Obsolete Records Opens
As Shoptalk reported last month, a new record store has opened in the north end. Sure it sounds unlikely, but we assure you it’s true. Obsolete Records (2454 Agricola Street) is having it grand opening Saturday, May 22. The event will kick off at noon and will feature performances from Julie Doiron, Jon McKiel and…
pur alternatives product swap
pur alternatives (1903 Barrington Street, 407-3660) in the lower level of the Barrington Place Shops cares about you and your health. That’s why they’re offering a product swap: From May 20-22, if you bring in a used or unused and unnatural personal care product from home such as a deodorant, perfume, moisturizer or soap, and…
Quinpool Hops
With new (and expanded) bicycle shops, spa services and Korean restaurants, Quinpool has been really hopping lately. To add to that, the long running bookstore Outside The Lines: Books for Critical Minds (6265 Quinpool Road, 422-3544) is now open on Sundays. Hours from Monday through Friday are 10:30am-7pm, Saturday 10:30am-5pm and Sunday 12-5pm. Owner Bob…
Get a Little Taste of Long Live the Queen
arf arf yarf my face! That’s the worst kicker I’ve ever written. In more important news, the Long Live the Queen Festival has put out a Zunior download sampler of artists playing the festival. You got my secret boyfriend Diamond Rings. (Everyone needs a boyfriend that applies eyeshadow better than they do.) You got Yellow…
Here’s Where You Can Get Your De La Soul Tickets
Here’s the Ticketpro link to this rather exciting event. You can buy them NOW. They are $35/$30 each. The event is Friday, July 9th, 2010 at the Festival Tent. I just bought mine. I can’t afford it and I don’t care. I’m SO EXCITED JUST THROW ME IN JAIL. More jams below.
InFullBloom this Weekend
The Imagine Bloomfield Society is hosting an outdoor spring fair on Sunday, May 16 from 12 noon to 4pm. It’ll take place at the Bloomfield Centre (2786 Agricola Street at Almon). Expect fun family activities, representation from businesses that focus on ecological and green gardening practises, native plant and heirloom seed sales, arts and crafts,…
Buck and bitch
I can understand if store employees want to keep an eye out for people shoplifting, but following shoppers around and hiding behind shelves watching them until they leave is just plain disrespectful. You could have at least been a little bit more discrete, I could see your giant ugly glasses and disgusting stained sweater in…
Inverted out
Enough with the inverted bob cuts. They are tired, old, and inappropriate for most of the female population… how about trying a layered shag? —Hair raiser
It’s 14 C outside and 35 C on the bus…..it’s okay to pop a window or 3
Are people lazy? Are people afraid of the bus police busting them if they open a window? What is behind people not wanting to open windows on an otherwise sweltering bus on a perfectly nice 14 C day? Like what’s the magic number for you all to say “darn it’s hot on this bus… think…
Sushi girl
Your friend shocked me, next thing i know i was carrying your bed! Hope you passed on the good dead… forgot to say good luck with the trip to Africa. We should do coffee sometime, you seemed very interesting. — Part time furniture mover 🙂
Hey Rosetta Come Back Into Your Lungs
serious business Hey Rosetta are coming back to Halifax after a fairly long break this summer. They land Saturday, July 24 at 10:30pm at the Paragon Theatre. Apparently they will be playing some songs from the follow-up to their insanely popular orchestral pop album Into Your Lungs. They are also touring a lot and this…
Um, De La Soul is Opening the Halifax Jazz Festival
Sue Carter Flinn just told me that De La Soul is opening the Halifax Jazz Festival. The fest runs July 9-17th this year. I don’t know anything else and they don’t have anything else up on their website. But apparently this is happening and is for real. More info soon. EDIT: They’re playing with Ali…
Does the body good
I just left the gym in Bedford and I have got to send some love to the absolute beauties that were roaming the gym today. I’m not sure if it was just straight up good luck on the hour I chose to workout or if this is a normal thing in this gym but the…
Sub Love
To the employee who chatted me up and proceeded to not charge me for my sandwich a couple weeks ago: you are the reason i love halifax. I was visiting home from Ontario and I was dying to be on the receiving end of some good old maritime hospitality. No one is nice to strangers…
Olympic love for this laundromat!
Thanks from the bottom of my heart! I was in there today with a friend who is young and expecting a baby soon, and is not in a great financial situation. The staff person at the laundromat gave her a swinging baby chair, something that she needs and could not afford. We were both very…
Under the Umbrella
You kissed me in the rain under your umbrella at the bus stop. I don’t know why you did, but I just wanted to say thank you, because I have been wanting you to do that since I met you. Don’t worry, I haven’t told anyone, and I don’t plan to. I won’t even tell…
Thursday, May 6; 12:30ish; Bus 60
Dear Driver, You let me on the bus even though I had left my bus tickets on my desk at home, enabling me to make my 1:00 appointment. And you did so quietly and with a smile. Thank you! Your kindness caused me to spend the rest of the sunny spring day smiling. — =…
I love the way you love
Originally, I only wanted you for several selfish reasons, those being to have you as both my rebound and fuck-buddy. At the time, I felt no want or need to have you as anything more than that. But now, I have to admit, you’ve kind of grown on me. Maybe it’s your positivity, your smile,…
Heavy metal honeys
To all the ladies in the front at 3 Inches of Blood, you rock my world. See you at the next show. —You can mosh me anytime!
The hockey gods are against me
Fack. I hate my rabbit ears. No, I don’t want cable – I spend my money on other things that are important to me, and for chrissakes, I just watch hockey, news and that’s IT. I pay for the CBC through my obscene taxes, I should get it for free! WHY, oh why are the…
School of hard knocks
Thanks so much for all the support since I both finished my course work and work term – yup, thanks for returning my emails and phone calls – Your support is sooooo appreciated! I have tried to find a job in the field I studied so hard for and haven’t had any luck at all…
Barrington-ton-ton-on…is that an echo?
What happened to Barrington? The place is like a ghost town… but instead of tumbleweeds I see homeless people blowing in the wind. All the shops pulled out and closed. The street is now a 4×4 terrain of pavement and potholes. —Booington
Hire Better Bus Drivers
I was in town the other day walking with a friend and an elderly lady was walking in front of us. She was watching the bus that was driving, it was clear that she gets the bus frequently because the bus driving opened his door at the stop light for her. First of all you…
Spare change… for smokes?
Bayers Lake beggar: Don’t think for a second we don’t see you sneaking away for a smoke. If you put smokes ahead of food, you don’t deserve a dime. PS – that’s some nice North Face backpack you have. Yup…poor my ass. —Street cleaner needed
You drive as badly as you smell
I know you have a job to do Mr Garbage man, but when I’m driving down the road and you have the truck completely on the sidewalk, could you not pull out when I’m so close that i have to slam on the breaks? i know you have a job to do, but people on…
Generalizations
If you could stop making preposterous generalizations, I would be delirious with joy. You can’t group everything and everyone together just because they have one common factor, one similarity. It is rude, it is wrong, and it is incorrect. I hate it when you do this, and it makes me think less of you, in…
Caxhell
I am not doing another thing around here. You can go fuck yourself. —The Maid
More Montana
Day 10
Cheachie’s Opens
“Food so good you’d swear we kidnapped your mother,” says the nifty spiel on the website. Here at Shoptalk, we dig that kind of snark. Cheachie’s Grill (102 Chain Lake Drive, 446-3663) is a new joint out in Bayers Lake, offering burgers (try the Mother Clucker) Mexican dishes, Italian dishes (pizza and pasta), steak, salads…
Breaking news: Coast Guard says “small amount” of oil stretched across Halifax Harbour
(Updated below) Keith Laidlaw, a spokesperson with the Coast Guard, confirms what several Coast readers reported this morning: an oil “sheen” spread from the sunken dry dock at Halifax shipyard, under the Macdonald Bridge, and all the way to Dartmouth. Laidlaw characterized the spill as “a small amount, maybe two microns thick” and said it…
Help Scott Blackburn Ring in His Birthday Tomorrow Night
This Tuesday marks Scott Blackburn’s 3rd exhibition in the Industry Room (an ongoing component of the bar’s Tuesday New Music Nights that we’ve really enjoyed in the past.) He’ll be showcasing the Groucho Marx Project, which features a bunch of musicians from Nova Scotia Music Week 2009 obscuring their good looks with Groucho’s trademark moustache,…
Dinner is over at The Good Food Emporium
Some bad news for fans of The Good Food Emporium’s dinner menu: The kitchen’s closed. About six months ago the 2179 Gottingen Street eatery decided to expand beyond its always-popular lunch hours to serve dinner Wednesday through Friday. The menu featured several Korean dishes, as well as Jamaican jerk tofu and Thai green curry—in all,…
Empire Theatre Ticket Prices Go Up and Down
With Iron Man 2 opening wide last week, the summer blockbuster season has begun in local cinemas and across North America. In the next few weeks we can expect a deluge of marketing to prep us all for that new take on Robin Hood, a second Sex & The City movie and more Shrek than…
Boutique Joliette Spring Artisan Show
On Saturday May 15 visit Boutique Joliette (1870 Hollis Street, 405-4057) between 10am and 6pm to enjoy a spring trunk show, featuring the work of jewellers Peter Bauer and TORI.XO and photographer Margot Metcalfe. Bauer will be showing his spring-inspired Gypsy Melodies collection, while Tori Poynton—her work travels under the TORI.XO label—will show her opal…
Sending Love to all the Mothers and Ladies today!
As the title implied, here’s a great big bunch of love, from me to you guys. Moms are the best, where would we be without them. Just a gleam in some man’s eye. —Life Sucks, but not today
Love to a friend
You were so needy, unlike your more composed and sensible brother. You greeted me each and every day with such enthusiasm. I will miss your constant and unending interruptions that had become part of my landscape. Bob is keeping watch over your big sleep. —Ma
Please keep your comments to yourself check out lady
We often buy extra groceries and put them in the food bank box on our way out the of the grocery store. I’m not talking large amounts but if something is on sale we’ll double up or whatever and donate it. I’m getting really tired of the comments from this one particular check out lady.…
Asshole UpStairs! p2
So, music starts at 8ish and ends when exactly? So guy upstairs, why do you have to have it turned up so all i hear is your music, all damn day? If you could just turn it down once in awhile life would be better. I couldn’t even watch a movie today, had to plug…
You Need Directions on How To Be Polite
To the woman who decided that her directions to the YMCA was more important than my purchase at the gas station: I really do hope you found your way to the YMCA. Eventually. Did my directions of turn at your first right, then take your second left and follow that street to the end, then…
Loss of appetite: Check
To the creature that made its way into the wall behind my fridge before dying in this hard-to-reach place, please decompose quickly. Your stench comes in waves through the kitchen, usually as I’m about to tuck into a nice meal. No amount of candles or essential oils can mask your poor body’s smelly state of…
Dearest Double Chin
GTFO. I hate you. You crept up on me silently over the past few months, while I thought I was being healthy & active enough to never see the likes of you. Now I look in the mirror and fail to notice anything but the jiggling below my mouth, mocking me, framing my face in…
Sweets!
Oh, how I adore thee! Thanks for being the oh so lovely you! —Dizz
Made My Day
Thanks so much to the service attendant at the station on Robie Street for making me smile on a hectic day. It is wonderful to see someone enjoying life! Hope your back gets better fast. Keep it up! I’m sure you’re making lots of days brighter. —The girl with the scarf
We will always have (a crappy aproximation of) Paris
I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. No one else matters in the same way. Relax. Breathe easy. I’m not going anywhere without you. I love you in that kind of way that inspires (sometimes awful) poetry and song, but most importantly, in the way that makes me smile and look…
…
After so long, I still love you everyday. — …
For the want of a need
Okay people, let’s discuss the difference between a “want” and a “need”. I’m sick of browsing locale commerce websites, and seeing people saying they “need” to get things for free. I don’t care how poor you are, no one needs a leather sofa, coffee table, end tables, and a flat screen t.v. If I come…
Book Buy Back? Ha!
Thanks for making me cart my books all the way across Halifax only to not buy them back… Only to tell me that there will be a ‘new edition’ because the publisher has to change 7 words and then next year charge students 70 dollars more for it. What a fucking joke! What’s the point?…
Trolls
The Trolls on this site are the most negative people in the whole world. They disagree with anything just to have an argument. —TTTFN
Lottery goblins
I understand the simple concept of having to wait in line at stores, but I hate getting stuck behind those assholes to decide to bring their lottery portfolio and literally will spend ten minutes going through all their losses/wins. Use the self serve lottery machine ass-face. Instead of wasting all of your money on the…
No way everyone is content around here…
Where is the Bitch/Love section in this weeks Coast?? I waited all week to see if I’d get lucky enough to have my “love” printed this week and NOTHING!? You guys really couldn’t find the space or the material this week to fill the page or what? I’m sure I’m not the only one who…
Pooper Scooper
To the person on Cornwallis St. who lets their obviously giant dog SHIT ON THE SIDEWALK: buy some fucking poop bags. The rest of us are capable of picking up after our dogs; get over whatever the hell your problem is (I suspect laziness), so that no one steps in your pooches epic sized crap…
Heads up: Oh Dina! trunk show this Sunday
Welcome Nicole McInnis home: the Oh Dina! designer returns for a trunk show at Lady Luck this Sunday from noon to 5pm. Look for her signature headbands, bridal and prom pieces, which she adorns with vintage-inspired feathers and buttons, bows and flowers. I think they’d also look awesome with a tough leather jacket. Or while…
Party Like It’s 1975-1981
Oh boy. Oh boy. Shrewd Coast staffers just alerted us to recent developments on the Casino Nova Scotia website – namely, that yacht rock hero Kenny Loggins and Scottish ’70s slow-dance kings Nazareth will be appearing in that particular venue a few days apart from each other in July. My personal favorite pop culture moment…
Wrong way bus driver
To the bus driver who accidentally took the wrong exit and had to drop the 3 or 4 of us left on the bus off a bit late. Don’t worry… it was less than five minutes before we were all back on track. I get that people have bad days and I can’t imagine having…
Tears of frustration
This isn’t a bitch about getting a speeding ticket. This is a bitch in reference to my own inability to defend myself in court without losing my cool and generally coming off like a spoiled little daddy’s girl. I want to defend myself but I have a feeling no one will take me seriously while…
Dear coworker
I’m wondering where a lazy ass, douche bag, sexiest ass like you gets your training. Is there some kind of school that pumps out dicks like you? Seriously don’t strain yourself anymore…you have perfected the act of doing the least amount of work you can get away with. At least our manager is finally starting…
Another Bus Bitch, but from a Cyclist
Look, asshole, when two cyclists are within 25m of your stop would it kill you to wait that extra 2 seconds to let the cyclists roll by? Instead of turning on your signal light when us two were beside you can then cramming us over, forcing us to break and get behind you where the…
“Bottle Collectors”
You know, I really don’t care that you dig through my trash to get my returnables. I’m too lazy to bring them to a depot and HRM’s making a cent off me, but I’m not too concerned. What I am concerned about however, is this. When you take the bottles and cans, just take the…
Impatient Line up Caller
To the Cucking Funt who decided to call from the line to tell me to open another cash… you’re a twat. Let’s go over this again… I was packing boxes about 3 feet away from you. You were in a very short line with two people in front of you… one was almost through being…
Tampax or bread?
Anyone care to donate some (preferably unused) plugs to the food bank? I’mm sick to death of my fat uterus eating my money. —a bleeder brokely
Protesting Scienctology
You people protesting scienctology have no right. It’s a religion. You should respect peoples religions no matter how silly, or harmfull you thin they are. Would you go to a mosque and protest islam? or would you protest homosexuals? no, you’d be commiting a hate crime, so what is the differance? Christianity has its flaws,…
Mod 4.0
I know it’s random but I had a kick ass time. My friend hasn’t stopped raving about it as well. Turned my day from tragic to terrific… so thanks! —enjoyz the amaZing experienz
Four Way Stops are a pain in the Rump
4 ways in the south end need to be replaced by lights… Ever tried to make it through this area when the Universities and schools are in? It’s a bloody nightmare! They now have a police cruiser sitting on Young Avenue in a morning just waiting to pounce on some poor tool who doesn’t obey…
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Not so much as a bitch, as a warning: If you buy a car from a dealership and the salesperson/staff tell you you will get a “Customer Satisfaction Survey” in the mail in 4-6 weeks, DO NOT RETURN THE SURVEY TO THE DEALERSHIP! These surveys MUST be returned in the mail (often going to head…
Wintersleep-a-rama
Wintersleep are still on the road to world domination and will be back in Halifax on Thursday, May 20th at the Paragon at 9pm. Presales continue until tomorrow. Tickets are $24 and you can get them here. You can also download the title track from their upcoming album New Inheritors here and you can stream…
Fuck Montreal Release Their First 7″
spooky kids! Prolific local experimentalists Fuck Montreal are officially releasing their first 7” this Thursday (TONIGHT) at Gus’ along with the Scoop Outs, ECT and The Bad Motels. The record, titled Winter Mange, is being released by Stumparumper Records out of New York City and is unique in that it’s a long-player with 7 songs…
SuperNova: Impromptu Splendor
I saw a really funny play last night called The Steamy Root Cellar, but there’s no point recommending it to you, since it will never be seen again. You see, it was created by Impromptu Splendor, a talented group of actors who improvise one-act plays in the style of famous playwrights. While the sets and…
SuperNova: One Man Lord of the Rings
Charles Ross is a self-described sweaty nerd, but I only agree with the sweaty part. His intimate knowledge of nerd classics like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars makes him a theatrical power house and not a basement-dwelling loner. However, he comes by the sweaty part honestly—bringing to life the myriad of characters in…
Follow Bad Vibrations on Tour
creepy! Bad Vibrations are on tour. Go and see them! Tonight they play Montreal and tomorrow they play Toronto. Click their name for tour dates. They will return to Halifax to play Obey in a coupla weeks. They also have a blog that you can follow here.
At home with Hobo
“All right everyone,” yells the ski-masked thug. “This is a goddamn fucking robbery!” Three men storm a Gottingen Street pawnshop, one brandishing a machete, another a revolver. Inside the store, littered with VHS tapes, toys and TVs, the proprietor has just advised a young woman with a stroller that “I don’t trade for babies in…
Bird brained
“You see the cardinal at the feeder, and now you’re going to know that the red colour in the feathers have carotenoids in them and that’s signalling the male’s health,” says Bridget Stutchbury, an internationally renowned ornithologist, of the kind of knowledge she hopes readers gain from her new book, The Bird Detective. The male…
All you can tweet
They say you are what you eat, although more and more these days it seems like the more appropriate saying is “you are what you tweet.” But if you want to get really meta about it, the two are interchangeable. After all, half of the people using the internet these days tweet what they eat.…
Ghost Pine-All Stories True
Before blogs there were zines. The two co-exist today. Blogs seem highly specific, newsy, opinionated. Zines reflect opinions, passions and zinesters build arguments, though they come across as less argumentative—more reflective, evocative of a longer-term universal condition. They’re generalists and necessary ones at that. Jeff Miller is a great example. In 1996, at 16 and…
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
S. Bear Bergman is a natural storyteller. As a trans-Jewish writer, Bergman is navigating uncharted literary terrain, writing “hirself” (the pronoun used in the book) into the ever-expanding landscape of contemporary queer Canadian literature. Bergman writes about hir personal experience in day-to-day life in first person without the guise of fiction. With heartbreaking honesty, ferocious…
New York, I Love You
The cinematic version of a book of connected short stories, New York, I Love You works because it doesn’t work too hard. The city plays it cool, without fanfare. Its endless intersections and storied locations become natural settings for a mediation on the spontaneity and simultaneity of love across the big urban reality. Most of…
Prom Night in Mississippi
This insightful documentary reminds viewers that, even in the supposedly post-racial era of Obama, there remain pockets of America that have barely acknowledged the groundbreaking civil rights advances of the mid-20th century. The film chronicles the lead-up to Charleston, Mississippi’s first-ever integrated prom, which took place in the tiny town in 2008. Charleston resident Morgan…
Is Corey Wright the wrong man?
My blood is my ink / My tears are my tales / I did a couple years in jail / But I shall prevail —rhymes by Corey Wrght AKA Vinny Deniroz He smiled. Big smile. “What you doing after?” It was nudging four in the morning on Saturday, November 4, 2006, closing time at Rain,…
Steve Poltz
On La De Da, Joel Plaskett sang about being on the road, writing songs and recording with friends for the love of the process, not for the money. The song “Natural Disaster” is also a song about the security of home in the face of oncoming uncertainty, which is a theme Steve Poltz explores frequently…
Gloryhound video shoot with The Bad IDeas, Gentlemen Husbands and Arietta
Since we last saw Gloryhound at its CD release in November, the band has stepped onto an entirely different cloud: After performing Juno shows in St. John’s, the local rock band found itself signed with an agent. “We’re very excited about working with Ralph James and the Agency Group,” writes Evan Meisner, lead singer of…
The New Pornographers
The past decade was littered with one-album wonders—bands that emerged fully formed on their first release and never quite figured out how to follow it. The New Pornographers, in contrast, have managed to add nuance and depth to their formula with regularly great results. Listeners who never quite moved on from Mass Romantic’s wall-of-sound thrills,…
Raised by Swans with First Aid Kit, Pink Moth and The Sorrys
Raised by Swans has been compared to Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Stars and Stills in the press recently, but the London, Ontario, band’s frontman, Eric Howden, has one thing to say to it all: “We sound most like a plum being dropped onto a gym mat in an empty room.” Plop. The ethereal-sounding indie rock…
Serena Maneesh
Norwegian Emil Nikolaisen assembles the main formal elements of dreamy, shoegazing noise into this full-length from his Serena Maneesh project: a cascading wall of sound comprised of sharp-edged guitars, energized drums (fill after fill), spiny bass, synthesized wave after wave and ethereal vocals. It’s occasionally pretty, scary and both at the same time, as this…
Grandma Noda’s Tigers brings puppets with bite
Grandma Noda’s Tigers is a unique gem of a play that touches on everything from the impermanence of worldly things to the enduring, endearing quality of love and forgiveness. Not bad for a 55-minute puppet show that speaks to everyone from the very young to the very old. From the first ethereal ping of the…
Jenny Omnichord
Jenny Mitchell is tiny: live, she’s a physically wee specimen perched on a chair with her instrument on her lap. But Bad Luck is a big release for the Guelph indie imp and former Barmitzvah Brother. A full band (including vocals by Halifax’s Andrew Sisk) showcases Mitchell’s fragile voice and her beloved omnichord, providing needed…
Free Will Astrology
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Among the ancient Anglo-Saxons, the month of May was called “Thrimilce.” The word referred to the fact that cows were so productive at this time of year that they could be milked three times a day. I thought of that as I studied your current astrological data, Taurus. During this year’s…
Champagne Supernova
Ex-Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was spotted at Biscuit General Store last week, arriving in the city while Eastern Front Theatre’s SuperNova Theatre Festival coincidentally graces the Neptune stage. In honour of the two, we’ve gathered a few places for you to fill your glass of champagne supernova. Bishop’s Cellar This local wine shop has more…
No dirty videos without consent
Q I am a 28-year-old post-op transsexual woman. I met a great 31-year-old guy. We have been dating for a year and he recently told me that he didn’t think he was sure he was in love with me. He said that he didn’t know if he could give me any sort of commitment, that…
Conventional tactics
Last week, provincial infrastructure minister Bill Estabrooks nearly made good on his pledge to release uncensored versions of the four reports that supposedly make the business case for a new convention centre—one of the reports, by Criterion Communications, was redacted in two places, and another, by the consulting firm Deloitte, had a redacted table in…
Bathe in 3 Inches of Blood
“When I started playing music, the ambition was always to do it for a living—it’s still something I want to be doing,” says Cam Pipes. Over the phone from a pitstop in Wawa, Ontario, the 3 Inches of Blood singer comes off as a pretty serious customer. Not stern, not mean—just serious. It may seem…
Halifax Dandelion Festival
Remove the weeding gloves and back away slowly—it’s time to appreciate the yellow blooms of dandelions at the Halifax Dandelion Festival. “Frustration accumulated over years at the negative attitude people have developed towards dandelions,” writes Pat Brennan-Alpert, of the Grainery Food Co-op, on why the Co-op started the festival last year. Out of that frustration…
Being Gentlemen Husbands
Floridian beard-punks Hot Water Music did it. So, too, did Welland, ON’s Attack in Black. But the latest group of ex-hardcore punks to trade in their heather-grey hoodies for bolo ties is Cobourg, ON’s Gentlemen Husbands. And we have Ryan Adams to thank for that. “We were driving up to Montreal to play with a…
Wireframe traces the Khyber’s Ballroom Gallery
Walking into the Khyber’s Ballroom Gallery first yields a stark white landscape: Bright lights sit on the floor facing the ceiling, illuminating the bare white walls and floor. Turn the lights off, and you’re transported: Photo-luminescent tape glows from the contours of the room, highlighting the moulding, electrical outlets, sprinkler pipes, arches and exit sign…
Java love
To the little coffee shop in my building on the water front… thank you for my free coffee this morning. I’m so broke this week and I was about to hand over my last five in order to pay for a delicious cup of highly needed coffee. She turned it away, informed me that it…
For those who are dicks/bitches
I’m an employee of the service industry. I would like to say to all those people who think it’s okay to go into a bar/restaurant, treat the service staff like shit, make them bend over backwards to get every little thing you want, like an extra lime for your diet coke refill, and OH! I…
Gonna punch you in the fuckin head
I’m sick and tired of hearing people tell other people they or someone else is “gonna punch someone in the fuckin’ head”. —Me
Hey YOU… & YOU… & YOU TWO!!!
Get the EFF back to work! I’m sure you don’t get paid to come to work & have a “BooHoo My Life is SO Bad” PMS yak session in the OFFICE with the other women at work! I’m sick & tired of more than likely getting paid LESS & working MORE than you & seeing…
And so it begins…
So, after what seemed like an eternity, the construction at South and South Park came to an end and traffic could flow normally through the south end. Motorists and taxpayers carried on with their lives happily, thinking that surely the job was finished for at least a few years. The end. Unfortunately, in this particular…
Housing prices
Can someone tell me why a 1,200 square foot house in this city should go for over $300K? How do they expect people to be able to afford to live in this city? I know it’s all supply and demand but c’mon! —Homeowner wannabe
Ignorant Bitch
To the mother on the #2… holy crap. You are THE most ignorant person I have come across lately. You get on the bus, and literally charge into people with your over-sized stroller, because they wouldn’t get out of your way. I would have told your rude, pushy ass off, too. Your kid was at…
No I don’t own the lake but…
I do own that little piece of property along this part of the lake. And I do not recall posting a sign welcoming the public to use my back yard for feeding the ducks or geese…which I do not want in my yard and you shouldn’t be feeding anyway. I do not recall posting a…
Pube-on-the-seat avoidance techniques
This is not a manual. In two easy steps, you too can learn how not to leave your pubic hair on the toilet seat. Number one: Shave or trim your long, curly bastards so they don’t fall onto the seat in the first place. Number two: If the first option is undesirable to you, simply…
If you can’t make GOOD graffiti, then don’t do it in public.
Why do people feel the need to spray paint their “tag” on every surface that paint will stick to? It’s one thing to be artistic and graffiti something with a crazy picture or riddle or something that’s INTERESTING in some way, but why spray paint something completely retarded like “screw you bitches!” or just a…
Petroleum and petroleum based products have got to go
Petroleum has ruined the planet. Look at the poison that clogs our world and look at what most of the poison is based on- petroleum. Smog pollutes our air, plastic bags kill animals and clog trees, plastic waste is broken down by ocean currents into smaller pieces which are ingested by fish….the fish starve because…
Fibre freedom
“Concerned business people in Halifax are talking about the need for skyscrapers to bring our city into the 21st century, but that’s old thinking,” says Michael Marshall. “We aren’t measured by our buildings but by the speed of our internet access.” Marshall, a director at Chebucto Community Net, says that while Halifax led the world…
Stanfest Lineup Announced
Jerry Jeff Walker: coolest old guy ever. The complete lineup for the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso has been announced and it includes Jerry Jeff Walker, the country legend who originally wrote “Mr. Bojangles.” Nutty! The fest takes place July 2nd to 4th and you can buy advance weekend passes and tickets here.To learn…
One of These Things Looks Just Like the Other
Loveable local dudes The Sorrys smelled something fishy when they saw the album cover for Caribou’s latest, Swim. The artwork bears an awfully close resemblance to the artwork for the Sorrys’ Neanderthal Cell Phone, created by James Rothenburg. Lead singer Trevor Millett has taken it all in stride, though. “At least someone liked our artwork,…
