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The latest development to get approval while the Centre Plan nears crunch time will sit eight and a bit storeys high on Robie Street between Cunard and Compton Streets facing the Halifax Common. Neighbours from the area came forward at the public hearing to voice their concerns, but at this stage in the process they…
To the person who chucked their whole McDonald’s lunch litter into the middle of Dublin Street between Young and Cork Streets on May 21st, here’s the refuse you refused to recycle or even take home: large paper bag (recyclable), burger carton (recyclable), two paper napkins (compostable), a whole large bacon and cheddar angus bun (compostable.),…
I saw you steal the balloon off that old lady’s front porch. Your buddy kept yelling “Wrong house! Wrong house!” but was perfectly fine after you snagged that precious, partially deflated pink prize. At least the third member of your drunk little gang had the decency to look ashamed when I met his eyes. You…
I so much feel better about myself every time I read the Love The Way We Bitch section and see so many people complaining about the most mundane and insignificant things. Life is pretty good when you stop to appreciate the little things instead of complain about them. So here’s to all the folks in…
To the local alt-weekly newspaper publishing climate denial in the form of a letter to the editor that’s full of lies fabricated by oil companies, risking the future of the planet to make a buck: Don’t.—Not brainwashed, just worried about the future of humanity
Whoever you are, owners of the house on Maple Street in Dartmouth with that gorgeous magnolia tree: Keep up the good work! That tree is one of the nicest things I see on my drive to and from work. It makes spring time beautiful, especially with all this chilly weather we have had this (non)…
Bring Back Bald Britney She a boss ass bitch with an umbrella ella ella Bustin up car windows No more dancing Vegas puppet Handlers at the kitty cat ranch Fat Palimony bitchboy Federline fed enough He eatin like a king, Bling bling bling, Cut him off judge! Leave Britney alone! Illuminati queen, next to Bey…
Today at the Windsor exchange, there were four panhandlers working all medians and walking into traffic. Stop giving them money! They are a nuisance and a distraction. Last Sunday, going straight on the MacDonald Bridge at the corner of Nantucket Avenue and Wyse Road, a truck in front of me was giving money to a…
The past weekend was made long in the bad way with an announcement that First Aid Kit, AKA sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, have cancelled all their summer dates, included a highly anticipated Halifax Jazz Festival appearance in July. The July 10 replacement act is set to be announced this week.
Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Dr. Deep Saini has been elected as the university’s new president and vice-chancellor. He will be only the 12th president in the history of the 200-year-old school. Saini is not the first Dalhousie president to be born outside of North America; he follows inaugural president Thomas McCulloch…
An environmental group from Tampa Bay, Florida came to Halifax this week to protest their local energy provider’s mother company: Emera Inc. Emera Inc. is the billion-dollar multinational corporation that owns 10 affiliate companies including our homegrown NS Power and international power companies like TECO (Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas) in Florida. If you haven’t…
There’s a hell of a lot at work in Little Thing, Big Thing. Resurrected by director Jeremy Webb, the Merritt-winning Neptune take on Donal O’Kelly’s play is a venture jam-packed with hints of Hitchcock-esque suspense riddled with madcap antics and a million different feckin’ uses of the f-word. Between moments of beautiful poetic language and…
A roller disco party, Mayworks Festival’s climate change cry, Motorhead-y metal from Pale Mare and, of course, the first weekend of the Memorial Cup makes for an extra-memorable weekend. the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice Saturday Mayworks Festival—the fest blending arts and activism as it explores life for the working class—continues with…
F or a film like The Hustle, dropped in the wake of Avengers before the summer’s riptide comes roaring in, you’d be right to approach with tempered expectations. But the film—a grifters’ caper starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Hollywood, please stop it with this)—immediately subverts those with its…
Creamy Rainbow Bakery and Cafe 1526 Dresden Row WHO SHE IS Helen Zhao dreams about cakes, breads and desserts as soft as clouds. Raised in China, where bakeries are filled with a combination of savoury, sweet and creamy treats, Zhao couldn’t find the equivalent in Halifax. She craved dough mixed with egg milk and stuffed…
P icture it: You’re sitting in a folding chair on a country lawn somewhere in the Annapolis Valley. You got a lot of sun at the cherry U-pick in the afternoon, and your skin is still radiating. You are satiated with lobster rolls and potato salad. The sun is making a mix of Creamsicle hues…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) I think it’s time for a sacred celebration: A blow-out extravaganza filled with reverence and revelry, singing and dancing, sensual delights and spiritual blessings. What is the occasion? After all these eons, your lost love has finally returned. And who exactly is your lost love? You! You are your…
Slow and steady appears to be the tactic taken by those in power since Scot Wortley’s street check report was released in March. At Monday’s Board of Police Commissioners meeting, interim police chief Robin McNeil explained why the HRP won’t be apologizing just yet for the harm caused by street checks, saying it would be…
Council’s work to help support open street events is now in motion. Councillor Sam Austin requested this week for the city to find ways to help support and reduce the costs of policing and street closures for these events. Austin says open street events provide a lot of value in his district, and thinks it…
Stop scaring kids Last week’s cover story, about the need for Nova Scotia to get off fossil fuels, opens with a scene of Halifax students protesting human-caused climate change, joining students from all over the world in the May 3 protest (“A just transition,” by Laura Cutmore). Many of those who ditched classes did so…
Gone are the days of the Ecology Action Centre’s No Flyers Please stickers giving distributors enough guilt to keep their half-price blenders and donair-pizza-quiche flyers out of your mailbox or the end of your driveway. In an attempt to curb “nuisance litter” and ensure those who have opted out don’t get unwanted flyers, Halifax Regional…
S ometimes the pulse of a moment is best tracked not in books or headlines or even philosophy, but a snippet of song lyrics that, looking back, tell more than any diary entry ever could have. Richard Hell and The Voidoids did just that with their proto-punk anthem “Blank Generation,” a niche hit that distilled…
Q Garbage human here. I’ve had herpes for about 15 years. The first five years, I was in a relationship with a guy who also had it. The last 10 years, I haven’t been in a serious relationship. I’ve been a (rare, drunk) one-night-stand type of gal, and I don’t usually tell the guy because,…
Maybe you read our feature on the serious benefits of getting a hobby. Or perhaps you just wandered by. It doesn’t really matter—the important thing is you’re here, ready to check out a half dozen ways to pick up a hobby in Halifax. The Big Sing Every second Tuesday, this pop-music chorus takes over Gus’,…
I n the odd and moving The Realistic Joneses, on until this weekend at the Park Place Theatre, one married couple moves in next door to another. Jennifer (Kathryn MacLellan) and Bob (Christian Murray) are dealing with his rare terminal illness (well, she is, he’s fading into nothing). Pony (Gil Anderson) and John (Matthew Lumley)…
To June 2 ViewPoint Gallery, 1459 Brenton Street I n Oracle, Arizona, there is a rainforest in the desert. Specifically, there is a rainforest in a biosphere in a desert, and it is the largest closed ecosystem to date. On a recent visit to the research facility and tourist attraction known as Biosphere 2, photographer…
Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar, a religiously significant month for Muslims, because it is during the Month of Ramadan that the Quran was first revealed to Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). For 1,440 years, Muslims around the world have experienced Ramadan as a time to reconnect with the creator. The most special…
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