Shauntay Grant puts the Black Nova Scotian experience on stage this week as playwright of 2b theatre’s latest production.
Shauntay Grant's words are thoroughly embedded in Nova Scotia's cultural fabric: She is Halifax 's third poet laureate; the author of children's literature including last year's picture book Africville, a 2018 Governor General's Literary Award nominee; she's taken her work all over the country and the world to competitions and literary festivals.
The impact and influence of streetwear is evident at AFW where local lines BZLY, Tücy and CELLOPXNE keep it chill on the catwalk.
Atlantic Fashion Week
Oct 18-20
350 Horseshoe Lake Drive
tickethalifax.com If fashion is a pendulum swinging between extremes, it’s clearly taken a break from ricocheting between hemlines and waist heights to lean hard in a new direction—away from dressing up and into casual clothing.
The Dalhousie-born line comes home fresh off a trip to Paris Fashion Week.
AFW’s Opening Showcase
Thursday, October 18
350 Horseshoe Lake Drive
7pm, $25, tickethalifax.com Spending a little too much time sewing, and a little less time hitting the books worked out for former Dalhousie English student Kristen Reid.
As Atlantic Fashion Week begins its annual sartorial shakeup, inspiration abounds with designers from across Nova Scotia and beyond bringing everything from statement-making streetwear to pop-art-y cocktail wear to the catwalk.
These venerable arts organizations are also celebrating their 25th years.
SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA "My first visit to Point Pleasant Park, I saw the Cambridge Battery and then the Fort Ogilvie and thought, ‘Wow, these are great places.
One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven issues leave a lot of lines for readers to read between. Are Coast writers actually a bunch of left-leaning, pot-smoking, Green-voting, indie-rock-lovers?
After 42 years, more than 70,000 interviews and nearly as many taxi rides, Don Connolly will sign off for the last time this week. As his “season of cake” winds down, he looks back on four decades of hosting Information Morning.
Don Connolly's last Information Morning
Friday, January 26, 5:55-8:37am
Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road
or hear it on CBC Radio, 90.5FM
Don Connolly still remembers his worst interview of all time: Frank Zappa.
Five possible candidates to be the new host of Information Morning.
A new parlour game launched in late November when Don Connolly announced his retirement. “Who’s going to be the new Information Morning host?” is based on the premise that CBC has one chance to get this right, as precedent tells us the person filling Connolly’s chair could be a public face of the corporation for decades.
Now that this garbage heap of a year is coming to an end—OK, enough negativity—it's time to get our party on. Trust us, there's plenty going on around Halifax on New Year's Eve.
Halifax really, really wants the Spice Girls tribute band, girl-powering into the Marquee this weekend. But the throwbacks don’t stop there: What’s the deal with the nostalgia blitz?
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Tribute Band
Saturday, November 25, 8pm
The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street
tickethalifax.com There's a scene in Spice World—the 1997 musical that would come to be the high water mark in the Spice Girls' saturation of pop culture—where Sporty, Ginger, Scary, Posh and Baby crowd at a forest's edge, watching a silver UFO descend into a clearing in a cloud of smoke.
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