Arts
Khyber and the city: public consultation!
2 consultations wednesday, December 10 from 1pm-3pm and 6:30-8:30 at the Bloomfield Centre.
Prospect Players put the “community” in community theatre
Drama and comedy draw on an impressive pool of talents
In your face, art
Bouncer photography aside, art interventions have a long, important history.
Gerry Ferguson memorial this weekend
Reception and exhibition planned for the enigmatic art maker and teacher.
The Wild Things, Dave Eggers (McSweeney's)
Eggers adds detail but takes away imagination
East of Berlin’s guilt complex
Playwright Hannah Moscovitch explores the complicated legacy of inherited guilt in 2b theatre’s East of Berlin.
Secret art installation, Saturday night
Art happens in mysterious places
Review: Madonna: Songs of Mary by Xara
Christmas expressed in the spine-tingly, soul-touching sound of Halifax's premier young women's choir
The Banana Story of Agony, Lesley Johnson (Conundrum)
Bringing weird and wonderful childhood fantasies to life
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, John Ortved (Greystone)
Insightful look into the characters behind the characters
Comics
Food & Drink
Good Food, indeed
The Good Food Emporium's new Korean dinner menu provides the cure. Melissa Buote doesn't hesitate.
Holiday parties: Drinking on the company's bill
Whether you have a small crew or a full staff, consider these places for your next drunken office party.
Life & Style
Glorious gift-giving and other wonderful holiday stuff
We make it easy for you, offering up a selection of people in your life and how to buy for them. Follow our instructions and see faces light up when the wrapping is pulled off.
Early risers jump the gun at the Farmers' Market
Opening at eight o'clock, the new Seaport Farmers' Market will open far too late for these "beyond early" risers.
Cheated by the opposite of love
A cheater is a cheater is a cheater. Plus: Levi Johnston is still young enough to be considered a twink. And: a new Savage Lovecast Episode
Unschooled children
The only thing that can be done to immediately improve junior's math grade is to enroll him in a private school.
Sagittarian Freedom Fighters, prepare!
Get ready to liberate yourself from negative opinions in 2010.
Holiday fashion special
Make a scene at any party with local and vintage fashions, inspired by classic Xmas films.
John Dunsworth was once a Mall Santa
A tale of our own Bad Santa, though with less public drunkenness and salty language (which may surprise you).
Amy jones, writer
Jones' best holiday memory involves an Apple IIe.
Buy Nothing Season in Halifax
Nada. Zilch. Zippo. Here’s another option for your holidays: avoid the gifting altogether.
Jackie Torrens, Writer-Actor
Ah, for the gift of a good old fashioned yodel.
The Best Books and Comics of 2009
What could be a better gift than a selection off our list of the Best Books and Comic of 2009, compiled by our lit lovers?
Darrell Dexter, Premier
Christmas Eve gets wild in Cole Harbour.
Lisa Phinney Langley, Dance Artist
An old badminton racquet brings back memories.
Love the way we bitch
Movies
Blood: The Last Vampire
Directed by Chris Nahon (Sony Pictures)
Gregor Ash's passion
Atlantic Film Festival director Gregor Ash will be a vocal champion for arts and culture, as a nominee to represent the NDP in the next federal election.
Ellen Page hearts Cisco?
Easy, breezy, beautiful commercial girls. Remember how shocked people were when Bob Dylan showed up in a Victoria's Secret commercial? That was awkwardly weird, but not as gross as one I heard this week: Fine Young Cannibals' song "She Drives Me Crazy," on a cough syrup commercial, where sick people hack up flem on command during the choruses. No one's blaming the old guys for endorsing a few products to keep the limo fuelled, but as Slate pointed out, it's always a little different when it's indie sweethearts like Zooey Deschanel and Ellen Page. Read their analysis here, and watch
All Tomorrow's Parties,
Directed by Jonathan Caouette (Warp Records)
Music
Steve Miller Band at the Halifax Metro Centre: Saturday, June 5
Excellent press release alert!
Little Girls
Concepts (Paper Bag)
Tune into CKDU 88.1FM to win tickets to see Henry Rollins
You and a friend could be in that audience (or a reasonable facsimile) for $0! Henry Rollins wouldn’t want you to spend your hard-earned money on a ticket to his show March 19 at the Rebecca Cohn, especially not if you could win tickets instead.
Evolve 11 dates announced: July 23, 24, 25 in Antigonish
Plus, relive last year's fun with a video
Tribute to the Clash at the Paragon December 16
Celebrating 30 years of London Calling
Free music from Divorce Records to you
EPs from Husband & Knife, Mess Folk and Zachary Fairbrother
6th Annual JazzEast Gala Fundraiser for Music Education is in it's blue period
With the Laila Biali Trio at the Lord Nelson Ballroom on Sunday, December 6
Vocal hero Sean MacGillivray returns
Great Plains’ Sean MacGillivray was losing his voice and his career, but thanks to self-diagnosis he’s back, and he’s Alright Already.
DD/MM/YYYY play all ages show in Halifax Friday at Studio A Cafe
Giving one last hug to the east coast before the new year
Old Man Luedecke at the Rebecca Cohn April 30
Inspiring me to have bacon for breakfast this morning
Five questions with Stop Motion Massacre
Punks of few words
R.E.M.
Live at the Olympia (Warner)
Glen Matlock is not Pistol-whipped
Former Sex Pistols punk pioneer coming to the Paragon December 9.
Ox
Burnout (Weewerk)
Off Mother Mother’s tongue
Notoriously energetic, Vancouver’s Mother Mother go nuts, opening for Matt Good.
We, The Undersigned
Bleed the Constants (Diminished Fifth)
Ingrid Michaelson
Everybody (Cabin 24)
News
Summit talk starts to heat up
The madness of mass communication in an age of backdoor negotiation has China seeing red, Tuvalu treading water, Canada holding a fossil, and activists behind bars
Screaming mad on national day of action
The anniversary of the Montreal Massacre still brings anger, but also hope.
May's Day in Copenhagen
As leader of the Canada Green Party, former activist Elizabeth May has a golden ticket to the main event
2009 State of Nova Scotia coast report
Experts predict major sea level rise over next century
PR ranks swell as journalism suffers
Spin machines are working overtime as laid-off reporters find work in government public relations departments.
Futuristic Climate Advice
The Copenhagen Climate Conference kicked off today with the People's Summit, but last week's youth conference offered the freshest ideas
Halifax environmentalists prepare for Copenhagen
Wooden Monkey co-owner Lil MacPherson will blog for The Coast from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark next week.
Newcomer support groups merge
Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association and the Halifax Immigrant Learning Centre merge to form one group, the Immigrant Settlement and Integration Services .
Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes wilderness threatened
Group of land developers push for wilderness to be rezoned for residential building.
Can social media be an agent for change?
The goal of Change Camp, a local "unconference", aims to find out.
Elizabeth May will deliver your mail to PM
Green party leader bringing a mailbag full of green letters to Copenhagen. You can give her a letter for Stephen Harper at a rally this Thursday.
Kimber: police chief's explanation fails
Halifax police chief Frank Beazley's response to the unsolved murder issue doesn't hold up
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