Recently I've blogged about images of women and men on buildings and in our streets.  What I haven't quite come out and said before is: the images of women are more varied and interesting. A reason for the men's poor showing is that those lazy guys are using surrogates: lions! What's more manly and noble and comforting than a…Read More

Recently I posted a blog about working women around Halifax. The women were statues and bas-reliefs doing things like pouring water or supporting a cornice. A couple of panels from Queen Elizabeth High School were of particular interest because they portrayed young women in stereotypical occupations (spinning and drama). For this post my first thought was to…Read More

Will we see you in Wolfville for Devour? I hope so. Devour is the Food Film Festival held November 12-16, 2014. It is a big deal, and worth making the effort to sample a little or a lot. So go off to their site and start exploring. If you are still here let me tell…Read More

When you start noticing, there are quite a few images of women in our parks and on our buildings. Many of them are working women, pouring water, holding up buildings or picking apples. I'm really not qualified to unpack all the messages in these representations but I'm confident they tell us something about the times in…Read More

Hungry Bowls, an event staged by students in the Ceramics program at NSCAD, is coming up on Thursday, November 6.   The simple concept is you choose a handmade bowl that catches your fancy from a big table of bowls. Then you choose a soup provided by a  number of fine Halifax restaurants. And when you are…Read More