Stephen Cooke
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East Coast Music Awards announce performers and hosts for May 6 gala
The East Coast Music Awards Show returns as a live event on Thursday, May 6 at Sydney’s Centre 200, with a broad lineup of Atlantic Canadian artists set to perform. Tickets for the event are now on sale. Top nominees Classified and Rose → Read More
Anchors aweigh: Theodore Tugboat charts course for new home in Ontario
Theodore Tugboat is heading from Halifax to a new home in Hamilton, Ont. The lifesize working replica of the children’s television star, officially known at Theodore Too, has been purchased by Ontario marine service provider McKeil Marine → Read More
SaltWire cartoonist Michael de Adder inks deal with the Washington Post
Already a well-recognized name in the realm of political cartooning, Halifax artist Michael de Adder became even more of an all-star player this week with his new status as a regular contributor to the Washington Post. The venerable newspaper in → Read More
March 13 update: Five new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, one under investigation
Five new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Nova Scotia on Saturday. According to the March 13 update released by the province, three of the cases are in the Western Zone and are close contacts of previously reported cases. Two of the cases are → Read More
Unexpected turn on the bunny trail: abandoned rabbit found at Halifax library
The downtown Halifax Central Library had a story right out of a Beatrix Potter children’s book on its hands this week. Late on Wednesday afternoon, a library patron discovered a lone black rabbit in the third-floor men’s → Read More
A shot at an Oscar: Halifax’s Ben Proudfoot makes Academy Award shortlist
A moving family story from a Halifax filmmaker is on the shortlist for the 2021 Academy Awards. Ben Proudfoot collaborated with Hollywood composer Kris Bowers on A Concerto Is a Conversation, a documentary for the New York Times’ Op-Docs → Read More
Neptune Theatre announces live events to bring audiences back safely
Neptune Theatre is banking on audiences returning to its downtown Halifax home for a new series of special events that meet the current COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. Neptune’s artistic director Jeremy Webb announced the → Read More
International treasure: South Shore antique may have link to FDR’s White House history
It began with a South Shore yard sale, and led to a scholarly search involving the White House, the Roosevelts, the suffragist movement and Freemasonry. The object in question: a 1930s-era marble-topped wooden hutch that its owner Brian Doucette → Read More
Beatles’ Hey Jude gets a fresh spin from Halifax DJs Pineo & Loeb and Alan Frew
Halifax-based electronic duo Pineo & Loeb is known for putting their own spin on classic rock hits in the midst of their dance floor-cramming sets. Adding a pulsing techno beat to Led Zeppelin, or a room-shaking bass to Jefferson Airplane not → Read More
Overnight storm brings Monday cancellations and transit disruptions
Monday will be a snow day for many as a winter storm dumps 30 cm or more on Halifax overnight. All Halifax regional public schools will be closed, while Halifax Regional Centre for Education offices will be closed until at least noon. HRCE says → Read More
VIDEO: Halifax’s Eli Goree becomes a champ as young Ali in One Night in Miami
Eli Goree’s bravura performance as a newly-crowned heavyweight champion Cassius Clay in the new Amazon Studios film One Night in Miami has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, the Hollywood Reporter and CNN. But for the → Read More
Actor, filmmaker Elliot Page files for divorce from wife of three years, Emma Portner
Elliot Page is ending his three-year marriage to Canadian dancer and choreographer Emma Portner. Celebrity news site TMZ reported on Tuesday afternoon that the Halifax-born actor and activist had filed for divorce in Manhattan, seeking to dissolve → Read More
N.S. RCMP end search for the Chief William Saulis and missing crew
Nova Scotia RCMP are ending their search for the missing fisherman from the Chief William Saulis. On Saturday, the RCMP announced that search activities and supporting investigations by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the Department → Read More
Yarmouth RCMP seeks public’s help locating missing man Zachery Lefave
Yarmouth RCMP seeks the public’s help in locating a missing 20-year-old man from Hebron. Zachery Lefave was last seen walking on Hwy. 334 in Plymouth early on Friday morning around 12:30 a.m. Lefave is described as white, 5' 9" → Read More
Dec. 19 update: Two new COVID-19 cases, possible exposure at retail outlets, Dec. 11 flight
Nova Scotia Health Authority reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, with a provincial total of 46 active cases. Of the two new cases, one is in Western Zone and the other is in Eastern Zone. Both are related to travel outside of Atlantic → Read More
Halifax Infirmary registered nurse is first Nova Scotian to receive COVID-19 vaccine
A frontline worker from the Halifax Infirmary was the first Nova Scotian recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Danielle Sheaves is a registered nurse in the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s COVID-19 unit and she was the first to get → Read More
Nova Scotia actor Elliot Page announces he is transgender, vows to fight for trans rights
Tuesday marked a momentous turning point in the life of one of Nova Scotia’s best-known talents and respected environmental and LGBTQ+ activists as Elliot Page announced on social media that they are transgender. The Academy Award-nominated → Read More
VIDEO: Jenn Grant gives us Christmas gifts of new album, concerts
Jenn Grant and her husband, producer/musician Daniel Ledwell, will have their hands full this Christmas with their two sons Gus, who turns two in a few weeks, and five-month-old Henry who arrived in June. Celebrating with two baby boys will be → Read More
Barra MacNeils to embark on ‘cross-bubble’ Christmas tour in December
One of the most popular musical events of the season, the annual Christmas concert tour by Cape Breton’s musical Celtic family the Barra MacNeils, will be staying close to home this year. Normally, they’d be playing dozens of dates → Read More
New Art Gallery of Nova Scotia design unveiled, plan will transform Halifax waterfront
Nearly two months after three proposed designs were revealed for the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Waterfront Arts District, the chosen plan was unveiled at a media event at the Halifax Convention Centre on Wednesday morning. After → Read More