There’s nothing quite like taking yourself out to swanky restaurant, sipping wine under dim light and ordering a multi-course meal. You feel luxurious. Then you get the bill. Though satisfying, it sinks in that you just spent more than you can afford on food. What’s an epicure to do? Well, attention all you gourmands out […]
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Taylor Swift takes on Lady Gaga in a tale of two tributes
This weekend, Halifax honours two of this decade’s biggest pop stars with two different tribute nights: One for the youthful, sugary love songs of Taylor Swift and another for the avant-garde, self-love songs of Lady Gaga. Adria Young breaks down what you need to know. Related Stories
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Getting Wavy with Ric Esther Bienstock
“On a day to day basis, making films is not a nine-to-five job,” says Montreal’s Ric Esther Bienstock, an Emmy Award-winning documentarian with dozens of credits to her name. “You need an adventurous spirit.” This weekend, Bienstock will lead a masterclass in documentaries, moderated by Sylvia D. Hamilton, as part of Women Making Waves. Presented by […]
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Watch: A teaser for the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society Cat Show
Today at The Coast, watch the trailer for Cat Show, which chronicles the competition and heats between Halifax’s north-end cats and their owners, all participants in the Halifax Cat Fanciers’ Society’s Biennial Spring Classics. The trailer is a pitch for a potential satire (catire?) web-series, based on real life events. In 2013, Kathleen Prinsen‘s tabby Florian […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Women are actual people
[Image-1] If you’re the kind of human garbage who has loud, obnoxious and painfully sexist conversation with your bud about HIS DAUGHTER, in full earshot of the woman sitting at the bar by herself: know that *you* are the reason why 50 percent of the population feel uncomfortable and unsafe occupying public spaces alone. Join […]
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Nova Scotia offers $810,368 for new Trailer Park Boys TV show
[Image-1] Ricky, Julian and Bubbles just made an $800,000 score. Nova Scotia Business Inc. announced Tuesday that it’s offering $810,368 in production funding for Trailer Park Boys Out of the Park: Europe, the newest television show chronicling the escapades of actors/executive producers Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay. At close to a million […]
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Watch the teaser pitch for BA Johnston’s Ham Jam
Hamilton’s own “trash troubadour,” the beloved longtime Gus’ Pub staple, former Haligonian and 2015 Polaris Music Prize nominee (Shit Sucks), BA Johnston just dropped a teaser pitch for an online web-series starring himself! And it goes something like this: “BA is enlisted by the fictional Hamilton Tourism Action Committee to produce tourism videos to promote the city. […]
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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. […]
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Shannon Park Demolition
[Image-1] I’m the operations manager for the Bayers Lake company tearing down Shannon Park and personally, I’d just like to say what a disgusting place it is and can’t believe the city left it up for so long. I honestly can’t believe the city would impose such a hazard on its people and I’m glad […]
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The roast of Gloria McCluskey is happening in April
If you want to watch Mike Savage make fun of Gloria McCluskey, it’s going to cost $50 a plate. Next month, various political dignitaries and community well-wishers will gather together on April 23 in Eastern Passage to do what some on the internet have been doing for a while now, and roast the retiring […]
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Stop Enabling Street Corner Scammers!
[Image-1] People will you all clue in to the “poor down on their luck ” posers that are at just about every busy intersection and street corner with their hand out , the Tim`s cup or the perfectly scripted cardboard sign , asking for your money that you are either driving to work in the […]
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Listen to this Oscars-inspired beat tape by 75 Crates
In case you don’t know (somehow?), it’s Oscar Weekend—this Sunday is the biggest annual night in the film industry and the 88th annual Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock, will take place in Hollywood at the Dolby Theatre. #OscarSoWhite or not, millions of people will sit through three-hours-plus of schmoozing and inside jokes as some of the year’s movie blockbusters […]