🗞️ Your 2024 Fringe Fest guide

Hey Halifax,

The question in this headline is “Who is Oasis appealing to with reunion tour?” Ummmm…🙋🏻‍♀️. The Gallagher brothers and those other two guys laid the soundtrack to my teens as I moodily Champagne Supernova’d my way down many a high school hallway.

I’m so happy to report that the brothers have squashed their famous beef after the band broke up as a result of a backstage fight 15 years ago. Apparently both of the Gallagher brothers went on to have “successful” solo careers after the band broke up and I’m like, where? 👀

But the boys are back together and I feel like the world needs them now more than ever.

Fourteen concert dates have been announced across the UK for next summer—with plans to add some non-European shows in the future. Insiders expect that the reunion tour will draw a very “diverse” crowd—including true Oasis heads, casual millennial fans and newcomers to the group’s sound.

I just got excited about playing Wonderwall for my 14-year-old niece and watching her eyes glisten and heart explode as her entire worldview changes forever.

Have an electric day!

– Julie

🌡️ Traffic & Weather

Today: 🌧️ 21°

Tomorrow: ☀️ 21°

Next Day: ☀️ 22°

7-day forecast

🚗 Driving, biking or busing today? Check out the current traffic conditions and ongoing road closures.

💨 Here is Halifax’s Air Quality Index and the smoke report.

ARTS + CULTURE

Your guide to all the shows at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival

If you want to see art that’s deliberately expressive, interesting or just downright weird, the Halifax Fringe Festival is for you.

Unrestrained from any means of censorship, the Fringe Festival stages are a place where artists can put on whatever they’ve been working on, no matter the content. Starting today and going for 11 days through Sunday Sep. 8, Haligonians will be presented with theatre plays, musical performances, circus acts, comedy routines and more.

The festival spans artistic spaces throughout the city. One night, ticketholders can be immersed in a musical ghost story at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The next could take you to the Neptune Scotiabank Studio for an aerial theatre performance about the many voices that guide us through life. There are stories of racial identity, a play about the great maple syrup heist and even an improvised musical.

The Fringe started in 1990 and provides local, national and international artists with an unjuried, inclusive space to show off what they’ve been working on. All ticket proceeds go to the artists involved and can be purchased on the Halifax Fringe Festival website.

The Coast’s Brendyn Creamer lists all of the shows being presented by the Fringe with brief descriptions on what each one is about—the ultimate guide for this year’s festival!

🤔 Need To Know

🚧 Starting Thursday, construction at the intersection of Oxford Street and Jubilee Road could create some headaches as detours will be in place for vehicles—with Halifax Transit seeing a considerable change for bus riders.

🌊 Don’t miss your last chance to experience Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend at the Museum of Natural History. This beautiful exhibit closes on September 2, 2024.*

🏥 Nova Scotia’s health minister says there is “no more to offer” ahead of the final day of scheduled talks between the province’s two health authorities and the Council of Health Care Unions—saying to begin to plan for labour disruption.

🚌 New Halifax Transit fares begin on Sep. 1. As of Aug. 20, 2024, passes with new pricing will be available at retailers and on HFXGO.*

🔥 Halifax Fire is carrying out community risk assessments in the face of climate change as Halifax-area communities prepare for the next wildfire.

👧 Help build a strong community and life-changing skills for girls in Nova Scotia. It all starts with volunteering. Learn all about volunteering with Girl Guides.*

🐻 Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources says an investigation has concluded there was no bear attack on a Halifax-area trail.

⏰ Tick Tick Boom!! Time is running out for you to get your nominations in for The Coast's 2024 Best Of Halifax Awards.*

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EDUCATION

Dal’s orientation is nearly upon us

Orientation week, dubbed O-Week, starts for incoming Dalhousie University students this Thursday, Aug. 29. It’s a jam-packed week deserving of its own website.

Last year’s O-Week saw over 2,000 students attend its larger events, the vice president of student life for the Dal Student Union, Ana Patton, tells The Coast. “This year, we'd like to see that many, or even more,” says Patton, who has been key to planning this year’s events. Nothing overlaps, so if you want to max out on O-Week, you really could.

Geared towards first-year students, this year’s O-Week has a full schedule across its 10 days, including a carnival, an outdoor movie night, a home-cooked meal and smudging ceremony at the Indigenous Student Centre, sports to watch and play, a Point Pleasant Park bike ride, a block party organized by the Black Student Support Network, an International Student Orientation scavenger hunt and much, much more.

The Coast’s Lauren Phillips spoke with Patton about what else we can expect from this year’s O-Week.

🗞️ In Other News

💸 Changes are being made to a joint provincial-federal rent supplement program after about 860 clients in the province received payments that exceeded their actual rent—the new calculation will end over-subsidization, allowing more people to benefit.

⛺ A man who spent last winter living with homeless people in downtown Halifax is teaming up with Dalhousie University to design unique micro-homes.

🦞 Two Nova Scotia ministers say inadequate federal enforcement of the lobster fishery in the province’s southwest has led to organized crime “terrorizing” the local community.

🇺🇸 The focus was on Canada-US relations yesterday as the federal cabinet wrapped up the third and final day of its annual summer retreat in Halifax.

🩺 A Dartmouth woman is raising concerns about the lack of walk-in clinics in the area, after discovering that there appears to be only one location open—and it's operating at reduced hours and capacity.

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🗓️ Things To Do

Looking for something to do this week? Check out these Coast picks:

🗓Shakespeare By The Sea presents Alice in the Wonderland: Eat Me! Drink Me! The smash hit original SBTS Musical based on Lewis Carroll's classic story is back! Grab your friends and the whole family and fall down the rabbit hole with us this summer! This 80-minute romp features a wildly inventive script and wonderfully musical score that will have you laughing and singing along with a curious young girl named Alice, and an even curiouser cast of characters of Queens, Cards, White Rabbits, Mad Hatters and Cheshire Cats. | July 6-Aug 31 | Starting at $10

🗓It Don't Mean a Thing—A Roaring ‘20s Musical Dinner Theatre : Calling all dames, dolls and gangsters! It’s the Roaring ‘20s and everyone is on edge. Lucky Knuckles, the greatest crime boss Halifax has never seen, is going to make an appearance at The Kit Kat Club and word is he’s none too happy. Come hear some of your favourite modern hits performed in the swinging style of Gatsby’s Golden Era and Charleston your way through Prohibition! | Aug 9-Oct 19 | $65.55

🗓 Denise Cormier Mahoney and Mary Jane Lundy—Whimsical CoExistence : On display at Teichert Gallery, Denise Cormier Mahoney (mixed media) and Mary Jane Lundy (ceramics) present Whimsical CoExistence. Utilizing vibrant colours, intricate textures and playful imagery, this fun exhibition immerses the audience in the captivating narrative of nature's symphony and prompts contemplation of our individual roles in its preservation. The opening party is Thursday night. | Aug 29 | 5:30pm  

🗓 Halifax Wanderers Home Game: Come cheer on the home team as take on York United FC at the Wanderers Grounds | Sep 2 | 4pm | From $29

Have an event to share? Let us know at [email protected].

⚓️ What’s In The Harbour

➡️ The One Wren container ship leaves Halifax for New York at 1:30am.

➡️ The Happy Dynamic cargo ship leaves Halifax for Gaspe at 1pm.

➡️ The East Coast oil tanker leaves Halifax for St. John’s at 2pm.

🛳️➡️ The Atlantic Sail container ship arrives in Halifax from Liverpool at 5:20am and leaves Halifax for New York at 5pm.

🛳️➡️ The Atlantic Sun container ship arrives in Halifax from Norfolk at 5:20am and leaves for New York at 5pm.

🛳️➡️ The Vision of the Seas cruise ship arrives in Halifax at 11:30am and leaves for Canadian seas at 10pm.

🍴 Where To Eat & Drink

🎂 Celebrate someone or something special with a 100% plant-based cake from North Node Bakery: chocolate sponge, salted caramel buttercream and chocolate ganache.

🍅 Grab a last taste of summer before it’s too late with the Fried Green BLT from The Canteen: crispy fried green tomatoes, double-smoked bacon, lettuce, pickles and pimento cheese spread on a toasted sesame seed bun.

👀 In Case You Missed It

🏗️ What happens if a developer who gets fined for breaking the rules doesn’t pay? Nothing. The city has to approve their new development applications as long as the proposed developments align with land use bylaws and municipal planning strategies, even if they owe the city money. Since that’s a little messed up, councillor Kathryn Morse wants developers breaking rules to be taken as seriously as Blockbuster did fines. Unfortunately, the city doesn’t have the power to do that, so they have to ask Tim Houston’s government to give the city the power it needs to enforce fines. That and more in Coast City Hall reporter Matt Stickland’s recap of last week’s council meeting.  

💸 Nova Scotia families who receive income assistance will automatically receive an increase to their Aug. 29 payment, meant to help with the cost of school supplies for their children. As the Department of Community Services announced on Aug. 6, the increase will extend to families with kids starting in Pre-Primary this fall. The Coast’s education reporter Lauren Phillips has more on who is eligible for this one-time increase.

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