Andre Fenton barely made it to class in his first two years of high school. But the poet and activist eventually graduated with honours after finding inspiration in an Afrocentric literature course he took his senior year. “If it wasn’t for that class, I would not be doing spoken word poetry,” says Fenton. “It influenced […]
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OBEY X marks the spot
At the beginning of last year’s OBEY Convention, current OBEY creative director Andrew Patterson stood in front of a crowd gathered in the Halifax Central Library to deliver a set of opening remarks. Among punks, seniors, library babies and intrigued onlookers, Patterson shared a few words about his experience teaching poetry workshops to high school […]
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Centre Plan takes centre stage
If you go to the very back of Halifax’s 306-page Municipal Planning Strategy, you’ll find a 12-page list called Municipal Development Plan Amendments in Chronological Order of Ministerial Approval. That’s a mouthful, so I like to call it “the special snowflake list.” For example, height precincts may allow for a maximum building height of 35 […]
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We’ve got the full Gridlock Festival lineup right here, right now
The full line-up for Halifax’s newest music explosion, Gridlock Festival, is out today and The Coast has it all right here, right now. From July 8 to July 10, Halifax is going to see some of the U.S. and Canada’s hottest electro-pop and rock bands play the Citadel High grounds, and Stillwell Beer as the bar sponsor. […]