Laurie Brown & Joshua Van Tassel Saturday, July 13, 2pm Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road free Pondercast Live Saturday July 13, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $25 I t’s about to get meta at Halifax Jazz Festival. That’s because Laurie Brown is bringing a live show of her podcast Pondercast to an […]
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Cavendish‘s Island oddities
“The goal was to piss on Cavendish and everything they believe,” says Mark Little. “It’s government-funded revenge.” His new sitcom Cavendish, premiering January 8 on CBC, stars Little and former Picnicface colleague Andrew Bush, also executive producers The show revolves around the adventures of Andy (Bush) and Mark (Little), brothers who return to Cavendish, Prince […]
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Best Radio Show
Gold Winner Information Morning, CBC 90.5 FM Silver Winner BJ and the Q Morning Crew, Q104, 104.3 FM Bronze Winner Weekend Mornings, CBC 90.5 FM It’s a big win for the morning show, which saw a historic turnover this year as longtime host Don Connolly retired and Portia Clark flew back into town as his […]
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25 for 25: episode 2006
The (almost) original cast of CBC’s groundbreaking television hit, Street Cents, have reunited for the first time in 25 years. Jonathan Torrens, Jamie Bradley, Benita Ha and Brian Heighton (AKA Ken Pompadour) are this week’s guests on 25 for 25. The three original cast members and Torrens (who replaced host Chris Lydon after three episodes) […]
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Matt Whitman has a media sensitivity problem
City councillor Matt Whitman says he should have been explicitly warned that his conversation with a CBC reporter was on the record, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s ombudsman disagrees. Whitman submitted an official complaint to CBC’s ombudsman back in February after a phone interview with journalist Emma Davie about his retweet of a white supremacist […]
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Pure returns to NS for season 2
The Nova Scotia-made series Pure, which was canned by the CBC after a single season in 2017, has been resurrected by Super Channel for a six-episode second run due to air in 2019. Pre-production is underway now, with shooting expected to begin in the province later this spring. Sort of a buttoned-up Weeds, Pure stars […]
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Aquakultre wins CBC Searchlight
Halifax hip hop artist Aquakultre has won the 2018 CBC Searchlight competition, an annual online contest with the aim to find the best unsigned talent in Canada. Part of his prize includes a week’s recording residency at Studio Bell in Calgary’s National Music Centre, and a slot at the CBC Music Festival in Toronto May […]
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Good morning, and good luck
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. “I’m not a big fan, but I had a significant amount of his vinyl,” says Connolly. “He was a notoriously difficult man, […]
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After the Don
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 […]
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Best Radio Show
Gold Winner Mainstreet, CBC Silver Winner Information Morning, CBC Bronze Winner The Bounce Morning Show, The Bounce Mainstreet has finally toppled the Information Morning dragon, just as host Stephanie Domet steps down after seven years behind the mic. “We have an amazing team over here,” she says. “We’re kind of scrappy underdogs, even though we’re […]
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D’s get degrees
[Image-1] The biggest academic curveball for new university students is often learning to buckle down and study hard. Thankfully, the educational experts from the cast of CBC’s Mr. D have got you covered. The comedy program just finished filming its fifth season at Citadel High, and with recent changes to the province’s film tax credit […]
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CBC, please fire Randy Bachman
[Image-1] During The Coast’s recent (June 10) Halifax Poll, it was asked who should be fired at the CBC now that Evan Solomon is gone. I was struck by the fact that musician/radio host Randy Bachman was not included in the poll. This disappoints me and (I suspect) many others in The Coast’s poll vicinity. […]