picks by David Dahms Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 (Sony) Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica (Universal) Cadillactica is a planet in a solar system near Earth’s. It was created by the 808. Big K.R.I.T is both supreme god and an everyman. He created this world and gave the people free will. Bass is the universal […]
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2014’s meals to remember
The train heaved its way through the countryside, a blur of yellow mustard flowers and salt and pepper specs of Holstein cows whisked by, punctuated by storybook towns and train stations that got smaller and smaller the further I strayed from Antwerp and Gent. Poperinge’s train station is the size of Highfield Terminal in Dartmouth. […]
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Our Critics’ Picks issue is here!
Sorry to say it, Old Man 2014, but we’re glad to see the arse end of ya. Go kick rocks and roll on 2015, a new year full of promise, hope and less general crap. We mined hard to find these diamonds in the rough of a tumultuous year, coming up with what we thought […]
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2014’s top 14 moments in art
picks by Stephanie Johns Friends of the Khyber Though the Khyber’s move was devastating to the centre and the community dependent on it (disclosure: I am a board member), the move also necessitated action. With the creation of Friends of the Khyber—a group including “members of the queer community, artists, activists, business owners, not-for profit […]
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TOP 15 BOOKS OF 2014
picks by Lindsay Raining Bird All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf) This Giller Prize nominated novel from heavy hitter Miriam Toews is about Elfrieda—a talented concert pianist who desperately wants to die—and her younger sister Yolandi who can’t stop trying to convince her to live. Spanning their childhood and Elf’s most recent suicide […]
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TOP PLAYS OF 2014
Chess and the Doomsday Machine (Onelight) This play about a young soldier in Abadan during the Iraq-Iran war is told in a manner that engages on many levels. Music, projections and three “languages” (English, Farsi and unverbalized communication) are all integral to telling the story. The result is startlingly unique and emotionally captivating. Gallathea (Vile […]
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TOP MOVIES OF 2014
Birdman Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman wins the Meta Award for casting Michael Keaton as a washed-up action star trying to go legit on Broadway. Keaton is electric, surrounded by terrific actors—Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Edward Norton—and a camera that never stops moving. Tiring, in the best way. Boyhood It is 100 percent fitting that Richard […]
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Critics’ picks: We goofed!
In the Coast’s Critics’ Picks list for Music, published last Thursday, we incorrectly identified the label that released Bad Vibrations‘ Under Pressure seven-inch. We identified the label as Brotherhood Cassettes, who actually released the Bad Vibrations/Bloodhouse split tape earlier this month. The seven-inch was actually released this past June by Sewercide Records. Even though the […]
