They are the kings of big swings, and while they occasionally whiff — How To Make A Killing and Death of A Unicorn to name a couple from the past year — their record for interesting, challenging ...

January, a punk-fueled fury was brewing at 2037 Gottingen in the Marquee Ballroom, with the celebration of If You’re Here, ...

Set during the 1990s, times of sanctions and deprivation in the years after the first Gulf War, nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen ...

On Friday I was once again on the CBC Nova Scotia morning radio show, Information Morning, speaking with guest-host Preston ...

If you want to know why, ask Renny Harlin about Cutthroat Island or Roman Polanski about Pirates — wildly expensive movies, poorly reviewed and received. These pictures are a gamble. And to this movie ...

Directed by John Frankenheimer | Written by George Axelrod, Edward Anhalt, and John Hopkins, based on the Robert Ludlum novel | 112 min | | Prime I’ve seen a lot of the movies Michael Caine made in ...

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 — ...

Gates and gateways are powerful symbols in our culture. Think of the gated community, gateway drugs, the pearly gates, or the Atlantic Gateway Project. Well, maybe not the latter but you get the idea.

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 ...

Thanks to an article in the New York Times, I’ve learned Karen Kingsbury is the new Queen of Christian Fiction (American-styled), taking her rapidly written bestsellers and turning them into TV series ...

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 ...

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 ...