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		<title>Tracks: Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eyelevel Gallery hosts this VANS exhibition, showcasing emerging talents alongside their program mentors.                      by Holly Gordon                                          Eyelevel Gallery has two giant papier mache fists resting on their pink knuckles, with forearms reaching up to where elbows don't exist. They're part of artist Chantal Tardiff's work (pictured above) for Visual Arts Nova Scotia's mentorship program exhibition, Tracks, and are coupled with shots of Tardiff wearing the giant fists and playing with positions in different spaces.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/tracks-visual-arts-nova-scotia-mentorship-program/Content?oid=1779587' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>On the periphery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em class='bbc'>Losing It</em>, a new exhibition at MSVU Art Gallery, intimately peers into mental health and anxiety issues.                      by Sean Flinn                                          The day demands focus and clarity. Part of the world blurs, becoming peripheral.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/on-the-periphery/Content?oid=1779552' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>The Woman in Black</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valley Summer Theatre delivers a well-performed, and classic, psychological thriller.                      by Kate Watson                                          There's a delicious contrast in stepping from a sunny street in Wolfville into the darkened Al Whittle Theatre where an eerie mist billows gently from offstage. It's even more delicious to discover that sometimes a well-performed classic psychological thriller like A Woman in Black can still be scarier than blood-and-guts-spewing horror flick.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-woman-in-black/Content?oid=1779555' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>Hooked on Canadian Books</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[T.F. Rigelhof (Cormorant)                      by Sean Flinn                                          A journalist, teacher and writer, T.F. Rigelhof plumbs his undeniably deep knowledge of the CanLit canon to come up with his selections of the Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels Since 1984, as goes this books subtitle. (He covers 25 years of the Canadian novel, up to 2009.)&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/hooked-on-canadian-books/Content?oid=1769845' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Halifax Alternative Arts, Craft and Fashion Show debuts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No vintage or second-hand loot here: Stacy Lepage starts a new tradition in the city's arts and craft shows.                      by Holly Gordon                                          Stacy Lepage has never sold anything at a craft show, nor has she ever organized one. But the Saint Mary's student is set at full steam ahead for Halifax's first Alternative Arts, Craft and Fashion Show, which she has nurtured from idea to fully formed event.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-halifax-alternative-arts-craft-and-fashion-show-debuts/Content?oid=1768543' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>Grave business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Saturday morning volunteers fill Holy Cross Cemetery armed with shovels and pickaxes, and a dedication to preserving Halifaxs history. We dig it.                      by Shannon Fay                                          Holy Cross Cemetery was founded in 1843 and it's been falling apart ever since. The Irish-Catholic cemetery lies in disrepair on a hill in the south end of Halifax.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/grave-business/Content?oid=1768541' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>Eating Animals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown and Company)                      by Jon Dempsey                                          After penning two acclaimed novels, author Jonathan Safran Foer writes his first non-fiction account, Eating Animals on, well, not eating animals. After learning of his wifes pregnancy, Foer, faced with health and moral implications of feeding his then-unborn son, began more than a years worth of research into factory farming and vegetarianism.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/eating-animals/Content?oid=1769842' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title><![CDATA[Ship's Company Summer Theatre: The Net]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A taught and suspenseful thriller centered on a wealthy New Brunswick family will rock your boat.                      by Kate Watson                                          new review Ship's Company Summer Theatre: The Net If you've never ventured out to Parrsboro to take in a show at the Ship's Company Theatre, I can't think of a better lure than Marcel-Romain Theriault's The Net. This taut and suspenseful thriller centres on a wealthy New Brunswick family that made its fortune in the crab fishery.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/ships-company-summer-theatre-the-net/Content?oid=1768751' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>Blackbird flies with honesty</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The play at Living Room Theatre is thought-provoking, but hits hard.                      by Kate Watson                                          If you like your theatre hard-hitting and thought-provoking, then Blackbird is the play for you. You won't like what you hear and see&sbquo; but you won't be able to turn away.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/blackbird-flies-with-honesty/Content?oid=1768571' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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		<title>The Halifax Summer Opera Workshop</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em class='bbc'>Susannah</em> and <em class='bbc'>Alcina</em> grace the James Dunn stage in this year's workshop series.                      by Kate Watson                                          The Halifax Summer Opera Workshop For the past six years, the Halifax Summer Opera Workshop has been bringing young opera singers from across the country together for an intensive period of study that culminates in the staging of two full operas. This year, the offerings are Susannah, a modern opera set in the American South and Handel's Alcina, a Baroque opera in Italian with English subtitles.&hellip;            [ <a href='http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-halifax-summer-opera-workshop/Content?oid=1768746' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Read more</a> ]<br />
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