The Carbon Arc Cinema will be hosting the first theatrical screening of Sweet Angel Baby, a queer-centred story of rural politics and storytelling in the digital age. The film screening is planned for 6pm on Saturday, Aug. 16 and will feature a Q&A section with director Melanie Oates, who won the Atlantic International Film Festival’s […]
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Breagh Isabel’s queer pop bop “Carrie” releases just in time for Pride Month
Breagh Isabel has a song to make your Pride Month even more prideful. “Carrie” dropped on streaming platforms on June 25. The pop tune, co-written and produced by Nashville-based singer Robyn Dell’Unto, details the wistful daydream of creating a character out of a stranger. The new single was one of several Isabel recorded for her […]
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The double meaning of Elyse Aeryn’s newest single “Unstoppable”
Elyse Aeryn‘s new single is not just a song about romance, but an anthem to self-love. The Glace Bay native released “Unstoppable” ahead of her sophomore album, due out in October 2025. Her roots-rock sound with a rebellious attitude has captivated audiences throughout Atlantic Canada and beyond, netting her the 2024 Music Nova Scotia’s Entertainer […]
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Another year, another solar eclipse of the heart
Look (safely) to the east this Saturday at sunrise for a sight that captured hearts and minds last April: a partial solar eclipse. Yes, the celestial bodies are at it again. Just as the sun is rising on Saturday, March 29, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth, turning the sun into a […]
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The students are not alright–with Bill 12
There’s really something for everyone in this week’s Public Bills committee meetings–from farmers speaking about protecting water over profits in Nova Scotia, veteran public servants standing against threats to workers’ jobs, teachers warning against threats to academic freedom and ordinary people asking why their access to public information is being limited. If you missed Monday’s […]
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“The height of arrogance:” St. FX prof calls out Bill 6, Houston’s dismissal of provincewide movements to ban fracking, uranium exploration
“Let’s not mince words,” Jonathan Langdon tells The Coast. “Anybody who tells you that the evidence around fracking has changed–that it’s more healthy, that it’s safer–this goes against all the studies up-to-date which show the health risks are the same or more acute than they were 10 years ago when we put this ban in […]
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Trump threatened this trans comic’s visa—now she’s coming to Halifax
Ava Val has heard enough performative allyship since coming out as a trans woman in her thirties. “If I get one more ‘Yasss Queen!’ while I’m picking a wedgie in a park, I’m detransitioning,” the Toronto comedian jokes in So Brave, her gut-busting debut comedy special. “I love your support, but fuck! Being called brave […]
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Groundbreaking disability lecture series isn’t over yet
A popular lecture series that began in January will soon conclude. Called “Representations of Disability in Historical, Scientific and Artistic Perspectives,” this original series of public talks at the University of King’s College has brought together leading disability scholars, researchers, writers and artists to examine how ideas of “disability” and “normality” are represented in art, science, […]
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“Stories to tell”: Halifax Black Film Festival shines spotlight on local filmmakers
Andre Anderson can still recall the feeling of watching Ava DuVernay’s 13th for the first time. The Preston-raised African Nova Scotian actor—and now filmmaker—had been so moved by the 2016 documentary on the US prison-industrial complex that he screened it for his classmates at Saint Mary’s University. Then again at the Marquee Ballroom. Anderson says […]
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The link between universities, NDAs and perpetuating racism
In 2021, C. Darius Stonebanks was fired from his full professorship at Bishop’s University after he raised complaints of systemic racism, he explains in a new video connecting non-disclosure agreements with racism. A non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, is a signed legal document restricting what information can be shared with others, depending on what is deemed […]
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Back in black to school
Nova Scotia is home to 373 public schools, with more on the way. These are places of learning for more than 133,500 students. These students depend on school support workers: bus drivers, education assistants, library assistants, Mi’kmaq and Indigenous student support workers, custodians, early childhood educators and other roles integral to their school life every […]
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7 burning questions as Halifax Wanderers enter 2025 soccer preseason
Halifax Wanderers head coach Patrice Gheisar has had a busy winter. Two years and three months into his tenure with the Canadian Premier League soccer club, the 49-year-old is approaching the final year of his coaching contract with a familiar challenge: Winning games. It’s a challenge that has, at different times in the Etobicoke, Ont. […]