A few days before the Halifax stop of their Climate First Tour, renowned scientist and author David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis, humanitarian and former ambassador for Canada to the United Nations, spoke with me over the phone from Vancouver. While we were speaking, millions of people around the world were striking for climate action, inspired […]
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Lessons we can learn from Hurricane Dorian
When Hurricane Dorian hit Nova Scotia on September 7 as a post-tropical storm, it reminded many of destructive Hurricane Juan. It was also a taste of what the future holds. Climate change is contributing to the increasing frequency and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes. As the planet warms, we can expect more storms like […]
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Meet Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint’s Christine Allen
Brawta Jamaican Jerk Joint 1567 Grafton Street Baking was always a side hustle for Christine Allen, a hobby she’d been working at since she was a six-year-old in Jamaica, burning things in her mother’s kitchen. Heavily influenced by the women in her life and their handed-down recipes, Allen’s first foray into selling her food—long before […]
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To The Lighthouse
The Location Matt Likely has spent years working his way up the gilded ladder of the film industry, starting as a graphic designer “making signs that are used in the background of a movie,” to roles like artistic director or production designer. When luminary auteur Robert Eggers decided that Yarmouth—in particular, what Likely describes as […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Stage calendar
SEPTEMBER The Last Wife The Merritt Award-winning, Dora Award-nominated Stephanie MacDonald takes pride in playing tough women—”like your cousin who isn’t gonna let that shit slide at family dinner,” she tells The Coast. Here, she brings her considerable talent and same ain’t-no-pushover attitude to the role of Catherine Parr in Neptune’s season opener, The Last […]
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Fall Art Preview: Devarrow contemplates adulthood versus #adulting
The questions pondered on the upcoming Devarrow album are more than just hashtag millennial problems. When indie folk singer-songwriter Graham Ereaux started recording songs for a new Devarrow LP, the original plan was to create a narrative-based record built around a person moving from small town to big city and the often conflicting concepts of […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Sara Coffin’s wild side
Wild Within November 14-16, 8:00pm Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $17-$28 www.moceandance.com The ties between ourselves and the natural world are vast and deeply connected to a part of us we might not be conscious of—but what does that bond look like? This is a question Mocean Dance’s co-artistic director Sara Coffin hopes […]
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When sexual violence keeps making headlines, how can we support each other?
In September 2017 I gave birth to my son. In October #metoo went viral and was all over social media feeds and news reports after a decade in the making—since Tarana Burke, a Bronx-based civil rights activist, coined the phrase in 2006. It made for a difficult October. I was postpartum, breastfeeding around the clock […]
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FIN-tastic films and where to find them
This years’ edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival offers audiences a heady mix of timely topics, fresh faces, big ideas and big names. With 120 films screening over eight days, it’s impossible to get to all of them—so, here are a handful not-be-missed flicks we’re extra-amped for. Get ready to binge! Murmur The fest’s […]
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Heather Young’s film slays not with a bang but a Murmur
FIN AIFF Opening Night Gala: Murmur Thu Sep 12, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50 The opposite of a silver-set Hollywood dream, Heather Young’s films have both feet firmly planted in reality. She wants to make movies about “a real person, that feels like someone I could meet in my real life—that both […]
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Haligonians are composting almost twice as much as they are recycling
A ccording to HRM, residents disposed of an average of 380 kg of waste in 2017-18. That’s like 380 bags of flour per person. This includes everything from clear bag garbage to recycling and compost. The reported national average for Canadians is almost double that number, at just over 700 kg, according to Statistics Canada. […]
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A play from away
Les Kurkendaal is a professional Fringer, the sort of performer who creates a show and winds around the world with it, stopping at every Fringe Festival in every city along the way. “I am a storyteller but I tell comedic, autobiographic stories,” he adds, speaking by phone from his home in L.A. This year’s Halifax […]
