Midweek blues? We don’t know her. We’re too busy soaking up the vibrant cultural scene Halifax has on offer all nights of the week—like intimate concerts at one of your favourite craft beer haunts (that’s Dan Vorstermans’s March 8 Stillwell Freehouse set) or world-class live performance (that’d be Live Art Dance bringing Montreal sensation Compagnie […]
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A host of Halifax’s hottest drag royalty wants to take you to the Moulin Rouge!
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 […]
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Rapper Pat Stay’s family “shocked,” heartwarmed after weekend benefit event raises $200K
Malyssa Burns wasn’t sure how she would handle the emotions of being in Toronto for a weekend-long memorial held in honour of her late spouse, the celebrated Dartmouth rapper Pat Stay. She brought along his signature sunglasses for comfort—“that helped my crying eyes,” she tells The Coast—but nothing could have fully prepared her for the […]
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Neptune Theatre announces its 2023-2024 season
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 […]
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Jerry Seinfeld is coming to Halifax August 11
Better put in for the vacation day now: Jerry Seinfeld is performing in Halifax on August 11, as part of the new Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. The gig will be held at the Garrison Grounds on Citadel Hill. The legendary comedian who c0-created the most successful TV comedy ever (that’d be the sitcom Seinfeld) is […]
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This week in Halifax
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 […]
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Council’s proposed 55% cut to the arts is dead—but the sector still needs more
“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 […]
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Theatre review: Fall On Your Knees stands up to the pressure
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 […]
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This weekend in Halifax
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 […]
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Eyelevel gallery prepares to unearth art-filled time capsule from 2006
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 […]
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Feist announces Halifax Jazz Festival show July 11
Regardless of the forecast, this summer’s gonna be a hot one for music lovers. On the heels of Jazz Fest’s first headliner announcement—The Fleet Foxes—the annual event is now naming another big act: Feist. The 11-time-Juno-winning, “1,2,3,4” singer will play the Jazz Fest main stage (located on the waterfront) on July 11 at 8:15pm. Related […]
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This week in Halifax
Get ready to light up the group chat: here’s your going-out guide for February 20-22, proof that there’s tons to do and see in the city every night of the week. See Fall On Your Knees onstage (until March 5) Ann-Marie MacDonald’s blockbuster book about a Cape Breton family across eras has been adapted for […]
