Sa-Roc w/Ghettosocks, Uncle Fester, Shevy Price, Realeyez, Kxng Wooz, Iyari, DJ Anderoc, DJ Fadzwa Friday, June 9 at 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $9 After a seemingly endless winter and spring, you no doubt need a blast of heat that warms you from head to toe, lifts your spirits and makes you say, “hell […]
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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2014
picks by David Dahms Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 (Sony) Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica (Universal) Cadillactica is a planet in a solar system near Earth’s. It was created by the 808. Big K.R.I.T is both supreme god and an everyman. He created this world and gave the people free will. Bass is the universal […]
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Hopscotch Halifax’s cypher proves who’s got it
It will be a “show and prove kind of thing,” says Michael McGuire, chair of the Hopscotch Executive Committee, as the 2nd annual Atlantic hip-hop cypher helps kick off the fifth annual Hopscotch Halifax Celebration. A cypher, in hip-hop terms, is what happens when MCs gather and rap in a circular order one after another, […]
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Don’t-miss G250 events
106.9 GotAVoice FM kicks off the festival: Your hub for all things G250 Tuesday September 9, 10am Gottingen has seen “dramatic change over the course of history, it’s gone through a bunch of very distinct periods and eras and I feel like we are really capturing that with a lot of the interviews and storytelling,” […]
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Celebrate Gottingen 250
Change has been a constant in Gottingen Street’s 250-year history. These days change is once again on the lips and in the air of Halifax’s north end, and back in 1756, it was no different. The Little Dutch Church was erected on the corner of Brunswick and Gerrish Streets. By the early 1760s, most German settlers […]
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Fall Arts Preview – September 2014
11 The Coast Fall Arts Preview hits the streets! You’ve got one, you’re OK. Atlantic Film Festival kicks off today, running to September 18, read our coverage on page 16 to plan your fest. 12 Darrin Rose brings his live stand-up show, My Dad’s Other Son, to the Neptune Theatre. Read more on page 22. […]
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Fall Arts Preview October 2014
1 Who doesn’t love a good photo? Photopolis is the biggest photography festival in Atlantic Canada and for 31 days in October, the city will be covered with beautiful, provocative and moving photographs in 35 exhibits. Major international exhibits include a glimpse into Andy Warhol’s photography in Little Red Book at the AGNS and Syria […]
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Fall Arts Preview – November 2014
1 Vile Passéist Theatre: We love you. Keep doing what you do, you crazy diamonds. Devoted to performing strictly early modern plays, this not-for-profit art society pushes audiences past Shakespeare and into worthwhile scripts by lesser-known playwrights from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Coming up in November at the Bus Stop Theatre, John Lyly’s Gallathea, […]
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Ghostface forever
WU-TANG! WU-TANG! WU-TANG! Practice chucking those “W”s in the mirror. Ghostface Killah (AKA Ghostdini, Ironman, Tony Starks, Starky Love, Pretty Toney, The Wally Champ, The Wallabee Kingpin), a vital organ of the rap behemoth the Wu-Tang Clan, is coming to Halifax. Host for the evening and stalwart DJ R$ $mooth proclaims, “I’m excited, there’s nothing […]
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The WAYO’s Wanderings home
Seen from one angle, The WAYO is a four-piece band that met at college—an oft-heard narrative. Gray Rowan, bass and keyboards, explains: “We all went to King’s College, we all did the first-year program there. The funny thing is we all played in different bands first year. We actually played in a battle of the […]
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Cold Smoke chillin’
This is the time of year when you haul out memories of heat waves and sleeping on top of your sheets, not under all of the blankets you possess, hot water bottles embraced like childhood teddy bears. Desperately attempting to push realities of wet socks and numb noses out of the foreground with fantasies of […]
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Critics’ picks 2013: Music
DAVID DAHMS David Dahms AKA Odysseus Catfish Jenkins III, Big Titteh, Dubs, OCJ3, The Toothless Wonder, D-Double, DMN8R, One Dread and Potato Salad is a premature mic dropper and has been writing for The Coast since 2013. The Caravan LOCAL The Caravan (independent) “What Up Steve?” channelled frustrations with the federal government more than any other […]