Arts & Culture

By Andrew Macdonald

Halifax-raised Musician Andrew Machum Part II: Life In Toronto & Branching Out Into Alternative Acapella Genre

This is Part II of a chat with emerging 23-year old musician Andrew Machum, Halifax raised, and now living in Toronto, after a year’s stint in Los Angeles.

Part II ran the other weekend, and a link to that article is contained below this story.

Machum has just released two new singles on streaming sites, one called Winter, which he self-produced and engineered in his studio set up in his TO apartment, where he lives with his younger brother, Matthew, a Ryerson student.

By Carol Dobson

If you spent your childhood Saturday afternoons in the darkened movie theatre waiting to be scared out of your skin by the mummy in the movie, then the “Egyptian Mummies and Eternal Life’ exhibit at the Museum of Natural History shows the moviemakers were pretty accurate in their depictions.

The exhibit has its roots in Florence Italy’s Museo Egizio and has been traveling throughout Europe and China before setting down in Halifax to make its North American debut from February 22 to June 21.

“It’s divided into three rooms,” The Museum of Natural History’s curator Jeff Gray says. “The first room explains the mummification process. Then, in the second room, you see various elements of the sarcophagi and in the third room, you see items from the funerary trousseau chest that accompanied the person on their journey into the next life. Where we today treat death more solemnly, in the Egyptian culture moving on to the next life was more celebratory and people were excited about what would happen in the next life.”