Oct 17-23, 2019

Vol. 27, No. 21

It’s our annual celebration of Nocturne, the Saturday night when art pops up all over city streets. We’re highlighting the can’t-miss performances and displays, including cover star NAT Chantel’s project to help give voice to oppressed people.

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City

Pushing beyond the glass ceilings of BIPOC political representation

What significance does representation have in the country’s highest office?

By Julia-Simone Rutgers
Oct 17, 2019
News

District 11 Councillor Stephen Adams says he won't be running for council again

Says he's giving such lengthy notice so others have time to plan to vy for his seat.

By Caora McKenna
Oct 18, 2019
News

Nova Scotia's street check moratorium to become permanent ban

"Now we can actually walk around with our chest out and confident about ourselves. And able to just be free, free to walk."

By Caora McKenna
Oct 18, 2019
News

Liberals hold on to all four HRM seats in federal election

The Coast takes you to three results parties in the Halifax riding for a taste of the election night energy.

By Isabel Buckmaster, Victoria Walton and Caora McKenna
Oct 22, 2019
Opinion

Where strategic voting in Halifax will get you in the federal election

Nowhere.

By Jesse Hitchcock
Oct 17, 2019
Opinion

Letters to the editor, October 17, 2019

Oct 17, 2019
Environment

Undermined in the Town of Westville

How local organizers and international activists made a traditional mining town change its tune.

By Laura Cutmore and Caora McKenna
Oct 17, 2019

Arts & Culture

Nat Chantel’s Silence and Sound After

The artist wants to encourage BIPOC to release the sound of erasure and inter-generational trauma at her Nocturne performance.

By Sara Connors
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Plan your night moves with our Nocturne 2019 guide

The can't-miss projects to see on Saturday, Oct 19 are all here.

By Josefa Cameron, Sam Fraser, Feleshia Chandler, Jade Nauss, Sara Connors and Chris Stoodley
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Nicole Tufts shares Bubblegum & Bruises

The artist and entrepreneur wants to bring out the kid in you—on Nocturne and always.

By Jade Nauss
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Jonathan Monaghan releases the Disco Beast

The artist takes aim at our digital dependency and consumer culture with a sickly-sweet digital video loop.

By Jade Nauss
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Ursula Johnson rewrites the book

The lauded artist—along with translator Diane Mitchell and curator Robin Metcalfe—tells the story of her work in an ambitious, trilingual catalogue.

By Amy Brierley
Oct 22, 2019
Arts & Culture

The view from the peak of Tough Guy Mountain

The artist collective’s Nocturne debut—The Brandscape—is a searing satire of late capitalism.

By Josefa Cameron
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Review: Pleasureville is more than a millennial comedy of errors

Neptune's latest play—which finishes its world premiere run this weekend—is warm, funny and woke.

By Michael Lake
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Anne Macmillan explores the anxiety of change with Rattle Array

The artist’s Nocturne projection re-imagines a patch of Argyle Street before your eyes.

By Feleshia Chandler
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Jessica Wiebe and The Veteran Farm Project unveil A (Temporary) Memorial to Ongoing Conflict and War

The veteran and artist wants to disrupt and re-route your apathy this Nocturne.

By Josefa Cameron
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Camila Salcedo on Replacing the monument

The artist’s Nocturne piece imagines Edward Cornwallis’ former pedestal reclaimed by its city as statues of its ilk are replaced the world over.

By Chris Stoodley
Oct 17, 2019
Arts & Culture

Caroline Monnet knows History Shall Speak For Itself

The artists’ Nocturne installation shows Indigenous women in the driver’s seat of their own lives.

By Sam Fraser
Oct 17, 2019
Music

Review: Erwan Keravec and Hamid Drake shatter the silence at suddenlyLISTEN's season debut show

The Urban Pipes showcase should've felt like a peanut butter-tunafish sandwich but instead was much tastier.

By Andrew Bethune
Oct 19, 2019
Music

Guy Paul Thibault’s trance to the top

After winning album of the year at the 2019 International Singer-Songwriter Association, the country-rocker himself returns to a Halifax stage near you.

By Sara Connors
Oct 17, 2019
Music

Ten questions with Dave Sampson

The Cape Breton crooner celebrates a new, Nashville-recorded EP with a few Moscow mules and maybe even a new hat.

By Morgan Mullin
Oct 18, 2019
Comics

Hey You Goofs!

By Paul Hammond
Oct 17, 2019

Food

Bliss Bowls blends beautiful nourishment

From the beach to the farmers’ market, hefty, highly decorated smoothie bowls helped Erin Lecky follow her bliss.

By Hal Atwood
Oct 17, 2019

Free Will Astrology

You’re crossing a bridge, Taurus

Oct 17, 2019
Savage Love

Why we set impossibly high standards

Sometimes it’s not them, it really is you. Plus: Dealing with your relative’s porn collection.

By Dan Savage
Oct 17, 2019
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Oct 17, 2019
Cannabis

Anna Duckworth on raising Miss Grass

By co-founding "the Goop of cannabis," the Nova Scotia entrepreneur is redefining how the world thinks about weed.

By Meghan Hubley
Oct 17, 2019
Cannabis

Pot and performance

Studying the positive connections between weed use and working out.

By Jonathan Briggins
Oct 17, 2019