It’s not news that our planet is in trouble, but it can be hard to know what to do about it. This Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day—meaning it’s the perfect time to stop wondering what the best thing you can do is and just decide to do SOMETHING to help our overheating home. Here […]
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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Make your weekend sparkle with these bright picks
Shine on this weekend as Stars arrives at The Marquee with its best album in years, The Villain’s Theatre talks climate change with a feminist play, a lipstick-inspired art show opens at the Corridor Gallery, Cory Bowles curates a screening of Black shorts and more! Black on Both Sides Thursday Actor/director Cory Bowles (whose excellent Black Cop wowed at FIN […]
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Stars shine on
Stars w/Jenn Grant Friday, April 13, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $38-$43 sonicconcerts.com There’s a moment in “We Called It Love,” track six on Stars’ latest sad-and-synthy LP There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light, where it becomes imminently clear the band is returning to form. Frontpeople Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan softly […]
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The story of us: a carefully curated south end condo
Nadine LaRoche still laughs when she remembers moving into her condo eight-and-a-half years ago, during a particularly sweltering August. The property—part of an old estate in the city’s south end—wasn’t what she had planned. Her real estate agent told her “he had this little condo he wanted to show me. I didn’t really believe in […]
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House Full of Plants’ secret garden
It’s all about the light: Huge amounts pour in through skylights, tumble over window ledges and bathe the home Jennifer Lee (an occasional Coast contributor) and Robyn Ingraham share. Split into two flats, the sunny house was perfect for the close friends when they decided to become neighbours about five months ago. “Lucking out on […]
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Twelve winning weekend picks
While we’re waiting to see if the Halifax Mooseheads secure hosting duties for the Memorial Cup, see them (hopefully) score in the second round of the President Cup Playoffs—and fill the rest of your weekend with avant-garde art, pop-up plus-size shopping and more. Halifax Mooseheads President Cup playoffs round two Friday, Saturday Things continue to […]
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OBEY Convention XI reveals full roster
OBEY Convention is always a head trip. The three-day fest, held the weekend of May 24, calls itself “Atlantic Canada’s most adventurous music festival”—a title it lives up to beautifully as it repeatedly exposes Halifax to sounds newly invented, or that few of us knew existed. This week, the fest announced the full list of […]
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Hop into the long weekend with these 12 picks
While the Easter bunny does its thing, you can dance at a Witches Ball, make new feminist friends, hear Toronto DJ Bambii’s latest beats, see Heist Live Art celebrate a year of wild theatre and more. The Water Protector’s Journey screening Saturday Catch the premiere of Eliza Starchild Knockwood’s documentary that follows a personal journey […]
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Patty all weekend long with these better-than-fries picks
Spring is finally here (according to the calendar at least) and we have some great reasons to end your hibernation this weekend: Burger Week kicks off with a bun, Inuk soprano Deanetha Edmunds plays a free show, Carbon Arc screens a tale of three roommates navigating life in Tel Aviv and more. Art Party Friday […]
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Twelve lucky weekend picks
Into The Night music fest fills your rock cravings, an Irish dance performance shows St. Patty’s is more than green beer, three iconic Indigenous artists perform at the MSVU gallery and more. [IMAGE-1] Mamma Mia! singalong musical fundraiser Friday Be as effortless as Meryl Streep in denim overalls at this sing-along session of the ABBA-based […]
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Twelve picture-perfect weekend picks
Mark International Women’s Day with four diverse exhibits by female artists, Get amped for Burger Week with a trip on the Burger Bus and don’t miss the St. Patrick’s Day Parade!
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Twelve fashionably fancy weekend picks
As Paris Fashion Week continues and the Oscars’ red carpet gets ready to unroll Sunday, Halifax has its own luxe happenings to hit up: The Halifax Black Film Festival returns—bringing Cory Bowles’ Black Cop with it—while the Chebucto Symphony Orchestra delivers sweet Viennese sound and, at The Craig Gallery, the power of doodling finally gets […]