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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Boobie trap
Only at a Mötley Crüe after-party would this moment be possible. Without any warning, two breasts flash before my eyes, followed by an ear-piercing shriek. “Vince Neil just signed our boobs!” scream the two women, holding their bras open for anyone at the nightclub to see. A crowd mobs Vince Neil for autographs and high […]
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The real McKiel
Jon McKiel personifies what is known in music writer parlance as “unassuming.” In conversation the word is attached to someone or something modest, but in pages such as these, unassuming means quiet, shy and, to pull another favourite from the lexicon, enigmatic. Translation: Dude is humble. McKiel, who came out of nowhere to be voted […]
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The Friendz giant
After years of success, turmoil, multiple projects and occupations, The Super Friendz have kept it together. They’re back in the studio, recording their fourth full-length album, their first in more than three years. They will unveil some of their new songs on March 11 at the Grawood. “Basically, we were going to play a show […]
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16 Blocks
Nothing is inherently gay about 16 Blocks or The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, but that shouldn’t make either confusing. Both movies are about the bonds of adult male friendship and the facade of machismo. In 16 Blocks, Bruce Willis is the typical cranky hero that defined his past action hits, except this time he […]
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“Outrageous” Fortune
We’ve refrained from mentioning JD Fortune in this space because there are a lot of things about that whole deal we don’t understand, including who was gunning for an INXS reunion in the first place and how popular the new line-up for a band nobody gave a shit about has turned out to be. Anyway, […]
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Break out the national distribution
Hi-octane rockers The Maynards are hoping Canadians are going to pick them up all over the place now that 2005’s Break Out the Make Out has landed a distribution deal with Scratch Records. The band’s second full-length will also be available internationally via the label’s website. “We’d gotten in touch with Scratch back when we […]
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Quitting Brokeback
The talk’s all wrong. Everybody’s saying that Brokeback Mountain is a brave movie—the brave gay cowboys, the chances the brave actors take by playing brave gay cowboys, the sheer nerve of the brave gay cowboy film to be showing on 1,600 screens across the continent (compared with 158 for Transamerica). The brave gay cowboy movie […]
