To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Coast is dipping its toes in this whole podcast fad the youths are talking about. Welcome to 25 for 25, our new weekly podcast. It’s a year-by-year look back at the stories and people that have shaped Halifax over the past quarter century. Our first episode came out today […]
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Film review: Hereditary
Hereditary has been hyped to hell. The hype is justified. The film opens just before a funeral. Artist Annie Graham (Toni Colette) is about to bury her mother, with whom she had a stormy relationship. Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), her son Peter (Alex Wolff) and even Annie herself appear largely unshaken by the death. […]
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Coast 25: 46 of the weirdest things we’ve ever published
The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
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Council wants Cogswell engagement, but only on its own terms
Public engagement’s great, but leave the big decisions to us. That seems to be the lesson from planning staff as the city moves forward with a once-in-a-lifetime redevelopment project. Halifax council voted Tuesday to proceed onto the next major steps in redeveloping the Cogswell Interchange, with an added amendment for some robust public engagement before […]
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Rufus Wainwright plays the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium September 20
The forever-king of baroque pop and broken hearts—and the only person who could pull off an album of Shakespearean sonnets—famed vocalist, songwriter and gay icon Rufus Wainwright is about to light up your fall with a September 20 show at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Tickets go on sale at sonicconcerts.com at noon on June 1 […]
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Claiming a seat at the table
At its core, this essay is an act of healing. I have written it for myself, as a reflection on my time with the western canon, and as an assertion to myself and to the world that my voice has value. I draw from my memories and my lived experience. I posit myself as the […]
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Raise your glasses, Drink Atlantic Cocktail Festival debuts this June
Just when you thought your thirst for summer couldn’t be any greater, here’s something else to look forward to. From June 7 through 9, your pals over here at The Coast and The Clever Barkeep’s Matt Boyle and Jeffrey Van Horne are celebrating our region’s cocktail culture with the first ever Drink Atlantic Cocktail Festival. […]
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ECMA30: KINLEY
East Coast Music Awards w/KINLEY, Classified, The Once, Port Cities, Joel Plaskett Emergency and more Thu May 3, 8pm Scotiabank Centre, 1800 Argyle Street Kinley Dowling isn’t one to perform solo, but she’s no stranger to taking the stage. The Charlottetown-born musician and vocalist has played with the likes of Jenn Grant and Rose Cousins. […]
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Lean On Pete’s heartbreaking journey
Lean On Pete Opens Friday, April 27 The titular character in Lean On Pete is a horse, but make no mistake: This film is no Flicka. It’s no Secretariat. If you want an unequivocally happy ending for both horse and human, you won’t find it here. But the story has other things to offer. Writer […]
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The courage of others
The Breadwinner screening w/Deborah Ellis Q&A Thursday, April 19, 2-4:30pm Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road Friday, April 20, 6-8:30pm Woodlawn Public Library 31 Eisener Boulevard, Dartmouth Award-winning Canadian author, feminist and anti-war activist Deborah Ellis fell into the young adult genre by accident. “I was an unpublished writer, sending all kinds of stuff […]
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Binge on The Brood’s hilarious new video for “Munchies”
If you watch (or hate-watch) internet chef shows, you’re going to want to check out the latest from Halifax’s psychedelic sweethearts, The Brood. Yesterday the band released a new video for the jaunty track “Munchies” and it’s a cooked to perfection parody of Vice/MUNCHIES series Chef’s Night Out, which follows Extremely Important international chefs as they eat […]
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ADO + Jon Eisener team up for trippy new video
ADO AKA Nathan Doucet has created a challenge for himself in 2018: Release a new five-song EP every month. The project kicked off in January with The Groove is fukd, followed by February’s Hacker Music and Matrix, which dropped on March 31. “Right now the MO—I kinda wanna change it now, but I still like this vision—this […]