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By all means, You responsible For the Back of Cold In the weather, Please at once Report Self Now To the Principal, For all Sake. ernest
Why isn’t there a listing for best Fish Monger?
Published April 30, 2008. Why isn’t there a listing for best Fish Monger? Why isn’t there a listing for best Fish Monger? Bill
Crocks or flats….neither
OK ok sooooo i descide to write another blog , if thats what you call it or a bitch because it felt so good to get the things off my chest, and i like all the comments good ones and negative ones I got to hear what you guys all thought all 8 of you…
Municipal Malfunction Still Malfunctioning
Municipal malfunction aka “On Patrol” uses ahme to get ‘da gubbmint’ to fix the city. I now call on the Website Nazi to round up his huge team of website developers to fix the “Still Broken” section of On Patrol! I bitched about this once upon a time, and it’s still broken. It’s like ten…
Fuck the Metro
I have tried giving you a chance, I have taken every paper your slaves have forced on me on the street, I never cared much for whats inside, but for the most part, whatever, its something to read. City Pizza only opened rather recently, and tragically, burned down. your headline, no matter how clever you…
McDream opportunity
Meaghan Smith could be looking at what some call a “career-maker”—her song “5 More Minutes” is going to be featured on Grey’s Anatomy (May 1 episode). Plus, it’s a pretty awesome story. In a nutshell, Smith’s song is featured because she’s fun to hang out with. Here is the tale in her own words, “Last…
give me my shit back
why is it that my sibling is only willing to share when it is my possessions at stake? i eat your gum and you freak out but when you find something that i have been looking for it’s yours now, or “we can share it” and when i protest i am the one that should…
Screw Helvetica
If I have to look at one more logo in Helvetica or Arial I am going to loose my last thousand lunches in one fell swoop. Fuck the Swiss design school, fuck the dehumanizing clean lines, the oh so mind numbing utilitarianism of it all. While we are at it: fuck Bauhaus architecture and all…
Citadel Hell
I really must vent about this absolutely redicoulous piece of garbage of a school. First of all we only have 5 mins to get between classes. Second they lock the Ahern Street entrance yeah the one with the bridge in fact for all 1700 of us we only have two doors to enter through. Third…
nosey fucking old bitch
to the nosey fucking old bitch that should be home on her retirement plan, what i wear is none of your business , you came up and asked if i had cancer!! If i choose to wear something on my head for fashion that is my fucking choice, you didn’t even say hi or get…
kijiji rip offs!
who the fuck would by a fucking formal dinner table off kijiji for $5200???? come on folks people weren’t born yesterday! they go there for bargains not some high priced crap. also to a certain store in dartmouth on wyse road that buys up kijiji stuff cheap then sells it for $299.99 or $149.99 get…
fuck you…………..
My rant is short and to the point… GO Fucking kill Yourselves. Walmart associates . you all think your better then the other stores like say mine zellers. HA! i was in your store before and i couldn’t understand why you have to be so immature went into the men’s bathroom. there were two male…
No Dicks About It
For the guys in my class who go on and on AND ON about they’re package while I’m trying to work: SHUT THE FUCK UP! I don’t give a shit how big your dick is. Yes it’s big, I bet you’re really proud, but you don’t have to keep saying it over and over again.…
Blonde Bitch on the #7 Bus
This is to the blonde bitch that every morning needs to get on the bus first. You afraid you pretty little ass is going to get cold? You even walk farther to another bus stop to get on the bus first. I really wanted to knock you the fuck out the other day when you…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I think HRM by design guru, Andy Filmore gave developer Ben Mac Rae the go ahead to increase the height of his proposed alteration of Heritage in the heart of Halifax to nine stores, in the article quoting him in Thursday’s Herald, by Bruce Erskine.Nine stories or even…
Letters to the Editor
Unfortunately, Mike Fleury (“Happy Trails,” April 4) seems to have bought HRM’s propaganda about the so-called “urban greenway.” Or else he wasn’t told that the three-metre-wide path will destroy some 86,000 square feet of existing green space, including trees, and cover it all will asphalt, which will then be liberally salted during the icy months…
This bicycle has been locked up near Lord Dalhousie Drive since last fall. Rusted, seatless and alone, it does offence to our fragile senses. We banish thee, crippled chariot!
Remarks: Forgotten bikes sit on campus until they’re deemed “derelict” (like fine art, you just know it when you see it). Then, Coolen and campus security form a lock-cutting posse. According to a Dal security officer, the university stores forgotten bikes and auctions them off “every two years or so.” As for this bike, Coolen…
Broken sign on Queen Street near Spring Garden
Remarks: “Happens all the time,” says Skinner. “That red sign gets vandalized about once a week, usually by university students.” Damn them to a fiery dorm room in hell! Skinner says Impark is aware of the problem, and working on getting it fixed. Who’s Responsible?: Ken Skinner—manager, Impark Halifax. 423-1126.
Broken fountain near public garden entrance on Spring Garden Road
Remarks: A fountain without water is like a 2001 Chilean shiraz: dry, and unpleasant. Am I right? Who’s with me? McKee says the fountain was working, but the motor on the pump burned out. Drag. However, there is a new motor, and McKee says it’ll be installed before the park closes for the winter. “Actually,…
Unofficial skating rink on Bloomfield street.
Remarks: Venturing down Bloomfield is like attempting to do mogul skiing without the skis. The sidewalks on this street are cemented with mini-mountains of ice. An HRM bylaw states that property owners in Halifax are responsible for “clearing snow and ice from all sidewalks abutting their property,” and sidewalks must be shovelled down to the…
Revenge of the Nerds
Free Comic Book day is awesome on it’s own. But when you throw in a free rock show right inside a comic book store, you are dealing with Iron Man levels of happiness. One of Halifax’s premier video game theme cover bands, Nerd Army (James O’Toole, Brad McDougall, Craig Hamlin and Shawn Hunt), are playing…
Seriously?
Miley Cyrus is writing her memoirs. She’s fifteen years old. A blatant attempt to make scam even more money out of parents of young girls, or evidence of a seriously inflated ego? I wanna be famous too
spring is here
spring is here!!! summer is comming , I just have one thing too say…girls…and guys…If your fat then you shouldn’t wear that … Please if it doesn’t fit you or its skin tight, or if its for someone thats thin please i am not a fan off the hank hill muffin tops,girls.. you can wear…
Atlantic Home Warranty Sucks
I hate Atlantic Home Warranty. My house has an major problem -they say it ain’t under warranty. But I know it is. Neighbor has same problem. But they say our aren’t the same. I hate AHW. Waste of money. Julia
Late July! My, oh, my.
Everyone’s favourite outdoor festival/bodypainting/camping/dance thinger, Evolve, have changed their dates to July 25, 26 and 27. The website claims that this change lets them “sidestep a couple other competing events in Atlantic Canada and frees up some performers that we’re very excited to bring to Evolve.” A little bird tells me that some of those…
Meth much?
As I walk down Spring Garden Road, I will get asked for ‘spare change’ at least half a dozen times. During the summer months, the frequency of requests increase. Being annoyed from this, I ignore them. However I have seen one panhandler in particular who displays a large sign which advertises his apparent condition of…
where is my bitch
i clicked ‘proceed’ last night and its not here. i again tried again today, this sucks…where is my bitch….it is just as valid as some of the crap on here, the ‘proceed’ button sucks… pissed at proceed
Sublet this Halifax
As a student who has recently moved I’m sick and tired of going on kijiji or the coast’s housing classifieds areas and dealing with bullshit. I’m looking for an apartment, not a sublet, yet when I look in the apartment section, what do I find? FUCKING SUBLETS!! I don’t give a shit how bad you…
Neck Breathers
Honestly, what is the point of you neck breathers standing literally an inch from my neck in the grocery store. Does it look like I have a F#%in sandle on my back? No! So get the f*#% off Quinpool Superstore Shopper
“I wasnt cutting up onions”
I was minding my own business the other day just doing some shopping at the local grocery store. I was in the pet food isle. When this “300 pound fat ass decided she would “crank” one out three feet ahead of me. Needless to say, I couldnt avoid the onslaught! Due me a favor ya…
metro transit can suck it, i’m getting a bike
On Friday I was going to catch the #14 bus heading downtown at Oxford and Allan streets. I was just about to cross the street when the bus pulled up. I sprinted across the street to catch it, only to have the bus driver pull away from the stop as I was a feet from…
Penny Chuckers
To the faux-hawk fuck-tard, his fat friend, and their token dumb blonde: you were walking down the hill towards the waterfront and for some fucking unknown-to-sane-people reason you were throwing pennies at cars, and you hit mine, not realizing we were sitting right in it. You’re very lucky that by the time we figured out…
review
gingergrass is an outstanding restaurant. the best in halifax is JANE’s. PD
Hours of the Bathroom
What time to the bloody new bathrooms on the north side of the commons open? Shitting & pissing all over the commons is a drag because the bathrooms are generally locked during my morning run. Please open at 7:00 am daily. Dawn
Granted it’s ageism!
Dear Government, As a current full-time mature student who is returning to school in September I am happy to see so many wonderful opportunities available for summer employment! After working for 10 years in your funded Call Centers in Halifax, I am finally doing something that I love and it’s so great that I can…
SOB Driver
To the SOB driver (opps, I mean SUV driver) at the corner by Tony’s pizza on Friday: Your absolute ‘need’ to make a left hand turn into the crosswalk where I was walking almost killed me. You were going so fast there wasn’t a thing I could do even though I saw you coming and…
Blockbuster Parking Lot
To the asshole in the Blockbuster parking lot Friday night: I hope you rot in hell. We pulled into the goddamn parkinglot BEFORE you, asshole, yet you sped past us in that tiny place, where there’s bearely enough room for one car, and then you thought you could take the last fucking spot. We pulled…
bike helmet
After finishing my lunch at Tarek’s at Spring Garden Place (delicious, go there for lunch BTW, it’s great) I realised that I had left my bike helmet at the RBC ATM behind the Starbucks. I went back there and my bike helmet was gone! To the person who took my helmet: please look up “Pityriasis…
Bus Riding Lesson
To the hordes of mindless drones who take the 1 Spring Garden, and probably most of the other busses… WAKE UP. It’s always busy and crowded so if there’s a seat, SIT IN IT don’t stand beside it. If there’s space at the back, hello… MOVE TO THE BACK. It’s bad enough the accessible busses…
alpine jacket/handsfreecell girl
What is it with you, blue alpine jacket, blond pony tail, blk cords girl? why must you stand on the bus(route54 montebello 5pmish) in front of the back door and yack everyones ear? Did you not realize how everyone on the bus was looking, talking about you?(how rude you are) You talked and talked for…
you think you’re god’s gift to earth…
Well, let me tell you; YOU AREN’T! Long before i met you, I only heard bad things about you. Once I met you, I realized all the things i heard were true and I promised myself never to get invovled with you… Then I found myself dating you (and I really don’t know why!). Each…
attn: ex boyfriends..
I just don’t get it. why the fuck do you have to come back into my life, years down the motherfucking road and tell me you still have feelings for me … BUT YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND. It’s just not fair, especially when more than one of you does this. it’s ridiculous ! I can’t…
Coast celebration party- white bread
Whoa!! COAST– couldn’t ya have invited a couple of red; yellow; brown; and black faces to your party? –Just enough to get in the on-line pics to display supooed mass appeal and diversity? Hey…white bread ain;t the healthiest. Ann
why do peaple feel the need to bitch..
I was at walmart before and over heard a woman exclaime to her doughter. ‘I don’t shop at walmart everything’s hear is crap”. uh excuse me woman your at wlamart and shopping. So if you don’t like Walmart then get out please we don’t need to know your 2 cents. if you hate the store…
Game theory
To everyone that is pissed off about Halifax dropping the Commonwealth games bid, seek psychological counsel! We are talking about $1B+. The idea that Halifax is in any way able to host such an event is one my brain can’t explain. The city can’t even get potholes patched up, and you want them to build…
Foreign Fun
To the person who was sitting beside me on the bus, I caught on to your creepy little game. When someone “dings” the bell indicating they would like to get off at the next stop, most people would move when the person beside them would like to get off, but oh no, not you. You…
I am NOT homophobic I’m asshole-phobic!
To start i want to say I DO NOT HATE GAY PEOPLE, LESBIANS, BISEXUALS…infact some of my best friends are all three… thinker for… but regardless, gay and i mean GAY people piss me off, not the “ya I’m a guy who happens to like another guy” kind of gay but the kind who go…
8am until 10pm
To my understanding when a grocery store is opened for 14 hour’s 6 day’s a week and 6 to 8 hour’s on a Sunday is this not enough time to get your grocerie’s,or maybe it is just me that make’s a list when i start to run out of thing’s i need to get by…
inconsiderate jerks.
PLEASE STOP DOING YOUR SHOPPING 10 MINUTES BEFORE THE MALL CLOSES. IT CLOSES AT 9:00pm. I HAVE A BUS TO CATCH. YOU ASSHOLES CONTINUALLY MAKE ME MISS IT. FUCK. to all you assholes who insist on shopping, trying stuff on and even having the nerve to ask us to go get you other sizes and…
Panties red flashes
ok, to you babes on the buses and wherever with little minis you cannot sit without flashing your pink panties , don’t blame us guys for looking. you saw me and you say whatcha you looking? where you wanna me to look if you show everything to everyone in front of you. You say get…
This one’s for YOU
Coast, I am really fed-up with your pretentiousness. I used to live in Montreal, and they have a weekly called the Mirror. It is PAINFULLY obvious that you’ve copied most of your material from them. Man, I have sooo many beefs with the Coast. Leslie Lowe, who do you think you’re kidding with your shoddy…
Homeless getting Ballsy
To the guy begging for money on Spring Garden on Saturday, who yelled at me because I didn’t have change: get a job! This is MY money and I don’t have to give it to you. You keep insulting people and you’re going to find someone who doesn’t take it as well as I do.…
Drivers of Halifax: relax
To all the people driving around honking, running lights, giving people the finger and generally getting crazy on the roads in Halifax: Chill out. It’s nice out, the pedestrians are out of hibernation and you can shake your fist and blast your horn until you have a heart attack…I’m way to busy enjoying the sunshine…
Dont tell me this is chicken!
OK sooo I was so excited this Sunday night to go to a resturant I heard so many great things about.And I order a dish which chicken and bamboo shoots. 45 min later they bring me something with dark meat and green and red peppers and because of my great NS education and personal experince…
Police roadblocks: Do we really need ’em THAT frequently?
Living where I do, it’s very common to see Military Police officers on patrol in their cars, which I think is great considering the recent spikes in violence in our city. However, Is it really necessary for them to hold nearly bi-weekly sticker check roadblocks? I understand it’s dangerous for uninspected and unsafe cars to…
garbage garbage everywhere
Does anybody know who I can call to stop people throwing blue bags of advertising garbage on my lawn? My neighbourhood is littered with this crap. Mother Earth
Fool Survivor
Maybe all I did was just survive because I was living with a soul-sucking,egomaniac. Hey.. I wasn’t always a picnic. I always nursed you back to health when you were ill. I took care of your poor neglected dog and home. I did this because I loved you. At the same time I was battling…
Truthless Story?
Now don’t get me wrong, I like the Mike Holmes strip, and though I may come off as a prat I just can’t let it go. Something about this weeks “True Story” bugged me and I couldn’t figure out why. No, it wasn’t that the sunset was setting in what appeared to be the east,…
Who asked you?
I had long hair for years, and I seldom received feedback on my hair. I cut my hair short, and suddenly, I am the recipient of unsolicited comments about my hairstyle. I won’t complain about the compliments. It’s the critical innuendo and occasional blatant disapproval, especially in the professional setting, that infuriates me. My boss…
GREEN BIN, IDIOTS!
To the many people who stop by our overly convenient curbside compost bins on Northwood Terrace: no more dog shit in bags, no more Tim’s cups with plastic lids, no more random grocery bags full of garbage and especially NO MORE OF THOSE GODDAM WHITE PLASTIC BUCKETS WITH THE REMNANTS OF SOME UNKNOWN FORM OF…
ASKED AND ANSWERED
Does it drive me fucking crazy when idiots ask their own question and then answer it ? Yes it does.Are people who do this mindless fools? I believe so.Will these morons ever stop this stupid wordplay? I think not. That is all. AaA
Dear Mrs. Doormat
I listened to you whine about your philandering husband who treats all women like sperm receptacles. I tried to help you with your self-esteem that this asshole continually trampled by flaunting his affairs in your face. I read all your pathetic e-mails bawling about how he mistreats you and disrespects you in front of friends…
you in the gray sports car at shoppers parking lot
you in that gray sports car pakred at hte clayton park shopping center parking lot. what’s your deal you were there forever this week. you think youre tough calling me and other peaple dogs. no sorry i’am more like a bitch!! please fucking commit suicde you fucking prick or i’ll fucking do it for you.…
Where is Ross Neilson?
I head out on Tuesday night to Stayner’s to see the talented Ross Neilson play, as listed in The Coast’s daily music listings. No Ross. No music period. Not the first time I’ve been disapointed with the Coast’s live music listings. Conflicts between the “daily” and “by venue” listings are common. I like reading the…
Redheaded septuagenarian stranger
This Saturday, April 26th, it is Willie Nelson’s 75th birthday. Now, I know you were wondering what you were going to do for the occasion. Will it be a “pot” luck? A hair braiding party? A karaoke evening? Look no further. The Bicentennial Theatre in Middle Musquodoboit will play host to a Willie Nelson tribute…
The Northwest Arm seawall is a tampon-applicator-littered mess.
Remarks: For decades we’ve dumped sewage directly into Halifax Harbour and so tens of millions of “beach whistles” are deposited on beaches up and down the coast. The seawall is actually in better shape than, say, McNabs Island, but it’s more frequented and part of the urban park system. Huck’s busy switching his crews over…
A Dying Art
Figure it out, grammartards. It’s not hard. Their, there, and they’re are three different words with entirely different meanings. Its and it’s are two different words with different meanings. Your and you’re are two different words with different meanings. To, too, and two are three different words with different meanings. Your going too look like…
“green” buses busted
I practically choked on my toast when I saw that Ambassafrickintours had an ad in your Green publication. They are the WORST when it comes to HOURS AND HOURS of needless idling and their drivers either shrug you off or are really rude if you ask them about it. Ambassatours suck ass and make my…
Sex + Public Bathroom = Gross
To the guys have sex in stall # 2 at reflections on Saturday Night: Gross. Everyone knew it was going on. You could even see your feet in the gross bathroom water that was on the floor and you just kept going at it. God only knows if you used a condom. I may suggest…
Dear customer,
Please stop coming into stores when you know that they close in like 5 minutes, it’s fucking annoying. Sure, whatever you knew what you were coming to get and blah blah blah, the emploies don’t give a shit we just wanna go home, we do have lives outside of work and some of us are…
not a good problem solver…
To all you posters that suggest people just walk/take a cab/get a car when they have a gripe about people on the bus, those are not good suggestions!!! In fact, you sound like morons making such suggestions! Especially those of you who say to get a car. How far ahead does that get us? It…
Delivery Sucks
I just ordered Pizza from a certain establishment mumford ways, price was wrong, timing was LATE and when allw as done , I opened the box and it was the wrong order, when I called to complain, I was yelled at by the loser fuckass who took my order, Fuck you dumbass, you can’t even…
Crappy Cancer Center Co-worker
You’re annoying sighs and rude demeanor is unacceptable. You seem to “act professional” whenever a higher up is around. (dr, nurse) You seem so miserable. However you managed to get a job working with cancer patients is beyond me. What goes around comes around. Sick of being shit on
asked and answered
Does it drive me crazy when people ask a question and then answer it themselves ? yes it does.Do people who do this sound like assholes? yes they do.But will these people continue to do this? Of course. Is it me? Yes
So fucking MAD! FUCK!!!
His cancer is no longer treatable, we have done all we can do…. The cancer has spread to his lungs, liver and brain……we just have to make him “comfortable” … Comfortable, what the fuck?!?!fucking bloody hell… he is 55 years old… too fucking young…. TOO MANY PEOPLE FUCKING DYING of cancer… too many people close…
walmart fucking sucks
i been around walmart employers for 8 monthes, i’am sick of the way they treat each their customers. the recent one is at bayer’s lake one. it’s an hour till ten at night. the bitches htere are complaning to each other i heard you say. I wish they leave already. ” sorry bitches i was…
Warning to the religious old chicks…
…. that want to come to my house and try to preach some shit to me. Please know what the hell you are talking about before I grill you. I do not like you annoying the shit outta me when i am baked and cannot answer my questions. How can i convert, when if you…
The buses are wheelchair accessible, right? WRONG!!!!
I was on the number 1 Spring Garden on the weekend and there was a gentleman in a wheelchair waiting at Scotia Square to catch a bus. When the bus pulled to a stop he was refused service because the route is not wheekchair accessible and he was told that he would have to wait…
Close Minded People
Just because I “look” a certain way and my bf “looks” different why do you people have to judge him or I?? I love him and he loves me and we may not be the “cookie-cutter” image of what you people think a couple should look like, BUT that doesn’t mean we don’t love and…
Sea Willy
The course of true love never did run smoothly according to ol’ Will S., but thanks to some extra cash from the provincial government Shakespeare by the Sea’s 15th season is going to be a lot more comfortable and quiet. With the grant, they purchased 200 new chairs, 800 feet of sun canopy for the…
Sew Nice
Did those lime-green throw pillows from Winners look nasty once you get them home? The Halifax Crafters’ Rainy Days Handmade Market might be what you need to put some one-of-a-kind back in your life, on this weekend at the North Street Church (5657 North), Saturday from 11am to 5pm and Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.According…
Rumoured to be alive
Rumoured to be aliveGus’s Pub, Saturday, April 19, 1:36pm, Taz RecordsJulé Malet-Veale
Words of Honour
Everything’s come up pages and prizes for nominees of this year’s Atlantic Book Awards, to be handed out May 12 at Alderney Landing. Too many authors and Book Week events to list here (check them out at writers.ns.ca/bookfest08), but highlights include:Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize: Don Hannah, Ragged Islands; Bernice Morgan, Cloud of Bone;…
Is it too much to ask…
…to be able to go to a store, any store will do, and be able to have SELECTION of things not manufactured in China, Bangladesh, or some other place where the poor bastards making all this stuff get more than one dollar a day? Sure, that’s why things get to be cheap at MalWart, and…
City Pizza
This sad news just in: The building housing my favourite pizza place, City Pizza (5688 Spring Garden) caught fire yesterday. No word yet on the extent ofthe damage.
Bubba Rays, Cafe Istanbul, Burrito Bike
On April 19, Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar (5650 Spring Garden) finally opened—more than a month after Shoptalk first told you about its “six types of wings, with 50 different sauces” and promised the pub would be opening “tomorrow.” Looks like its liquor licence came through…Café Istanbul (5986 Spring Garden) is open now, too…Cycle-powered godsend the…
Blockbuster boxes
A heads-up to frequenters of the city’s Blockbuster locations: The stores are currently in the middle of a revolution—new rental DVDs now come with cover art. The stores are also in the process of switching rental inventory to reflect this system. This means that after training yourself not to bring the case with the cover…
Chopin bistro
Are you an admirer of Polish composers? (Who isn’t?) Or maybe you just love a good brunch. (Who doesn’t?) Luckily, the downtown area now boasts a restaurant sure to please classical-music lovers and brunch enthusiasts alike: the niftily named Chopin Bistro (5171 Salter, former home of Atlantis Steak and Lobster). And yes, that restaurant name…
janes on the common
Last week, we passed along the tantalizing rumour that much-loved restaurant jane’s on the common (2394 Robie) now has takeout. Happily, the rumour’s true—the new takeaway counter’s called jane’s next door and, as its name suggests, it’s serving up its eats in the storefront right beside the original jane’s (at 2398 Robie, once the Wilkie’s…
Lazy Leg
The provincial legislature convenes today (Thursday). Last spring the leg met for just 18 days, a brevity record it broke in the fall with a 16-day session. I held a series of off-the-record conversations with party insiders and analysts this week and the consensus seems to be that this session will be much the same.…
re: ri-fucking-diculous
We may have left the puke on the bus but it was the best birthday and we all had such a great time, we repeated the same performance this past Saturday. Too bad we took the #1 home instead of the #7. At least we’ll all have framed copies of the little blurb in our…
Snap, click say cheese even if you don’t want to
Ok I know this might be a repeat of another post. But what the fuck is up with people snapping pictures of people that don’t look normal to them with their camera phones? I think it is a huge invasion of privacy and doesn’t do good for the person’s self esteem. I think they are…
Maritime Bandwagon……
…is in full effect with the Sid the Kid craze…… … ovechekin > crosby GO CAPS. *note, this was posted prior to game 7 tonight with the Caps/flyers, so if they lose, i dont want to hear shit* Crosby cant hold OV’s Jock.
Landing the plan
The most exciting thing happening in Halifax development is, strangely enough, a bureaucratic exercise—the HRM by Design planning plan. (The new Farmers’ Market comes in a close second.) HRM By Design started in July 2006, asking for public ideas on improving the city’s urban core, continued through more brainstorming sessions and updates, and almost two…
Good cop
Clark Johnson has held down roles in choice cop dramas. Meldrick Lewis anyone? The pork-pie hat-wearing detective on the acclaimed network show Homicide: Life on the Street, which ended its run in 1999, was first. That Baltimore-set series presaged another located in the American port city—the acclaimed HBO program The Wire—which ended this year after…
Bio-not-so-solids
Last week, after years of pressure from environmental and health groups, Health Canada took a step toward banning bisphenol A, which has been poisoning us for decades in bottles and cans. That’s the latest example of 20/20 hindsight. Here’s the newest example of negative-20 foresight: sludge (excuse me, “biosolids”) from Halifax Harbour being dumped on…
Nothing going
Halifax’s celebrated planning initiative,called HRM by Design, will likely be approved by regional council in coming weeks. The plans call for a return to pedestrian-friendly streetscapes with sidewalk cafes and street trees and an emphasis on car-free transportation, including walking, bicycling and transit. But last week, future planning idealism met present-day budget politics and council…
Green Revisions
The debut of Green Halifax, the latest edition in The Coast’s stable of City Guides, happened around town on April 3. A directory of local businesses and organizations that are trying, in ways small and large, to make a difference to the environment, the guide offers lists of local organizations, restaurants, grocery stores, alternative energy…
Proof Positive
Chris Luedecke is a little concerned that his lyrical affection for bacon might be his epitaph. He can imagine the news anchor announcing, “As Old Man Luedecke once said , ‘If I’m not mistaken, the answer is bacon.’” That concern is but one of the inspirations keeping Luedecke writing new material, though he’s not avoiding…
The Forbidden Kingdom
The misleading advertising sells Jet Li and Jackie Chan headlining a movie together at last. This is an easier pitch than admitting the main star is the lesser-known Michael Angarano, playing Jason, an American teenager whisked into ancient China where he’s mentored by Li and Chan. But confronting it openly reveals its charm. The Forbidden…
Snow Angels
That’s also Michael Angarano in Snow Angels, playing a bright-eyed teen among small-town people making small-town mistakes. That’s Halifax playing the town. That’s my high school library and auditorium. And if you play it in slo-mo around minute 40, that’s me. Writer and director David Gordon Green has a sense for which haunts of this…
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall isn’t very funny, which could be OK except it’s not interesting. Judd Apatow combines his usual sitcom plots and ideology with moments of fake radicalism. It gives into the most over-indulgent weakness of the slightly wittier Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Stretched across two hours, it has no rhythm. Cameos by…
Rockin’ Roll
When Toronto choreographer Ame (pronounced “Amy”) Henderson set out to create her newest dance work, she turned to the trappings of live music for inspiration. Unlike dance and theatre, traditionally tethered to the distancing proscenium arch, Henderson found herself wondering what it might be like to perform dance in the style of a live-music show.…
Dan Savage tells DRAGON to wait for fuckbots.
I am a young, straight male—but I have this obsession with male-on-male dino-dragon porn. I dont get it. Im supposed to be straight. Am I psychotic or what? —Dinos Really Are Gonna Overtake Now Youre not psychotic, DRAGON, just pathetic. I dont mean pathetic in the laughable or contemptible sense of the word, DRAGON, I…
Laugh tracking
Picnicface has this thing about “the right laugh.” The eight-member Halifax comedy troupe knows from laughs—-Picnicface has been turning away patrons from its Sunday Night Comedy Spectacular for the past year. That line stretching past the vacant Sam’s building every other Sunday? It’s theirs. Those people scurrying around a packed Ginger’s Tavern as the clock…
Lars and the Real Girl
Lars and the Real GirlDirected by: Craig Gillespie(Columbia/Tristar)Introverted Lars (Ryan Gosling) is designed to be endearing. You can tell because he helps an old lady carry flowers to her car after church. And so, when Lars purchases a sex doll and starts believing it’s real, his relationship with the doll is a chaste one. Bianca…
