SEIU trying to organize Halifax Securitas guards
The Service Employees International Union is attempting to organize Halifax-area security guards who work with Securitas, a Swedish-headquartered firm with operations around the world, including 160-180 local employees. The union is going public with its drive today, Thursday, because “we’re trying to pressure Securitas to honour its agreement,” says SEIU organizer David Bush. In 2006,…
Gottingen Street’s opportunities
Walking around Gottingen Street the other day, I was struck by how many empty storefronts there are—it’s hard to put an exact number on it, because there are potential retail spaces on side streets and upstairs, but I’d put the empty figure at somewhere around 20 percent. See the map above. The vacancies don’t make…
Sarah Harmer Comes for a Visit
Sarah Harmer will be here on October 29 at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium as part of her fall Maritime tour. She is supporting the first album she’s released in five years! It’s called oh little fire. The press release tells me she recorded some of the album on Wolfe Island, which is one of my…
Garbage Everywhere
Is it just me or is our city riddled with garbage? I bike back and forth to work everyday and also jog on a regular basis, I can’t help but notice how much garbage is just thrown on the ground around here. Granted the city could probably put up a few more garbage cans but…
Missed Connection
to 5th floor: Met you the other day in the elevator. I was having a day from hell, but our quick conversation turned that around for a moment. Would have loved to chat more. —10th floor
Honk if you hate meanies
I often almost get smoked on my morning bicycle commute and today was no exception. A car nearly ran me off the road and continued to sandwich me tight to the curb when it had plenty of room to provide ample berth. While it was infuriating, what was great about it was how everyone else…
There otta be a law
I just walked into a large retail outlet today & there was an entire aisle with ribbons, bows, Christmas wrap, Santa’s the whole f’in deal… in god damned AUGUST! There otta be a law anything Christmassy out before Halloween is over & everyone who works at the store goes to prison for a year! While…
Alicia Melanson is happening
“I’m a native of Halifax, and have always been in love with the arts,” explains Alicia Melanson, an experienced hairstylist and makeup artist, about her new business, Alicia Melanson Hair & Makeup (1725 Barrington Street, 3rd Floor, 433-1616), which she’s opened with fellow beauty expert Meaghan Ryan. Melanson has trained at Bumble & Bumble in…
Wow… just, Wow!
To the library staff: I know that it must’ve been a shock when I said that I was coming unannounced to your centre with a camp full of kids and staff, but you didn’t bat an eye and said that it would be no problem. Not only did you make room for us, but you…
To the driver of the ‘Out of Service’ Bus driving near Young and Robie:
I was half-asleep, walking to work at 5:30 am. In my sleepy state, I somehow failed to notice that a car was following me near the Olands brewery. When this creep pulled over, and flashed his lights, I woke up a little bit, but not quickly enough to react when he started getting out of…
Hey. Hey you. You, you, you…
The pine tree has skunks. 😉 —James, the lumberjack.
So much, So fast, So long.
Oh Spike… there are so many things I could tell you. But most of all I just need you to know that I wasn’t faking any of it. That you made me feel incredible. That I found parts of myself that I had thought I’d lost. I am not the crafty wordsmith that you are…
Sister in Laws are such Bitches!
Get over yourself and stop being such a bitch. Everyone, even your mother, knows you are a phony two-faced bitch. Jealousy will get you nowhere. —Signed, I feel better now
Move over Damnit!!!
To the fuck-nuts that don’t know how to drive on the highway: If I am trying to merge onto the highway and there is no one in the left-hand lane, move the fuck over so I can merge! So simple, yet so hard for some people to comprehend! —Next time I’ll ram you!
Street Style?
While I love that thecoast.ca has a new street style section, let’s see some variety please! Style isn’t really style anymore when everyone is wearing it the same way. AA + thrift store finds = played out. —Where are the real fashionistas?
Are you serious?
OK… just got my property tax bill. With fucking spelling mistakes on it!!! WHAT THE FUCK??? I’m supposed to pay a pile of money so that you can hire uneducated clerks at likely minimum wage to type up this crap and send it to me? Pathetic! It’s MANDATORY… not manditory… FUCK!!!! —Fatbastard
Crosswalks
When are we ever going to get the scramble system for crossing the street at an intersection? It’s simple: When north / south traffic has a green light the east / west traffic has a red. No right turns allowed. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross in any direction. When east / west traffic has…
Bus 18, crueller than ever
Oh 18, I’ve always disliked you, but going straight by me just because the two people ahead did not want to go on, without stopping, without even opening your door, without even looking in the mirror as I frantically waved, yelled and ran to get on is just… plain… cold. You’re cold 18, way too…
Dear Loser:
Thank you for fucking my pathologically lying, cheating bastard of a B/F of 7 years. You’ve done me a bigger favour than you certainly realize. I already know your going to get what’s coming to you & it makes me giggle. Hope your a drinker. The Ex. —The Whore made it easy for me
Your RMT career is a joke
Hey bitches! …Regulate yourself. Your doctor does not consider you a peer. People don’t really respect the massage therapist. There really is sex in the champagne room, so you can save the superior holistic healing banter for someone who wants to believe it. If one of your clients doesn’t try to fuck you in the…
Halifax Pop Explosion FULL LINE-UP!!!!!!!
halifax brain explosion (sorry, gross) This year’s lineup for Pop Explosion has confirmed what everyone already knows anyway: Music in and around Halifax is really really great right now. Pretty much every local band you love is on this list, rounding out the earlier announcements of heavy-hitters like the Hold Steady, New Pornos and Sloan…
Hamachi bring Teppanyaki to Dartmouth
It’s still the Hamachi Grill (644 Portland Street, 444-4688) but now it has a few brand new attractions. “In the summer we took an adjacent space, and expanded our restaurant with the addition of four Teppanyaki tables,” explains Hamachi master Boris Mirtchev. For those who don’t know, Teppanyaki is a stryle of Japanese cuisine where…
Keith Fudge sighted
A reader in Newfoundland emailed today to say Keith Fudge is living and working in St. John’s. Fudge is the purported scam artist who in 2004 allegedly stole $20,000 in weekend sales from the gay bar VorTex, which was located in what is now the empty Diamonds space at 2215 Gottingen Street. As Coast writer…
Moksha Yoga closes …for 48 hours
Shoptalk reported a couple of weeks ago that there were some changes going on at Moksha Yoga (1512 Dresden Row, 420-0888), which might include a brief closure as they expand to the floor upstairs their current Dresden Row location. Well, that’s what’s happening: August 26 and 27. All unlimited passes will be extended two days.…
Susie’s Shortbreads second anniversary celebrated
You got the sweet teeth, honey? Then you need to be at Susie’ s Shortbreads (1589 Dresden Row, 406-7075) on Saturday. It’s the big birthday celebration that all sugarlovers mustn’t miss. With doors at 11am, the first 60 customers get a free gift with purchase, and there’ll be free product samples all day (cookies, cupcakes,…
Anti Vax
How many children have to die before people realize that to protect themselves, their children, and the rest of the population, they NEED to get themselves and their families vaccinated? I have two close relatives that, because of medical conditions, cannot get vaccinated against diseases that could make them very sick and even kill them.…
Yo bitch
Hey! Remember when I drove your sour ass to and from work for 6 months when u had a DUI… even though it was out of my way…. even though making conversation with someone as cranky as you was uber painful…. even though you insisted on telling me faster ways to get there and bitched…
Dear driver:
It may surprise you to know that the bike lane is not extra parking, nor is it the place for you to stop your car for while you get coffee. Just something to keep in mind. —A cyclist
Drive Thru Beggar
Dear Sweetheart, To the young girl 20ish and looked well off: So you’re on Bayers/Caunaught walking up through traffic while we have the green light with your “Travelling… need money”. Are you asking for a death wish? Walking between cars in the middle of the road. Here’s a tip. Stay home if you have no…
Upass, I pass
So our Metro Transit offers most of our colleges and universities a student u-pass – pay once for eight to ten months of unlimited bus service. NSCC is on board, Dal has signed on again, but our university says they didn’t have time to ask the student body about the new fee structure, and as…
Bedford Snobs
I love my job, I’m surrounded by beauty every day. Until I have to serve you, until you have to walk by and not respond when I say hello. All I ask is that you are polite and don’t treat me like your servent… —Don’t make me hate my job
Talented Tagger
To the talented young artist that painted under the train bridge on Mumford on Saturday afternoon: I wish you had full license to paint over all the ugliness on that wall. Some of us really appreciate your art, keep it up! —Creating is Life
Sweet Homecoming :)
Men have always said, to me I have a beautiful body. As I lay angel white and full fleshed, in their bed. Beds. Compliments as vast as the ocean, blue, of the eyes I share with my mother come with the tides of our opposing youth and wisdom. And, yet. Beauty has failed to strike…
I Can’t Wait..
To spend the rest of forever with you. —LR
Bugga:
Thanks for making it worthwhile to get up every morning. Everything has been shit lately, but you’ve kept me smiling, and kept me falling even harder in love with you. Summer’s ending, but we’re just heating up. —Beep
Mad Love to all the Haligonians
I LOVE YOU HALIFAX! — 🙂
Pimpin’ my friend
I have an amazing girlfriend who, for reasons I can’t figure out, has been pretty much single since I have known her. I realize at our age (39) it’s harder to find a mate but c’mon! She is fun, positive, up for adventure, loves dancing, is an awesome cook and the best friend anyone can…
G’day Canadian Embassy
THANK YOU Canadian embassy in Sydney Australia for being so helpful when I lost my passport. I am very impressed on the service I received while traveling overseas and it was such a pleasure to deal with the lovely Canadians in Sydney, AU. I lost my passport on a huge bender somewhere between Canada Day…
North End Art Treasure Find
Just a little love for the people who have the neatest little folk art ‘thing’ mailbox? birdfeeder? in their front yard in one of the coolest lanes in the North End – I loved finding it the other week and ended up sharing it with friends. Its treasures like that that makes walking in this…
Wanting Another Crack At It!
You were handsome, polite, a good tipper, and – most importantly – a funny and social guy. You walked into my bar on a Wednesday night recently with your brown plaid shorts on, and I served you a rye and ginger. “Whiskey and ginger-ale” is what you called it. More cute. Your friend won our…
Thanks for Runing a Good Night..
I understand that you’re her friend too, but, I am her BEST FRIEND, we might as well be blood. I can understand that maybe you’re jealous of that, but is that any reason to ruin our night on Saturday, her birthday, and make me feel like it was my fault? And then bitch about my…
I get it already…
I understand, you went to MUN, and you loved it. But that was two years ago, and you only went that ONE year, so why is it that I have to STILL keep hearing the SAME stories over and over and over? Move on, get over it, no one cares about your lame stories anymore.…
Get a room already
So, I’m totally I’m happy for you all that you’re all in love and feel the need to let the world know by being all over one another, but it’s totally lame that the only people I have to hang out with right now are love birds? I fell in love again this summer too,…
The Waiting Game
What makes a good restaurant experience good? Is it the service, the food? The place itself? Well let me tell you about the worst. It was a regular date, just something we could do together, and get out of the house for a little while. Instead of going to a restaurant we had in mind,…
Single ladies seeking ladies
I’m new to the whole lesbian scene here in Halifax. I’ve been out to refs a few times trying to meet some young, attractive ladies like myself .. no luck. Online dating is also proving to be a flop. Where do I look?? How does one know when a girl is into other girls. I…
African Americans
I hear this term being used here in Halifax. First of all, we’re not Americans to begin with but more importantly not all Black people are from Africa. Saying “African American” OR “African Canadian” seems like it’s blurring the lines between nationality and race. Can someone enlighten me as to why saying someone is “Black”…
Be A MAN
She’s a little tiny cat. She’s only 1.5 lbs and she’s 17 years old. She’s mostly deaf. Her diet requirements have changed and she seems to be starving to death. I’m working with the vet and within a budget to discover what’s happening with her but in the meantime she cries and the only way…
Lies, lies lies…
I hate how you’ve proven to me and hopefully many others numerous times that you’re a grade “A” liar. Grade “A” meaning you lie constantly, not wonderfully… because I can see right through your lies you silly girl. I enjoy how really it’s out in the open backed up with a number of examples that…
People who are too lazy too remove trailer hitches
To people who are too lazy too remove trailer hitches: do you not realize that that a bumper on a car or truck is designed to absorb impact if your vehicle is hit form behind . Also it makes it easier for a person not to get their bumper all smashed to pieces if they…
The People’s Party?
Where does one start? With this so called party for the poor stating while in opposition, they believed that VLTs were evil and draining the poor unwashed of their money. Now they want online gambling? Let’s not forget the HST and power rate increases that affect the poor more than the rich. Also didn’t they…
Pedestrian Peril
If I live through the summer as a pedestrian in this city, I am getting down on my knees and kissin’ the fuckin’ sidewalk!! If I don’t get hit in a crosswalk, I’ll be blindsided on the sidewalk by some fuckin’ douche on a bicycle!! —dilligaf
Think before you Speak!
So I filled out the form and went to the office to renew the pass. Apparently there were a few things missing but luckily I did not have to redo the entire form. However, I could not immediately think of the the month I moved into a friends place. I said “just give me a…
The trouble with men…
The bestest trouble is their exwives! Why are they such bitches? She wants him back and he is now married to me. Your internet love isn’t so lovely now is he? Lose some weight and leave us alone you controlling fat bitch! —Sick of x’s
Hipsters
Fuck I hate hipsters. I also hate the retarded fashion on this website promoting hipsterism. Cant wait for it to be over. —The Standard A – Lister
Stop terrorism now
There is no such thing as an actual “terrorist” – much like how there is no santa claus or tooth fairy. No one who has known love wants to cause harm to others simply for the sake of causing harm. It is just easier, and more convenient at the time, to believe that they exist.…
Highway Driving Etiquette
Specifically to the lady with the pink tank top driving a newer grey Honda car, probably a civic, wearing sunglasses with brown hair i believe, possibly shoulder length: This happened at the Elmsdale on ramp heading towards HRM last Saturday …when you are driving in the slow lane and you are about to go by…
Species close to extinction, sometimes known as GENTLEMEN
I would like to know where all the gentlemen are in this city!? Waiting for the bus the POLITE thing to do is let the ladies on who are standing beside you, not pushing her aside to rush on. Or if you see a girl standing while you are sitting in your seat… GET UP…
The way it is! Act 2!
I’ve read every post following my bitch. Some agree, some do not. I guess this is the problem as far as “I” can see it: If your going to gag the Scotish Flag Pole when you meet your man, “DON’T STOP”!!! Here in lies the problem: No matter how repulsed you are by the idea…
Bitchin’ bout bitchin’
Is there actual pleasure in this? It seems like everyone just hangs around to get annoyed. I’m a very easily irritated person but this is extreme. The whole thing – people bitching about silly internet catch phrases, wanting to stifle babies in public places… and on and on. I mean – really? You really want…
FYI… Survey Takers:
I do not want some company or corporation that I do not know or even care about ringing me at home to do a survey. How do I even know this ‘rep’ is for real when the first thing they want to know if there are any males in the house between the ages of…
Backdoor Boys
Did the little girls oohing and aahing you make you feel young again? Did their moms who actually remember you make you feel old immediately afterward? Have you done anything new in the past 15 years besides stroke yourselves raw with delusions of grandeur and rape the north american public’s nostalgia? Go home, get a…
Dirrrty
To (some of) the men out there, clean your dirty fingernails! Or trim them so nothing sticks under there. I know it’s not only men, you women are nasty as hell too. —Lunch under nails
Get the Folk Out
Michael Weston King The Carleton is the latest local establishment to become a music festival hub. Co-owner Mike Campbell writes on the bar’s website that he was growing weary of “heading into the hinterlands” to enjoy great folk music at outdoor festivals, and thus the Halifax Urban Folk Festival was born. Essentially, it’s set to…
The Thugs of Rensselaer Falls, New York
In the middle of lovely Amish country there are three of these guys. I cross the bridge from Johnstown, Ontario to Ogdensburg, New York. It is very very windy, and maybe the most scarey thing of the trip. Most of the way over, the railings disappear. They are gone. There is construction and I am…
Clearwater’s John Risley gets a son-in-law
Sarah Risley, daughter of lobster billionaire John Risley, has married Guy Barnett, a British deckhand who came to Canada to work on Risley’s yacht. Britain’s Daily Mail is aflutter with the news, noting that Before he left his home town, he worked on a little old boat taking holidaymakers on trips to catch mackerel. Guy…
volunteering
I work on the Holy Cross Cemetery project (“Grave business,” Arts by Shannon Fay, August 12) and most of the volunteers, by far, are Catholic and of Irish descent. Most of the damage done has been from erosion over time, not deliberate vandalism. As a Catholic, I would prefer that the church spend its few…
seaport market
Your polling of readers to vote on whether or not they feel the new Seaport Market is a success (August 12) seems to me to be rather premature. The market is not completely finished nor as I understand it, all the systems for heating, cooling, et cetera fully operational. As well, I have heard comments…
a miscount! in the census!
The Conservative government has made an unfortunate error in judgment by deciding to get rid of the mandatory long-form census. This decision, made without any public consultation and without regard for its impact on Canadians, will deprive governments, businesses and non-profit organizations of sound, reliable statistics on which to base policy decisions. The census is…
a mighty wind
I very much appreciated the “Blow Job” article (Cover story by Bruce Wark, August 5), about windpower and its problems. It’s a breath of fresh air to hear a different side of the environmental story. Alternative energies like wind power are certainly important, but it’s a technology, and therefore only a piece of the environmental…
sex work
I am writing in response to “Bawdy crimes” (News by Lizzy Hill, August 12), respecting the new regulations that provide a punishment of up to five years in prison for sex workers who share a workspace or work from home, and make keeping a “common bawdy house” a serious offence for the purposes of the…
The new FML
Let’s get on the topic of “just sayin'”. Facebook status updates every where UNITE!!!!!!! JUST SAYIN’. You fucking drive me nuts. As nuts as FML, as nuts as BBM, as nuts as TTC, as nuts as BBM/TTC PUT TOGETHER. —Do like Joey and cut it out
Office Hell!
Will all of you please just STOP talking! You are driving me insane! —Gal who works in an office with 10 VERY CHATTY MEN!!
Library
Sitting the library and listing to a baby crying… FOR TEN FUCKING MINUTES. Shove a sock in the fucking kids mouth or get the fuck out you dumb fucking asshole. —Scott
Bad Sandwich Guy!
OK, so you work at a sandwich shop in Dartmouth and you hate it. That’s fine, I understand, but why are you the only person that works there that can’t make a damn sandwich properly? You won’t even look at the sandwich as you make it! It’s mostly lettuce! I asked for olives, not one…
Multigenerational Payback is a Bitch
Why do I have to suffer for the sins of rich corrupt bastards that lived over a hundred of years ago? I don’t even know those guys. I don’t have any of their money or wealth. I am piss poor. So why am I punished? Raised by a feminist (practical non-militant type). Taught tolerance and…
Slim Shitty
I am so fucking sick of hearing Eminem blasting out of every god forsaken speaker everywhere I go in this city. Maybe you should all go into rehab for your shitty music addiction. —Too loud
Don’t Toddle!!!!
To the woman who crossed the parking lot in front of a Bedford Mall: First of all, there were two crosswalks at either end of the intersection and yet you chose to walk across the center holding up cars in 3 directions no matter which way traffic was turning. Actually, that brings me to my…
Fuck You City of Halifax!
So I’ve been living where I’m living for the last 2 years, and for some reason the last few weeks, they haven’t been taking my recyclables. Now for 2 years I’ve been recycling the same way I’ve always done, separating my bottles and cans from all my cardboard. I use clear plastic bags for both…
To my sexually active cousin
Hey cuz, since we are roommates and we’re, you know, FAMILY, could you and your bf be a little more quiet when you two physically show your love for one another? It’s awkward enough to hear people having sex when they’re not related to you, but when they are, it’s a whole new level of…
I’m not ordering from you anymore!
To a certain pizza place: I order my usual about 3 times a month, Veggie pizza with pineapple, extra tomatoes, and extra cheese. Every single time, it comes delivered to me absolutely drenched! I call to tell you my pizza is undercooked and every time you tell me it’s because the toppings I chose are…
Annoying Fucking Shit
To the guy sitting across from me in the library right now. You win, you have the ability to smack your gum louder then anyone I have ever heard before. If my eyes could shoot lasers right now I’m pretty sure your head would be disintegrated. —Bitter
Boxer the Horse is riding high
Island rock Boxer the Horse is riding high Press play on Would You Please, the first full-length from Charlottetown’s Boxer the Horse, and from the moment its first delightfully old-fashioned organ riff kicks into gear, it’s hard not to find yourself playing the music geek’s favourite party game: Spot the Influence. The problem, though, is…
Cancer Bats fly
The first time Cancer Bats played The Pavilion, it was 2005 and the Toronto punk band only had 11 minutes of demo tape recorded. “We did Misfits covers to fill out our set,” laughs lead screamer Liam Cormier, over the phone from Ottawa. That trip was Cancer Bats’ first set of shows outside of Toronto,…
New Art Records’ End of Summer Blowout Festival
Malachy Kazi can’t find enough opportunities for young artists to play in the city, so he’s making them. “I was thinking this could be the start of an annual, all-ages festival,” says the general manager of New Art Records, a label that focuses on young and emerging artists. Kazi’s talking about this weekend’s Summer Blowout…
Radio Radio tunes in
Acadian hip-hop group Radio Radio is tuning into Halifax as part of the Seahorse’s monthly French Kiss show this Wednesday. Alexandre Arthur Bilodeau, Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant and Jacques Alphonse Doucet make up the trio, which is currently on the Polaris Prize 2010 shortlist with the likes of The Besnard Lakes, Caribou and plenty of…
On the periphery
The day demands focus and clarity. Part of the world blurs, becoming peripheral. In Losing It at MSVU Art Gallery, three artists turn periphery into focal point. “This is beautiful,” offers Kirtley Jarvis, looking down at the cardboard sign, with its magic-markered message, in her hands. The textile artist, from London, ON, has selected it…
Companies connected with Nova Scotia Business, Inc board member James Kehoe to receive $585,688 in rebates approved by NSBI.
In March, while James Kehoe was a board member at Nova Scotia Business, Inc., the province’s business development agency, that board approved over a half million dollars in payroll rebates for companies associated with Kehoe. Those payroll rebates were approved by the Dexter government on July 27. James Kehoe’s four-year term as a NSBI board…
Churchill fails
Darrell Dexter was playing politics when he huffed and puffed this week about Quebec’s objections to federal subsidies for an undersea power line between Newfoundland and Cape Breton. “The reality is that when good things happen for Quebec, it is seen as a triumph of federalism,” the NS premier complained to the Herald. “But when…
Vaginotional penistration
Q My boyfriend and I are straight college students, and he’s always wanting to try new things. Recently, he asked to put a finger in my ass while we were having sex. Someone did that to me before, but it felt uncomfortable and it kinda hurt. I told my boyfriend that he could do it…
Bad development
Bedford residents are looking down the barrel of two mega-projects that are anti-ecological, anti-community and will do little for culture—unless you consider shopping avant garde. If all goes as planned, the Bedford Basin near the Bedford Highway Sobeys and the western shore of Papermill Lake will be peppered with condos and strip malls. Amenities and…
The Expendables lives up to its name
Action-hero super-group, The Expendables, lead by Stallone, Statham and Li, are a mercenary hit squad tasked to do others’ dirty work, this time taking out a cocaine kingpin (Eric Roberts). This isn’t a great action picture but the combined cast has starred in some of the greatest action pictures ever so the bar is set…
Free Will Astrology
LEO(July 23-August 22) For the people of Finland, the word sisu describes a quality they regard as integral to their national character. It refers to a courageous strength of will that can be sustained for a long time—a staunch ferocity that refuses to be defeated. We all could use more of that good stuff, not…
The Woman in Black
There’s a delicious contrast in stepping from a sunny street in Wolfville into the darkened Al Whittle Theatre where an eerie mist billows gently from offstage. It’s even more delicious to discover that sometimes a well-performed classic psychological thriller like A Woman in Black can still be scarier than blood-and-guts-spewing horror flick. The credit for…
Eat Pray Love indulges
Eat Pray Love, both the book and the film, inspires a “how dare she” ire. The book by Elizabeth Gilbert is portrayed in some outlets such as bitchmagazine.org (search “priv-lit”) as the crime scene of some unforgivable transgression of gauche privilege. Now it is a lush, inviting, Julia Roberts movie about an enviable if outlandish…
Tracks: Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program
Eyelevel Gallery has two giant papier mache fists resting on their pink knuckles, with forearms reaching up to where elbows don’t exist. They’re part of artist Chantal Tardiff’s work (pictured above) for Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program exhibition, Tracks, and are coupled with shots of Tardiff wearing the giant fists and playing with positions…
Defining Halifax street style
She didn’t mean it as an insult, my Toronto friend. She had just observed, from her limited time spent with Haligonians, that there was a certain style, a particular way of pairing dresses with jeans, screenprinted t-shirts with cardigans, that was completely of the city. In her limited Ontario vocabulary, she describes the look as…
Wolfville interlude
Dirt roads and rough-hewn rows of trees stitch together a patchwork of browns and tans, greens, golds and blues in the Annapolis Valley. A warm wind blows through the cliffside bushes of The Look-Off, where I stand with two friends gazing through the thin cloudy haze that hangs high over the supernal quilt that is…
Introducing our Street Style section
Want to know what Haligonians are wearing? Visit our new Street Style section. Related Stories
Style hopping
Fashion designer Akshay Tyagi trims Halifax street style down to three easy-to-spot looks on page 12: the “north ender,” the “nouveau retired” and the “straight off the lookbook.” But if these styles weren’t on the street, where would you find them? We came up with a few bars where you might catch that DIY clothing…
Eat, pray, pick out the dress
Maybe Russell Smith isn’t entirely to blame. The Globe and Mail columnist—whose rumoured appearance at September’s Word on the Street will be interesting—faced the toothy wrath of the internet last week after Smith suggested that Halifax musician Tanya Davis’s poetic video “How To Be Alone,” was “anti-feminist” and “retrograde.” The lovely video, shot and animated…
