Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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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An advent calendar of poetry: December 20
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 19
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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Walking through Francesca Ekwuyasi’s Halifax
To read Francesca Ekwuyasi describe Halifax is to be immediately nostalgic for our little city by the sea—even while we’re still inside its limits. Catching someone’s eye on the ferry to Dartmouth; Getting lost in the options available at World Tea House; Feeling part of the thrum of a crowd at Halifax Central Library: As […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 18
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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A year that’s worth a thousand words
It was the year that we were housebound—but, even more than that, screenbound: Living our lives through FaceTime and Zoom and the vicarious thrill of one another’s sourdough-studded selfies. As everything from theatre to live music made the pivot to online showings, it makes sense that fine art would also jump into our feeds like […]
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Seven sure things for December 17-23
Friday December 18 Evergreen Festival: John Gracie w/Zamani, Carloyn Curry Read more about triple-threat Zamani here. Dec 18, 6-9pm, Facebook Live @EvergreenFestNS Christmas Cheers! with Shane the Bartender Craft cocktail connoisseur Shane Beehan is back on his BS (that’s bespoke spirits), showing you how to make fancy-as-all-get-out cocktails with whatever’s languishing in your pantry and […]
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Ria Mae headlines the city’s free, online New Year’s Eve concert
Somewhere on the list of all the reasons to love Halifax—between skating on the Oval and browsing the shelves of the Central Library—rests the fact that, every December 31, we all cram into Grand Parade square to mark a new year’s arrival with a free, live concert that packs serious music cred. (Need we remind […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 17
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 16
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 15
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 14
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]