I attended two pre-launch events this week for Burger Bash 2026, including an influencer-focused gathering at Harbourstone in Halifax on Monday and an industry event at Battery Park in Dartmouth the following day. Both events ran from 2 to 4 p.m. and offered an early look at this year’s lineup.<...

For 13 years, The Coast’s Burger Bash presented with Garrison Brewing has been raising money for Feed Nova Scotia through partnerships with great restaurants across the city, donating a portion of their proceeds from their beautiful burger creations to the non-profit.

This year is only a little different, in that Burger Bash 2026 is bigger and better than ever.

For Hangama Amiri, fabric isn’t just a medium, it’s a memory.

“Working with fabric kind of made me much closer to who I was as an artist, as a refugee woman as well, as an immigrant,” she says. “My art is related to a lot of feelings and kind of memories of back home.”

Now an internationally exhibiting artist and a 2025 Sobey Art Award shortlist nominee, ...

There is something quietly compelling about the North End of Halifax right now. It is not just the restaurants that get the big headlines, but the smaller, more personal spaces that feel discovered rather than marketed. Places that rely less on spectacle and more on craft.

Tucked into that North End rhythm is Michelle Ashley’s Bakery on Isleville Street, just a cou...

A social media outlet implied Mi’kmaw hip-hop artist Tevin Nicholas, who goes by the stage name T3KILLAH, was present at a protest in Potlotek First Nation where police vehicles were later vandalized.

There’s just one problem: Nicholas was reportedly hundreds of kilometres away from the Potlotek protest, attending another outside Sipekne’katik First Nation, on High...