You didn’t have to look far for good sports headlines in Halifax in 2023. Unlike some years, in which the silver linings could be as flimsy and brittle as your Christmas tree’s needles in mid-January, they seemed to be everywhere this year. Behold, a World Junior triumph. A historic Mooseheads season. A night to remember, […]
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These are the 11 albums and EPs from Halifax artists you need to hear this year
The secret has long been out about Halifax’s music scene. Since the “Halifax pop explosion” of the early 1990s, industry ears and those looking to beat the crowd have turned to see what’s happening in our small Atlantic outpost. (Hell, The Coast’s first-ever issue included a profile of alt-rockers jale.) That attention has waxed and […]
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Dalhousie delegation of ocean researchers has big presence at COP28
What insights into climate change does the ocean hold? What solutions can it offer for life on a warming planet? None if we don’t have the means to listen. The Dalhousie University-based Ocean Frontier Institute—OFI—is opening up global conversations on ocean observation during the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on […]
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Charlotte Cardin’s pop tour de force comes to Halifax
Pick a moment from Charlotte Cardin’s meteoric rise from Montreal songstress to global starlet—there are plenty of them. You could start with May 15, 2022. That was the night the 29-year-old took home four JUNO Awards for her album Phoenix—more than any other Canadian artist that evening, including The Weeknd, who had performed at the […]
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Women and girls’ soccer players share Canada’s National Team 2-0 win against Brazil
When Dal Tigers coach Cindy Tye started playing soccer in Nova Scotia in the ’70s and ’80s, she had to join a boys’ team. There was no league for girls. “It wasn’t until I was 14 or 15 that I played my first game with all girls,” says Tye. Born in Middleton, Nova Scotia, Tye […]
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Who pays for a $40-million stadium at Wanderers Grounds?
Halifax Wanderers president Derek Martin has dreams of a permanent 8,500-seat stadium in Halifax’s downtown. Last week, the Canadian Premier League soccer club founder made his pitch to the HRM’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee to overhaul the municipally owned Wanderers Grounds—where his club plays—in favour of an all-purpose venue. The cost? An […]
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Everything you need to know about HRM council’s Aug. 22, 2023 meeting
Much like passing legislation to regulate short-term rentals, hearing “That Funny Feeling” by Bo Burnham is like a bell that can not be un-rung. Burnham’s song points out aspects of society that are jarring juxtapositions that combine to create an unsettling dissonance that something is fundamentally wrong. In a hard-to-articulate kind of way. Tuesday’s HRM […]
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8 things to do in Halifax this weekend (Aug. 11-13, 2023)
August is nearly halfway over, but that doesn’t mean summer is finished. There’s plenty to do in Halifax this weekend, from marking musical milestones to tasting craft beers from across the Maritimes to enjoying world-famous stand-up acts. Allow us to be your weekend guide with these Coast picks: 1.Celebrate 50 years of hip hop at […]
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Voting is open for the 2023 Best of Halifax
This is it Halifax, the final vote for the 2023 Best of Halifax. Now in its 29th year, The Coast’s annual BOH Readers’ Choice Awards is the definitive guide to local excellence, and you get to make the decisions. After a public nomination period earlier this summer, we at The Coast tabulated the nominees to […]
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Director Thom Fitzgerald makes a new movie, Fawzia Mirza’s directorial feature wraps and more local film and TV news
Temperatures keep heating up in Halifax as summer’s arrival looms, but one corner that’s already red-hot? The city’s film and TV sector, which is riding an ever-rising wave according to statistics from the province (“The film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22 up from about $78 million in 2019-20 and […]
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This week in Halifax
Midweek blues? We don’t know her. We’re too busy soaking up the vibrant cultural scene Halifax has on offer all nights of the week—like intimate concerts at one of your favourite craft beer haunts (that’s Dan Vorstermans’s March 8 Stillwell Freehouse set) or world-class live performance (that’d be Live Art Dance bringing Montreal sensation Compagnie […]
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We received a video tip. Help us identify what’s in it.
The cellphone video snippet lasts four seconds and contains no sound. In it, a man in a blue Toronto Maple Leafs ball cap and a checkered flannel shirt struggles while he’s subdued by three people dressed head-to-toe in black. They’re on the Prince Street sidewalk, about half a block from where Prince meets Brunswick Street. […]