Two thousand and six: It was the year Facebook opened its platform to the world; the era when peak tabloid culture christened Britney, Paris and Lindsay sharing a cab “the bimbo summit” and the year Pluto was downgraded from a full-sized planet to a dwarf planet. In Halifax, it was also the year that the […]
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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Feist announces Halifax Jazz Festival show July 11
Regardless of the forecast, this summer’s gonna be a hot one for music lovers. On the heels of Jazz Fest’s first headliner announcement—The Fleet Foxes—the annual event is now naming another big act: Feist. The 11-time-Juno-winning, “1,2,3,4” singer will play the Jazz Fest main stage (located on the waterfront) on July 11 at 8:15pm. Related […]
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This week in Halifax
Get ready to light up the group chat: here’s your going-out guide for February 20-22, proof that there’s tons to do and see in the city every night of the week. See Fall On Your Knees onstage (until March 5) Ann-Marie MacDonald’s blockbuster book about a Cape Breton family across eras has been adapted for […]
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Catching up with Classified
When The Coast reaches Luke Boyd by phone, he’s just leaving the studio, still high on the new music he’s making that he anticipates will drop this spring. “I still go to the studio every day, because I still got the same hobby as when I was a 15 year old kid,” the rapper better […]
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Season 2 of Jack Reacher series might be shooting in Halifax in April
If the Nova Scotian film industry has, of late, been making hay while the sun shines (2021-22 was a record year for the industry, which the government says contributed about $180 million to Nova Scotia’s economy), consider this a sign that there’s zero percent chance of clouds in upcoming forecasts: The Coast hears industry chatter […]
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Halifax might become one of Canada’s worst-funded cities for the arts
Is Halifax heading headfirst into an identity crisis? The rapid clip at which the city’s been changing—we are the second-fastest growing urban area in the country, according to the most recent Statistic Canada numbers—makes fact of the fast-shifting sand beneath our feet. It’s been accompanied by the feeling that there’s a new building sprouting on […]
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This weekend in Halifax
The days are slowly getting longer and Halifax’s calendar of events is filling up with all kinds of must-see, must-do fun, from must-see music shows by some of the city’s biggest stars to snagging seats at a sold-out screening of a buzzy Oscar nominee. Here’s where to go and what to do to maximize those […]
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Halifax launches new Youth Poet Laureate program
Y’know the old saying that the earth isn’t given to us by our parents but is on loan to us from our kids? It’s the sort of sentiment that burns hot on the forebrain of Halifax’s Poet Laureate Sue Goyette: A neon imperative guiding missions like, say, Write Your Heart Out (the youth writer’s circle […]
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Daniel Romano’s Outfit announces Halifax show May 19
Indie rock wunderkind Daniel Romano announced today that he and his band will be playing Halifax on May 19. Tickets for The Marquee Ballroom gig—which features newcomer Julianna Riolino, label mate to Romano, as the opener—go on sale Friday, Feb 12 at noon via Sonic Concert’s website. Daniel Romano’s star skyrocketed to a new strata […]
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Hannah Moscovitch leads a theatre revolution from Halifax
There was a time—before her Governor General win, before she’d co-write a musical that’d take New York by storm, before she was a known quantity even outside the sphere of Canadian theatre—that playwright Hannah Moscovitch would sit in an idle Halifax cafe, clattering away on a laptop while her copy of Cape Breton’s most famous […]
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Halifax Jazz Fest announces Fleet Foxes as first 2023 event headliner
Just the info we needed as the wind chill dips to minus 10 degrees today: Summer 2023 is shaping up to be a hot one in Halifax, thanks to Jazz Fest’s latest announcement. The summertime fest—which runs July 11 to 16—is returning to its longtime home base, the open-air lot where Salter Street meets the […]
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Adam Baldwin adds second Halifax show to almost-sold-out east coast tour
Beloved Dartmouth singer-songwriter Adam Baldwin kept busy during lockdown by keeping spirits high with his weekly livestreams that were the perfect midpoint between unfiltered authenticity and pro-level production value. The fact that Baldwin’s Chin-Up Sessions continued to be a fan-powered phenomenon even after the overall novelty of the medium began to wane says a lot […]