You gotta feel for Neptune Theatre. Days after it announced its tepid return to live shows, the government called for another lockdown (making those shows cancelled, of course). The new premier pretty quickly called JK on the whole thing–pulling the plug on a proposed monthlong shutdown one week in–but that doesn’t give the average live […]
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5 sure things for International Women’s Day
On this International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8, let’s take a beat to remember that women earn less money per hour for the same work as men, and women of colour earn even less than white women. Call it the wage gap, call it the power gap, it’s real and it’s the reason if you […]
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Neptune is (sort of) back!
Feb 26 update: As of the most recent COVID-19 restrictions—announced at a Feb 26 provincial press conference—arts and culture events are no longer permitted in HRM until further notice. Read more of the latest news about COVID-19 here. Back when COVID-19 was a new term–back when we were just starting to realize something big was […]
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Two Halifax artists nominated for Canada’s prestigious New Generation Photography Award
Back in 2019–when our collective existential crises mightn’t have been new, but were certainly fresher than they are now–seeing a Séamus Gallagheroriginal in my Instagram feed was the sort of jolt to stop me mid-scroll, to make me sit up and actually look at what I was seeing. The 2018 Starfish Award winner and 2019 […]
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Halifax’s Eli Goree nominated for a Black Reel Award
Real ones have known since his time hosting Street Cents–or at least since the time he played Malik on CBC’s Da Kink In My Hair–that Eli Goree has serious star power. Now, it seems like the rest of the world is catching up on the Halifax-born actor’s greatness: Yesterday the Black Reel Awards (a certifiably […]
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Look inside The Blue Building, Halifax’s newest gallery
A building can be a chrysalis, transforming its contents and inhabitants–and, through this, its community–as it morphs from one thing to another. The Blue Building art gallery opened to the public last week, and even from the outside one thing was imminently obvious: The new arts hub at 2482 Maynard Street (the project that houses The […]
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Six movies we can’t wait to watch at this year’s Halifax Black Film Festival
By the time the fifth annual Halifax Black Film Festival’s lineup dropped last week, it felt like a light beam, sent to banish the last shadow of a doubt. Yep, in a world where we can depend only on death and taxes, we can also count on one other thing: That this indie-flick-loving event’s roster […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 21
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 20
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]
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An advent calendar of poetry: December 19
Editor’s Note: Each day from December 1 -21, Halifax’ poet laureate Sue Goyette will write a new poem to share with the city on The Coast’s website and social media. “If I need this, I bet other people need this,” she told us on day one—and we think she’s right. In a year that’s felt […]