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Here’s hoping the rain stays away for this year’s Open City. Dozens of local businesses are providing good eats and store sales, so you may need to do some running around to get the most of it. The full schedule is on the I Love Local (HFX) website. I honed in on several of my…
10 Halifax Record Fair Saturday Music lovers can get their hands on some hot (and cool, and rare!) wax at this shopping session filled with over 40 tables of LPs and 45s. 9 Craft Beer Week Full House Friday // Saturday Start training now for this marathon session that features over 25 local brews! 8…
Hillsburn’s envious momentum hasn’t slowed much since its formation in 2014. In 2016 Hillsburn won a Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year, and started work on a new album—its sophomore offering after 2016’s In The Battle Years—which will be released this year. Recently a Kickstarter raising money for that same album…
Tidal Bay has quickly become a staple of Nova Scotian patios and cottage parties. The new vintage, the wine that was made from summer 2016’s grapes and bottled in the last month, is ready for you to put on ice. Tidal Bay is not a grape, or a wine region—it’s a style of wine unique…
Come on, Halifax. The downtown core is a disastrous mess of construction sites and detours. Even beyond the Nova Centre debacle, trying to get down Barrington street now is terrible!! The old Misty Moon site cuts off the main drag, you’re constantly crossing sidewalks and taking side streets to get around. I just moved here…
Doug Liman marries his former indie sensibilities to his contemporary action heart in The Wall, a surprisingly compelling one-man show for the British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Taylor-Johnson and John Cena are waiting out a sniper in Iraq, even though president Bush has just declared victory for the US. The sniper picks off Cena early on—live status…
In 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his employees’ workweek from six eight-hour days to five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and labour unions had been calling for, and it followed previous reductions in work schedules that had been as high as 84 to 100 hours over seven days a week. Ford wasn’t…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know John Mulaney is coming to the Rebecca Cohn in a couple days as part of his Kid Gorgeous tour. Both of his Thursday shows are sold out, so we’ve taken it upon ourselves to provide you with some laughs at home (or, if you did manage…
Cecilia Concerts has announced its 2017/18 season, and it’s music to our ears. The season kicks off in September with clarinetist Dominic Desautels, Cecilia’s musician-in-residence for the year. In addition to homegrown talent, music fans can get a taste of Belgium later in the fall through the Psallentes ensembles and cello octect Ô-Celli. Things wrap up…
Wouldn’t it be nice if Brian Wilson came to Halifax? Don’t worry, baby: He is. The Beach Boys co-founder will be surfin’ much more than the USA for his upcoming tour, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pet Sounds by giving fans one more chance to hear the songs live from the man himself. The…
As Garrison Brewing Co. marks its 20th year in the beer business, the company is rolling out some new brews—the first of which is the aptly-named Mon Cerise. It’s a collaboration between Garrison, North Brewing, Good Robot and Spindrift. Justin Zinck, retail manager at Garrison, says they wanted to celebrate how the industry has grown…
” I was lucky to know him and have him as a friend.” Remembering Troy May 8, 8pm-1am Art Bar + Projects Halifax lost a talented musician and crucial member of the CKDU community when Troy Richter passed away on April 30. Richter volunteered and later hosted a show at the Dalhousie radio station called…
So, we’re calling our own election. Voting for the 22nd annual Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Awards will officially kick-start on June 1, and as we gear up to open the polls we wanted to keep you up to date with some changes we’ll be making to the survey. In a constant attempt to better…
It’s been a while since I’ve been in a SERIOUS relationship. I’ve gone for coffee with you once, and I can’t stop thinking of you. The way you put yourself together and carry yourself is a beautiful art. I know, I’m socially awkward and sometimes I don’t know what to say. I also know that…
What other governments have undermined collective bargaining? Hmm, do the names Mussolini and Franco sound familiar? I wish they had courses on democracy at community college. —Those who remain ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it
Yes, we’re grown-ups now. Many of us are in our 30s. You can’t adult today? You’re proud because you adulted earlier? Are you capable of an original thought? Are you looking for a pat on the back because you went grocery shopping and bought vegetables? Do you think everyone within ear shot gives a fuck…
This weekend you’ll be able to stretch your legs with fellow residents all throughout Halifax and Dartmouth. Pick any of the 15 different jaunts which are a part of the internationally known and citizen-led neighborhood walking tours known as Jane’s Walk. The event is named in commemoration of American-Canadian journalist, author and urban activist Jane…
Water is on the minds of voters in the riding of Halifax Atlantic. As detailed in this week’s cover story of The Coast, for more than 10 years people in the community of Harrietsfield have been unable to drink or use their tap water due to the presence of uranium, lead and other toxic substances…
There are far better ways to improve standards of living in Uniacke Square than throwing up dehumanizing security cameras. So says Josh Creighton, who used to live in the public housing community. He calls plans to install a new surveillance system in the area an invasion of privacy, and proof of the wide disconnect between…
Pretty Normal EP release w/Juice Girls, Crossed Wires, Sarah Denim Friday, May 5, doors at 9:30pm show at 10pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street $5 Pretty Normal makes pretty music. With the newest three-song EP, released this Friday, Nich Patzelt (vocals/synth), Scott Kedy (vocals/bass), Sam Benson (drums), Andrew Wright: (guitar) make some top…
10 Free Comic Book Day Saturday Giant Robot celebrates Free Comic Book Day—and their sixth anniversary—with an equally giant cake and bins of free comics. 9 The Common Link: A Jane’s Walk Saturday A citizen-led stroll through some of the peninsula’s best patches of grass, this walk is part of the citizen-led Jane’s Walks that…
Summer’s sun is almost here, and that’s fantastic. I’m looking forward to getting out in the sun and enjoying it to its fullest. But sadly, I can’t. As each summer passes and I get older and (hopefully) wiser one issue always rumples my feathers. And with an election approaching, maybe now is the time to…
Halifax artists Garry Williams and Jamie Bradley have undertaken a very ambitious project with KAMP. It is an original full-length musical about gay men in a Nazi concentration camp who, despite imminent danger, or in some ways perhaps because of it, create a musical revue in their barrack. It is rich terrain for a story…
The dependably astonishing Cynthia Nixon is Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, the latest in Terence Davies’ exquisitely made string of costume dramas. Despite being set in the early 1900s, it has a depressing relevance: “Live as a woman for a week, Austin,” Emily spits at her brother, “and you will find it neither congenial…
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story May 4-14 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20-$35 Traveller’s Curse Teaser from 2b theatre company on Vimeo In 2015, Stephen Harper was much derided for using the term “old stock” during a federal leaders’ debate to describe a group of Canadians. “It was a moment that jolted me,”…
Tasseomancy w/Mega Bog, Fake Buildings Thursday, May 4, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Twin sisters Romy and Sari Lightman have been dancing around genres in their shared musical practice for years. They’re currently working under the name Tasseomancy with bandmates Evan Cartwright and Johnny Spence and their latest album, 2016’s Do Easy,…
RiFF RAFF w/Shift From Tha 902, F8FUL, Relly, Panda Gang, Peter Jackson, DJ Afterthought, Rude Dowg, Pineo & Loeb Tuesday, May 9, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street riffraffhalifax2017.eventbrite.ca Todd Googoo, AKA Shift From Tha 902—a hip hop artist from We’koqma’q First Nations, is speaking from his hotel room in Saint John, up from Cape…
Allow me to set the scene: I work on the industry side of music. While being introduced in a line with my male co-workers, hands are extended. Jovial “good to meet you” and other pleasantries are exchanged. And then it comes to me. My boss is great at introducing me, which I appreciate wholeheartedly, but…
Halifax’s biggest university could end up powered by the city’s rotting food scraps. The municipality is looking for a new and improved composting operation, and the possibility it will include an anaerobic digestion system has industry stakeholders excited. The municipality’s current compost system is over-capacity and doesn’t comply with the latest guidelines set by the…
This March, Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice Timothy Gabriel rejected an appeal from two companies with the catchy names of 3012334 and 3076525 Nova Scotia Ltd—AKA RDM Recycling Ltd. It was the third time the companies had tried, unsuccessfully, to appeal a 2016 Ministerial Order—itself a revised version of a 2010 order—to complete a $10.6-million…
Nancy, the tech-savvy at-risk youth, two gimps, Christ on the cross, the Easter Bunny, two weeping women and the Easter Bunny’s smoking-hot leather master took to the stage at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon, for a live taping of the Savage Lovecast on Easter weekend. Audience members submitted their questions on cards, but with Rachel…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Taurus (Apr 20-May 20) When poet Wislawa Szymborska delivered her speech for winning the Nobel Prize, she said that “Whatever else we might think of this world—it is astonishing.” She added that for a poet, there really is no such thing as the “ordinary world,” “ordinary life” and “the ordinary course of events.”…
Nova Scotia Craft Beer Week See full listings at nscraftbeer.ca/craftbeerweek Lazy Bear Brewing When Erin and Andy Norman moved to Smith’s Cove after he got a job as an engineer, the couple started Lazy Bear Brewing so Erin would have work in the rural area. She picked up brewing while completing a master’s in food…
Health and politics I think the province ignoring the city’s advice and announcing a new medical centre in the Bayers Lake Industrial Park is a terrible idea (“Halifax advised province against outpatient clinic’s Bayers Lake location,” Reality Bites by Jacob Boon, posted April 27 at thecoast.ca). I drive, so for me that is not an…
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road Opens Friday, May 5 It’s a disgusting quip, but towering is a great way to describe Jeremiah Tower. He is a Paul Bunyan-like figure in American cuisine, a tall tale of culinary innovation, dizzying successes, stunning failure and, then, disappearance. Tower got his…
