What will the choral sing? It turns out, work from the greatest living English composer of the age, Edward Elgar (played with ...

Before the Jolly Red Elf himself made his rounds, Halifax was treated to an early Christmas Present with the return of Rankin ...

Another favourite film of mine is Blade Runner . I remember a classmate of mine in my undergrad railing against it when I ...

The awards season is in full swing, and this movie — which I missed in theatres, it’s now available to rent — has been given ...

Sunday evening is the Golden Globes, a Hollywood event that’s slowly emerging from a recent history of scandal to be a real ...

Gordon Stephenson was brought in by Halifax Council in 1957 to develop a plan for slum clearance. Stephenson was considered to be an expert in urban renewal and, as advocated by modernists like ...

the Alehouse is part of a collection of buildings all designed by the office of architect Henry Busch. the Alehouse with other members of the Busch family forms a thin veneer of 19th century buildings ...

Having binged the various versions of Little Women, I discovered the many adaptations of another beloved book: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. Not all the versions are available — ...

Do you have iron bridge experiences? Single lane, shakes when a vehicle crosses, transparent in the landscape. In the mid 70s I learned that the various styles of bridge trusses have names and started ...

The other day, I was walking on May Street in the North End and noticed this house. A narrow passage (sometimes called a horse walk) pierced the line of row houses to provide access to the backyard, ...

An earlier capsule version of this review appeared during the coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2025. When I first saw Wake Up Dead Man at TIFF what struck me about the third mystery ...

Recently Halifax Retales, in his reports on businesses opening and closing, noted that Noggins Farm Market was going to open an outlet in the new Capital Suites building at the corner of Coburg and ...