Arts + Music
Live theatre, art exhibits, comedy, literary, spoken word – The Coast guide to Halifax and Dartmouth, NS . The downtown, local arts scene – plays, writers, actors, artists and performers. Painting, sculpture, photography, stand-up, stage.
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Juno planner
Thursday 30 Halifax on Parade Kick-off concert The Trews, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Jimmy Rankin and Garrett Mason treat you to a free concert to kick off Juno weekend. And what a treat it will be! Grand Parade Square, Barrington at George, 5:30-11pm All Ages King Konqueror Punk rock, soul, ’60s […]
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Writes of passage
Writers are scavengers. They tear the flesh off family lore, historic events or personal experiences, hunting for inspiration. Sometimes the hunt is pragmatic, but in some rare situations, magic—or perhaps destiny—occurs. If you believe in magical intervention, you might attribute the conception of Ami McKay’s gorgeous debut novel The Birth House to old-fashioned serendipity. After […]
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Halifax International Writers’ Festival
THURSDAY APRIL 6 | 7:30pm, $7 Brad Kessler The Vermont writer’s work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. Kessler’s new novel Birds in Fall turns its sights northward, as families of victims from an airplane crash, including a New York-based ornithologist, congregate on the fictitious Trachis Island, off the […]
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Hurry Heart
If all of the rising indie bands in the world could be poured like flavoured drink into a tray and come out of the freezer as yummy as The Constantines, every slurpy, purple and drippy indie band would sound pretty goddamned sweet. Formed in Guelph in 1999, The Constantines signed to Sub Pop (Nirvana, Wolf […]
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Ice Age: The Meltdown
End-of-the-world peril is conveyed through slapstick in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Its balancing of world wary poignancy and breathless mayhem surpasses the 2002 original. Rather than play for lazy sequel dollars, the crew at Blue Sky animation aim their fuzzy animal adventure for something greater —finding the heart and relentlessness to pull off a winning […]
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The French third
Montréal’s Torngat are lugging their armloads of instruments into town to create ambient, experimental and instrumental sounds at Gus’ Pub on April 7. “The concept of the album *La Rouge* reflects our live show,” says Mathieu Charbonneau. “The songs are like structured improv; although, we play a lot of other material which is free-change improv […]
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Written for the screen
With the ubiquity of movies in popular culture, any novel that reaches a certain visibility gets in line to be adapted for film. It’s close to impossible to find a group of published authors whose numbers don’t include someone with some experience in screenwriting or whose books have not been adapted. Have a look at […]
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Seeing red
1. Just because it’s always balmy outside the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles does not mean that you can abandon your coat in Halifax. In April. One wee heat lamp located 10 feet away does not a warm writer make, as some coatless journalists in open-toed shoes quickly discovered. I suspect that Saskatoon, the location […]
