The digs: Built in 2007, this semi-detached two-storey at 59 Bridgeview Drive features three spacious bedrooms and four (count ’em) bathrooms with Palladian finishes like vaulted ceilings, large windows and Greco-style columns. The neighbourhood: Located just behind The Dingle and Sir Sanford Fleming Park, this family home is only a few minutes to Mumford Road […]
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Watch teaser for a John Dunsworth and Cathy Jones webseries
In a bid to win funding from the IPF (Independent Production Fund) for an episodic webseries, the creator of Noon Gun, 2015’s Best Film in The Coast’s Best of Halifax Awards, filmmaker Caley MacLennan recently released a teaser for Nichols and Dimez. If it wins, the locally produced series promises to be a boozey, comedy crime-thriller that would star John Dunsworth […]
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Watch: hot new hip-hop video from Halifax’s Ben Francis
Now here’s a young dream-team. If you haven’t heard of 18-year-old rapper Ben Francis yet, this is your chance to vibe on some seriously hot new hip-hop from one of Halifax’s up and comers. Below, watch his new video for “That Something,” filmed and directed by Moose Media‘s Brendan Lyle (@MooseCanFly), another up and comer (he’s […]
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Clarke’s spirit
[image-] Canada’s poet laureate George Elliott Clarke comes home this week to deliver the Cyril Byrne Lecture at Saint Mary’s University. He’ll revisit his creative origins in Nova Scotia, retracing his steps in light of his first book, Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, published in 1983. The lecture will also include a performance by jazz […]
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Smartphone Film Festival deadline extended to March 14!
Due to a technical glitch, or what we’re lovingly calling “spissues,” the Halifax Smartphone Film Festival (SPFF) submission deadline has been extended until Monday, March 14! You now have the rest of this week and this whole darn weekend to create a short-film on your cellphone for a chance to win over $2,000 in cash, prizes […]
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Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
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Tribute band Wildest Dreams pick fave Taylor Swift songs
Tonight, Halifax’s will be treated to the third Taylor Swift Tribute Night with 10-piece band Wildest Dreams and special guest vocalists. It’s possible after tonight that they will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be getting back together. So just in case, you better bundle yourself up and head to The Marquee (2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $10) […]
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Internet Daughter’s top 5 sites
For the last few years, Toronto DJ and producer Internet Daughter (AKA Sophia Switzer) has been making music ranging from techno-house to industrial and trap-influenced hip-hop, made possible (in part) by the unprecedented online access to music any good child of the web enjoys nowadays. So you can get to know her better before her […]
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Taylor Swift takes on Lady Gaga in a tale of two tributes
This weekend, Halifax honours two of this decade’s biggest pop stars with two different tribute nights: One for the youthful, sugary love songs of Taylor Swift and another for the avant-garde, self-love songs of Lady Gaga. Adria Young breaks down what you need to know. Related Stories
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Getting Wavy with Ric Esther Bienstock
“On a day to day basis, making films is not a nine-to-five job,” says Montreal’s Ric Esther Bienstock, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian with dozens of credits to her name. “You need an adventurous spirit.” This weekend, Bienstock will lead a masterclass in documentaries, moderated by Sylvia D. Hamilton, as part of Women Making Waves. Presented by […]
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Watch: A teaser for the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society Cat Show
Today at The Coast, watch the trailer for Cat Show, which chronicles the competition and heats between Halifax’s north-end cats and their owners, all participants in the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society’s Biennial Spring Classics. The trailer is a pitch for a potential satire (catire?) web-series, based on real life events. In 2013, Kathleen Prinsen‘s tabby Florian […]
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Watch the teaser pitch for BA Johnston’s Ham Jam
Hamilton’s own “trash troubadour,” the beloved longtime Gus’ Pub staple, former Haligonian and 2015 Polaris Music Prize nominee (Shit Sucks), BA Johnston just dropped a teaser pitch for an online web-series starring himself! And it goes something like this: “BA is enlisted by the fictional Hamilton Tourism Action Committee to produce tourism videos to promote the city. […]
