If the aim of art is to hold a mirror to society, no one has polished a surface more reflective, streak-free and detail-catching than Halifax’s Bria Miller. A professional artist for about five years—focusing on the mediums of digital and ink illustration—Miller is out to capture the scenes and subject matter mainstream art has left […]
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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Wonder’neath it all
In north end Halifax, there is a place where magic lives. A place where community is built over a work table. A place where healing and identity is found through self-expression. A place where affordable studio space keeps professional artists able to work. A place where you can see what’s possible, if you remember to […]
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Fin too deep
Every summer, it seems, the news breaks like a fin cutting the ocean’s surface: A shark—or shark-looking-thing—has been spotted somewhere too close for comfort (although sometimes that can be as far away as Maine). Every summer, we collectively freak out. Sometimes it feels warranted, like when a shark lookalike was spotted at Queensland Beach last […]
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What’s happening in Halifax from August 17-23
Tuesday August 18 Oasis Comedy Tuesday It’s time you took yourself down to Spring Garden Road’s own open-mic laugh factory. Oasis Pub, 5661 Spring Garden Road, Tuesdays, 8pm Carbon Arc (virtually) screens Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine While the indie movie house has yet to re-open its doors, you can keep in quirky, […]
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Matt Mays announces surprise set of Shore Club shows
We all know by now it’s not summer if Matt Mays hasn’t played his standard three-night, end-of-August set at the iconic Shore Club—so you surely wouldn’t be the only one if you assumed that this year’s shindig with the prince of the City of Lakes was cancelled. But in a surprise move, Mays announced in […]
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Behind the verse with Arielle Twist
It wouldn’t be fair to say Arielle Twist is on the come-up: The multidisciplinary artist and poet has been ripening words on the vines of her mind since at least spring of 2017, when writer Kai Cheng Thom became a mentor to her. She’d been seeing the world with the eyes of an artist for […]
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What’s happening in Halifax from August 11-16
Wednesday August 12 ’80s online music bingo Halifax’s own DJ Fayder delivers this bumpin’ mix of hits from the MTV decade while you dab your way to winnings. Tune into the livestream from 7:30pm onwards. Facebook Live , 7:30-9pm Backstage with Club Inclusion Theatre The STAGES Theatre Festival takes you (virtually) backstage with Club Inclusion […]
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Susan Kent follows the lead
There’s this scene in Spinster—the new, north end-shot dramedy starring Chelsea Peretti—that will play on a loop in a quiet corner of your brain forever. Peretti, as Gaby, the film’s eye-rolling namesake, sits on her apartment couch next to her friend Amanda (played by Halifax’s Susan Kent). They’re having a sleepover, making stilted conversation over […]
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What’s happening in Halifax from August 4-9
Tuesday August 4 Carbon Arc virtually screens Wonders In The Suburbs Nope, it’s not time yet to return to the city’s last indie cinema—but you can still support the space by renting your next flick through its site. The Arc describes this 2019 dramedy as follows: “As the new mayor of Montfermeil, Emmanuelle Joly has […]
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Nap Eyes knows what’s new is old again
If time is a flat circle, there’s one band that has worn down its circumference, a sonic traversing turning into a deep groove filled with shimmery, dirt-speckled indie rock. If time is a flat circle, there’s one band that can pick it up on its edge and roll it down the road in a Ravi […]
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Where to get a locally made mask in Halifax
Are you ready? Tomorrow, July 31, is the day that masks become mandatory in indoor public spaces. What qualifies as an indoor public place? Stores, malls, places of worship or entertainment, transit terminals and bus shelters, service businesses (think nail salons or barber shops), common areas in office buildings and universities and, of course, restaurants […]
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Afterwords Literary Festival releases 2020 lineup
Maybe the worst purchase of 2020 was a calendar, but now you officially have something to write (and highlight, and underline) in yours: Roxane Gay (yup, the author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, Difficult Women and a million tweets so biting they’re corrosive) is taking part in this year’s Afterwords Literary Festival. The fest—which debuted last […]