Arts & Culture

Another week, another call for “action” on film sets across the city as shooting season picks up to its busiest time of year. As the local film and TV sector continues to grow—in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”—Team […]

Visual Arts Nova Scotia—a by-artists, for-artists organization that supports and spotlights visual art in the province—announced a new executive director today. Therese Cruz, based in Shelburne, has a background in jewellery design and passion for painting and rug-hooking. In a press release announcing Cruz’s taking the role, VANS says she is motivated “to be in […]

Josh Lake is here to debunk the myth of elevated horror. You can keep your Jordan Peele and your CGI-generated nightmares: He’d rather have vintage scares in the form of retro movies, thanks very much. “I’m really impressed by people doing a lot with less,” the programmer and creator of the new, bimonthly screening series […]

It’s been a decade since the worst year of Natalie MacLean’s life, and she’s finally ready to talk about what happened. When the bestselling author and four-time James Beard Award winning food journalist answers The Coast’s call days in advance of the Halifax launch of her new memoir, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the […]

Today, the Sobey Art Award, the biggest prize in Canadian visual art, announced its 2023 shortlist—a five-artist rundown of the most exciting creatives in the country—all of whom are vying for the prize’s $100,000 purse. Among them is none other than Halifax’s Séamus Gallagher, an artist who has been making waves in the city with […]

Anyone who has spent time mothering knows that it is undoubtedly and irrevocably work. But could it also be an art? Jessica Winton and Sally Morgan certainly think so: Along with fellow artist Ruth Douthwright, they’ve formed The Sense Archive, which is currently showing the exhibition This Body of Work through a partnership between Eyelevel […]

Get ready for your to-be-read pile to grow even taller: Last night, June 7, saw the annual Atlantic Book Awards Gala take over Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall, getting lit(erary) as it celebrated some of the top tomes of the last year. Halifax author K. R. Byggdin was the evening’s star, taking home the […]

New York is quick to call dibs on June Leaf, since she was part of the city’s historic Bleecker Street scene (the street gets its bohemian cred for being HQ for generations of bohemians, a longstanding locale for Leaf and her contemporaries as they re-shaped abstract art in a post-World War Two era). The Whitney […]

It’s peak season for the film industry in Nova Scotia, with hundreds of sets calling “action” all over the province. Team Coast is keeping track of the ever-growing biz (in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”) with weekly updates […]

The unprecedented wildfires in Nova Scotia continue today, with the burning in Shelburne County now being called one of the biggest wildfires in the province’s history, as Global news reports. As a reported 17,602 hectares of a wooded area in the province’s southwestern pocket continues to blaze, about 5,000 people have been evacuated. Amongst the […]

Update: Since originally filing this story, I heard from a Mr. Dale Fawthrop telling me about the original musical about Frenchy’s he and Ruth Cormier Nichols staged circa 2010 in Amherst. (It was a love story between a shopper and stockiest that, tbh, feels like the sort of thing Kate Hudson would star in, had […]