As wide-open as a new year feels, as fresh as a January snow, the Open Waters Festival is an annual offering of adventurous music. And what do we mean by that? Well, Upstream Music Association (the crew behind the fest) have spent the last 30-odd years making Halifax a hub for, as they put it, […]
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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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Halifax, here’s your weekend guide for Jan 5-8
Yes, yes, the nights are long and the days cold, but that excuse isn’t gonna cut it this weekend: There is simply too much interesting, noteworthy stuff happening in Halifax for you to spend time couch-bound. Instead, light up the group text with some of the following options—including concerts featuring everyone from indie rock darlings […]
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5 new Nova Scotian and Canadian TV shows to watch now
The post-holiday haze, the January blahs, the still-long evenings that have a dark sky pressing against the windows by 4pm: Whatever you call this time of year (the last one was especially catchy, no?) there’s only one way to get through it. This, my friends, is peak TV season. Before you brush this off as […]
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What Halifax’s scene needs in 2023
The crisp freshness of a new year is here, a blank page of possibility awaiting. New notebooks are cracking their spines as plans are hatched and goals are set out in permanent ink. As the calendar flips, there’s no shortage of things Halifax could choose to focus on, from enabling food security to keeping the […]
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Halifax, here’s your weekend guide for Jan 12-15
January lives up to its mental image as a dry month, a time for trimming away the extras, when you look around the world of events. There’s simply not as much going on as the other 11 months of the year. This isn’t me hating on the month: After December’s hectic pace, it feels like […]
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Review: The Rolling Stones: UNZIPPED can’t contain my complex feelings for the greatest rock band
Billboards, newspaper headlines and posters plastered in public spaces in 1970s England displayed the nation’s raised hackles through a blistering rhetorical question: “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?” The lads were banned from their home country for either drug use or tax evasion (depending who you ask), and were not only rock […]
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The best albums of 2022: Shay Pitts’ Attitude
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Nicki Minaji draped the roughest edges of her raps […]
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The best albums of 2022: Jah’Mila’s Roots Girl
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. The average theatre stage is 35 feet deep, but for singer-songwriter […]
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The best albums of 2022: Maura Whitman’s Introspection
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Alessia Cara swapped some of the smoke from her […]
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The best albums of 2022: Gina Burgess’s Isnow
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. There is a strain of music criticism that says nothing is […]
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We picked the best Christmas movie of all time. It’s a close call.
In this line of work, you have to maintain some level of objectivity. The pursuit of truth demands no less: You present the facts, such as they are, and let a reader come to their own conclusions. And so, when we set about discussing the best Christmas movies at The Coast’s office this week, we […]
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The best albums of 2022: Pillow Fite’s Flutter
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Tegan and Sara left the land of slick pop, […]
