All a Board!
Hear this players, The Board Room Game Cafe, will open in early October, stretching the board game cafe trend (done right by the likes of Toronto’s awesomely named Snakes and Lattes) eastward. The Board Room Game Cafe will be located at 1256 Barrington Street and will have a library of over 500 games to choose…
Welcome Back Students!!! BUT,
We’ll take your money, BUT there are rules. You can’t talk on the bus in a loud fashion as to show everyone that you are there, and you want to be recognized. You can’t talk on the phone as if no one is around you and can hear you. You can’t text while walking, as…
Harbourwalk magic
was downtown last night for dinner with out of town folks and took a stroll afterwards along the harbourwalk and lower water street. magical night! the air was soft and warm, small boats quietly finding their moorings, patio diners laughing over candlelight, lovers of all ages cuddled on benches, toddlers in strollers asleep at last…
Way to clean up the neighbourHOOD!
I live in of the less desirable areas of the city, the one with the “View”. All I want is to live my life with quality and dignity. I look out for my own safety and security as well as the other tenants in my building. This past winter my neighbours decided to get in…
Thom Fitzgerald’s divine intervention
Director Thom Fitzgerald has spent the past 16 years of his career bringing intimate character pieces to life on the silver screen, from his acclaimed debut The Hanging Garden to his most recent award winner, Cloudburst, a lesbian road movie popular enough to get a nod from Bill Maher on Real Time. But for much…
A Girl’s Dating Site Bitch
I’ve been following LTWWB every day for the past two years and I have to say this summer I’ve really noticed quite a number of dating site bitches written by male OPs. Well, let me tell you, it’s much worse for us women doing online dating. Most of you guys are fucking creeps. Myself and…
Hey You
Hey you. Yes you. Let me shine the light so you can see. Listen carefully. Nobody fucking cares what you think. Shut the hell up. I could mop the floor with your weak ass. —Some people’s children
Hubbards Whore
To the asshole at the Shore Club Saturday night who knocked me flying as he barged through the crowd and then called me ‘smelly’ (how old are you anyway, five?) Guess what? I too bought my Matt Mays ticket months ago and I was excited to see him as well. You didn’t care about anyone…
Reptilian Revenge
Thieves are the lowest of the low, aren’t they? To my thief: you grabbed the wrong bag. The one you left behind contained way more valuable stuff. Sucker! Hope you enjoy the snake and reptile bites in the afterlife you scum sucking maggot. —The Reluctant Minimalist
Bus driver
Kudos to the bus driver who put a passengers’s open pop can in his drink holder rather than making her throw it out. —Number 7 rider
Dryer Sheets and Fabric Softeners: They’re poison and you don’t need them
Please stop using cancer-causing dryer sheets and fabric softeners. We don’t need them! Why not cut down on fossil fuels by using drying racks and clotheslines instead of wasteful dryers? Why are we so lazy??!! I go for a nice walk to breathe some air and I get poison perfume from peoples’ dryer vents blowing…
Thank you nice bus stop guys
Yesterday I was casually catching a bus into town and chatting to a really nice guy with an open book tattoo on his hand, I then fainted from heat stroke and dehydration and another man called the ambulance for me. Just wanted to say thank you both very much for making sure I was OK…
Summer Job
To our summer student: You are here to work! You are not here to carry your iPhone around and text your friends. You are not to duck into a meeting room and call a friend unless it is urgent. You are not to disappear from the office for 1.5 hours without alerting your supervisor. Quit…
Three councillors and Halifax Water representative failed to tell citizens’ group about sewer proposal
A Halifax Water manager has been a liaison to the citizens’ group responsible for developing and maintaining the Chain of Lakes Trail since 2009, but never told the group that Halifax Water was proposing to put a sewer pipe under the trail. This summer, that Halifax Water manager was made a director of the citizen’s…
Goodbye
Sometimes life thows you a curveball and you have to address things that need to be said before it’s too late. I am sorry that I made your life difficult. I am sorry that I behaved badly. I am sorry it took me too long to let go. Be happy, find your path, keep smiling,…
Know what you want when its your turn!!!!!!!!!!
Ok. I’m going to make this short. You have all encountered it. Why are there people who can stand in line for over 5 minutes in full view of what’s available, and then when they go up to the counter it’s like a gold fish seeing the aquarium treasure chest for the first time. Ma’am,…
To the Kiwi Lobster-Lover
I saw your post and want to welcome you to Halifax! I hope that you have many great experiences while you are here. Kiwis rock!! —ILoveKiwis
Ex no-no
If it wasn’t a slap in the face enough to get my heart ripped out by you a month before our wedding, you still want to sleep with me and send texts saying how sad you are. I could care less that your decision to leave me is causing you to be sad and no,…
Showering when you’re high
The best. Thanks again, pot!!!! —SHITTY-D
To my Lovelies
This is a sincere shout out to all my gorgeous, intelligent huge-hearted girlfriends who have been here for me through thick and thin, sickness and health. I keep trying to tell you all how very grateful I am for your support through the last terrible year of my life. Through surgery, chemo, radiation and the…
I don’t like anal
Please. Please stop tailgating me. Don’t tailgate me while I’m in the passing lane. Don’t tailgate me if I’m in the slow lane. Soon I will put a sticker on the back of my car about tailgating to give you idiots who do this VERY ANNOYING AND ILLEGAL thing to me a darn clue.. I…
Sock Boy
I met you at a party on the weekend, I found you super charming and hilarious. You offered me your sock as a parting favour, I wish that I had accepted it, and gotten your number as well. Hopefully I’ll run into you sometime. —Disappointing Heart Button
Can I please have my sneakers!!??
So.. I ordered clothing online from a reliable site that I have ordered from before. I was working the day that my order was delivered. The delivery person left me two cards to pick up my order at their business location the next day after 1 pm. I went to the location to pick up…
Being a human being is difficult…
We’re thrown into this world without having a say about the matter, then we have to face a life-long series of struggles like getting our hearts broken, worrying about what others think of us, making sure we have enough food to feed our family and ourselves, dealing with the fact that our bodies are slowly…
Sour Orange
The single most disappointing feature of NS politics today is how negative and petty the NDP PR people have become. I was so hopeful that we were in for a different kind of politics in 2009 when the NDP came to power, but now all I want to do is give the NDP a reason…
Wow…
On a daily basis I find myself amazed at how I landed such a wonderful person to share my life with. You’re smart, sexy, caring, affectionate and I am completely and totally in love with you, and the best part is… you’re in love with me too! I honestly don’t know how I landed such…
DON’T BLOCK MY WAY!!!**
You do not have the right to block my way or impede me on a public thouroughfare. On my way to Halifax, along the eastern shore, via highway 7 I encountered a parade. Highway 7 IS THE ONLY ROUTE through Moser River where I was stopped by a gentleman with a flashlight (in the daytime).…
The world is my lobster
I’m an exchange student from New Zealand and on my first night in Halifax I went to the supermarket to grab some dinner. As a tourist, I was excited by the lobsters and when I saw a giant helium lobster balloon I thought I must have it! The weight holding it down said $1.29 which…
PSA: for all pet owners and potential pet owners
I check kijiji every day to get an idea of how many people are selling/getting rid of their pets, and why. Every single day I am saddened to see yet another irresponsible pet owner trying to sell/get rid of their pet because their “new apartment/home doesn’t allow pets”. Did anyone put a gun to your…
Parking woes
As a newly licensed driver, I’m still adjusting to parking lots. You were sitting in your car watching my struggle as I tried not to hit the two cars next to me and I couldn’t have been more grateful when you came over and offered to park my car for me. It’s people like you…
BAR STAR
Hey, friend. You work at a local bar. You’re in your early 30s pretending to be 20. You claim not to be “part of that world”, yet you drink at said bar after most shifts and hook up with random losers and regulars all the time. You bullshit to your friends about your ways and…
free parking at the market saturday
To the sweet guy who walked over to my car and gave me his parking ticket with time left on it, thank you so much! My friend is down visiting and it made her remember how nice people from Halifax can really be. I know you probably didn’t give it a second thought after the…
Princess Tragic Bitch
Your coffee tastes like shit because you never clean anything and i’ve been putting all the crumbs from your messes into your coffee maker. Learn to maintain, replace and restore the things you take, consume and destroy. Your life isn’t tragic enough to wear sunglasses in a basement apartment on a cloudy day either, tool.…
hating the spitters
to all the people who seem to have nothing better to do than take up space standing around the busy streets of downtown hali. looking ugly and leaving piles of spit around them. please get a life. your habit is disgusting and you are doing nothing for the atmosphere of our city. — grossed out
Thieving
To the thieving asshole who stole the dog picture from the pub I work at: you are the reason people have to lock their doors, bolt shit down, and otherwise protect their property. That dog hung on our pub for 4 and a half years, and people asked about it and loved it. Who gives…
Sometimes all you need is a friend
This is a special shout out to my aunt (okay well 2nd aunt maybe? by marriage) You are one of the most remarkable people that I know. Your inner strength and confidence I truely admire. You reached out to me when the rest of the world turned its back and you always show love to…
People who come into a store two minutes to close
You all know who you are, and you all suck. Until you are on the customer service side of things, you will never understand what I’m talking about until it happens to you – because you apparently can’t comprehend basic manners and are annoying as fuck. Have some decent courtesy and do what you need…
For, Ink, and Paper
Like the 20th anniversary addition and this weeks volume of The Coast has not published the Horoscope column. My god. It’s one of the main things the readers like to read in their WEEKLY addition. I hope that this doesn’t happen again, or for that matter end up on the cuttings’ floor and end up…
Bike Thieves Suck
Just so we’re clear, sneaking into a yard that isn’t yours and stealing someone’s bike is not okay… especially when the person you stole it from is a kick-ass human being who genuinely gets a lot of joy out of riding his bike. I don’t know what your circumstances are and why you felt that…
Rebel Girl Rock Camp final show tomorrow!
Today is the final day of Rebel Girl Rock Camp, a week-long camp for youth focusing on developing music skills and being in a band. There’s been screen-printing workshops, songwriting workshops, recording workshops, band photos, karaoke, some amazing local bands at lunch time, a lot of apples eaten, lots of laughs and cool rock moves.…
Dishonest car seller
I really liked the car but I was a little bit worried about the fluid drip you claimed to know nothing about it. It didn’t appear serious so I bought the car. The leak became worse immediately. I referred to your ad, and sure enough the pics show the leak had ruined your driveway, so…
Controversial Mic Mac Mall ads pulled
With Target and shopping mecca Forever 21 on the way, business at Mic Mac Mall is moving forward. But the mall’s ad campaign is moving in the opposite direction: backwards, to stereotypes reminiscent of the early 20th century. The back-to-school advertising campaign featured the stick-thin cartoon women the mall has been using for the past…
CKDU all ages fundraiser is bang for your buck
If you’re a Haligonian music fan you should essentially feel obliged to come out to the Bus Stop Theatre this Friday for a CKDU FUNdraiser. The show combines many elements that contribute to the awesomeness of our music scene. It’s all ages (but if you’re 19 you will be able to buy drinks, relax), in…
Close Knits
Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, The Cable-Knits has crossed this mighty continent to bring you their idiosyncratic, fuzz-mangled pop ditties. Comprised of songwriters Nate Waters (Hunter Gatherer) and LeeJay Dunphy (Stawart Sons), the two take a collaborative approach to create singularly scatterbrained songs. “This band is a truncated version of mine and Lee’s extended courtship. We…
Getting drivers to put down the damn phone!
Another close call today, another dinkette in a SUV yakking on a mobile phone. Here ‘s an idea: since most of us have phones with cameras, how about snapping pictures of these dorks and posting them on a website? Something along the lines of Distracted Douchebag Drivers. Obviously it would have to be passengers or…
Young talent
In between teaching at NSCAD summer art camps, artist Charley Young is taking time to exhibit pieces from her Nova Scotia Talent Trust award-winning work for her shared show with Katie Belcher at Studio 21 Fine Art (Aug 23-Sep 11). You’d do well to catch her opening, because she doesn’t stay in one place for…
Bass-Playing Busybody
To the over-booklearned, underexperienced and clearly opinionated sharing a ride on the Metro Transit bus with my husband and daughter: you had no business asking for my daughter’s name then throwing it into my husband’s face while asking rhetorically if he thought it might be inappropriate to answer her question. She’d asked about tequila (she’s…
Noisy train pesters neighbours
“When I was shown this place, I was told there are cruise ships and trains,” says Amal Ghazal of her Barrington Street apartment. “I thought, that’s nice. I want to live in a busy city, with lots going on. But I didn’t expect this.” “This” is the Via train parked across the street from her…
You’re smarter than you used to be
Hey, good job letting go of some of your bullshit. You’re a treat and a nice guy. You used to need people to like you and now you’d like to like people to like you but mostly you want to like yourself. Keep on keeping in you sexy pixie warrior. —Doing it all for my…
Shelf life
You know who I am talking about those Women in their early to mid 20’s who lets be honest are really attractive but think they should be handed everything on a silver platter because of how good they look. They should really be hitting the books and focus on getting a decent career instead of…
Spread the Metal spreads the love
I say “metal,” you say “philanthropy!” Right? Well, maybe you don’t, but Matt Day sure does, so this weekend the founder of Spread the Metal Records presents the second annual Spread the Metal Festival, with all proceeds raised by the two day event going to national and international charities. While a heavy metal label might…
Our annual Best of Halifax poll awaits you
In case you didn’t have it circled, highlighted and asterisked on your calendar our 19th annual Best of Halifax City Awards poll kicked off today, people! You officially have one month to give love to your favourite locals by voting in our readers poll. So what are you waiting for? CLICK HERE TO GET ‘ER…
Mike check
“I feel more comfortable making recordings than performing live,” says Mike O’Neill. “There’s an ‘entertaining the crowd’ component that makes me nervous. It doesn’t feel natural for me.” Could have fooled us. Hilarious banter, genius arrangements and talent are just plain entertaining. O’Neill’s lasting appeal with Halifax audiences hasn’t been an accident either—a good song…
Me, Who Dove Into the Heart of the World
Translated from Spanish, Sabina Berman’s novel Me, Who Dove Into the Heart of the World is a story with a narrator as unconventional as the title. The strong and unusual voice belongs to Karen Nieto, a highly functioning autistic who was a once-feral child in Mexico with an incredible bond with the ocean. Discovered by…
Hearts on Feuerstack
Nova Scotia can only hope to be immortalized in one of Michael Feuerstack’s Vines. The folk-pop-magical songwriter has a way with a phone, filming mini videos of The Littlest Hobo, flashing motel lights or the shadows of blowing leaves in the sun. “It’s fun to capture a loop of something. It’s maybe a continuation of…
All My Friends Are Superheroes
Now with green type and gorgeous illustrations by Tom Percival, the 10th-anniversary edition of Kaufman’s acclaimed love letter to Toronto, All My Friends Are Superheroes, has never been better. After the Perfectionist is hypnotized by her ex-boyfriend (Hypno) at her own wedding to believe that her brand new husband, Tom, is invisible, she leaves for…
Martial law
Since 2002, Martial Canterel (AKA Sean McBride) has been making splashes after diving head-first into new wave with NYC pals. “There was a real internalization of wave music as a kind of untapped periphery. For us, it narrated a history of ideas that remained interred, and because of that, there was something very private for…
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
David Rakoff is probably best known for his performances on the radio show This American Life. Last August he died of cancer, but not before completing a whimsical and utterly original novel in verse. The author of three essay collections, Rakoff’s only work of fiction is a sequence of interconnected portraits that spans a century…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEO! (July 23-August 22) “My story isn’t sweet and harmonious like invented stories,” wrote novelist Herman Hesse. “It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” As interesting as Hesse’s declaration is, let’s not take it as gospel.…
The Woman Upstairs
“How angry am I? You don’t want to know.” This is Nora Eldridge, a middle-aged third grade teacher, artist and eponymous Woman Upstairs. “It’s important, when you’re the Woman Upstairs, never to think of yourself–but never, do you understand–as alone or forlorn or, God help us, wanting.” Nora is content with her life, is happy…
Oh wow, he’s a big kid now
Q I recently discovered that my 14-year-old stepson has been stealing, wearing, soiling and hiding his toddler sister’s pull-ups. I’ve found them after he hides them in his closet, which also serves as a general storage area. After discussions with him, I’m certain that wearing them is a pleasure thing for him. (He says “curiosity,”…
Hanni El Khatib
With one album under his belt, this LA-based rocker teams up with Dan Auerbach. If Head in the Dirt sounds a bit like early Black Keys, chalk that up to Auerbach’s enthusiasm and Khatib’s flexibility. Both sense that older blues and rock will inform what they do, but need not limit it. “Save Me” has…
You’re Next
Note to would-be killers; do your research. A lesson learned by animal-masked psychopaths who bite off more than they can chew in the lovely You’re Next. Erin (Sharni Vinson, just, fantastic) accompanies her professor/boyfriend to his family’s reunion at an isolated farmhouse. Mom’s on heavy pills, big bro’s a douche and there’s no booze. An…
City and Colour
Dallas Green continues the quieter, slower presentation he began while still a member of the screamo band Alexisonfire. This album, City and Colour’s fourth, debuted at number one on the Canadian charts, so somebody’s into it. An observer puzzled by this success might speculate that adolescent ideas like “I’m searching for a paradise that I…
The Scoop Outs
These Dartmouth darlings took two years to record their debut album, and it was so fucking worth the wait. Fans of the trio will find the energetic drumming and crushing guitar and bass they know and love, and will be blown away by how Frederick Lee’s crisp recording perfectly captures the killer vocal harmonies sometimes…
El-P + Killer Mike
[image-1} Run The Jewels, the latest album from the creative team of Killer Mike, who will be performing at this year’s Halifax Pop Explosion and El-P (who was here for last year’s Pop Ex), is a fantastic mix of head-knocking bass-heavy beats and critical, articulate lyrics. While there is the ubiquitous self aggrandizement found in…
Plan bee
It’s early June, and Michelle McPherson is standing in an empty backyard in the north end. McPherson is a beekeeper. Until 10 days ago, her first and only beehive, almost one year old, stood under a pine tree in a corner of the yard. “A month-and-a-half ago, I realized I had a very, very strong…
Sugarpova’s a grand slam
Advantage, Sharapova. Any professional athlete who’s also markets candy to the masses is cool by me. Coming down from last week’s tennis showdown at Sandjam, and next week’s US Open, the time is right to start making a racket about this tennis ball-shaped gum designed by the third-best women’s player in the world, Maria Sharapova.…
One year of Le French Fix
Halifax’s “tiny taste of Paris”, Le French Fix Pâtisserie (5233 Prince Street, 497-5308), is turning the big one next week and everyone is invited to celebrate its first year in business. The bakery-cafe hybrid started off with French pastry chef Geoffroy Chevallier in a booth at the Farmer’s Market and has since grown to be…
Life of pie
Patience is a virtue, especially when it comes to pie-making. When it comes to the expression, “It’s as easy as pie,” there are two schools of thought. The first camp would argue that whoever first expressed that opinion obviously never made pie and needs a boot to the head. The second camp would state that…
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
A chintzy, Toronto-y Twilight rip-off, The Mortal Instruments stars Lily Collins (daughter of Phil, point your burning sticks away from Lena Dunham!) as Clary, daughter of a pair of top-notch shadowhunters, a secret group that’s been hunting demons for 1,000 years, though they vary in age and are all British for no explained reason. The…
City’s caught with its pants down on the greenbelt
A greenbelt is starting to form around the edge of the city and that’s a good thing. That near-urban wilderness, with its many lakes and vast forests, is something that makes Halifax such a great place to live. Want to go for a hike in the woods? No problem. Want to go for a swim…
Fruitvale Station
With the police shooting of Toronto teen Sammy Yatim fresh on this country’s mind, the 2008 murder of Oscar Grant as portrayed Fruitvale Station cuts even closer to the bone. It’s written and directed by first-timer Ryan Coogler with a deft, doc-style approach—DP Rachel Morrison uses a muted, gritty palette similar to her work in…
The World’s End
Gary King was the shit in high school. Twenty years on, he hasn’t changed a bit. Pity then for his friends in The World’s End, a sci-fi/action remembrance of drunken things past. King (the ever-versatile Simon Pegg) pesters his old chums into a reunion pub crawl at their sleepy hometown which hasn’t changed a wink.…
