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The Bus Stop Theatre’s last Hail Mary has paid off—for now. At regional council on Tuesday, every seat was full with members of the arts community, some of whom had to sit in overflow seating. Councillor Steve Streatch described the scene best when he said, “My god, the difference a week can make.” Last week,…
Even as summer’s heat remains a distant memory, the crispness of fall can already be felt in a pair of excellent show announces today. On September 15, the iconic (actually) Lucinda Williams will bring her 20th anniversary celebration of the seminal Car Wheels on a Gravel Road to the Rebecca Cohn. “The influence of Car…
Oh cool, oh great. It’s been nice outside for five whole minutes so those goddamn Segway tours are running again. A crowd of assholes hogging the sidewalk/pathway/boardwalk because they want to have fun and are, incidentally, incapable of thinking of others or MOVING OVER means I’ll stay inside until September.—share the sidewalk, Segway shitheads!
Turo is a big deal in the sharing economy, serving as the Airbnb of car rentals for about 10 million people around the world. But you can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of it, because Turo hasn’t been available in Nova Scotia—until today. To drive attention for the local launch, Turo Canada’s managing director,…
It was nice sitting next to you on the bus to Halifax. You boarded in Amherst, I think: Blue and black and denim. You said you’d have to sit next to me as it was the only seat. How could I have minded? I asked if it was still raining outside, although I had a…
The price of some damn toiletries these days is insane! I went to the drug store in Dartmouth to find some mouthwash, pit stick and dry shampoo. I could not find a bottle of mouthwash for under eight bucks! We’re talking about a bottle of fucking antiseptic shit you spit down the sink. Why??? So…
Dear woman waiting for the number 3 bus at the Dartmouth Terminal: What sort of rotting soul do you have to have to cut to the front of the line, blocking a visually impaired woman from entering the bus? Only the person grabbing her arm prevented that woman from stepping off the curb in front…
Sighhhhh. When does a big auto-dealership baron on peninsular Halifax have enough space for his cars? Not yet—not until his little neighbour, a veterinary clinic that’s been on the corner of North and Robie streets for decades, vacates at the end of June. The car dealer’s company owns the vet hospital property, and the impending…
Yeah, I know there’s a recent Bitch about panhandlers, but it’s such a major issue that continues to worsen I think it’s warranted. Giving panhandlers money just encourages the practice further, which leads to the continued harassment of pedestrians, motorists, and businesses. Clearly trying to penalize these people has had no impact, so why not…
I will give the required meter of space to all bicycles. it is the law and a safety issue .Only one fucking request when I stop my car at a light and the idiots on their bicycles come up beside me between the curb and my car: GIVE ME THE SAME METER. My car can…
Why would you cheat on your girlfriend? Why would you do it for years? Did you seriously think she wouldn’t find out? Did you think I wouldn’t find out you were in a relationship? WTF. You got the best of both worlds: Nice girlfriend to go home to, cuddle with, cry to. And when she…
Natalie Slater’s adorable venture in vintage clothing for little ones is all grown up. Lil’ Lou’s Second Hand Clothing for Children was born out of a Queen Street/Vintage Row space five years ago, offering fashionable finds for kids under 5. Soon after that, Lou’s moved and started doing its thing from inside second-hand wonder Lost…
A two-day event in October, Soul Tribe Live promises to be (according to its website) an “immersive program of workshops and seminars” that’ll help you sort out your life and get closer to your dreams. Held at the Halifax Convention Centre Oct 11 and 12, the biggest draw is star speaker Elizabeth Gilbert, who’ll be…
From an outdoor Raptors watching party to Aquakultre’s epic album release show to OBEY Convention’s return, this weekend is gonna be gooooooood. Tidal League Block Party: NBA Finals Viewing at Rogers Square Thursday An epic outdoor viewing party held in Rogers Square (the outdoor space in the centre of the Convention Centre) sees Halifax creating…
As Eartheater, New York multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Drewchin creates lavish experimental songs rich with influences, sounds and references. Her music can be endlessly—rewardingly—analyzed: Songs match beautiful, delicate tones with shrieks, electronic muttering, mysterious bubbling. Being undefinable has defined Eartheater’s glorious output, and IRISIRI, her 2018 album, is a study in the complexities of the human voice,…
Flutters, loops, scrapes, ripples, drips and bubbles create worlds of lush, meditative sound with the work of Tomoko Sauvage. Her compositions can agitate or calm, expand and pull focus. Born and raised in Yokohama, Sauvage moved to New York to study jazz piano and then to Paris, where she became interested in Indian music, specifically…
Sébastien Labelle is perched in a booth at the front of The Bus Stop Theatre, looking out from the window onto Gottingen Street, wearing a rare uneasy expression. On his laptop he listens to a radio interview, waiting for a hint about the fate of the co-op he leads. Broadcasting on News 95.7’s Rick Howe…
Like so many creative rabbit holes, the idea behind Nick Schofield’s first ambient record, Water Sine, presented itself after dark. Schofield says Water Sine emerged out of a series of sleepless nights. Instead of battling his insomnia, Schofield embraced it—he wanted to harness the creative energy of the night and try a “more intuitive approach”…
The city’s task force for the commemoration of Edward Cornwallis and the recognition and commemoration of Indigenous history has announced four public consultation meetings will take place in June. The meetings invite Haligonians to have their say about recognizing and commemorating Indigenous history, which includes what to do about the Edward Cornwallis statue and similar…
Now we are 26 Hypothesis: There’s enough cool shit happening in Halifax to fill a new newspaper. That’s where The Coast began its journalism experiment back in 1993, and this issue marks the paper’s 26th anniversary. (Happy birthday old friend, the improbable ride continues.) Many of the stories in this anniversary issue fit a theme…
It doesn’t feel right calling the new release from Leanne Hoffman a debut album. Technically What Remains is her first solo recording, but Hoffman is a Halifax music veteran. She was part of the now-defunct duo Magnolia up until five years ago, and has kept busy providing backing vocals and keys with other musicians over…
Five-and-a-half years ago, after having one of her breasts removed at the IWK, Julie Vandervoort was sent home not with painkillers, but with a gift card for a lingerie store. “At the time I was told studies show that women do just as well with regular Tylenol,” she says. “So no painkillers, but there was…
The Great North End Jerk Off Saturday, June 1, noon-10pm Mayflower Curling Club 3000 Monaghan Drive $10-$30 tickets here The Great North End Jerk Off wants you to make nice with a Caribbean classic. Spearheaded by Limestone Group, which emerged last summer with a passion for sharing the tasty and tropical Bahamian flavours they grew…
Never before has the Canadian public been so interested in their food. Television and social media, reflections and drivers of our culture, are brimming with food-focused content. And as the increasing global interconnectedness of the supply chain complicates our relationship to food, people are hungry to simplify: To understand the ingredients in their food, to…
Zamani w/Strange Froots Friday, May 31, 4pm George Dixon Centre Greenspace 2501 Gottingen Street free (all ages) It’s pouring rain outside, but Zamani Bernard-Millar’s home studio in Clayton Park is filled with the warmth of family and music. The up-and-coming 18-year-old R&B producer, songwriter and singer—who performs under a mononym, her first name—is about to…
Improving support for physicians in Nova Scotia is an important component of solving the province’s current healthcare woes. However, the “crisis” is not about physicians. It’s about inadequate health system policies, poor planning and lost opportunities, especially in primary care. Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that Nova Scotia has the fourth-highest…
Savage Love Live swooped into Seattle’s Egyptian Theater and Denver’s Oriental Theater over the last two weekends. I couldn’t get to everyone’s questions at these sold-out shows—there were so many great questions and I’m just one lousy advice columnist—so I’m going to power through as many as I can in this week’s column. Q Weddings…
Sydney Koke, who has played with infamous Vancouver punks Shearing Pinx and rising rock trio The Courtneys, says she loves all sorts of music—but something keeps pulling her back to the weirder fringes of sound. “Experimental music is my first love,” she says. “My first band was a noise-rock band, and I really love post-punk…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) I prefer live theatre over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t. Even if you’re…
For Vancouver’s Debby Friday, there’s something natural about music that sounds distinctly non-human. As both a producer and a fan of noise music, she’s drawn to the genre for the sense of humanity it expresses. “We’re using these electronic devices to make these electronic sounds that wouldn’t exist without machines…and I just feel like it…
Grills For Good Tuesday, June 4 Good Robot Brewing, 2736 Robie Street 5:30-9:30pm, $55, eventbrite.ca Everyone knows #BeingHungrySucks, but for Mark Brand and the team behind Vancouver’s A Better Life Foundation it’s more than a hashtag, it’s a call to action: One repeatedly answered through initiatives to help people build upward mobility through increased food…
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a special report in October warning of how quickly we’re advancing toward irreversible climate chaos, it led the —for a day. A massive study in May by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services about rapid wildlife extinction met a similar fate. In Canada, issues…
