Arts & Culture

When you’re in the mood to see and be seen, Agricola Street is always a safe bet—but perhaps never more so than last June, when the north end street’s busy-ness reached a new crescendo as it became a central filming location for the new series Sullivan’s Crossing: Scott Patterson (of Gilmore Girls fame) was snapping […]

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 a screening of Ashley McKenzie’s buzzy new flick to Villages’ big album release show at The Marquee. Here’s where to go and what to do to maximize those precious weekend hours: Witness War […]

Fibre artist and avid crafter Grace Tompkins wasn’t expecting to go viral when she started sharing pics-in-progress of her latest creation, a crochet sweater inspired by Maud Lewis’s famous painting “Three Black Cats”. “I think the best part has just been connecting with other people and their love for something that I made: That’s so […]

It feels like the sort of art show Hannah Gadsby would love, an antidote to the male-focused visual histories the comedian spent ample time dismantling in her 2018 breakout special, Nanette: This women’s history month, the National Gallery of Canada is highlighting what it bills as “a lesser known chapter of art history”—that is, the […]

Halifax drag queen Anita P’s entrance to Moulin Rouge!—the 2001 opus directed by Baz Lurhmann—wasn’t under the neon-soaked main marquee, but rather a side door: Via the music video for ‘Lady Marmalade’ that saw Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Mýa and Lil’ Kim delivering one of the most defining covers of the aughts. (The song—originally released by […]

The buzz in the air was so alive today at Neptune theatre that the whole afternoon felt like five minutes away from curtain time. But the show at hand was actually the announcement of the theatre’s upcoming season. Here’s what the venerable stage has in store for 2023-2024: Summer sees two musical reviews taking the […]

The days are getting longer, finally—and trust that Halifax has your back with lots of fun ways to fill them. This week, the Monday-to-Wednesday slump isn’t even a slouch, thanks to a drag show stuffed with local legends and a live concert featuring Halifax rapper Kye Clayton and New Brunswick up-and-comer Kylie Fox. Make some […]

“We don’t need to be cutting at this time, we need to be increasing at this time—and I think the councillors really heard that,” Susanne Chui, co-artisitc director of Mocean Dance tells me, speaking by phone days after she and about 30 other concerned citizens took to city hall to make a case against a […]

I hate to admit it, but I was skeptical. When Hannah Moscovitch—one of Canadian theatre’s brightest-glittering luminaries—told me that her two-part, six-hour adaptation of the classic novel Fall On Your Knees was stuffed with songs, I couldn’t picture how this story could swing into musical territory: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s opus about the Piper family begins with the […]

The weekend is as good as here, so it’s time to make the most of it! Here is The Coast’s expert-picked guide to what’s happening around Halifax from Feb 23-26, from an orchestral rendition of a Dr. Dre album to The Beaches’ Halifax concert to the return of the Halifax Black Film Festival. Get ready […]

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 […]