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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Carols everywhere
A piano, a gentle drum shuffle, a children’s choir: The opening notes of A Charlie Brown Christmas, scoring a lightly falling snow, are not just familiar, they’re iconic. The 22-minute television special, which debuted in 1965, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, five decades worth of festive feeling, holiday transportation and warm nostalgia. JazzEast’s […]
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Broadway Atlantic debuts with The Sound of Music
Coffee-drinkers look up from their cups as Matthew Beasant pushes open the door at Two If By Sea on a drizzly Dartmouth afternoon. There’s an aura of barely contained excitement about the solid, bearded young man, and he moves with quiet confidence—as if he’s on a mission. And that’s not very far from the truth. […]
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Jump into Hopscotch Halifax
Hopscotch Halifax is quickly becoming one of the city’s best annual music festivals. From live street art demos to the country’s champion battle rappers to American DJs and local dancers, this year’s Hopscotch pulls out the big guns with Orlando’s DJ Dallask and festival headliners Indiana’s Freddie Gibbs and Long Island MC Rakim. This year, […]
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Way into OUTeast
It’s a Netflix world, but OUTeast Queer Film Festival producer Andria Wilson suggests ditching the couch for a theatre seat once in awhile, “I was at [Toronto LGBT fest] Inside Out, watching Tab Hunter Confidential,” she says. “I was alone, sitting next to strangers, and on one side of me was this older couple, two […]
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Tig on comedy
I’m always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something’s dark, I’ll do it. If it’s a sock puppet, if it’s a stool, I’ll do it. There’s no preconceived idea of who I think I might be now.” —Tig Notaro, from a 2013 interview with Sydney Brownstone in Mother Jones. Catch Notaro with […]
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Choose your own comedy adventure for Ha!ifax ComedyFest
Ha!ifax ComedyFest To April 25 halifaxcomedyfest.ca
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Kevin Smith doesn’t need any quote unquote “talent”
[Image-1] Best known as the filmmaker behind movies like Mallrats and the Clerks series, Kevin Smith has reinvented himself in recent years as an ubiquitous podcaster. Smith returns to Halifax on March 22 for a Q&A with fans and screening of his latest film, Tusk. You wear a lot of hats: director, producer, screenwriter, actor […]
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Tig Notaro in Halifax May 17
Octopi Entertainment is bringing the hilarious and charming comedian Tig Notaro to Halifax on May 17 at the Spatz Theatre (doors 7pm, show 8pm). Wow. Good haul, Halifax. Notaro was recently on Rolling Stone’s list of 50 Funniest People Now, and nominated for a Grammy for LIVE but you don’t have to take those dudes’ […]
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Child soldiers receive “full complement of horrors”
[Image-1] There are hundreds of thousands of child soldiers across the world. Roméo Dallaire wants Canadians to know those kids aren’t any different than our own children. The retired Lieutenant-general is speaking in Halifax this Tuesday at an event coordinated by his Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. His aim is to influence young people at […]
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Christina Martin’s alright, alright, alright
“I’d known for awhile I’d wanted to make a change,” says Christina Martin. “I felt stuck. I guess I was just bored.” With four records of sharp, heartfelt folk behind her, Martin is aiming for a different vibe on It’ll Be Alright—literally, a vibe, a keys-and-licks classic rock groove permeating the 10 tracks produced at […]
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Kevin Smith in Halifax March 22
Kevin Smith loves to talk and if history is to be trusted, he loves to talk to Haligonians. He sold out his 2011 appearances and is back for more at the Spatz Theatre (Citadel High School, 1855 Trollope Street), on Sunday, March 22 (doors at 5:30pm, film at 6pm). Before the Q&A, there will be […]