A prospective client dies in a car crash, which might be a murder, leading her first to a couple of contacts in the local cop ...

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 vanished children, is a school-shooting analogy, but there’s more going on here ...

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 ...

Jane’s Walks are a time for folks to gather in early May and do a close reading of their city. Each year there are many walk themes to choose from, so you can curate an experience that suits or ...