There’s no reason to panic about getting anyone a Christmas gift this year: Halifax (already) has something for every music fan in 2019. All tickets are handily on sale this Friday, December 14, in time for you to get a nice card to go with them. Perhaps your in-laws don’t enjoy live music, but they […]
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Letters to the editor, December 6, 2018
Thanks for the podcast memories As a student from Dartmouth who’s been living away for a few years, I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely love The Coast’s 25 for 25 podcast (available now at thecoast.ca/25for25). I look forward to it every week and it really is a nice reminder of home […]
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Pause your life and listen to three new local songs!
Two comebacks and an alt version to tell you about on this sweet frosty Friday: In 2012, a ginger-haired dream named Jennah Barry dropped an instant classic called Young Men, entrancing full cities with her deft songwriting, incredible voice and aspirational stage banter. She played and played, and then she stopped. There was vocal surgery, […]
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Film review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller made one of the most striking debuts in recent memory with 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the real and unflinching coming-of-age story of a California teen. It was tough, tender, funny and poignant—all qualities found here in her follow-up, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, though it’s toughness that dominates long before […]
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Letters to the editor, November 15, 2018
Hit the brakes on Creighton St. bikes I have been an owner/resident in the north end’s Creighton Street neighbourhood for almost 20 years. It has always been an amazing area to live in, and continues to have more services all the time, with new people and businesses settling in and making the area more enriched. […]
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Film review: Widows
Steve McQueen’s Widows was ballsy before it even showed up: You know going in that all the men, including a famous one (Liam Neeson), die in the beginning. (Note to Hollywood: Start more films like this.) Following McQueen’s brutal, sobering Academy Award winner 12 Years A Slave, Widows looked to be a complete 180: A […]
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Here are your 2018 Music Nova Scotia Award winners
Couldn’t be more excited to win our first @musicnovascotia award for Group Recording of the Year! Hillsburn has always been very much a group effort, so even though Paul couldn’t make it in person to accept the award tonight, he was there in this awkward photo. ♥️ Thanks, everyone! A post shared by HILLSBURN (@hillsburn) […]
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Letters to the editor, August 30, 2018
Shine a spotlight on Shambhala I read your article “Unanswered questions about Shambhala investigation,” part of your coverage of the sexual assault scandal in the Shambhala Buddhist community (The City story by Stephanie Domet, August 16). “Unanswered questions” talks about the woman from Shambhala who was listed as anonymous in the Project Sunshine report, yet […]
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Chinese Festival Halifax announces inaugural lineup
Halifax’s first-ever Chinese Festival will kick off Saturday September 9 with a big event at the Rebecca Cohn and end with a free waterfront extravaganza on the 22nd, it was announced on Wednesday. The Canadian government named 2018 the Canada-China Year of Tourism as a way to celebrate and explore the history and opportunities between the […]
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Letters to the editor, August 23, 2018
Smokin’ mad HRM city councillors have constantly professed that transparency, conversation, education and public consultation are the tools they that they prefer to utilize when dealing with matters concerning the public. However, recently they have blindsided tobacco smokers and vapers alike with a stealthy move that passed a bylaw that severely restricts smoking tobacco in […]
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Fall gets funnier with Chelsea Handler and Trevor Noah
A couple of comedy titans will drop by this fall, though separately: Chelsea Handler visits the Rebecca Cohn on Sunday, October 7 (tickets on sale at noon tomorrow), while Daily Show host Trevor Noah hits the Scotiabank Centre on November 2. Those tickets are on sale Friday at 10am. They may not be performing together here, but they do […]
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New Music 2018: Hear the artists
Here are all your new faves in one listening booth! Frail Hands: Jody Upshaw: Kids Losing Sleep: Maura Whitman: Smear Frames: Worst Part: Bear Le Friends: Alexander and the Great Ones: Hosta: I. by Hosta Shay Pitts: Related Stories
