Correction: An earlier version of this story stated Ron James is from Newfoundland when the comedian is actually from Nova Scotia. The Coast regrets the error. UPDATE: As of February 28, 2022, CBC has announced Son of a Critch will be renewed for a second season. A half hour of scripted television is the sort of […]
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Digging in to Max TS Yang’s COVID-inspired art show D[a]UNTING
D[a]UNTING On until Nov 20, Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street There’s a section in writer Ruby Tandoh’s anti-diet manifesto Eat Up! that delves into the science of “you are what you eat”: Yes, Tandoh explains, when you eat a watermelon, you become a bit more melon-y yourself: Its nutrients are processed and topped up […]
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Play review: Adventures makes you believe in magic, but you have to hurry to catch it
Walking along a path at Point Pleasant Park after dark—with bundles of fairy lights dotting the way—the crowd for the opening night of Adventures was silent, a buzzing anticipation mixed with reverence. It was the feeling of slipping out of your cabin at sleep-away camp on an oppressively hot night, looking for some mischief. Related […]
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Record review: Century Egg’s Little Piece of Hair hits hard
In Century Egg’s world, fairy tales are a worldview, Tim Tam cookies are straws for milk and blending Mandarin pop with frayed-edge indie rock is a pairing so natural—so catchy—you’ll wonder why you haven’t heard it a million times before. But the thing that’ll lodge into your mind with even more tenacity than a chorus […]
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Review: Nosy White Woman won’t make you work
There are some nice moments in Martha Wilson’s collection of 16 short stories. She describes a child’s grandfather as “the silent presence” who communicated through his wife. She recounts how an elderly woman accessed a neglected memory of a family friend when a “pocket door in her mind slid back.” And she explains how, to […]
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Behind the setlist with Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin was nervous about his headlining slot at The Marquee Ballroom on October 5: “I had been asking about ticket sales up to a couple days before,” he confesses, speaking by phone. “I made a decision to not look up at the crowd until I got right to the mic.” He needn’t have worried—the […]
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Review: The Last Wife doesn’t need a man
The first moment of The Last Wife drops the audience in mid-conversation. Katherine Parr (Stephanie MacDonald) is speaking to her secret lover, Thom Seymour (David Patrick Flemming), whose relationship will be doomed mere moments later when King Henry VIII asks her to be his wife. So, what is she to do? Play the game, of […]
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Review: The Last Black Man in San Francisco was abandoned by his city
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Fri Sep 27, 6:30pm & 9pm Carbon Arc, 1747 Summer Street $8.75 When watching The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the most striking aspect of the film is how beautiful it looks. Sublime lighting and shots of the city’s vast landscape make the flick feel, at first, […]
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Review: Her Last Project sees a woman writing her own ending
Shelly Sarwal didn’t view her death as a tragedy. But, that doesn’t mean she wanted to die. As she points out in Her Last Project, which chronicles the last year and half of her life after being diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)—a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease—she just wasn’t given a choice in the […]
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Review: Murmur is beautifully bleak
Written and directed by Dartmouth-based filmmaker Heather Young, (Dog Girl, Milk) Murmur—which opened this year’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival—tells the beautifully bleak story of Donna (Shan McDonald), a kind-hearted woman whose loneliness is palpable. She doesn’t appear to have anyone in her life except her daughter, who refuses to answer her calls or texts. […]
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REVIEW: Singing for water with Xara Choral Theatre
The energy before a dress rehearsal is always a little bit frantic. Nothing starts on time as lights, sound, and costumes get adjusted, performers confirm their places, and the director scans the room for anything out of place. Then the lights go down, and the heightened silence fills the room with anticipation. Xara Choral Theatre […]
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Visual arts review: Photographer Anne Launcelott captures the face of rural Russia, Now
Now Daily to Aug 31 Teichert Gallery, 1723 Hollis Street I n the genre of travel photography, the visiting artist runs the risk of moving through their locales like an invasive species: capturing subjects without permission, walking into sacred and private moments with the unearned authority of the western traveller (an especially cringe-worthy phenomenon when […]