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1. Cold Beer Store. 2. Cow Bay Moose. 3. John’s Lunch. 4. Lake Banook. 5. Mic Mac Tavern. 6. Dartmouth Waterfront.
1. It’s a drive thru. For beer. 2. Fresh Growlers 3. Open till midnight 4. Beer AND swag 5. Surprise! We sell craft beer. 6. Dartmouth’s most attractive staff
1. Any patio whatsoever. 2. Freeman’s on game night. 3. Before In-laws arrive. 4. In a blanket fort. 5. Darrell’s with a PB Burger. 6. NEVER with an actual moose.
To the certain hotel worker who never shuts the heck up and is so over bearing just stop!! we as a collective can not stand your loud and super obnoxious ways. hate to tell ya buddy but you have not done everything in life nor have you done it better than everyone who talks to…
[Image-1] Floating eyesore, trashy, cheap bar on the water, call it whatever you want, those fucking “Harbour Cruises” have got to go. Once upon a time, some corporate fathead got the idea to offer harbour cruises for twenty bucks. What the public doesn’t realize is that these are just trashy floating bars with overpriced drinks…
[Image-1] I still think about you quite often! Whether you realized it or not, your charm and small talks helped me through one of the hardest times in my life. The little grins we exchanged for weeks before I finally got the courage to talk to you, I’ll always remember that. There was something about…
[Image-1] Wishing you the best on your creative journey. We’ll will miss you while you’re away. —Curls
Here’s a shout out to all the motorbike drivers who rev them loud. I love when you guys do that. My sleeping two month old baby loves being startled awake by that. People on the street are covering their ears when you do that because they think you’re cool. It’s cool to permanently damage kids’…
1. Labour Day Weekend. 2. Recycling is Full. 3. Fantasy Hockey Draft Night. 4. Instagram PhotoOp #KegParty. 5. Boozy Taco Tuesday. 6. It’s today. Celebrate, right?
[Image-1] To the crew of drunken dudes chanting “Hey! We want some pussy!” in unison outside my building at midnight on Saturday: I assume you were on the way to the bar seeking vaginas with deludedly high hopes of intercourse. You may want to consider that those vaginas have real human beings attached to them,…
to everyone who orders coffee to-go and stays, maybe if you didn’t stay for over an hour, maybe if you tipped, maybe if you made up your mind, i might want to be nice to you. —The Environment Is Not The Only One That Hates You
When I walked into the grocery just over a week ago, I was devastated to find that I had dropped my wallet on the number four bus. To the person who decided not to turn in my wallet: you are a selfish, piece-of-shit coward. Have fun spending a poor person’s money and finding out what…
[Image-1] To the Asian breakdancer at the Quinpool/Oxford bus stop on Friday listening to your music on your headphones having your own breakdance party: YOU KEEP DOING YOU! —I wanted to take snapchat so bad.
Here’s a hearty FUCK YOU to any restauranteur who makes servers tip out to the house. I don’t care what you say the money goes to, making your staff PAY YOU to do their JOB is bullshit. It covers walkouts? Fuck that. Walkouts are the cost of doing business. As far as I remember, you hired…
In a special episode of The Scene, one cool couple will prove their love with random questions for a chance to win The Coast’s Newlywed Game with your host, me, Adria Young! Thanks for tuning in. Let’s meet our contestants! Today on the show, we have Toronto comics and lovers Chris Locke and Kathleen Phillips-Locke. This dashing pair…
[Image-1] News flash: There is physical contact in soccer. At every level. Even in our over 35 league. If that physical contact is considered ‘dangerous play’ (Read FIFA rules), the referee will call it. If you don’t accept this fact you wind up acting like one of the many women in our league who fucking…
Ha, they wait until a week before school starts to rip up the length of Quinpool Road. Enjoy the commute! —Cranky
[Image-1] You made my cinnamon bun French toast, and while I riffed you quite terribly, mostly it’s because you are super cute and I’m awkward. One day I may get some courage and ask you out for a drink. Between the facial hair and your smile, both me and my roomie were quite solid in…
When Priscilla Blake first met Craig she knew him as “the guy upstairs.” One of a group of them, actually. She was a 19-year-old student sharing an apartment with her girlfriends, and he was a friendly neighbour attempting to offload some Tragically Hip tickets. “You just have to buy me a t-shirt while you’re there,”…
To any folks trying to turn left from the Purcell’s cove Road onto the Herring Cove Road at Chocolate Lake: Yes, I’m giving you the “are you dumb as fuck” stare as I drive by. —Oncoming Traffic
Notes from the Arts Desk * * * * * PARTY ALERT & AWARDS NIGHT The Khyber Centre for the Arts invites you to a general meeting on Friday, September 4 (6pm, free) to fill you in on the future of the Khyber Centre. You are then warmly invited to stay for the Community BBQ and…
When you find a co-worker you click with, hold on to them for dear life. That’s seemingly what longtime colleagues Melissa Dalley, Meghan Fitzpatrick and Orla MacEachern have done—the trio of master stylists have teamed up to bring Dime Salon (5525 Cornwallis Street) to needy north end tresses. The full-service (and pet friendly) salon opened…
This is a tale told a thousand times but just in case . . . Back in the early 1990s, with bands like Sloan, Plumtree, Thrush Hermit and jale, indie labels Cinnamon Toast Records and Murderecords, with Eric’s Trip just over in Moncton, a brand-new alt-weekly newspaper (ahem!) and a growing annual music festival, almost everyone thought Halifax was becoming “the next Seattle.”…
[Image-1] Every week I look forward to getting the next instalment of Welcome to Hellifax. I cut them out and keep them in a book. This comic really is perfect for someone who was born and raised in Halifax as I was, and who loves post-apocalypic stories to boot! Please keep them coming! —Comics make…
For many years I have seethed with anger over this gross injustice. Why, oh why, is the dime smaller than the nickel? It’s worth more yet it is puny in comparison. The other coins are sized by value – why not the dime? This should be the defining issue of the federal election but not…
Can’t we all just learn the fucking rules of the road and begin to show some respect to each other. I mean, how fucking difficult is it to drive/cycle/walk with some consideration, awareness, and respect to others who share the road/path/sidewalk. We don’t require new rules or new lanes…just follow the existing laws already in…
[Image-1] So you work in a kitchen well respected for its local and creative cuisine. You work hard and long hours, you contribute to the menu and you are praised by the heavy hitters in the industry. Good for you, but that has no weight with me. Your experience does not give you the right…
[Image-1] When we think of Nova Scotia, we envision breathtaking land and seascapes, picturesque valleys with some of the most beautiful beaches you have ever seen. We also have an unemployment rate of eight percent, New Brunswick at 10.8 percent, PEI at 11.1 followed by Newfoundland at 12.3 percent. We have had a mass exodus…
Ace Burger’s Bearly’s House of Blues location (1269 Barrington Street) has turned off the grill, for good. In a Facebook post last Friday the restaurant said the downtown burger joint, which opened in time for Burger Week in 2014, was only intended to be a one-year pop-up restaurant and made the decision to stay open…
One of the best things about Halifax is the handy access to unspoiled wilderness. Taking a bus to the lake. Getting lost in the woods a 10-minute drive from downtown. Embarking on a canoe trip right behind Kent Building Supplies in the Bayers Lake Industrial Park. Visitors can’t believe how #blessed the locals are to…
“The more you sleep, the less you live. It’s pretty simple really,” says Matt Samways, electronic artist and the head of Halifax-based avant-garde label, Electric Voice Records. On Saturday night, Samways presents Sleep and Longevity, a multidisciplinary sensory-sound party at The Khyber (10pm, $5). With previous performances at Halifax’s outsider art festival OBEY Convention, Samways has shifted his…
On August 17, 2015, Roger Montefrisco, along with several other Canadian Armed Forces veterans, were refused entry to Branch #4 of the Royal Canadian Legion, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Prime minister Stephen Harper, on the campaign trail, was at the Legion to announce a plan to “strengthen the Canadian Armed Forces reserve force” and “deepen…
You know when you’re standing at Needs in front of the chips, not sure what to buy? Well, my hot dogs, I’ve got some tips for you. Tonight, Halifax has options with two great shows: crunchy rock jams or smooth pop-rock serenades. Honestly, I’m torn like a bag of Doritos. Should we split the difference? Should…
[Image-1] Two years ago, baristas leading the push to unionize Halifax coffee shops was the grounds for many a heated discussion. In 2013, both Just Us! and Second Cup were at the centre of unionization battles fuelled by concerns about workplace conditions. Employees at both coffee shops were ultimately successful in unionizing, but two years…
[Image-1] Downstairs in the Northwood community care center, and smack in the middle of Halifax’s north end, weights are clanking, fans are blowing and music is bumping. It’s damn good vibes for a Thursday morning scene at the gym. But this isn’t just any gym. According to Natasha Handspiker, manager at the ReBoom Northwood initiative,…
[Image-1] I would never have imagined that I would one day need social assistance. With my work ethic, education and references, it wasn’t remotely on my radar. And yet adsum ego sum. It was a great shock to me, following a serious fall. My former employers and co-workers were some of the best people with…
In the genre mash-up American Ultra, Mike (Jesse Eisenberg) is a stoner burnout living in West Virginia with his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart). He knows she’s too good for him, or as he says, “We’re the perfect fucked-up couple. She’s perfect, I’m the fuck-up.” What he does know is he’s actually a CIA asset, which…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22) At least for now, I suggest you suspend the quest for order and refinement and perfection. The wise course of action is to disengage from your fascination with control, and instead give yourself to the throbbing, erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. Why? If you do, you will be…
Taking pot shots There is not a single fact in this entire article (“The bullshit cultural milieu of medical marijuana,” Voice of the City by Lachlan MacDonald, August 20). This is an opinion piece at best. You are most definitely entitled to your opinion—but to act as though your opinion is based in “rigorous scientific…
“It feels like a kid just dumped its toys into a sandbox,” says Jason Eisener of this summer’s most enduring hit, Mad Max: Fury Road. “And Turbo Kid felt like someone dumped their toys into a sandbox—and there were toys from Masters of the Universe, GI Joe and Jem and the Holograms.” Eisener, away from…
There’s something unusual going down at the Citadel on Caturday. Now in its second year, The Just For Cats Film Festival will transform the Citadel’s fortress into an outdoor theatre and screen the “greatest hits” of viral cat videos on a giant pop-up screen–expect some furr-miliar faces like Lil Bub and Keyboard Cat. The entertainment…
“The festival lineup at the Halifax Urban Folk Fest is so good this year. The organizers have done such a great job of putting it together,” says New Brunswick’s folk-pop singer Andy Brown. “If you’re looking for a festival with strong musicianship and a great community-based atmosphere, then HUFF is for you.” On Friday night…
Farmers’ markets have been a part of the patchwork of Halifax’s business and social communities since 1750. To put that in historical perspective, Halifax was founded in 1749. The first market was on Bedford Row, between Upper Water and George Streets. In the 1850s, after the city of Halifax had incorporated, a City Market Building…
When Saronn Pov moved to Halifax in 2010, she saw the farmers’ market as the best way to put down roots in a new city. “I was really nervous thinking, what will people think of the food?” says the chef and radiant personality behind Saronn’s Kitchen, a popular prepared food stall that’s since made a…
