There’s a common pattern when it comes to locally made movies. You hear about an interesting, innovative flick; you watch it make the rounds on the film festival circuit; you wait until you can see it yourself; it disappears, sometimes not even available to be streamed, as if it was a figment of your imagination […]
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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The pitch: Halifax should give away bus passes as gas prices soar
Pop psychology gospel says it takes three weeks to make a habit stick. Just ask anyone with a Pinterest account, where elaborate, 21-day “life hacks” are pinned into ubiquity. Fast-food monolith McDonald’s knows it, too: Why else would it discount its coffee to a dollar a cup just long enough to make you change your […]
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$23 million investment in Nova Scotia’s film industry has money for a soundstage
The provincial government is putting a total of $23 million into the local film industry, premier Tim Houston announced today. Eight million of the funds will support a soundstage that, according to a press release from the province, “will increase the industry’s capacity, create more jobs and allow productions to continue year-round.” The remaining $15 […]
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Dartmouth’s Michnat Fashion is diversifying the scene—and your closet
Funmi Odeniyi learned to sew by studying her family members cranking fabric through machines—just like the Italian master of glamour and the bias-cut, Gianni Versace, learned the craft from his dressmaker mother. Odeniyi launched her label, the Dartmouth-based Michnat Fashion House, while pregnant—just like Paris’s 1970s queen of knitwear Sonia Rykiel. Her favourite things to […]
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The African Nova Scotian Music Association’s annual awards kick off March 7
The African Nova Scotian Music Association is shaking up awards season this year. Instead of a typical gala one-night ANSMA Awards showcase, it’ll be keeping the party going all month long with its “Mondays in March” series. Starting tonight, each Monday evening at 10pm on Eastlink TV (and recapped on the Black Cultural Centre’s YouTube […]
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Propeller Arcade Bar is levelling up on fun
Propeller Brewing’s Gottingen Street outpost has long been the postal code for good times—even more so when the building turned its basement into a retro arcade bar in 2019. The space is known for having all your favourite throwback arcade games (including pinball), craft beer on tap and no cell service. Yesterday, though, the space […]
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Packing up decades of music memories as The Pavilion becomes a shelter
Before it was The Pavilion, it was a swimming pool shed. Back then—the 1990s—Halifax was (arguably) at its musical apex, thanks to bands like Sloan and Thrush Hermit. People who wanted more all-ages, dry music shows took over the small building on the south Common, and built a scene along the way. From 1998 to […]
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with two hot local books reframing women’s history
Sometimes, just when you think you know a story by heart, a new narrative shows up to make you reconsider all you thought you knew. Case in point? Two new hot, local books from Nimbus Publishing are ready to prove you blissfully wrong. Painted Worlds: The Art of Maud Lewis–A Critical Perspective by Dr. Laurie […]
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Two Nova Scotian-made movies will be screening at Cineplex this month
It’s a good month for Nova Scotian films: Two locally made movies that debuted at last fall’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival have been picked up by movie monolith Cineplex. This all-too-rare bit of movie business means that, at long last, viewers have the chance to see these stories on the big screen. Related First […]
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The triumphant return of the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
Halifax needs its university galleries. Without them, there’d be roughly 100 fewer art exhibitions per year in the city (by our calculations); space for emerging talent would be even more competitive; and the stepping stones to larger venues would essentially wash downstream. With all this in mind, it’s no wonder the visual art community in […]
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Halifax Pride wants to help you get the party started with $2,500 event-planning grants
Halifax Pride is returning to a fully in-person fest this year, happening July 14-24. It’ll be the first summer since COVID’s arrival to feature the parade—held July 16 at noon, for those asking—too. But the good times don’t stop there. Aside from a complete, to-be-announced slate of official programming, Pride will also be chock-full of […]
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8 must-see movies at this weekend’s Halifax Black Film Festival
The Halifax Black Film Festival makes its triumphant return this weekend, closing out African Heritage Month with a slew of online screenings and panel discussions. We watched all the available trailers on the event’s site—36 of ‘em—to pick out some of the must-see shows in the festival’s whopping 63-title slate, a mix of feature-length flicks […]
