The story this film is telling serves as a reflection of life for many, the invisible homeless, in these days of late ...

When you come out of Backrooms everything looks a little… off. It’s like YouTube phenom Kane Parsons — who turns 21 on June ...

Instead, he uses a novelty gift he picked up at a mystic shop, something called One Wish Willow — you break a stick and make ...

To grow as a noticer you need to be challenged so your understanding of materials, and design, and technique is constantly expanding. Recently three people, whose work helped to train my eye, died. I ...

Our recent look at Italianate Architecture missed one unique, but unfortunately now gone, example. This octagonal villa style was popular between 1850 and 1870. The idea behind octagonal building ...

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 — ...

Have you noticed the talk recently about the burying grounds that were on the old Memorial Library site, and under the paved parking lot beside St Mary’s Basilica? A strong voice in this conversation ...

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 ...

(This is the second in a series of blogs about mid-century concrete buildings on the Dalhousie University Campus). With the sesquicentennial of Confederation coming up next year we will be hearing ...

A few days ago Chris Miller tweeted this very urban image of Halifax. The red building brightening up all that grayness made me remember a William Carlos Williams poem about a red wheelbarrow. So I ...

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, ...

With the unusual coincidence that three festival features are arriving in cinemas on the same weekend, here are my (slightly or somewhat) updated AIFF and TIFF reviews. Mile End Kicks is Toronto ...