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so i was enjoying a delightful salad the other day when I realized I’m done… Theres too much, its just too much… How does anybody breathe? when there is to much lungs breathing it. —This is serious*
WRONG for 2014!!! THE COAST PRINTED THIS… New Year’s Eve w/The Bill Stevenson Trio | Stayner’s Wharf Pub … New Year’s Eve w/The Bill Stevenson Trio. When: Wed., Dec. 31 … Browse Issue by Date, December 25, 2014, December 18, 2014, December 11, 2014 … www.thecoast.ca/halifax/new-years-eve-w…bill-stevenson…/Event?… WHEN IN FACT… The Bill Stevenson Nine Steps Band…
This year has been tough for many of us, but we’ve gotten through it together. To all of my amazing friends who have been there through thick and thin—through crying over Kraft Dinner, boys, moving and new beginnings—I love all of you and I am so grateful to have you in my life. Happy new year!!…
To all of you straight male identified folk in Halifax who consider themselves allies or feminists: step up and stop treating the woman in our communities like toys. Halifax has so many beautiful, strong, creative, talented female identified folks and they deserve so much better than what you are dishing. Try kindness and friendship before…
Y U call my house 10 times last night from an unknown number, but refuse to leave a fuckin’ message? I don’t care if you call so many times your fuckin’ finger falls off, I ain’t answering, dipshit. Let me enlighten you on the code of phone etiquette since it appears you were born without any,…
[Image-1] In November I got dumped by my boyfriend of over four years. He went out west to work for six months straight, then came back for a visit before he would be heading out again. He wasn’t even going to be around for Christmas, so when he told me before flying back home that…
[Image-1] For a few winter months in 2011, we were pals. We had that kind of instant chemistry that makes for very good conversation and sometimes short-lived, flash-in-the-pan romantic feelings. Occasionally, I think it can also lead to wonderful friendships. Anyway, I think about you sometimes, and those sometimes are often over the holidays. I…
[Image-1] Sometimes the media ocean churns up a long-forgotten bit of news jetsam from its briny depths. Such a regurgitation happened recently when this 2000 story on Nova Scotia’s scalping law showed up in my newsfeed. According to CBC’s 15-year-old story, First Nations chiefs asked the premier to remove the province’s 250-year-old scalping law from…
[Image-1] What is this “the back” area that customers think exists? It’s a corner store the size of a postage stamp. I work everyday and I stock our shelves and I know what’s on them. When I say we don’t have something, please don’t ask me to “check the back.” There is no back. There’s…
A free public panel will take place Thursday night discussing the systemic causes of sexualized violence on Halifax’s university campuses. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs will put on “How We Live Matters” this Thursday evening at the new library. The talk will look at what’s required to create a cultural shift away…
After studying design in New Brunswick, and getting inspired while interning in Vancouver, Annapolis Valley’s own Cassandra Burrell has brought her creations home to Nova Scotia—and as of this week she’s selling them from her own boutique, CassBurr Designs (1574 Argyle Street, Suite 5, the former Sailor Bup’s location). Her current collection is full of…
[Image-1] Hey, you know what makes Winter Solstice the longest night of the year? It’s not the alignment of the planets, but the tiresome bongo dirges you’re banging out around your artisanal fire pit. I’m not sure whose parents bought you the eco-manse in the working class part of town, but I bet they’d be…
Look, girls. If there was a male equivalent to this site we would LOSE OUR MINDS. But I guess it’s ok for you to talk about someone’s “diq” (ew) and shit talk people behind their backs cause you know, it’s a safe space. Not really all that safe for the people whose pictures, phone numbers…
Last year I put forth the proposition to the Universe for Change. Big, life altering, new beginning change. Shortly after I discovered two leaks in my roof, had my house torn apart and was put up in a hotel for a month. As much of a pain in the ass as that was I kept…
They’re suspended, kind of. The 13 fourth-year dentistry students at Dalhousie who were involved in the Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen Facebook group have been temporarily suspended from clinical activities by the university. That announcement was made this morning by Dalhousie, just hours before a few hundred gathered on campus to protest the school’s disciplinary…
After 15 years in the organic food delivery business, and a year-and-a-half after opening its 2310 Gottingen Street storefront, Home Grown Organic Foods dropped off its final food boxes on December 22 and announced it was closing up shop for good. In a newsletter HGOF’s founder and owner Geordie Ouchterlony wrote: As much as we…
[Image-1] Okay, first off, I’m not nuts or anything, just another guy in this big wild world of ours. Anyways, I was walking across the MacDonald Bridge at around 11pm on Christmas night and a real spooky thing happened: I’m about halfway across the bridge towards Halifax and hear a mans laughter to my right…only…
My joy/appreciation goes out to the lady who kindly told her daughter that it’s okay for boys to dress like girls and girls to dress like boys, regardless of how complex it might really be to abandon ingrained social normatives…Made me smile 🙂 —Alfie Alfie Alfie
Go easy on yourself. No need to rage into 2015, save some for March, ffs. But staying at home isn’t really healthy either so here are some gentle things to do this weekend. FRIDAY Since we got back from the holidays my favourite thing to do at all times of the day is to lock…
Last year I realized I have the same interests as most teenage boys. Looking at the films I need to see in 2015 (including a Dennis Rodman doc and the new Star Wars, not listed), I might actually be a teenage boy. But I don’t care and you can’t make me. And rest in peace…
Stacey Campbell was elbow deep in ice cream when she realized that her downtown Dartmouth sweet spot needed to grow. A busy summer at Sugar Shok (117 Portland Street), and a craving to expand into milkshake territory, pushed her to start hunting for location that was both nearby, and much larger than her current spot.…
Sending all my love and support to the women in a certain 4th-year, health-related class at a certain Halifax university. You all deserve so much more. As a female student at said university—and as a decent human being—I empathize with you greatly. I went to the rally (sending love also to the 200-300 people who…
Dear Santa, thank you so much for all the overtime we were not supposed to get anymore because the program the city bought for millions of dollars is not in the least doing what it was supposed to do. End overtime. Thank you for all the fat cheques many of us have been getting for…
[Image-1] Why is it so hard for people to answer simple questions… or to reply in a timely manner? Today I found items I desired to purchase. Phone # and email were left in the ad, so I called, no answer. I left a message. I even emailed just in case the person checks that…
Are you the man that reeked of cigarettes and pot and came into a store Boxing Day, pointing to pictures on our wall and saying, “they’re Christians and they have you working here today?” If so, here’s a tip. Mind your own business, keep your mouth shut on other people’s work schedules (let alone their…
[Image-1] We get a lot of press releases during our day. Some of them are useful, others not so much. Presented without judgment or context, this past month’s weirdest releases. 3 gifts that help #SaveTheBees TSN’s James Duthie sports chicken suit for charity “Not everyone has the pluck to step into a chicken suit and…
Why do ex girlfriends need to constantly stay in touch with their ex, when he doesnt love them, doesnt like them, told her he found out about all her lies and crazy BS, and hates her. i dont understand it. its been 3 years. grow up and move on you crazy person. he has, and…
[Image-1] Hey dick, So I hear through the grapevine that my friend’s fiancé got fired the other day. He works for the city, or DID, until your pathetic ass decided to get involved with his life. Apparently in the line of duty, he drove over your neighbour’s grass with an HRM vehicle. I realize this…
[Image-1] Recently, Jim Vibert, who was hired to edit the government’s tax review report, wrote a Chronicle Herald editorial calling people who had concerns with it “knee-jerk tax review naysayers.” Ralph Surette asked people in his Herald editorial to “stop spewing rhetoric and digest tax report.” Not wanting to be a naysayer, I sat down…
[Image-1] TODAY: When I walked down the street past a group of 4 men, they sized me up and down and then told me I looked good in my pants. I felt intimidated, embarrassed and angry that I couldn’t just walk down the street peacefully –without any anxiety. When I got to work –(I’m a…
Has anyone sought comment from the canadian dental association if they will accept the boys club participants? It seems the group members have already messed up their own careers … The university will protect them but will the money and notoriety follow them that far up the ladder? —dental disgust
[Image-1] In May I had to emigrate to the USA for…reasons I’d rather not get into. It’s not the point of this love anyway. The point is that no matter how kind people here have been to me, no matter how much I love my new job, no matter how settled in I have gotten…Life…
[Image-1] A request to see any current and projected costs involved in the city retaining lawyer Brian Johnston has been refused by HRM. Johnston, a partner at Stewart McKelvey, has been hired by Halifax to conduct their negotiations with HRM’s firefighter and police unions. Johnston is a Q.C., with 35 years at the bar. His…
Im not gunna lie right now, but I am worried that its going too far. I woke up this morning. I was awake before I went to bed, and now I am awake again? Where are we all going in this. Why is it so loud when my clothes are washing? PLZ HELP —TricklingUpwards
[Image-1] If I owned a coffee shop or fast food restaurant I would give the staff permission to yell out “Next!” whenever someone walked up to the counter with a phone up to their ear. It’s just plain rude to be trying to carry on an unrelated phone conversation and order at the same time.…
[Image-1] Wow, Wimzy, I can’t believe you still love me even though I habitually submit cranky missives to Love the Way We Bitch. Well here’s hoping they publish this testament to how much I adore you. It’ll be the first time I’ve been on this side of the balance sheet. Maybe I’m starting to shine…
So I am leaving work on Christmas Eve behind neck MacMall or I proceeded to take a left turn there was a car coming to my rate with the signal light on to go last tour I was turning out of. so I have plenty of time to turn left giving lots of room so…
I used to stand in front of my dad while he was weeding the lawn so that I could block his butt crack from showing. He wore purple mini-shorts those summers, and his butt would pour over the top when he’d squat down low to pull dandelions out by their roots from the grass. I…
THE PANEL Erin Horton, a sommelier and licensee sales manager at Bishop’s Cellar. Heather Rankin, sommelier and co-owner of Obladee. A Wine Bar. Jordan Dickie, a bartender, formerly of Gio, and founder of the Facebook-based publication Viral Barman. THE STORY “I love these little glasses,” says Heather Rankin. She’s seated at a table in Field…
Q I’m a short guy and I need advice. I don’t want a small paragraph’s worth of advice, like you gave Below Their League a few years ago. I need advice beyond “Women like men taller than them, get over it!” I get it. I’m short (five foot two), and most women are taller than…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19) When he was 37 years old, actor Jack Nicholson found out that Ethel May, the woman he had always called his mother, was in fact his grandma. Furthermore, his “older sister” June was actually his mom, who had given birth to him when she was 17. His relatives had…
Root problems We are cutting these Dalhousie Dentistry guys too much slack “‘What are they going to do…kick every guy out of fourth year?'” by Jacob Boon, posted December 22 at thecoast.ca). Women have to go through so much crap and they are not believed when something serious happens to them. Let’s try to smack…
A Christmas Carol Dec 26, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Studio Theatre 1593 Argyle Street $18-$25 902-429-7070 In a very Haligonian turn of events, what began in 2003 as a make-your-own-work project for Jeremy Webb—a one-man version of The Christmas Carol—became 11 years, nearly 500 performances and a holiday theatre tradition. “I’d done the Neptune show…
Christmas in Prison: A Tribute to John Prine Saturday, December 27, 7pm King’s College Chapel 6350 Coburg Road $10 Sunday, December 28, 8:30pm The Carleton 1685 Argyle Street $10 adv/$15 door “It was based on this John Prine meltdown thing, it’d be late-night, three o’clock in the morning and we’d all see: ‘Anyone got a…
The Mellotones Live! at the Seahorse (independent) New Year’s Eve 2015 with The Mellotones and DJ Savory Wednesday, December 31 at 8:30pm Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street $40 A suitable keepsake for The Seahorse Tavern as it leaves its Argyle Street location after 66 years is the band that has made that downstairs hum…
The police review of a revenge porn and harassment investigation The Coast first wrote about on October 2 is finally complete. The “Always-on stalker” told the story of a Halifax woman, known as Nicole, who went to police in early 2013 alleging an ex-boyfriend in Florida was spreading explicit photos and video of her online…
SOME YEARS EARLIER: “It’s been theorized that the lonely hearts of our generation find comfort in television,” the social worker said. “They develop relationships with the boys and girls parading and fawning over each other on the television screen.” Little long-necked and anemia-white Myles steered his bite-sized aerial action figure in front of his face,…
on the coldest day of winter at the clearing, where Long Pond froze over seashell in one hand, a fist-full of cedar and sage in the other, you pierce the snow bank with a seabird’s feather you light sage smudge under boot soles over your pants onto winter jacket and across your chest down one…
Happy ho-ho-holidays, everyone! It’s me, your favourite old break-and-enter artist, Santa Claus! Whether you’re a Haligonian, a Dartmouthian, a Bedfard, a Cole Harbonite, a Person Of Passage Persuasion or from one of the Sacks, I wish to all of you in the catchment area of The Coast a most merry of merry Christmases! I’m so…
Due to last year’s Meryl Streep Incident, in which she did not show up for the press conference to August: Osage County (I am reasonably sure, based on her zero promotion for it, she hated that movie), I kept my expecations low for This Is Where I Leave You, an OKfamily drama starring some of…
My alarm goes off way too early for a heat-exhausted Saturday. I know I want to see Men, Women & Children because it’s the new Jason Reitman, but I don’t know anything else. (I made a list of 37 movies I wanted to see before I left, based on directors, actors, Halifax availability and This…
“It’s supposed to be the hottest it’s been since 1943 today,” says my courteous host as I’m packing my bag for the day. I sigh, throw a second shirt in and trudge out the door. My first doc of the week is Maura Strauch’s Sunshine Superman, which gathers amazing footage from the ’70s and ’80s…
Halifax is oddly sweltering at 9am. I run into a friend descending the Citadel steps while dragging my suitcase to the airport bus stop. “”Walking across the Commons was like crossing the Rubicon,” he said. In Toronto the weather is totally fine. Every year is a crapshoot—sometimes it’s 38, one year I had to buy…
