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. Art Pays Me Duane Jones has been designing t-shirts that pack a socially conscious punch for years, and his collection at Friday’s showcase promises […]
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Enter sandcastle: celebrating 40 years of Clam Harbour’s annual competition
Clam Harbour Sandcastle Competition Clam Harbour Beach, 158 Beach Road Sunday, August 12 9am-6pm It all started with $200 and a beach. Charlotte Wilson-Hammond had heard of the sandcastle competitions in California that drew huge crowds as artists sculpted sand into shapes of all kinds, and was sure that a similar event at the strip […]
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Nova Multifest does it for the culture
Nova Multifest Saturday, July 28, 10am-8pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth free multifestns.ca If you take a look beyond Nova Scotia’s tartan-clad, fish ‘n’ chips-dense, bagpipe-ridden traditions, you’ll realize there’s a lot more cultural diversity in this province than meets the eye. If you’re having trouble seeing the rich multiculturalism making up our vast […]
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Reintegration: A nicer word for assimilation
Afghan children are among those who have never seen an Afghanistan not inflicted by violence. As an Afghan, my children, brothers and sisters are dying. I am an Afghan youth displaced due to violence. I may have never seen the violence on the land that is indigenous to me, but it is this violence which […]
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Coast 25: The truth is out there
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? Is Jacob Boon actually a talking dog? Strap on your tinfoil hat, here are some of the misunderstood conspiracies about this little paper. Best of Halifax is […]
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Coast 25: EST. 1993
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. I wonder if anything is going on here.’ And nothing was. But then I found out that it was more difficult than I thought. In fact, prior […]
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The fabric of Weaves
Weaves w/Chudi Harris, Like a Motorcycle Thursday, May 17, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $10 When Jasmyn Burke teases that the next Weaves album could either be totally country or bubblegum pop, it’s hard to not believe her at least a little bit. Since the beginning, the work of the Toronto art-rockers—singer and […]
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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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How to make the most of your New Year’s Eve in Halifax
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. For The Coast’s last issue of the year (we’re out of office until January 2, don’t @ us) we prepped some pointers, […]
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Wannabe makes it last forever
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 […]
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The noise-rock dynamics of Botfly
Botfly w/Vulva Culture (solo) Dark Sky Parks, Die Hexe Thursday, September 28, 7pm Plan B Merchants’ Co-op 2180 Gottingen Street $5, all ages After five years of writing songs and four years of releasing music, noise rockers Botfly have unleashed a self-titled debut album. “I mean I guess you can only release so many EPs,” […]