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Keeping it casual at Atlantic Fashion Week

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.

By Morgan Mullin Oct 18, 2018

Five Nerdy Things You Can Do at Hal-Con This Year

(We know, they’re all nerdy things.)

Hal-Con October 26-28 Halifax Convention Centre 1650 Argyle Street free-$125 hal-con.com

By Carsten Knox Oct 25, 2018

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From Paris with love, Lore Collective

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.

By Piper MacDougall Oct 18, 2018

Three can’t-miss collections from Atlantic Fashion Week

Talk about lewks

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.

By Morgan Mullin Oct 18, 2018

Enter sandcastle: celebrating 40 years of Clam Harbour's annual competition

For decades Haligonians have been building castles in the sand in the name of art and friendly competition.

Clam Harbour Sandcastle Competition Clam Harbour Beach, 158 Beach Road Sunday, August 12 9am-6pm It all started with $200 and a beach.

By Morgan Mullin Aug 9, 2018

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Nova Multifest does it for the culture

New single-day festival shines a light on the province’s rich and diverse cultural makeup.

Nova Multifest Saturday, July 28, 10am-8pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth free multifestns.ca

By Brandon Young Jul 26, 2018

Juanita Peters, Nova Multifest, Daughters 5, Brother Khurshid’s Halal Shack Alderney Landing

Coast 25: EST. 1993

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.

By Tara Thorne Jun 7, 2018

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Coast 25: The truth is out there

The Coast is not out to get you

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?

By Allison Saunders Jun 7, 2018

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The fabric of Weaves

The Toronto quartet, fuelled by its excellent second LP Wide Open, is now close enough to feel like “one human being.”

Weaves w/Chudi Harris, Like a Motorcycle Thursday, May 17, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $10

By Brennan McCracken May 17, 2018

Good morning, and good luck

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

By Katie Toth Jan 25, 2018

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After the Don

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.

By Kyle Shaw Jan 25, 2018

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How to make the most of your <br/>New Year's Eve in Halifax

How to make the most of your
New Year's Eve in Halifax

...And how to recover the morning after.

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.

By Team Coast Dec 21, 2017

Wannabe makes it last forever

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.

By Morgan Mullin Nov 23, 2017

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