We rarely see this kind of thing these days — a movie with a lock-tight plot, compelling characters, and a detailed and vivid ...

ICYMI, here's a link to my recent appearance on CBC Radio talking about a few new movies in cinemas and available online.

A sweet stretch of romance and redemption in the third act goes some way to warming the more flinty elements that went before ...

It’s easy to see why some in the audience might think the new horror/drama by Zach Cregger ( Barbarian ), about a group of ...

What My Mother’s Wedding gets right is parsing how characters idealize the past and the people in it, and take for granted the people living right in front of them. We also visit a few charming ...

There was an equally grand dome on the Post Office, now the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In a time before great artificial lighting, these giant skylights provided illumination to the hearts of big ...

Steven Archibald recently posted Reckless Pedestrians where he looks at old photographs of Halifax, and compares how much more pedestrian-friendly they were in the days of the horse, before the car.

In the 1970s I spent a lot of time wandering in downtown Halifax and the old South End, observing and pondering the choices people had made about the design and construction of their homes and ...

“For almost the entire history of streets — 8,000 years or so — they were the domain of pedestrians, people walking. There weren’t rules. People could walk across the street at any point, could wander ...

My theory is that when it was new, perhaps in the 1870s, the urn looked like this, a double-tiered fountain in the northwest corner of the Gardens. In 1897 the urn was displaced to make room for the ...