Philip Moscovitch

This year's festival runs to May 10, with art shows, plays, dance, music, kite-flying and more.

The Halifax Examiner is currently running a subscription drive. Yesterday, publisher Tim Bousquet provided several compelling reasons to subscribe.

Lindsay Misiner heads to the East Coast Music Awards, hoping she's on the cusp of something big.

The old joke about taking 20 years to become an overnight success is often true.

"The more we build those communities and those networks, the more people want to stay."

Art doesn’t have to be earthshaking, it doesn’t have to about numbers. It’s about sharing, and connection, and hearing something you maybe never heard before.

“I don't want to turn all artists into raging capitalists. But at the same time, I think artists have to pay attention to the bottom line of practical things,” Jones said when asked to expand on that notion.

"I felt like there was this lack of stories about this part of the world, the country. I’m trying to rectify that."

"It's like having a clean washroom. That is supposed to be a representation of everything else that you do in your business."

"Doing more with less has been our unofficial guiding principle for decades."