postering assholes
for fuck sakes. read the fucking date of a poster before you poster over it. —fellow old school promoter
Enviro groups protest appointment of paper company exec to forestry review panel
Press release from the Ecology Action Centre: Nova Scotia’s two largest environmental groups are objecting strongly to the appointment by the government of a senior executive from the Bowater Mersey Paper Company to a supposedly fair and objective review panel in a critical stage of the Province’s arms-length Natural Resources Strategy review process. Citing a…
As played by.
Why do you have to make it that every day of my life has to be more and more like My Best Friends wedding. We aren’t a tricycle. —Less attractive than Julia Roberts
Dog days..
*disclaimer* I am a dog owner who uses Point Pleasant Park daily If you are dog owner and cannot follow some very basic simple rules/laws you should find somewhere else to spend time with your dog. Do not ruin the park’s dog friendly ways because you cannot A. clean up your dog’s shit or B.…
bitchers and commenters
Thank you all so much for your debates that often go on. Its great to see many people voicing their different opinions on difficult subjects. I wish more people would be open to talk about stuff like you guys! You brighten my day and make me smile and think. So thanks!! —sooky baby
Hop over to White Rabbit arts festival
Go tell Alice: there’s a new arts festival, just outta town. The free White Rabbit Installation Arts Festival, happens on August 15 from 3pm to midnight, at the beautiful Red Clay Farm in Upper Economy. Started by Janna Graham and Tom Young, the event grew out of a sense of isolation from living in rural…
Better Movies
To the movie theatre at Quinpool and Oxford, why did you choose to play the latest Harry Potter flick? I personally dislike that shit and it is playing many times at MANY times at all the other theatres in town. I usually like your independent movie choices so what the fuck is with the choice…
I Know You Like to Think Your Poo Don’t Stink
Dearest Co-Workers, I do not wish to know what you released into the toilet; please flush. If for some reason one flush doesn’t do the trick, try it again. Thanks —Beezneez
to the ex
You think I should be friends with some of them? They don’t care about me and, I see, neither do you. Please don’t come to Halifax again. You have much more of the world at your fingertips than I do and hearing that you proposed to her here? You have thrown me out like trash…
Class Act
I am a 20’s self made type female, who had recently started seeing someone in a different field of work but with about the same career prospects. We are both goal-oriented and accomplished in our own way. Here’s the thing. He has something going on in his life right now that’s making him temporarily very…
Chris Murphy: Broken collarbone, schmoken schmollarbone
Da boys Chickenfoot are due to make their Halifax debut this Sunday on Citadel Hill, but most folks around here have been looking forward to Sloan’s return, especially given the terrible news that bassist Chris Murphy was thrown from his bicycle when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver late Friday night. According to an…
Consider yourself teased: Rich Aucoin’s mini-trailer for new album
Rich Aucoin asked over 500 musicians from across Canada to be on his upcoming record/film We’re All Dying to Live: Public Publication EP/Over the Top! LP. Here’s a little taste of it.
poking
to the tall fellow who poked me in the ribs and then asked me for a cigarette; please don’t do that again. —dave
Splashes of love
I love my summer job. I teach swimming lessons at an outdoor pool and every day I love going to work because my kids honestly warm my heart. Thank you to all the parents who sign up their darling children for swimming. You have made my summer! —Swim Instructor
street style…where’d ya go?
Dear Coast, I was so excited when you had your street style page way back in May. What happened? It’s not hard to snap a few pics of well dressed hiptsers downtown. Might take half an hour. Get on it. —disappointed reader (well, the horoscopes and savage love)
Cover Up Princess.
How old are you? 15? 16? You were walking on the side or Herring Cove road in heels, a purse, and a skimpy little green bathing suit. No towel, not even a pair of shorts. I know you think you’re hot stuff, but you just look ridiculous. Everyone on the bus laughed at you as…
Reason #1 why your bitch doesn’t get posted
It’s even in bold, on the “submit a bitch” page: “The primary rule of the bitch section is that you must not use any specific names or IDs—either in reference to yourself or to who you’re Bitching about.” And yet, still, every day I get bitches about specific people, specific businesses. Sometimes I clean them…
A striking coincidence
Has anyone else noticed that a certain rail travel company who offered a goodwill sale of 60% off on its tickets has had a non-accessable booking website since they announced the sale? WHat a joke! They offer this amazing sale to make up for their striking engineers shutting down service for a weekend nad noone…
listen up SCALPERS
To all you loser scalpers out on Kijiji, Craiglist…. trying to scam people out of $175 for $30 Modest Mouse tickets… YOU SUCK. Find another way to make money – let the fans enjoy a good show. —Face Value
New venue alert! The Old Mill Upstairs makes Wyse Road more fun
The Fat Stupids can relax and record at the same time. Candace Redden (owner of CD Heaven) and Earl Joudrey from (Fight To Live Productions) have answered many prayers for a place to play in Dartmouth with their new venue upstairs from The Old Mill on Wyse Road, conveniently named The Old Mill Upstairs. Redden…
Too Young
I’ve noticed this disturbing trend: many of my friends are planning to get married. I feel like they have no idea what they’re getting into, especially given the divorce stats. What’s wrong with just being boyfriend and girlfriend at this stage in life (to clarify, early 20s)? What is the big hurry to become legally…
Commute-icate your frustrations elsewhere.
Heading home from the Lawrencetown Beach on Monday I was entering the Halifax approach to the McKay. It was 5’ish, but not too busy for an evening rush hour. A 30-something man in military uniform, brownish SUV thingy, merged from my right. He was crossing numerous lanes and was obviously disappointed that my ESP wasn’t…
Upgrade…?
Can anyone tell me what ever happened to the upgrade that Spring Garden and/or Quinpool Rd. was supposed to get this year? Instead, all I see is a shotty patch job that Quinpool Rd. got. What happens to all these approved projects by council that never seem to happen. —Hali looking ill.
Leave the flowers alone
I work at a clothing store downtown. Thursday we put up some small tin boxes on the front of our store, hoping to plant them with some lovely flowers to brighten the street up. Friday morning, two of the empty planters had been destroyed, obviously from drunk idiots trying to rip them off the wall…
Why???
So I was checking out the news online and came across a story that made me soooooo fucking angry I had to get it off my chest in a bad way!!! What the hell did that seven week old baby do to you that made you take out your anger on her so bad that…
Cake and eat it too
Dear Bar and Grill, I had attended our establishment for dinner last night. When it came time for dessert we were faced with the question for bills, not “more drinks?” or “how about desserts” when we asked for dessert we were told that even though we had an open ‘account’ we could no longer order…
Pick up Black Moor’s The Conquering Saturday at Monte’s
Dartmouth’s metal moguls Black Moor release their long-awaited album, The Conquering, at Monte’s Bar and Grill this Saturday ($6adv/$8door, 10pm. With Orchid’s Curse and Death Valley Driver). “I really can’t even express how stoked we are to finally get this album out to the public,” says Rob Nickerson (bass). The Conquering is being released through…
Wishing for better waste reduction
To the HRM Recyclables program, YOU CAN DO MORE! I am a concerned citizen who loves the city I live in, and I want you to do more for me! Make it easier to dispose of yogurt containers, margarine containers, and advertise that we can recycle number 4 packaging (not all, but most) for example,…
Robbery
What is wrong with people? I just had my apartment smashed up, and my dog got stolen. Who steals someone’s dog? Honestly. How do you sleep at night? My dog is the world to me, and now he’s gone. Its disgusting to know that now even pets aren’t safe with all this crime in HRM…
I’d take a frat boy party house for neighbours any day over you.
Dear assholes upstairs, I’m a pretty tolerant person, and an even more tolerant neighbour. I get that when you live in an old building, you have to listen to shitty music through the walls from time to time, and will catch bits and piece of strange conversations through the walls, hell I don’t even care…
Little Thief (Thieves)
To the Fuck Face(s) that broke into my car Friday night and got my stuff: go fuck yourself or if if was two of you that did it, go fuck each other. Don’t you realize people’s stuff are valuable. If you don’t have anything to do other than break into people’s vehicle, I suggest you…
Have some patience
Pride Parade, corner of south park and spring garden…To the two self-righteous bitches with their respective wheelchair ridden relatives, get some fucking manners and patience. This was a busy,public event and when someone stepped in your way for even just a split second you would wail and complain “NO NO NO, WHEELCHAIR HERE, GET OUT…
A little bit of skin goes a long way!
Sunny days in Nova Scotia seem to be a rare event but just because the sun is out doesn’t mean you can take your shirt off. Particularly heavier built guys. You may think your have something to show off under that tight tee shirt but what you think and what the general public is concerned…
South Park Slowdown
On Sunday afternoon at the South Park and Victoria I stepped right in front of you at the crosswalk (button properly pushed) because you were speeding too fast through my hood and you needed to go down a peg. I’m a tall bastard so I know you saw me coming up to the curb and…
Im a lover, not a fighter.
tonight at about 1245am i was walking up the road, you three were walking towards me, probably coming from a certain concert in dt dartmouth, mouthing something to me, so I took out my ear buds. You, beer bottle in hand, clearly drunk, told me to give you my “stuff”. Before I even had the…
Handing out your business cards at the Pride parade???
You don’t remember me, but you took time out from marching with your lame-ass political party to flog your stupid-ass campaign by pushing your stupid “look at me! I made rainbow cards! Vote for me!” right in me and my friends’ faces -and take a fucking hint when someone says NO!!! This is PRIDE. A…
You, your ass and your purse are wasting my valuable time
What the hell is it with some women and their purses? I am not saying they are all disrespectful but I have come across quite a few lately that are. Picture this. Long line up at the checkout of a local department store. This lady stands there with her purse and purchases. Finally has everything…
Vet Rip Off
The Low-down: I took my dog in for his yearly checkup and shots on Monday. I requested that the vet look at his nails to cut them, she stated they were not nearly long enough to cut, “they will be fine for a while”. Flash forward 2 days, my wife is out for a walk…
Movie Morons
I can’t believe I actually had to tell two grown adults to shut up in the middle of a movie tonight! Last I checked, most of us grew out of carrying on long conversations at a normal conversational volume during movies when we turned 15. If you’re going to chat through a movie, don’t waste…
HRM’s new and very annoying pedestrian chimes!
DOO doo doo doo, DOO doo doo doo… (in descending tones) is someone’s old cellphone ringing? Anyone else think HRM’s new pedestrian walking chimes (the ones meant to let pedestrians, particularly the visually impaired, know when they can cross) are FUCKING ANNOYING? You know the ones I mean, currently at the Gottingen / Cogswell and…
DISCRIMINATION
I’m not sure if people are aware but ageism is considered a form of discrimination. Myself and my partner have been looking for a nice place to call home for 3 months now and have been rejected multiple times. One lady refused to even show us a flat because we weren’t married however that is…
bus bitches are just too easy
So yeah, we all have our problems with Metro Transit, and we’re mostly all pretty aware of its assets as well. Some drivers are great, some are dinks, just like the passengers – alot like life, huh? I try pretty hard to give people the benefit of the doubt, but after now countless occurrences of…
Cars in Crosswalks
To all the drivers out there who inch ahead at stop signs or red lights hoping to pull out. Wait your turn and don’t block off the Friggin crosswalk (especialy you cabbies!) Some of us who walk like to be able to cross the street with out having to take the journey all the way…
dear douchbags
to the group of complete dicks at the bar the other night, calling your waitress baby, treating her like a piece of meat, saying you want vagina in a shot glass, commenting on another waitresses ass, saying it was the finest in the bar. fuck you. i don’t know if you’re completely clueless as to…
Married on an ark
Thanks rain. Thanks fog. Thanks a lot, Nova Friggin’ Scotia. My wedding was supposed to be outside in the sun. Now I can’t get another back up hall. Where I am I supposed to tie the knot now? In a barn? Burger King? Or should I just start building an ark. —Noah jr.
Pathetic
To whoever sent my sister an anonymous threatening letter a week before her wedding saying they were going to destroy her day, congratulations. You may not have shown up, but my sister spent the day worrying that you would. Luckily the whole day was beautiful and towards the end she managed to have a great…
Yes, I’ve been broken-hearted: Mamma Mia postponed to Saturday
Here I go again: Although we were under the impression that AlFresco FilmFesto’s new Pier 20 location would take away our rain-delay woes, tonight’s screening of Mamma Mia is postponed to tomorrow night. Same time (9pm or dusk), same price ($5). I have a dream that the skies will clear tomorrow, for all the Pride…
so sweet!
Just wanted to thank the ladies at a certain bookstore — I was one of the many many applicants you interviewed this week for the full time position, and it was great to sit down with you & chat about books. While I was really disappointed to get that phone call this morning and not…
another bike bitch (from a pedestrian)
I walk everywhere here in Halifax in the summer (Metro Transit if I’m desperate) and it drives me crazy to have to jump to the side of a sidewalk to avoid getting hit because some fucking biker is biking down the middle of it. This happened 3 times within 5 minutes on Bell road yesterday,…
Product of the week: Venus Envy rainbow pet collars
See Spot. See Spot’s pride with rainbow-coloured accessories like Gayssential collars ($12) and collar/leash sets ($20). Pick up something nice for yourself too: All rainbow merchandise and toys are 20 percent off, Saturday from 10am-6pm, and the first 25 customers receive a free gift.
Thursady night
To the person who stole my grey hoodie at the bar tonight: Eat shit you theif. Get a job and by your own clothes, you cheap prick. I hope you get hit by a bus in it and rot in Hell. —Have a nice day.
Park Commons shows elsewhere
To the editor, I want to add my concerns over the recent appropriation of the Commons on both the Dartmouth and Halifax sides of the harbour. I applaud the recent actions of Dartmouth High students and other community members for defending the Dartmouth Commons, which are again facing piecemeal diminishment. In Halifax, the KISS and…
Stumped on the Common
To the editor, After the McCartney and KISS concerts, there will be an all-summer effort to repair the damage to the Common just in time for winter. We have not been doing very well getting event damage repaired, have we? Witness the two- or three-time gap in the mature trees lining the north side of…
Tall Ships: shit’s gone too far
To the editor, I have appreciated The Coast’s perseverance in keeping city hall’s feet to the fire around its recent sewage debacle. Keep up the good work. However, last week The Coast included in your tall ships issue a map of the Halifax wharf (News, July 16), which pictured tall ship anchorages and their proximity…
Aboat that tall ships coverage
To the editor, Hope no visitors to our lovely city saw the cover of The Coast last week, with its reference to the “annoying masses” on the waterfront. I never knew you could be so exclusive. Lighten up, as they say, and enjoy the passing parade, nautical and human. —Ann Cameron, Halifax
Cool dad and cold ones Sunday at Gus’
Photo by Courtney Kelsey Former Haligonians, current Ontarians Cool dad play post-Evolve on Sunday, July 26 at Gus’ Pub (10pm, $5). “Evolve was incredible,” say Cool dad. “We kicked off the entire festival. We had a great crowd and got an amazing response. We played in a gorgeous yurt.” Featuring Al Melnyk (organ) and Greg…
To the driver of the 68 Thursday night
Thanks for stopping for me after leaving the official bus stop at Penhorn terminal. You took off away from the shelter and you were about to pull out and continue down Portland st. I was running but I assumed it was too late. But you stopped at the stop sign and let me on. I…
Yeah I know, another bus bitch
I don’t usually pick on transit operators or passengers but after 14 trips on our system today I need to make a few comments: Transit operators changing shifts around 1pm today – Don’t piss off the passengers on the 52 Burnside by demanding the driver wait for your co-workers as they slowly make they way…
Oh Canada…Damn It
re: New Brunswick Schools I am Canadian. I grew up singing the national anthem in school. People who want it erased because of religious reasons should realize what country they came to live in. Sure I am tolerant of individuality but the buck stops here. Political Correctness can kiss my non-political rectum. God Bless Us…
Construction = no more bad car stereo’s driving by
Gotta love that there is so much construction in parts of the south end that it is now a rarity to hear the thumping of loud music from cars. Although I don’t like all the construction, I am loving not hearing beyonce or little whatever blasting at 2am from a stereo stopped at the lights.…
Boom: will it ever be finished?
I am wondering if what started with the giant hole on Fenwick and has now moved to south park street will ever be finished. I am tired of the clang, clang, clang and beep beep beep of machines. I would also like to go through a day without the whole apartment shaking a few times…
Nice Guys Finish First
Wednesday was a busy day for me, from meetings to grocery shopping to doctor’s appointments for my five children. While doing some rushed banking in the middle of the day, I accidentally left $60 inside the banking machine. By the time I realized this, forty-five minutes later, I figured it would be too late. I…
Old men (myself included) short not try to form friendships wityh young women with the idea of dating in mind
If you are over say 40 and are looking at the 20 somethings as fair game, think again. There is NOTHING that you have in common with them. Old men (myself included) short not try to form friendships wity young women with the idea of dating in mind- it is delusional at best. Sure they…
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Ankle socks. Now the name is slightly misleading. If it was a true ankle sock, it would cover your ankle , but guess what !? It doesn’t ! It leaves your ankle bare ..NAKED to the harsh elements. And free to be looked at. WHO the hell wants to look at bony nasty ass ankles…
i hate people that act smart
to all you stupid people that come into my car dealership acting smart(like they own the place). We arent stupid, we can tell when you have read those dumbass untrue how to buy a car websites, or books. Like I’m not here to “rip” you off, im simply here to assist you and make your…
I’m in the right place… how ’bout you?
Yep… I sent out my love in the right place… the haters who made fun of me are not– stay on the bitch page kids and get it right– love to you anyway, life is too short! —TheBlackRose
Thanks Jerk
Thanks to the girl in the Jeep for running into the black of my car with your green jeep, and then leaving a fake phone number. Your a bitch I and I hate you. —Guy who has to pay to fix his car.
Rush to nowhere: 4 places to drink in Dartmouth
We know you’re going. Nic, Nat, Tiff and Chrys are bringing their baby doll faces to Dartmouth for Summer Rush this Saturday, and you just can’t miss them. So instead of inundating Alderney Landing and leaving it lonely afterwards, why don’t you skip that first ferry back and have a drink at one of the…
Fighting to Clik into place
On a bitter March evening, a few dozen folks huddled into Venus Envy on Barrington Street to listen to Lucas Silveira play an acoustic set. He previewed a few tracks from The Cliks' then-forthcoming album, Dirty King. Silveira revelled in the intimate setting, cracking jokes about pictures popping up on Facebook of him playing against…
Targeting Shotgun Jimmie
If the man, also known as Jim Kilpatrick, says he paddled part of the way in a canoe to play a festival in River Valley (between North Bay and Sudbury in northeastern Ontario), one would believe him. He’s that kind of guy: equally committed, comical, resourceful, sincere. “It was this outdoor stage, like a log…
Creature II: return of the beat
Montreal’s Creature emerged from its recent tour of China feeling like “we were part of a new scene,” says drummer-vocalist Sid Sanforlin. Beijing only has about four clubs for indie bands, and Creature played two of them. “The second night was 500 Chinese people, and people were eating it up. It was amazing to see…
Dana Carly Andrews croons in Finch
Another Ontario singer-songwriter has brought her raw talent to Halifax. Unintentionally following the trail of Jill Barber before her, 21-year-old Dana Carly Andrews has drawn limitless inspiration from her loves and losses, both in Halifax and back home. At her free show Friday night at Minstrels, the singer-artist-actor might just break your heart with lyrics…
Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle
Kevin Hearn returns with his Thin Buckle band (with guests Lou Reed, Mary Margaret O’Hara and others) for another private showing of the skewed imagery he retains and collects from the world around him. There are “helicopters in the sand,” or “HITS.” Hearn repeats this line in his gentle, small voice as the album closes.…
Summer film business picks up
By its very nature, the movie business is a mercurial beast. No more so than in Atlantic Canada, far away from the traditional centres of “the biz”—Toronto and Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles. For the American productions, our weaker dollar and crack crews—along with incentives such as provincial and federal tax breaks—attract the attention…
Moby
For Wait for Me, Moby holed up in his New York flat and invited his friends over to make beautifully melancholic songs. The final product of Moby’s introverted and artistic endeavour is an album that paints an emotional picture of a time and place; a portrait of a cool but moody New York. Wait for…
Remade Pride and Prejudice pretty dead
Sometimes, the more unlikely the raw parts, the better the mash-up (see Nirvana and Rick Astley). But that doesn’t mean there’s going to be a love connection. This is the case of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a literary collision between Jane Austen’s beloved classic and the undead. Elizabeth Bennett and her sisters are trained…
Cracker
David Lowery may never be a household name, but his body of work is getting impressive. From Camper Van Beethoven to this ninth Cracker album, his wit and energy feel unstoppable. Sunrise rocks to varying degrees of punk. “Hand Me My Inhaler” pogos out, while others display a greater range. “Show Me How this Thing…
12
Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 has 12 Russian jurors deciding the verdict of a Chechen youth accused of killing his stepfather. Technically a remake, the film follows the structure of 12 Angry Men, while adding flashbacks of the youth and a final twist that is eye-opening and unnerving. A great film, dedicated to character-rich portraits which illuminate…
Steve Martin
Along with the white suit and the arrow through the head, the banjo, though ably played, was just another comedic prop for Steve Martin back in the ’70s. But Martin has played the instrument for 45 years, he explains in the lengthy liner notes for The Crow. He gives background on the origins of each…
Giving an angry inch
Hedwig, the most famous “internationally ignored” transsexual, is coming to Halifax. Actor, writer and director John Cameron Mitchell gave birth to Hedwig in New York’s famous drag club Squeezebox; since then she’s had her own cult musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a namesake movie that was the sleeper hit of 2001 (nominated for…
Grand Analog
Just like his metropolis, Grand Analog also tosses rules into the fire. MC Odario swiftly moves from heavy rock guitars kicking in on “I Play My Kazoo,” to slow, breezy reggae on “Take it Slow (Spaces & Places).” This sophomore album is like turning a street corner in a foreign town—you never know what to…
Halifax’s gayest drink
“Your gayest drink, bartender,” I say to the bartender at The Company House as I climb onto a bar stool. She pauses and looks at me, heterosexual poser. I’m out on the town with my queer friend Lee-Anne, former bartender at the now defunct gay-friendly restaurant Mollyz, trying to find the gayest drink in Halifax.…
…while a Mexican couple faces deportation
Verónica and Oscar Velasco live in a basement apartment in Dartmouth, off a street named after a flower. Like many couples in the HRM, their apartment is littered with toys and books and other remnants of young children. Unlike other couples, however, they may face deportation from Canada. Verónica and Oscar fled Mexico as refugees…
Let’s Make Money
The cover for Austrian documentary Let’s Make Money calls the film “a must-see primer for understanding the global financial crisis.” That description’s somewhat disingenuous; Let's Make Money bandies about poorly defined terms like “protectionism” and “private equity” too liberally to be considered an accessible intro. (Track down the Peabody-winning This American Life episode “The Giant…
Nepalese refugees welcomed to Halifax…
A group of Nepalese/Bhutanese refugees will start new lives and form a new immigrant community in Halifax, after spending nearly 20 years in refugee camps. Twelve government-sponsored refugees arrived last week, joining the 20 who arrived in May. “We’re assuming that we will get more,” says Sarah Cooper, settlement worker at the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement…
The Invisible Man, Michigan-style
The Nobody is the latest graphic novel from Toronto-based cartoonist Jeff Lemire, who earned critical praise and awards for his Essex County trilogy. In The Nobody, Lemire re-imagines the classic HG Wells story The Invisible Man by setting it in a tiny Michigan fishing village. The reactions of the locals to their bizarre new resident,…
Trans-forming Halifax
Pride Week is all about…well…pride, right? But what kind of pride are we talking about? Most people commonly associate Pride Week with a celebration of sexual diversity—a celebration of the freedom to be with whomever we want, male or female. But Pride Week is not just about sexual orientation. It’s also about the expression of…
Health report fails to analyze root causes
If Freddie Mercury were alive, I’d ask his opinion of the Nova Scotia government’s 51-page report on suicide that was finally released last week. The Queen singer, who died of AIDS in 1991, might thrust out his hairy chest, give me his trademark, buck-toothed smile, and belt out “Don’t Try Suicide”: “So you think it’s…
Be big about it, already
Q I’m a straight guy, and my first girl was very experienced—she was proud to say she’d been with at least 30 guys before me. When all was said and done, she said that I was the most well-endowed of any man she’d seen before. In all my subsequent experiences, the women I’ve been with…
Talking to Ontarians
I’m writing this column during my annual summer visit to Ontario. I’m not particularly drawn to the province’s phallic symbolism, and I rarely get far enough north to enjoy the wilderness. Like so many of my Bluenose brethren, I used to live here, and the friendship and familial ties keep me bound here, year after…
Post-concerts Common in need of work.
What’s wrong? Post-concerts Common in need of work. Who’s responsible? Holly Richardson, Real Property Management, 490-6889. REMARKS On a scale from one to 10, after last year’s Keith Urban concert, the Common rated a two. But producers evidently learned a thing or two—we rate the post-McCartney-andKISS Common at six, with damage mostly confined to the…
Council’s disaster tourism
Last Friday, city officials gave reporters a tour of the Halifax Wastewater Treatment Plant. It was the first public look at the plant since if failed the morning of January 14. The tour was led by mayor Peter Kelly, Carl Yates of the Water Commission and plant manager Rory MacNeil (pictured above). Councillor Jerry Blumenthal…
Security Guard Love
Just a quick thanks and some good Karma to those at the Tall Ships ‘vendor’ lot. You know who you are. To the boys from the Pogue, thank you for the laughs and burgers, saved me from starving. To the gentleman who got me coffee every morning — hugs, and to my buddy from Captain’s…
Sandler’s water works
If you happen to drive by Burnside in the next couple of days, stop at Velocity Machining and Welding (19 Pettipas) to see sculptor Ilan Sandler’s newest piece, “The Vessel,” a 5.7-metre-tall, stainless-steel water pitcher. Sandler and Velocity are old co-conspirators; you may remember Sandler’s giant steel book with the float-away pages, which is now…
