condolences to Ron MacLean
typical Olympics–you’re sitting there laughing at Martin Short’s synchronized swimming, and then CBC sports hunk Ron MacLean comes on to explain that his mother just died about two hours ago. She’s been sick with pancreatic cancer for a long time but she broke her hip about 14 days ago, so his wife went home early…
Synchro scares
This is why people are scared of synchronized swimming. There should be some kind of kids warning on it. Better watch this instead: Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com.
Powerful update
So unfortunately, Halifax’s Adrienne Power didn’t qualify for today’s 200-metre sprint semi-finals. She ran 23.51 seconds in the second round of women’s 200-metre sprint, finishing sixth in her heat, according to the Chronicle Herald, although the CBC reports her in seventh place. hmmm. Power’s personal best is 22.86 seconds, which is nothing to sneeze at…No…
mwhahahahahaha
That’s the sound of me laughing while I watch the women’s race walking. Which is mean, I know, especially because it’s pouring rain, but there’s something about that sport that makes me revert to 10-year-old maturity. What am I going to watch when this is over? Who will make me laugh? Cry? Stay up late?…
Fancy Lebanese Country Band
Fancy Lebanese Country BandSaturday, Aug. 16, 11:32, Ginger’s Tavern.photo Riley Smith
Overflowing charity bins, Sobey’s on North.
Remarks: The collection bins are becoming a nightmare, says Warren, as they are increasingly the target of thieves. People back U-Hauls up to them, cut the locks, take anything of value and leave the rest scattered. Warren says the bins provide a service to those donors who don’t want to be seen exiting or can’t…
Cuts like a knife
Sadly, the flurry of publicity over last week’s federal government cuts to the $4.7 million PromArt funding program, which subsidizes international touring artists, became more about Harper’s press secretary Kory Teneycke’s McCarthy-like claims that funding choices were “inappropriate…because they were ideological in some cases, or the money was going to fringe arts groups that, in…
Driving me crazy!!
The roads were made for cars bitches!!! Props for getting some exercise but stay in the parks, you bike riding fags.! The Boss
“otaku”
As the Olympics continues to set record-high TV viewing numbers in China, the Chinese government worries the event is turning citizens into armchair olympians, couch potatoes, lazy bastards, or whatever you’d like to call us. Chinese media has even given its army of TV Olympic spectators a name — otaku — a Japanese word that…
More Pop Explosions!
The Halifax Pop Explosion has pulled a new pack of bands out of its pocket to add to a line-up that already includes GZA, Stephen Harper’s favourite band Holy Fuck and an Inbreds reunion. Announced this week were Memphis garage punk Jay Reatard, beloved singer-songwriter Josh Ritter—at St.Matt’s, where the shushers will be out in…
Bolt wins 200M Men’s
So Usian Bolt won the 100M on Saturday and just now he won the 200M men’s sprint, setting another world record. He left everyone in the dust. First guy in 24 years to win this double. I think he just sold another few million Puma Sneakers without breaking a sweat. Seriously, running for 19 seconds,…
Barbeque Bandits
I have to admit, your quite brazen morning theft of my girlfriends barbeque was quite amazing. How you got down the street with a giant grill has me shaking my head. Despite that, I can rest well at night knowing that I will soon find out who you are, by reading in the news about…
Beautiful Burberry
Oh Burberry, you make me cry. I’ll never afford you. NOT FAIR. Way too po’ for your beauty.
Penis Extenders
No matter how loud your car or bike is, you will always have a tiny little penis. At least learn how to use what you have so the rest of don’t have to listen to your embarrassing attempt to increase it’s size. I’m Gonna Get me a Harley!
all cars cost one brain
there are a lot of complaints from runners, bikers, joggers, and walkers because drivers are inattentive, inconsiderate selfish shits. and every time somebody posts one, car people reply saying that “pedestrians have to look both ways”! sure we do, but the bulk of the responsibility belongs to the person driving the fucking tonne of metal…
Why aren’t cellphone laws being enforced?
This morning on the way to work I have seen so may people using their cellphones while driving. You would have thought by now that people would know its illegal. You would have thought by now that people would know its dangerous. And you would have thought by now that the police would be enforcing…
please stop
For the love of gold, Aliant, if you’re going to buy up every second of CBC commercial time can you please find a new song? If I hear Suzie MacNeil’s “Believe” one more time, I’m going to let the shotputters and javelin tossers practise with my TV set. We get it already.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Re “Border inaccessible to disabled” by Bruce Wark in the Aug 7th edition of The Coast Bruce Wark does an excellent job of exposing an appalling, outmoded approach to persons with disabilities still sanctioned by our immigration system. It is applied in a variety of ways to exclude otherwise qualified immigrants and their…
Letters to the Editor
I would love to thank all the people who came out of their houses, yelled from their cars, handed our freezies (yum) and fruit to us on this amazing weekend. We walked 60km to raise $1.25 million dollars to benefit the IWK ans QE2. We walkd in crazy rain on saturday and pretty hot sun…
Accident report
Will whoever just submitted a bitch about a car accident please contact me at timb@thecoast.ca? I can’t post this until I confirm the details… got a police agency or other info? Thanx. Tim Bousquet
Breast cancer fund-raisin’ middle-aged hags
Yeah, you know who you are. Descending upon my tranquility. It took me twice as long to the coffee shop because of you bitches. Jammin’ up the sidewalk with those stupid baloons and your fat asses (and your look-at-us, aren’t-we-wonderful, do-gooding smugness). Get outta my way. I don’t like you. Hundreds of women, and not…
re: TV Coast Sucks
Until this test update, they’re hadn’t been one since Nov 28 07. My understanding is that one doesn’t upload directly to TVCoast, you post your video to youtube, and tag it “TVCoast”, the Coast will then upload those tagged videos to the TVCoast page. There’s plenty that have been tagged TVCoast since Nov 28 07…
I cannot believe people like this really exist….
I have a friend who is married to a control freak. She is expected to look like she stepped out of a magazine every moment of the day, to diet constantly and is never able to let her hair down for one second. He has told her that if she gains weight or doesn’t wear…
STFU Suzie!
grrrrrr! that trite suzie mcneil song is stalking me. every friggin time i turn on the tube, there’s that IRRITATING Aliant commercial, playing over ‘n over, ad nauseam. ‘if you just belieeeve, you can move mountains with dreeeams…’ AHHHHH NO, damnit, there it is again! (ugh-oh, was that a clump of hair i just ripped…
Silver!
Canadian Alexander Despatie cuts the water like a knife—and wins silver with a 9.4 dive. China’s He Chong could have done a belly flop, or dove off the divingboard stairs onto the concrete for his final dive off the three metre board and still taken home a medal. Instead, he gets gold with a complicated,…
Olympic media rant: Advertising on CBC
With CBC being the sole source of live coverage for those of us who don’t have cable, and their live feed being dodgy at best, it’d really be nice if there weren’t 20 minutes of McCommercials at the beginning of each live feed. You can’t really fast-forward them, and they’re almost insulting in their irrelevance.…
The Armdale Rotary
To all you asses that come into the rotary, and are waiting to get into the circle, you know that WHOEVER is in the circle has the RIGHT OF WAY. Stop speeding into the circle trying to beat the car coming throught it. You’re the idiots that will cause an accident. Learn to drive!
GUYS….Doncha know…..
dumping a bottle of smelly hair product or underarm on your sorry pimply self is a definite turn-off! When I can’t even smell the coffee in Tim Horton’s over your stench in a line up and you call ME rude?????? STFU! orange
You Stink, Asshat!
Yep you, in Tim Horton’s QEII. I couldn’t even smell the coffee for your putrid hair gel or pit juice. Jaysus guy, you think yer gonna attract a mate with tha? Sheeit, the roofing tar smeeled better! Give it up guy…me rude…you’re ruder..smelling up a resto like that! all stunk up
Tie heart-breaker
Oh gymnastics. Right now there’s a camera in American gymnast Nastia Liukin’s face, and she looks like she’d like to wrap it around a pummel horse. She was tied with China’s He Kexin, and after two tiebreakers (as reliable as rock, paper, scissors, apparently) they were still tied to the thousandth – 16.725. Liukin’s actually…
Official Neil Young announcement made
The concerts will feature Neil Young with the same band that so ably backed him in Europe – Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Chad Cromwell, Anthony Crawford and Pegi Young. Song sets are expected to be eclectic, featuring both newer material and classic Neil Young hits. Sure Wilco is great and all, but they were already…
More bouncing around
So I was just reading this story on CBC.ca. Trampolinist Jason Burnett, who’s going for gold tomorrow morning at 9:15am (AT), says, “Usually, right before my turn, I’ll watch the judges to see who’s up there. They’re the scariest part of the competition, you know, five suits sitting there getting ready to watch us…” This…
NO JOE?
Why is it that there is nothing open in downtown Halifax before 7 am. I want a decent cup of coffee ( see: NOT tims ) before 7 am i have to go to Macdonald’s of all places on SGR. i would much rather give my money to a local mom and pop than a…
Hotlanta
You may recall that before me there was a voice that made you laugh with its wry observations, copious but skillful use of slang and out-of-nowhere pop culture jams, and you might also know that said voice has departed for the backseat of a van till friggin’ November y’all, and you’re lucky I’m the replacement…
One for the aspiring econmists: why did gas go up YET AGAIN when OIL IS DOWN????
Okay….oil has been dropping all this past week and it went up one day by a couple of bucks….but then retreated again. PLEASE EXPLAIN IN LAYMANS TERMS WHY THE FUCK GAS WENT UP OVER NIGHT?????? DID THEY RAISE IT JUST BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE IT???? its’ effing bs……being gouged
Mysterious steam emissions on Bell Road.
Remarks: It took a while for Maltby to get back to us, so we had concocted a story about poisonous methane butterfly farts piped out of the museum and inhaled by unsuspecting Citadel High students, leading to convulsive spitting episodes all over town. Alas, just at press time Maltby gets back with the mundane truth:…
5.05 Metres
26-year-old Yelena Isinbaeva just vaulted higher than anyone else in the history of everything. After two sloppy-looking attempts, the Russian gymnast gracefully arched over the bar placed 5.05m (16 feet) above the ground. So cool. I’m glad I got to see it. This was her 14th world record in gymnastics. Watch her break her own…
What’s your fucking problem with me anyway?
Sis: I know deep down you care for me and vice-versa, BUT why do you treat me like shit almost all the time? I’m nice, civil, and always doing favours for you, and you still are bitchy with me! You boss me around, and you question and criticize everything I do (whether my decisions or…
Dont hate
To the FUCKTARD, bitchy, angry tattoo artist: Fuck you, you fucking fuck…YES I saw your hate filled “sorry facebooker but your tattoos are terrible” group, and YES I was part of it. I made it a point to look at your work and you’re not exactly spectacular either. So keep your fucking filthy mouth shut…
Silver!
It sounds like a stupid sport. “Trampoline.” It’s got the word tramp in it. It doesn’t help the uniforms are covered in sequins like olympic figure skaters. But there is a reason our country is full of bouncy castles, water trampolines and jungle jim restaurants. We like to bounce it. Unsafe? Bah! Canada has been…
Monday notes
British athletes are on fire this year. Beijing Olympics have been the country’s personal best in 100 years. (They were top medal earners at the 1908 Olympics in London. Height of Empire and so on.) Now, post-empire, post-spice girls, post-punk, post-Britart/Britpop, they seem to be a country more at ease with itself. Once they stopped…
No Sympathy for the Stupid
To all you dumb asses that buy expensive shit like lawn mowers, pressure washers and the like, and then throw away your receipts; Please stop calling the customer service center and demanding that the company replace your faulty product for free. The fact that you have a serial number means nothing. You could have bought…
Three Strikes Your Out…
To the thoughtless, lazy bastard who rather steal than get a job, karma will get you!!!!! You broke into my car twice from my downtown apartment. I will catch you one of these times. Try to hotwire it again, you won’t get far!!!!!!!!! Ja on Gtgn
Stop the Noise Complaints!
Hey – 408! please stop the noise complaints to the Supers! I am watching a movie/tv/play a game at a VERY reasonable leavel – Were my tv any quieter I would be forced to enable subtitles. I have moved my speakers further from the wall, and have placed thick cardboard under/behind them in an effort…
When will you learn??
I’ve been reading The Coast for years in the paper and online.The articles change as well as the stiories but 1 thing that doesn;t is the Bitches. Wake the F@*k up people,I think the whole city is tired of hearing someone stole something from you,robbed or swarmmed you etc.Oh and I do feel bad for…
Gold medal treats
Carlito’s on Quinpool Road has Olympic Spirit cupcakes with buttercream icing. You can get cute ones with the Olympic rings made in icing, or a patriotic maple-leaf sugar candy. They’re tiny treats, about the size of a shotputter’s thumb. Totally off-topic and unappetizing, I watched the women’s marathon last night and saw my first puke…
Olympic mixed tape
DJ Soap’s olympic song is making the round of the blogosphere DJ Soap – Faster, Higher, Stronger (Olympic Anthem) No reason why it shouldn’t be on the blog, too – maybe he can do a H,F,B version. It’s pretty ridiculous (some strong language appears about a minute in). Or a little KanYe West with Champion…
Do You Suffer From Runner Blindness?
Are driving Haligonians actually unable to see pedestrians moving faster than those doing the adolescent shuffle? Is this a genetic/evolutionary trait, or can they just not imagine why anyone would run anywhere if there wasn’t a cop chasing them? More to the point, why do drivers give pedestrians, runners in particular, the “sorry, you came…
Love, love, love her!
OK, so maybe it was the wine (hey, I’m not in training), but I love Laval, PQ’s Jennifer Abel, who came in 13th in the three-metre springboard, narrowly missing the finals. She’s a total honey, and gave a really composed, charming interview for someone so young. Oh, she’s only 16… Watch for her in 2012.…
The Kitten is OK!
Mad Dog: This isn’t a bitch just a way for me to say that I took your kitten. You were passed out drunk in front of The Granite and I unhooked her from the leash and brought her home. She was hungry dirty and crying, I’ve fed her and took her to the vet to…
I don’t want a tan!!!
I’m tired of everyone telling me i’d look ‘better’ with a tan… Do you not notice i have red hair!! That means i’m pigmently impaired, and even if i wasn’t, i probably still wouldn’t want to tan. Perhaps maybe it’s why everyone thinks i’m 22, when i’m actually almost 30!! Tanning makes you OLD, why…
Holy Mother of God Long Rant
I work in a call center. I’m not bitching about it. I don’t hate it. I’m a student, and it’s actually a pretty good gig. Decent wage for a part time job, flexible hours, and a fair bit of down time that can be used for studying, reading, even writing papers. It can be dehumanizing…
Happy now?
All your whining has paid off. Carol Huynh has guaranteed Canada’s first Olympic medal. She defeated the tough-ass lookin’ Kazakhstan wrestler, advancing to the gold medal match of women’s freestyle 48-kilogram wrestling. Oh, and we’re beating the Americans in men’s baseball, 4-3, 6th inning… So can we stop talking about Phelps now? Please? Even though…
Controlling landlords.
Please keep in mind, I live in a building in Clayton Park. My landlord is really starting to piss me off. Here’s a rundown of what hapened so far: When we moved in, they gave us thre separate move in dates, claiming they weren’t ready for us. They gave us the final date, the truck…
Rude Rude Businessmen Nova Scotians
Heads up! When somebody works for you, free or not, THANK them for it! It’s just basic human politeness or don’t Mommy’s teach that here in the East? Why is this such a left-field concept for so many of you? (“friendly” Nova Scotians? MY ASS!!!) If I promote your business for FREE, bring customers to…
The treats philosophy explained
Olympian Ryan Lochte eats McDonald’s all the time. He says nutrition is the last thing on his mind. Many professional soccer players are known smokers and drinkers. It’s enough to give you an eating disorder. That is, if you haven’t already got one from overeating to keep up with training, or starving yourself to stay…
New world record.
Usiah Bolt just got 9.69s in the 100M mens sprint. No kidding – the man’s got grace and speed. There was a wide spread between him and his competitors. The Coast: now your top source for intermittent, up to date Olympic results. The piped music in the stadium right now sounds like Augustus Pablo dub…
TVCOAST SUCKS!
Why no updates to the TVCoast page, it has a lot of potential and I know there’s a ton of videos tagged on Youtube that would spice up the channel tremendously. What Gives Coast, fix your shit! TV George
Jamaican style
This is a BBC guy doing streeters in Kingston, Jamaica, asking people who they think will win the 100m men’s: Usain Bolt or Asafa Powell, the two Jamaican men battling for gold. Bolt could have beaten Donovan Bailey’s 1996 record today, but he jogged the last 20 m. I am watching the women’s 100, qualifiers…
Ever feel like someone’s watching you?
I’m pretty sick of hearing that Canadians are the most polite people around. Yes, we hold the doors open for eachother, we say please and thank you and we stand for seniors on the bus. We can give ourselves a pat on the back for that. But recently I’ve noticed a common practice among us…
different is great
So i go to my doctors apt today and in the waiting room was me, my son and my daughter, then two other ladies each with their daughters. The kids are playing when one of the little girls who i think was Autistic began, shaking her fists, her head and babbled on a bit. my…
To the men in blue
I challenge you to up your professionalism just a notch. While “protecting” our city please refrain from allowing the intoxicated females at the Alehouse from hanging off of you. Rain or no rain at least wait until you’re off duty. Reconsider your priorities. I love our police but SERIOUSLY!
young st. Superstore
you ignant pig, in a Jeep Laredo, Aug l3 4:30 you were stopped in a x-walk to let a senior walk, then had the nerve to toot at him, to hurry, then had more nerve to jump out and yell “walk faster you ol’bastard”just because you were in a hurry to get to the liquor…
Letters to the Editor
are we putting TOO much pressure on our athletes to “own the podium?” because i’ve never seen an olympics like this one, where there are so many sore losers, throwing childish temper tantrums, being abusive and swearing at the judges, dissing their fellow olympians, etc. it’s a shameful and disgusting display of poor sportsmanship. i…
drivers sulk the devil
To bikers, truck and car drivers who wave back when I smile thanks after crossing the lights, hats off to you all. To those who drive by or smirk when I do that: Is your face that frozen ? Your sulk scares even the devil. chillwillya
Poison Pot
I hope you guys realize just how BAD the pot is here. Seriously, NS weed is hands down the worst SHIT we have ever smoked, no offense. It doesn’t burn clean, probably because it’s been grown in way too many toxic chemicals, synthetic fertilizers, etc, and not cured properly. It smells/tastes like crap and makes…
$$$
I woke up, checked my email and found out that I was accepted into a programme at school. This is a huge relief and I’m incredibly excited!!! However, I then learned that I am expected to pay over $5,000 by Friday. ARE YOU SHITING ME? Where the fuck am I supposed to come up with…
Why is Fairview (parts of it) such a cesspool?
It’s a fucking ghetto….time for this boy to get out of the ghetto….to the people of Fairview (not everyone) get jobs and get off of wellfare and stop having so many kids…. time to get outta Dodge
Bad Religion: October 1
Epitaph Records has listed a Bad Religion show at the Halifax Forum on October 1.
opening ceremony
wow, what a dramatic and visually stunning opening ceremony! it must’ve been a breathtaking experience to actually be there in the bird’s nest stadium… i get goosebumps just watching it on TV. way to go CHINA! on the other hand, the $40 billion dollars it cost to host the 29th olympiad would feed, clothe and…
bitch
i am a bitch bitch
Quiet Down!
Hey, roommate: Must you and your boyfriend be so loud when you’re getting it on??? I can crank my T.V. or my music really loud and plug my ears at the same time, but I can still HEAR you! Do it at HIS place, is all I’m asking, I’ve asked you several times to not…
Top Ten Olympic Sports
Someone asked me yesterday, “What are the best olympic sports?” and I said “for Canada?” and I said “I don’t know. We’re not really winning anything.” and they said “No, dummy. What are your favourite olympic events?”Here’s what I would have said if I had thought about it then:1. Pole vault: Get over yourself, gravity.…
US – Canada women’s soccer EXTRA TIME 2
Well, it’s been 50/50 – Canada played for a while like they were all beat. That Kai girl has some fast feet. Two more scoring chances because the Canuck defense all but gave up. Steely Leblanc – all business – eyeballed the flashy tattooed Kai down and won. O Kai – you think you are…
Outfit of the day
Wow, I love Park Sung-hyun’s style. Sure, the Korean archer, who was fave to win, might have lost to the Chinese contender, but she’s a champ for her Hello Kitty! vests, cutie hats and pink equipment, proving that you can actually be fashionable and avoid fleece/khaki/lyrca options.
US – Canada women’s soccer EXTRA TIME 1
I am barely hanging on here. Anyone else freaking? Things I am thankful for at this minute:- Karina Leblanc, goalkeeper. Born in the USA – playing for Canada. – Canadian defense possesses strong and fast legs. 10:00 Clear but wide shot on American goal. I can hear lots of Canadian fans in the stands chanting…
Stress with a capital S
I always feel sick to my stomach during diving and hurdles (anything that involves a potential faceplant), but this Canadian/US soccer game is a new level of anxiety… Speaking of stress, Halifax sprinter Adrienne Power is blogging for CBC (oh la la, the mothership gets an actual athlete to write). Apparently she was suffering from…
There’s a whole lotta releasin’ goin’ on
Tonight, rock quartet Broken Ohms drops its latest, Nocturnal Emissions, at the Seahorse along with Toronto’s The Harold Wartooth and The Fed Pennies, while down the street at Ginger’s Bend the River unleashes Revolt of Angels with a pair of stellar guests in Jon McKiel and Erin Costelo. And tomorrow, Wordburglar will splash his new…
US – Canada women’s soccer
Americans – 3 good chances to score. Nice crossing pass right in front of the Canadian net led to some scrambling, but the shots went wide. Corner kick – dangerous, but the defense did their job. We’re in the middle of period of US domination. In the game, I mean. Not the world. Well -…
US – Canada women’s soccer
Funny – I don’t see any vendors hawking hot dogs or kebabs or popcorn in the stadium. According to the Wall St Journal, stadium food in Beijing isn’t so good. They can’t sell anything you can throw. The guy in the article got potato chips and some piggies in a blanket. Man, I am nervous.…
US – Canada women’s soccer
Thank god for rain delays. It gave the Canadian women a chance to get their game on. Their defense is tight. They effectively shut down the American strikers since the last rain delay. Most of the play has been at midfield or in the American end. And – they tied the game. Canada – 100%…
Trident Strives for Senseless Excellence
In classical mythology trident refers to a three-pronged spear resembling the sea god Poseidon or Neptune. In Halifax, Trident Booksellers and Café, Ltd. (1256 Hollis) translates to huge lattes, espresso, an in-house roastery and a plethora of hard covers and paperbacks. After being involved with a sister store in Boulder, Colorado, owners Janet Moe Shotwell…
US – Canada women’s soccer
Christine Sinclair takes a long shot from far and outside and it sails right into the American net! IT’S TIED, YOU DAMNED YANKEES! Rain delay was about an hour. Canada has replaced their keeper. Looks like McLeod was injured. Leblanc is in. Canada is playing as well as I’ve seen them. Putting on good pressure…
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Why the fuck can I not watch youtube videos in Canada. It seems like every other video I try to watch comes up like this. Actaully gunna have to do some work around here
US – Canada women’s soccer
The US started off the game by running straight through our defenses and shooting on goal. It went over the cross bar, but sent the message to everyone: they think they have our number. Admittedly, there have been hairy moments. Canada is struggling to contain the Americans. The Canadian team is pumped for this. I…
Shotputters make better beer drinkers
The big spinning men who spend four years perfecting the art of balancing big steel balls between their chin and hand and throwing them as far as they can must love drinking beer. They all look – every one of them from Norway to Germany to Latvia – like perfect cuts of beef, but with…
Unbelievable…
OK. It’s bad enough that the Spanish men’s and women’s basketball teams had the lack of judgement to think that making a racist slant-eyed gesture was a good idea, but the photos were actually published in advertisements in Spanish newspapers this week. I thought we were way over Breakfast at Tiffany’s kinda shit. And now…
Harper lectures Russia
Sometimes you just gotta wonder if these guys look in the mirror in the morning. I mean, what else are Canadian troops doing in Afghanistan if not trying to exert some say or control on a country outside our borders? OTTAWA (AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday denounced Russia for its military…
Waffling for Go North!/Buying for Peru
Don’t forget this Sunday, August 17, at Eyelevel Gallery (2063 Gottingen), there’s a tasty fundraiser for GO NORTH!, the north end gallery and studio tour. From 10:30am to 3:30pm, indulge in gluten-free vegan and regular Belgian waffles, topped with fresh fruit, maple syrup, real butter and whipped or coconut cream! Also on right now are…
Holy Fuck on being a national scapegoat
Marc Weisblott at Toronto alt-weekly eye has an interview with Yarmouth native Brian Borcherdt, of indie-dance superstars and HPX headliners Holy Fuck, in which BB talks about the band being held up as one of three reasons why the government cancelled the $4.7-million PromArt funding program for travel grants to artists. Our personal feelings on…
Privacy does not trump safety
To the editor, In response to Cheryl Watts’ letter (“Don’t let fear rule transit,” Aug 7), which clearly puts her right to privacy over the safety of public transit employees, I offer this: When you leave the safety and privacy of your home to go onto a publictransit system, your quest for being anonymous and…
Pep talk time
My favourite comment on the medal drought comes from a commenter on the CBC blog. Cheek Monk said we shouldn’t fund olympians at all. We should make them train in the Canadian wilderness, against bears, wolves, blizzards and beavers. Alright. Maybe that idea has legs. But – there are a lot of Leafs fans in…
A different kind of homeless bitch
I feel bad about homeless people and the situation they’re in. I’d like to give them money, but it brings up such an internal conflict. You hear stories about “homeless” guys who live in condos and drive a new car. You see and hear about homeless people using their change to buy cigarettes, alcohol and…
Neil Young in Halifax
A little birdie just called and told me that Neil Young will be playing the Metro Centre on November 29.
fucking morons.
Living in an apartment building right off of Quinpool is lovely, and convenient, yet almost not worth it in comparison to dealing with the fucking crazies outside your window at all hours of the night, EVERY night. The parking lot always has some douchebag yelling to someone’s window or drunk fuckers fighting/yelling/screaming, what have you.…
Maybe the Canadians can get a medal!
I mean, if they look around on the floor, back behind the podium, maybe there’s one rolling around somewhere…. Angry Swede throws down medal, quits BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian threw down his Olympic bronze medal in protest on Thursday after his bid for greco-roman gold was ended by a decision…
West End Dope Fiend…
First off all I would like to say, if you choose to do drugs, drink, smoke, whatever, that’s fine. We as human beings have that ability to make our own choices. I smoke the herb myself….BUT…you DO NOT sit in a busy parking lot, West End Mall @ Access NS, rolling your dope and either…
Don’t let fear rule transit
To the editor: I am disappointed with the lack of criticism roused by the recent call for video cameras and “transit cops” on Metro Transit, after a Metro Transit employee was groped by a passenger. Our privacy in public continues to be infringed upon while our skepticism of such infringements seems to be decreasing at…
These fucking seagulls
fuck these fucking seagulls fuck fuckfuckfuck
wifi makes me sAD
i hate you wifi. sometimes you work..sometimes you dont. i hate you. i hate you. sad about wifi
Dishonouring Cornwallis
Edward Cornwallis was the founder of Halifax. In return, we’ve honoured him with a statue, and have named a park, a street and a junior high school after him. Cheryl LeBlanc-Weldon doesn’t like this at all. She wants Cornwallis officially “dishonoured”—the statue pulled down and the park, street and school renamed. “I don’t think we…
Competitive Compensation
There is NOTHING, and I repeat N O T H I N G competitive about $30,000 dollars a year in Nova Scotia. That is poverty level salary. That is pure disrespect for thsoe of us who worked out asses off on university and put ourselves so far into financial ruin that we can’t afford to…
Mic Mac tavern’s a classic beauty
There’s nothing pretty about the Mic Mac Bar and Grill—an old building, just off the road, with additions cobbled on over the years (none seeming to match), the landscaping consisting of cars parked haphazardly all around the restaurant. Inside, the decor looks like it hasn’t changed since the place opened in 1963, an unbelievable 45…
Teenage Bottlerocket w/The Varsity Weirdos and The Hemingways
This year has been a fine one for pop-punkers Teenage Bottlerocket. Besides releasing their second album Warning Device on Red Scare and getting to share bills with NOFX, All and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the band also found a new way to earn some extra dollars. At the request of the bride and groom, Teenage…
Worth the risk?
The harbour is a sewer. At least, that’s the connection my little brain can’t seem to shake after a lifetime of flushing my unmentionables down the tube.So, swimming there? My involuntary response to the idea of clambering over the rocks and clumsily tipping shoulder-first into the murky depths at Point Pleasant Park’s Black Rock Beach…
Fall Music Preview
AUGUST The Stolen MinksHigh KicksGuaranteed more fun than a bag full of LOLcats and louder, too, the city’s favourite all-lady garage rock band is back with karate-style dance vengeance. (release scheduled for Aug 22 at Gus’ Pub) Click here to listen to the ‘Minks new song, “Bring it!” Speedy RecoveryGrab the WheelThe tentatively titled debut…
Ira and Abby
Ira and Abby Directed by: Directed by Robert Cary (Magnolia) It’s a bitch that Jennifer Westfeldt has to write her own leads—after her turn as writer and co-star of the 2001 bisexual rom-com Kissing Jessica Stein, her neo-Annie Hall charm should’ve lifted her out of the art house. Instead she was doomed to guest spots,…
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Open Concept Co-op has put together an outstanding cast for its production of Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, a challenging and chilling look at the lives of several twenty-somethings as they grope their ways through various dark mazes of love and lust. Ian Mullan is brilliant as David, the…
Longshots
“Our neighbourhood is filled with crack, and the CIA won’t take it back,” Ice Cube raps on his new album Raw Footage. But where’s the link between the street tales of this self-proclaimed west coast war lord and his penchant for family movies like The Longshots? Today, Cube is probably much closer to being his…
The Cricket’s Orchestra: Chirp by chirp
“I Know” (2:50) As a hotel-bar piano twinkles in the background in a duet with a clarinet—her father also performs a pair of whistling solos—Smith sings a song of adoration to her grandfather back in London, ON, who can’t express emotion aloud, but conveys his feelings through small but mighty gestures such as letter writing…
Meaghan Smith’s Shooting Star
It’s early evening on the first day of August, but it feels more like late September—blustery wind capped by threateningly grey skies. Meaghan Smith walks into a north end cafe, sits with her back to the room and waffles between the soup and the pizza before deciding on the latter. She’s small and unassuming, not…
Pineapple Express
The appeal of Pineapple Express is pretty basic: Two guys get stoned and have an adventure. For the sake of anyone seriously concerned about spending time and dime on a movie that might retread elements they’ve experienced with Cheech and Chong, Harold and Kumar, The Big Lebowski, How High, the Friday movies and Half Baked,…
Art Bikers rouse inner rebel
“Most people just don’t expect to see five people on bikes hauling big brightly coloured trailers around on the road,” says Jesse Harrod, coordinator for the Art Bikers. If you’ve been watching the Halifax streets over the past two summers, you may well be one of those people. Now in their second year of operation,…
Vicki Cristina Barcelona
The narration in Vicki Cristina Barcelona isn’t unnecessary exposition, it’s just an effort to give Woody Allen’s latest a literary sophistication. Just how well does this hide that the movie hasn’t much worth saying? The beauty of Barcelona levels Allen’s hopelessness about female sexuality. New York girls Vicki (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) are…
Bed bugs put bite on tenants
“It’s like getting bit by a mosquito, only it lasts for over a week and is 10 times itchier,” Kris Figueroa says, talking about bedbug bites. “I did my best not to scratch them, but it was almost impossible, really. My roommate scratched all over hers and now is covered in scars.” The tiny blood-sucking…
Get out of our van!
Where bands play, thieves follow. Recently, Wintersleep got cleaned out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as did Iggy Pop and the Stooges in Montreal. Sleepless Nights, just one local example, got hit (twice) in Halifax. Lately, Montreal feels like ground-zero for musical theft. Besides Iggy, Californian musician That One Guy had his custom homemade seven-foot-tall “Magic…
Savage Love
Q: After six months of marriage—I’m a straight male—the sex had become routine but enjoyable. To remedy this, my wife and I discussed new things we might like to try. We were both being shy, so I said the first thing that came to mind: “Anal?” My wife got quiet. The conversation ended. A couple…
Paradise Sisters in project purgatory
Shaun Schmeisser was just 19 when Halifax’s last rep movie house, Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Cinema, closed its doors. “I bought a membership, went to one movie, and it closed down the next week,” says Schmeisser. Now, a decade later, Schmeisser finds himself involved in the possible shutdown of another rep cinema project, The Paradise…
Sticky fingers on the commons
A general admission ticket for the upcoming Keith Urban concert costs $119, but even if you wouldn’t spend a cent to see Urban and the rest of the “Country Rocks 2008” lineup, you’re still paying for the show. There’s a social cost to giving away the public Common for a commercial event (the Rolling Stones…
