Arriving at the opening day of Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience earlier this week, I was amazed at how many cars were in the Halifax Exhibition Centre parking lot for a sleepy spring Monday morning. The hunger for Van Gogh—his works, his story, the feeling he imbues—is ravenous in Halifax: enough that, for a […]
Morgan Mullin
Morgan was the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from what to see and do around Halifax to profiles of the city’s creative class to larger cultural pieces. She started with The Coast in 2016.
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Review: Keeper E.’s new album is airy, effortless bedroom pop
Thank U and Please Don’t Go, the sophomore album by Halifax songbird Keeper E., is music equally suited to waiting and to ruminating: Soft, shoegaze-y bedroom pop rendered mid-fidelity, the songs bend between morose and hopeful, between danceable and downbeat—sometimes as often as in a single line. After nabbing New Artist Recording of the Year […]
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Halifax, here’s how to prepare to watch Neptune’s The Rocky Horror Show
The curtain for The Rocky Horror Show (Neptune Theatre’s latest production, its season-closing musical, on until June 26) is 7:30pm—or at least, that’s in theory. Usually, productions of the super-racy queer landmark start about an hour-ish earlier, as audience members begin filtering into the venue, dressed as their favourite characters and toting items that reference […]
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Celebrate Star Wars Day with this Dalhousie professor’s epic poem about the original trilogy
Jack Mitchell figures he was about three years old the first time he watched Star Wars. By the time he was old enough to warrant owning a lunch box—around age six—it had to be a Return of The Jedi number. Before age 10, he saw the original trilogy on the big screen. “That’s when I […]
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Halifax’s Letitia Fraser one of 25 Canadian artists to make Sobey Art Award long list
Letitia Fraser is one of 25 Canadian artists to make the long list for the country’s biggest prize in visual arts – the Sobey Art Award – and is one of two Halifax-based artists in the running, alongside Michelle Sylliboy.
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OutFest brings 2SLGBTQ+ stories to the stage in Halifax this week
When The Coast reaches Isaac Mulè, artistic director of Page 1 Theatre (the company behind the new-to-Halifax event called OutFest), he’s just stepped out of The Bus Stop Theatre, where the hubbub of the last minute is unfolding. “The directors are hanging some things for one of the pieces and the actors are running lines […]
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Finally, someone wrote the must-read book on Maud Lewis’s artwork
There are north of 15 books on Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, from coffee table tomes to children’s books teaching counting via the repeated iconography of her paintings. Many focus on her biography, hitting the familiar notes of her late-life marriage and her solitary youth in Yarmouth. There’s even a niche-y, deep-dive into how […]
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Gus’ Pub *still* isn’t closing (we checked)
Music lovers can officially breathe easy about the fate of north end institution Gus’ Pub. “We’re gonna have to distinguish between Gus’ Pub, the building it resides in, and Gus’ Pub, the business: That’s two different things, right? So Gus’ Pub the business wasn’t sold. The building it resides in was sold,” says manager Dimo […]
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Neptune Theatre announces its 60th anniversary season
Today’s upcoming season announcement from Neptune Theatre proves that year 60 will be a big one for the venerable venue. Its 2022-2023 season of shows will include the new stage adaptation of Cape Breton’s answer to East of Eden, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s CanLit classic Fall On Your Knees. Written for the stage by Halifax’s most decorated […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival announces first wave of 2022 acts
Summer 2022 is already heating up to be a good time–and the sizzle factor has climbed even higher with today’s announcement that Halifax Jazz Festival is returning to a pre-pandemic format of live, in-person programming on the Halifax waterfront, at St. Matthew’s United Church and at The Carleton. The first wave of artists announced includes […]
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Preston Township Library Office celebrates first anniversary
Consider it one of the rare bright spots in the wall-to-wall bleakness of 2021: Last year, the township of Preston opened its library office. A part of the Halifax Public Libraries network, the office serves as a vital community hub, offering events, literacy initiatives, and digital access programs. Located at 1900 Trunk 7, East Preston, […]
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Zizmorcore is the fashion trend taking over a reopened Halifax
For every think-piece that promised COVID would kill fashion, either at an industry or individual level, (and boy, was there a lot of them) those of us who love clothes knew that dressing as a mode of self-expression wouldn’t linger long in sweatsuit purgatory. Comfortcore, with its crocs and elastic waistbands, was the pandemic aesthetic—but […]
