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Neither Wolf Nor Dog comes to Halifax this weekend on a wave of grassroots success—crowdfunded to start, nearly 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, starring a 95-year-old Lakota elder who lived through D-Day, worked with Marilyn Monroe, was Errol Flynn’s stunt double and was born and died at 97, in 2016, on the Cheyenne River Sioux…
When Jordan Britten turned 19, she couldn’t wait to go to the bar. That is until she realized that she looked a lot like every other 19-year-old there. “That American Apparel dress,” she says of her thrift shop awakening. “I stopped shopping at American Apparel and H&M and the places everyone was going. I’ve become…
We were a little worried when the Halifax Jazz Festival was still conspicuously silent this week, having announced its big gets in January of previous years. But it was all for naught—today HJF made its initial lineup announcement, and it was worth the wait. Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit will headline the waterfront stage…
The Merritt Awards, Theatre Nova Scotia’s annual celebration of the year in local theatre, were handed out last night at the McInnes Room in a ceremony hosted by Kim Parkhill and Ian Sherwood. The queer Holocaust musical Kamp was a big winner, picking up five awards including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Original Score for Garry…
Blonde beautiful girl wearing a yellow dress on the first day of March. I immediately noticed a distinctive personality, a unique soul, one who can laugh at anything, one who is kind and caring to others. Her sweet smile can melt anyone’s heart, her blue ayes are from another galaxy. You made my day and…
To all the students spending their mornings and nights at the library: I see you and I appreciate how hard you’re working and the sacrifices you’re making.—You’re doing a good job
Nobody else will love me. Nobody will understand that underneath this coarse, awful façade there is a person that means well. Many quickly see a cynic, and tend to discard the chuckles, the smiles breaking through like a ray through tumultuous cloud. Though I yearn to feel warmth from others, only I know myself.—Embracing the…
With all this talk of carbon pricing and people offering public transit as a way to fight climate change: Apparently not our flakey HFX transit! A big bold lie from the www.halifax.ca website is: The Departures Line provides real time bus departure information. I guess they don’t understand ‘real time’. I have never heard it…
Glad to see this rag still has some of the old farts that have nothing better to do than tear into someone, or somehing they have no idea about. Well, people—if I can call you that—you are screwed and fucked, just like some of the shit you bitch about.—Monkey love
I sat at a certain crappy hospital for seven and a half hours while bleeding through my pants. I was having a miscarriage, and after seven and a half hours of not seeing a doctor and being told I was next, I left to go get some rest. I found out the next day. A…
You are just as bad as pro-lifers. If it’s not your body then it’s not your business, ya dingus.—Frig off
Thanks for unexpectedly shielding me with your rainbow umbrella as I was sitting out in the rain. Your little bit of kindness brightened the end of my day. Thank you.—Soaked black jacket
Halifax faves Thrush Hermit will reunite this fall in honour of the 20th anniversary of their 1999 album Clayton Park, which will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 13. Tickets for the September 28 show at The Marquee are available now for $44 right here. Don’t sleep!
After much debate, Halifax Regional Council voted against using the $20 million surplus reserve to keep residential and commercial tax rates down. The rate will go to a final vote at council at 2.3 percent, meaning a $43.83 increase on the average home tax bill of $1,979. Mayor Mike Savage recommended taking $900,000 from last…
An absolutely effervescent Julianne Moore lights up Gloria Bell, Sebastien Leilo’s remake of his own 2013 Spanish film Gloria. Leilo’s last film Disobedience had Rachels McAdams and Weisz literally spitting in each other’s mouths, a highlight to be sure, but in an otherwise sullen and drab drama. He does a complete turnaround here, setting the film…
It’d be interesting to figure out exactly how the diminutive and unimposing Jesse Eisenberg has crafted a career out of playing total pricks: All the way back to 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, his Walt felt confident enough to claim ownership of Who song as his own, to say nothing of Mark Zuckerberg and…
Spring is officially here so let’s bounce off the couch and head out to all sorts of fun events like the Pakistan Food Festival, Neptune’s creative re-telling of King Lear and a hot lineup of local bands-to-watch at Gus’ Pub. Fresh Looks Fashion Show Saturday The creative minds behind the White Rabbit Arts Festival brings…
Already back for more adventure? We like explorer types, and we have the perfect weekend ready for you brave foodies. This is a weekend for the Indiana-Joneses of food; for those of you who can’t get enough of discovering new [insert braised food item here] or [insert other unusual concoction here]. UPCOMING EVENTS Colin James:…
If there’s one thing bees and many city dwellers have in common, it’s a love of gardens. That’s good news for both because it means there’s hope for reversing the decline of bee populations worldwide. Cities are important refuges for these critical pollinators and could ultimately hold the key to their survival. Canada is home…
O n Friday, council will decide how it’s going to pay for the grocery list of parked expenses approved for next fiscal year. At the last budget meeting, council hacked the list of $7,118,400 parking lot items almost in half, approving $3,704,100 worth of additional department expenses. The parking lot process, which aims to help…
Q I’m a white woman in my early 30s. In theory, I’ve always been into men of all races—but in practice, most of my exes are Latino and white. Last fall I met a handsome Chinese American guy, and I feel like he rewired me. I’ve been exclusively attracted to Asian guys since. I’m not…
Ralph w/Scott Helman and Myles Castello Friday, March 22, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $33 W hat does it take to be labelled a “good girl?” If you ask Canadian pop star Ralph, currently on a nationwide tour with Scott Helman, it’s as simple as throwing on a cheap street-market charm with the…
Last week, some HRM staff and members of the public were surprised to learn a section of a long-time public park is not actually owned by the municipality. Sir Sanford Fleming Park, the home of Dingle Tower, was donated to the city by Sir Fleming himself. The park includes a beach and picnic area on…
Living with Airbnb “The first point of a city is to live in it, the second is to visit”—so says a spokesperson for the city of Amsterdam, as quoted in the Guardian this week. The article is about rental homes in Amsterdam, where the proliferation of Airbnbs is apparently ruining life for the city’s residents.…
It’s a funny thing about alternative newsmedia organizations like The Coast. More than 100 of us across the US and Canada have banded together as members of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and we have great meetings where people who do the specialized work of producing an urban weekly newspaper discover their peers. But because…
I t’s a familiar story. A rich country develops oil fields in a heavily indebted nation with lax environmental rules. Local residents object, saying oil and gas extraction degrades their air, water, quality of life. Protests mount as the foreign energy company steamrolls the permitting process. The rich country tries to influence local elections in…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) During the coming weeks, everything that needs to happen will indeed happen only if you surprise yourself on a regular basis. So I hope you will place yourself in unpredictable situations where you won’t be able to rely on well-rehearsed responses. I trust that you will regard innocence and…
An Audience of Chairs Opens Friday, March 22 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road I n Joan Clark’s 2006 novel An Audience of Chairs, a bipolar Cape Bretoner named Moranna reflects on her life without her children, taken by her husband in the wake of her breakdown, and the loss of her gifts as an…
Villages w/Thomas Stajcer Friday, March 22, 7pm & 10pm Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street $20-$45 W hen the members of Mardeen left Cape Breton after high school and formed an indie-rock band, the music associated with their island home was the opposite of what they wanted to play. “We totally rebelled against traditional…
China Town Restaurant 213 Bedford Highway Opens in April In April, China Town Restaurant will reopen on the Bedford Highway in a new location with an expanded menu. Owner Jane Chen is excited for customers to see the new spot, which she designed and decorated herself. She handpicked the lights, wallpaper and much of the…
To my horror, I learned from social media that there has been another attack at a mosque that left 49 people dead and almost 50 injured in New Zealand. The sheer number of people dead is inconceivable to me. Sadly, the heinous act itself is not. I empathize with the victims in New Zealand, with…
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board has an extensive public relations department, yet it seemed determined to avoid relating with “How your paycheque supports fracking in Colorado.” The PR team did not respond to multiple phone messages, email requests for an interview or a list of emailed questions sent over the course of more than…
“I was fascinated with the Greek Festival, I loved to go there and see the culture,” says Anila Najaf, president of the Pakistani Canadian Association of Nova Scotia and organizer of this weekend’s Pakistan Food Festival. She was the woman in charge of the first iteration of the celebration back in 2016, an event that…
Where the hell is Halifax’s goth scene? All I want is a place where I can go on a Friday night and dance like Morticia Addams. So far, all that I’ve been able to find is the occasional kink night or halloween parties. What about us that are spooky all year round? One goth club…
