at Dalhousie University, noticed it lying atop the sundial. She sprinted across Studley Quad to grab the blue mandala rock, worried that anyone and everyone around her was eyeing it.
Read MoreI watched all the Conjuring movies so you don’t have to
Last summer, I came across a photo online of all the Conjuring movies listed in the order they occur within the Conjuring universe.
Read MoreBehind the scenes with Wayne Carter
Wayne Carter believes, “If you work around something you love it’s never really work.” Carter has been the Executive Director at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival for the last decade. Being in the film industry over the years Carter’s career started with managing a film theatre in the late 1970s, when he was in high school. …
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