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[Image-1] I took the time out of my day to draft an excellent cover letter to you and you asked me via email to come to your clinic for an interview first thing that morning. I received no phone call. When I checked my email later in the morning, I saw that you had sent…
[Image-1] I was in Freak Lunchbox on Friday, February 5. I came in after spending $140 at Urban Outfitters. I seen your face, and realized I seen an angel in front of me. A pale, stunning angel. So, I hope out paths can cross again, and maybe we could watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles together.…
[Image-1] I was walking home tonight by myself down Charles Street when I noticed you walking towards me with two dogs. When you stepped aside to let me pass, I was surprised since the sidewalk was clear and big enough for us to have shared it. It soon became apparent why you chose to do so…
[Image-1] To a certain pro-life organization: Your offer of “help and support” to pregnant women in crisis makes me sick and angry at the same time. Having been in that situation myself, I know that a visit to your organization would have been traumatizing to me in an already difficult time. And I had the…
[Image-1] I really like you. And I know I shouldn’t, but that’s why I do. We shouldn’t. I’m trying not to but I do. Everything about you is so cool, you’re so funny and it’s too funny that life works like this. Just know that I think about you. —1738
this goes out to a certain free newspaper wrapped in pink plastic and cast over my front step weekly. 1) i am all for papers in general, but i think your newspaper is a waste of valuable resources (sorry, but i never read you) 2) whoever throws you on my step always throws two to…
While trying to encourage local writer and musician Daniel Long (The Cannisters) to publish his poetry, Bijoux Wilcox (Faw Haja) noticed it might be easier for her and her buddies, namely Dylan Jewers and Grant Mitchell, who also all write poetry, to just do it themselves. “It became apparent that if we all contributed a few things, it…
[Image-1] Thank you for waiting so patiently as I sorted things out. I wouldn’t have (and didn’t) expect you to be willing to endure the uncertainty and the emotional turmoil, but you said you knew somehow that we could be worth it. The nature of relationships is that they’re risky and that they might not…
[Image-1] You guys have the best fucking music in the city. I asked about it once and it’s all your guys’ personal shit. That’s dope. Thanks for not forcing me to wear sound proof headphones and thanks for the trip-hop and coffee. —Fuck Your Shitty Pop Stations
[Image-1] I watched you as you took your dog out of the car full of four children in front of the Liquor Store. Your beautiful young German Shepherd dog. Choking itself full force on a choke chain. Please throw that torture tool in the garbage and give your poor dog’s windpipe a break. Please teach your children something other…
I don’t feel safe as a trans woman in Halifax. There, I said it. —Don’t Wanna be Murdered Before I’m 30
Nina Forever is about a morbid oddball-couple, which, if you’ve seen Corpse Bride, Let the Right One In, or Only Lovers Left Alive, will sound like familiar territory. Though this British movie (which is being sold as a horror-comedy, but that strikes me as stretching definitions of horror and comedy) barely digs beneath its surface,…
Today, only on The Coast’s Scene Blog: watch ECMA-nominated folk singer Jon Bryant’s new video for “Light,” the first single from his upcoming album Twenty Something, which will be released on February 29. Woo. Produced by Grammy nominated producer Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, City and Colour) and Lord Huron’s Rick Parker in LA (Bryant’s a Clippers fan), it’s a…
Grill you know it’s true. It’s almost time to get fired up about Halifax Burger Week. You might as well start laying out the stretchy pants now because we’re pre-heating the grills for the fourth annual eating extravaganza. This year, 79 (!!!) restaurants will participate the the city-wide celebration of patties and buns, making it…
Listen up all your motherfuckers who keep plowing through crosswalks while I’m trying to cross the street. I don’t care that you’re late for work, or that you feel you have room to squeeze by while a person is still walking across. You do not have this right. You know the fucking rules of the…
Nova Scotia Power is holding Nova Scotia back. When are folks going to wise-up and rise-up and fight the power? —fight tha powa!
To the prick who was late getting to the Lebrun Centre in Bedford last night at a little after 8:00. I’m sure your daughter and the raccoon you peeled would have been happier if you hadn’t been driving 100km/h up Holland Street. My wife had to watch the mother raccoon die as your chicken shit…
Dear fellow humans of Halifax; I’m a friendly sort of person. I don’t mind making small talk with strangers at the bus stop, the doctor’s office, the DMV, or any other place where people are forced to cool their heels in close proximity. We can chat about the weather, or sports, or the city’s snow…
This just in: five-time Grammy winner James Taylor is coming to Halifax! The legendary troubadour has booked the Scotiabank Centre (1800 Argyle Street) on Tuesday, May 17 to support his most recent album Before This World, his first release of new songs since 2002’s platinum-selling October Road. From the press release: “Before This World was released…
[Image-1] Halifax (and Dartmouth) still remain mostly shut down as the city digs itself out from last night’s snow pounding. Meanwhile, it’s pancake Tuesday. So basically there’s no reason to get out of bed unless it involves maple syrup and watching animals frolic in the snow. Below are some of our favourite babies. ——— …
I submitted a bitch about women in the customer service industry. I really hope that it is published or at least put online. This is a very important topic. And a very current issue. And it needs to be brought into light. —previous bitch
Yes, I am aware that when one shops at a convenience store they are paying for convenience. And of course, I had the option NOT to buy the things I bought. So with all that said, here’s my gripe: you are charging over 3 dollars for a 2L of BigHate pop. That junk is like…
[Image-1] The walk to work this morning in our unseasonably mild weather was spoiled by the dog crap all over the sides of the sidewalks. Note to dog owners: SNOW DOES NOT MAKE SHIT DISAPPEAR, it just covers it up until a thaw. When it melts it’s 10x grosser. Snow is no excuse for not…
I just moved back to Halifax after years away and I’m already sick of walking out my front door with the filth. Bags of dog shit, bags of garbage ripped up and spewed across the sidewalks, cigarette butts by the millions, Over flowing green bins, BAGS OF DOG SHIT!!! There is no one else to…
It makes zero sense to me why the #7 bus – a bus servicing the downtown core – does not run past midnight on a Friday night. —Pedestrian Stranded in a Storm
[Image-1] Given the state of journalism, broke young freelancers taking up the Chronicle Herald’s offer to work as replacement labour during a union strike is understandable, if not regrettable. It’s a little more surprising when the man crossing the picket line to cover city hall turns out to himself be a former mayor. Bruce Lantz,…
[Image-1] Kate Rancourt and Maria Glowacka are two of the six PhD students working with Dr. Natalie Rosen in her Dalhousie University research lab—the only one in Nova Scotia completely dedicated to sex and relationships. Rancourt and Glowacka spoke with The Coast about their upcoming talk, “Taking Care of Down There,” and Nova Scotia’s sexual…
The TD Halifax Jazz Festival and Sonic Concerts have teamed up for the first time to bring folk superstar–and former member of Alexisonfire–City and Colour to Hali just in time for Jazz Fest’s 30th anniversary. Despite being most decidedly un-jazzy, City and Colour (real name Dallas Green-get it?) is a huge act and he’s been…
[Image-1] Changing directions slightly from last week, Mount Allison University has now decided to cut its gender studies budget by 50 instead of 100 percent. According to CBC, the Sackville, New Brunswick school has now committed $12,000 to its women’s and gender studies program after student outcry over proposed budget adjustments that would have effectively…
There’s a certain level of bullshit you put up with at certain food spots- people that call pizza ‘a nice pie’ or beer ‘a good pour’, overuse of the abbreviation ‘apps’ that can even become ‘appies’. We know now everyone in Halifax is capable of making over-priced disappointing tacos, and ‘mixologists’ are something we’re all…
wondering about the criterias for bitches being published. does it have to be something as stupid as people who dont understand gluten free. or can it be something relevant and important like women in the customer service industry ? han? —common man
Ok, we get. youre super enlightened. Your parents bought you a vacation to south america and you paid some local dude to take drugs with you because you heard Joe Rogan talk about it once. Now youre back in Halifax with new beads in your dreads, some stupid fucking geometry tattoo, and an insufferable ego.…
[Image-1] If I had the money i would give to every charity that asked. But I don’t! I’m just a carpenter, we don’t make much per hour. I give when I can. However, as long as there are millionaire’s and billionaires on this planet, i don’t think the the working poor should be solicited for…
[Image-1] Yesterday at work, one my co-workers was talking about the Ghomeshi case. This trial is about Ghomeshi’s alleged actions. Not about what three women did before they went the courts. But he mentioned that he didn’t understand why Lucy Decoutere and the other women who have so far testified in the case stayed in…
[Image-1] The province of Nova Scotia has launched its new open data portal, publishing a catalogue of more than 130 datasets now neatly collected and available to download. “Open data is one part of our vision for an open and accountable government,” said premier Stephen McNeil in a release. “By making our data widely…
[Image-1] Engineering, pharmacy and agriculture students at Dalhousie University better hope for some scholarships because it looks like costs are going up. Way up. Thursday’s draft operating budget report from Dalhousie’s Budget Advisory Committee is recommending a three percent tuition increase for all Dalhousie University students, coupled with more drastic hikes of as much as…
[Image-1] This weekend sees the return of IDEALaw, the student-run justice conference held every two years at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law. Open to the public (admission is by donation), the event brings together both legal professionals and activists to address social problems in Canada’s justice system. Organizer and spokesperson Vinidhra Vaitheeswaran spoke with The…
The new year brought the end of Daun Windover’s source for mid-century modern furniture and accessories boutique, Abode—or so we thought. The 5431 Doyle Street shop closed its doors the face of the soon-to-be construction zone at Spring Garden, Queen and Doyle with no new location to speak of, until now! It turns out Abode…
[Image-1] “Scotian” food is hearty, delicious and made with soul. As the earliest black settlers to Nova Scotia, our ancestors overcame unmeasurable hardships to survive and thrive. Along with our resourcefulness we also brought our knack for southern cooking, or what is commonly known as “soul food,” and meshed it with what the land and…
[Image-1] Started in Sweden in the early ’60s—about 20 years after IKEA—sledge hockey was created for people who want to play hockey despite disabilities. The sport’s growing in Nova Scotia, with four current programs, two more on the way and Bridgewater recently hosting the World Sledge Hockey Challenge. While at the international level eligible athletes…
[Image-1] A community agency in Halifax that provides programming to urban aboriginals has identified mental health help for its clients as a priority. But not only is there a gap in service to address that need at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre on Gottingen Street, the city as a whole is lacking the culturally based…
This weekend there’s an event in Kelowna, British Columbia, called Gold Medal Plates. Every fall for the past handful of years, the Halifax qualifying round for this event has rolled into town, perhaps most notably bringing silver fox Jim Cuddy back to the Cunard Centre to remind everybody how great the song “Bad Timing” is.…
Stop denying me My name is Karen R. Clarke. I have received the CCSVI (angioplasty) treatment for my Multiple Sclerosis twice. I have the quality of life that I have not had since my MS diagnosis in 1991. Discrimination denies anyone with an MS diagnosis the right to receive the CCSVI treatment in Canada. This…
Between the lyrical, lovely Weekend and the short-lived cult favourite Looking, on HBO, writer-director Andrew Haigh has pushed the modern gay man—well, the white, fit, reasonably well-to-do one—past tired, lingering stereotypes and into a place more complex and interesting (altogether now: human). So his latest is something of a curveball: A pair of senior citizens (Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling and…
Nigel Chapman is a shy man. Onstage, with his band Nap Eyes, he’s reserved. He looks down at his guitar and sings with his eyes closed. He’ll nervously adjust his glasses or push his blond hair aside. He’s gracious for the attention and he thanks the audience and his bandmates repeatedly. In between songs, when…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books,…
A large crowd braved a snowstorm to come out to Savage Love Live at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre last week. Questions were submitted on index cards, which allowed questioners to remain anonymous and forced them to be succinct. Here are some of the questions I didn’t have time for. Q What exactly causes relationships to end?…
With this week’s relocation of the Atlantic Film Festival office, NSCAD’s “art district” vision is complete. Here are some of the key tenants that should help turn the arts university’s Fountain campus into a renewed downtown arts and culture destination—at least until NSCAD decamps to a new “integral campus” sometime in 2019. 1. Art Bar…
Plan B Merchants’ Co-op (2180 Gottingen Street) is opening a cafe as part of its plan to re-organize the shop and stabilize its finances. This week it will begin serving coffee, and over the next month it will roll out its full menu. The grilled cheese, soups and hot mains such as Swedish meatballs and…
