Video of note: Ryan Hemsworth, “Charly Wingate”
Chill right out of ‘er with Ryan Hemsworth’s new video for the amazing “Charly Wingate”, below.
Cyclone Cycling opens
Ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels when it comes to staying fit? Well Cyclone Cycling (2-5187 Salter St, 405-7433) may be just what the spin doctor ordered. This newly opened exercise facility is Atlantic Canada’s first indoor cycle-only gym. Owner and fitness enthusiast Elana Liberman was inspired to open Cyclone Cycling after her own…
reLiSH Gourmet Burgers comes to Quinpool Road
Yet another Gourmet Burger join, reLiSH Gourmet Burgers, a franchise operation based in Fredericton, is opening in Halifax, at the former Blockbuster location at 6024 Quinpool Road.
The latte from the 7th circle of hell
I thought I would try a certain coffee chain’s latte offering. I drank it, OK, it wasn’t great, especially with a big dollop of what I assumed was whipped cream. Let me tell you, folks, that ain’t no freaking whipped cream. On a return trip to Halifax from Yarmouth (a nine hour drive meandering up…
Metro Transit ferry service torpedoed
Halifax council Tuesday voted to severely cut ferry service. For the downtown-Alderney ferry, council’s vote cuts the morning Sunday service before 11:30am, reduces the current 15-minute weekday schedule from noon to 2pm to 30 minutes, and ends service with the Halifax-departing 10:15pm ferry Monday through Thursday. For the Woodside ferry, the cuts remove the weekday…
Help Carmen Townsend find her gear
Stolen gear is often a sad fact of life for many a touring musician, and it’s a real heartbreak. Do your karma (and Carmen) a favour by keeping an eye out for Carmen Townsend’s stolen gear. Four guitars were stolen last night on Willow Street from her trunk: a 1965 Guild Starfire Cherry Red serial…
The award for the loudest neighbourhood goes to…
I love my apartment. I love my location. I LOATH my neighbours. Living here shouldn’t mean that I have to hear this shit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don’t care how much you hate your daughter. Mrs. Red Head Who Beats Her Dog. I don’t care how much you drank last…
Good to know
I was just walking my dog down Charles Street next to Joe Howe Elementary School when I witnessed what I thought to be a traffic infraction. There was a police paddy wagon driving backwards down a one-way street. When it happened to drive by again I informed the officers that it was a one-way street…
One plus one equals three
Saturday was an overwhelming hot and humid day. My partner, another member of my family and I went for a drive. The other member of my family went into a coffee shop. He came out with two small cool drinks. He handed one to my partner and keep one for himself. I was wondering where…
I hate steel
I hate steel because my mate has a steel bolt which he bolts his door whenever there is a slight issue that he does not like to hear. I think that he is a very, very childish and immature man. Imagine that you have to watch what you say. Watch what you do. You cannot…
Love those thin ankles
Some people think that if a woman has really thin ankles that she should never leave her house. In France all the models have very thin ankles. Thin ankles show the slender leg off better in high heels. A very well known morning talk show host has exquisite tiny ankles and she is very PROUD…
Read and obey the sign
“Please do not leave donations outside.” Seems pretty self-explanatory to me but the lot of you who were having a sidewalk garage sale thought it made sense to dump your leftover items in the front of the store. The sign in clear display. Very disrespectful ya idiots! —Holla Day
Summertime propaganda
To the saucy bunch of girls downtown pushing religion: For religious people you sure have a lot of attitude, bad enough you keep pushing those cards on people but if somebody doesn’t want to talk leave them alone! —L.F.
Skanky stinky people
Today the record was broken for the number of smelly people who crossed my path in downtown Halifax. The elderly woman with the open sores all over her body, wearing the same clothes I’ve seen her in for over a month (obviously not washed during that time), whose rank odour caused me and several others…
Dear neighbours
I don’t care if you smoke weed, I really don’t. But honestly, don’t smoke it right outside my living room window. The smell was so damn strong I closed my windows, and yes made a point to close them hard enough you would hear it. Do it in your own house and don’t stink up…
Please come again
Let’s fuck, then cuddle until 3pm again, OK? Maybe I’ll make the pancakes this time. —Pleased and Pounded Pussy
R U serious?
How can a fat and ugly POS like you feel that she has the right to comment on what clothing I wear each day, based on the weather outside? I have news for you. I actually have a difficult time finding clothing because of my size. Maybe I should consider gaining another 100 lbs so…
Tired of rude customer service
Today I was at the liquor store. I am well aware I am heavily tattooed and do get questions and comments about them, I am okay with this 99 percent of the time. So I go up to the cash to pay for my purchase and the middle aged women who was ringing me through…
Southern discomfort!
I would like to send a huge fuck you to my former and supposedly clean lady friend who infected me with Chlamydia. Yes it was you because the only other suspect is my clean right hand. Maybe you got it from the endless list of friends with benefits or the southern gent who stuck his…
Canadian word usage
In Canada, in case some of you out there don’t know this, a carbonated drink is commonly called pop. We don’t call this concoction soda. Americans do. We also eat chocolate bars, not candy bars. Americans, even though chocolate and candy are quite distinct, call them candy bars. More Americanisms invading our speech. Please knock…
A
Thank you so much for giving me the inside scoop on our work. When I told you that they make me feel like every day is my last I was not kidding. You never know if you are doing well because there is no positive feedback. Your words of encouragement and letting me know that…
Peace & quiet, listen up!
I recently started working at a new job and the office culture is certainly not what I am used to, but I am trying to make the best of it. Everyone here more or less keeps to themselves and really only steps outside of their office to ask a question to someone else. The office…
Ladies and gentlemen, your Nova Scotia Music Week showcase line-up
If rubbing shoulders with a myriad of charming local musicians, convincing one of them to share a thermos of hot chocolate with you on the blustery grounds of White Point Beach Resort and attending a metric ton of shows sounds appealing, you’ve got your early November set up. Behold, the 2012 showcasing performers: AA Wallace;…
To my travelling friend
I can’t fucking wait to get trashed and party it up with you when you return. —It’s Been Lonely Without Your Sass
Fucking tabloids
Okay, so everyone is well aware of the tragic incident that occurred in Colorado. Everyone knows about it, and it is especially the friends and families of the victims that are affected the most. It really disgusts me when I see these ‘Enquirer’ magazines which seem to just make a huge mockery of the grief…
Big jerk business men
Wow, you so-called business pro, actually set me up! You got a friend so-called business pro, let’s call him Mr.Pretend, to call me with several questions about a certain product. Children in the background, nice guy act…playing me, pretending naivety. I think I’m having a conversation and being helpful. But no, Mr.Pretend (I mean this…
Varying prices for the same stuff made in China
I go into a bookstore to look for an e-reader stylus and they want $20 for a shitty piece of crap made in China so I go to the nearby dollar store and, voila, there’s a stylus for two fucking bucks. Then when going to an art shop, these tiny drawing books were $10 and…
Pride float guy in Elvis sunglasses
To the guy who was dancing on the float with sails, you looked like you were having so much fun. It made my pride to see you dance with that huge smile. Thank you. —Elvis Fanboy
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Well, this is it, I’m outta here. I’ve carried two degrees for four years and failed to get any meaningful employment in this depressing province. The best I could get here, remotely related to my field, was temporary work. For shit pay. I was so determined to stay in NS because I knew I’d be…
Tossed to the curb!
I met this lady online about 12 weeks ago. Both of us are the same age, early forties, she was once a bigger lady and lost a pile of weight, I myself in very great shape and look young for my age. The relationship started very hot and torrid…sex for hours on end. In between…
Cinnamon bun fiasco
To the management of a certain cafe, please consider replacing your cashier with someone who doesn’t frighten the customers. I love your food, but lately I’ve frequented your establishment less and less due to your cashier’s rude and stressful behaviour. I don’t mean to colossally inconvenience you with my request of a certain cinnamon bun,…
Vanished for two years
My second half has a friend who calls him up all the time asking him what he thinks about how this broad looks whether on TV or a female person that they used to know. He even asked my partner if he would like to screw that particular person. My partner is married so keep…
Gag a maggot burger
I decided to swing by a fast food joint today for a quick bite cuz I skipped breaky and was totes starved out. I ordered a single burger and that thing was the most funky ass piece of trash I ever bit into. Your burgers used to be alright, WTF happened? Now you are BUTTERING…
Oh Slash-y, My Slash-y!
Thanks, baby, for a fan-friggin-tastic night of some in your face rock ‘n’ roll. —Persevere
Sappyfest Number Seven
This weekend, car loads of compatriots, wagons of wonderful merchants, vans full of families and campers full of campers made their way to Sackville, New Brunswick to take part in the seventh annual Sappyfest: an independent music festival that takes place over three days in the heart of the heart of the heart of the…
HSOW’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
While I may not be an out-and-out opera buff, I am eternally grateful to Halifax Summer Opera Workshop for introducing me to the delights of some accessible works over the past few years. And as of now, their latest production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has risen to the top of my “favourites” list. The opera,…
Twelve Angry Men
Theatre Arts Guild did a brilliant job a couple of years ago with their production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men, and now Halifax has another opportunity to see the classic courtroom drama. Lion’s Den Theatre (the newish company that recently revived the hilarious Arsenic and Old Lace) opened the play at The Bus Stop…
Farmers’ Market week
The first annual Farmers’ Market Week started Saturday and will be going on all week down at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market. This celebration of local produce and crafts will be held at Farmers’ Markets all over Nova Scotia. Samples of some of the events include live music, picnics, and market suppers. “Farmers’ Markets really…
Calvin Johnson in Halifax
If you’re not already at SappyFest tomorrow night, this is happening in our town: Olympia, Washington’s musical heavyweight Calvin “K Records, Beat Happening” Johnson performs with Katie + The Lichen, Dream Friends, Pedagogues, Family Video on Friday, August 3 at 7pm, 2539 Agricola, $5-$10 (sliding scale). Maybe he’ll play “Indian Summer”!
Ruth Minnikin’s family history
As a musician and graduate of NSCAD’s photography program, Halifax-based artist Ruth Minnikin had always been looking for ways to combine the two fields of study into one project. But it wasn’t until the death of a loved one that she finally realized her two artistic passions with The Minnikins’ Photo Album, a 7-song EP…
Wintersleep says hello, home
Halifax’s own Juno-winning Wintersleep will be joining in the Natal Day festivities with a free concert at Alderney Landing on Saturday. And for those who remember last year, we can only hope it isn’t moved from an outdoor space to a 100-person capacity room again. “It was kind of weird because it didn’t really rain…
Viva la Cantina
It’s a dreary east coast afternoon. A mist hangs suspended in the crisp air and I can feel myself displacing it as I walk past the Public Gardens. I’m in need of a hot lunch and I know just where to find it. Cantina Mexicana’s (1551 South Park Street) bright colours beckon at me from…
As told to Sheilah Wilson
Sheilah Wilson’s latest work, A line drawn continuously and without looking while you tell your out of body experience attempt to translate memory into drawing. The show features drawings translated into a print in the darkroom, collected over the past eight months. Interviewees drew on a canvas as they shared their stories of out-of-body experiences…
Educating Rita crackles
The stage almost crackles with energy in the opening scenes of Educating Rita. When the titular character (Andrea Lee Norwood) bursts into the sanctuary of the brilliant but boozy professor Frank (Todd Duckworth), it’s as if a fresh wind has blown in. She prances and questions, provokes and teases. It’s a star-making role played by…
High Fiver
[iamge-1] “A band’s like a nice functioning organism until it’s not and it kind of needs a break,” says Simone Schmidt, leader of Toronto alt-country outfit One Hundred Dollars, which is on hiatus. “A lot of times the market or something external dictates whether a band continues or keeps working, but you can’t let that…
$Rockin 4 Dollar$ turns 7
“As a resident drunk and sound tech I figured I could combine those two talents and join the team,” says Adrian Bruhm, who began spending his Monday nights hosting band battles at Reflections about five years ago. $Rockin’ 4 Dollar$—originally conceived by Craig Hamlin, who’s still involved, and Jon Epworth —launched its weekly open-mic-with-a-prize format back…
Total Recall
Sci-fi futurism gets smothered with banality in the barely remade Total Recall. Bored with having a steady job in a dystopian Earth that’s 98% uninhabitable, factory worker Quaid (a remarkably lifeless Colin Farrell) visits the memory-altering Rekall spa. A quick session to be the secret agent of his dreams later, and Quaid is being hunted…
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
About as deep as the popular young adult pages that spawned it, the dorky humour of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days isn’t entirely unpalatable. When his dad outlaws video games for the summer, socially awkward Greg decides to spend his days sneaking into the nearby country club for swimming, smoothies and potential smooches…
The wanking watchdog
Q I have a question regarding pornography usage and browser histories. As a matter of courtesy to my wife (and anyone else who may use our devices), I always clear the browser history on whatever device (computer/iPad) I may have used to view pornography. I have always just assumed that she doesn’t want to see…
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! LEO ((July 23-August 22) You’ve been making pretty good progress in the School of Life. By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the…
Time is Titus
It contains an average of one atrocity for every 97 lines. This is a statistic that Jesse MacLean casually throws out while discussing Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. It’s a story overflowing with rape, mutilations, cannibalism and all manner of bloodletting, and MacLean, Shakespeare by the Sea’s co-artistic director and director of Titus, is excited…
Circus family
Athletic and graceful, circus arts took off in Halifax with the opening of Atlantic Cirque. Kevin Hartford reports on the past 10 years. This year marks the first decade of Atlantic Cirque, a Dartmouth-based school that teaches the young and old alike to swing from a giant metal hoop, flip into the air from a…
