Fage against the machine
Yesterday morning, after a judge found Ernie Fage guilty for fleeing the scene of an accident, Rodney MacDonald kicked the MLA out of the Progressive Conservative Party. “That is supported by my caucus colleagues. He will not be our candidate in the upcoming election,” RodMac told the Herald. But how much does the party support…
Thief
Whoever stole my daughter’s Columbia jacket (her only winter jacket) at the Dome on Wednesday night….Karma is coming for you. May the fleas of a 1000 camels invade your drawers! God saw you!
Bus Stop Smokers
I don’t care if a snowstorm is going on or a torrential downpour is raining down on Halifax – you just don’t smoke in bus shelters, especially when other people are inside. They even have NO SMOKING written all over them for those of you lacking common sense, for God’s sake! I shouldn’t have to…
Downtown coat check
so i give the stupid bitch my coat check tag and she decides to hand me a guys jacket.. and i give it back to her because its NOT my jacket. im a girl, i want MY JACKET. so i wait around for 1 hour to get my jacket and they give me a men’s…
Heat or Food? You Choose.
I would really like to know who the fuck is responsible for the impossible costs of heating one’s abode with oil. I am having $100 fucking dollars a week hijacked from me and that’s cranking the goddamn heat up to a balmy 68 degrees. I will be paying off this year’s supply for the next…
pedestrian are not second-class citizens!
as a tax-paying pedestrian – walking to/from work after a major weather event, like last night’s snow storm – i get really pissed-off when i have to carefully navigate a treacherous minefield of ice & slush on public sidewalks, intersections, et al. it’s extremely annoying and downright hazardous. and to add insult to injury, as…
Ardmore tea room CUNT!
To the bitch who came in a couple weeks ago to the Ardmore tea room and treated me like shit. I fucked up her order. Yeah, I’m new! Have you ever been a waitress? Do you know how stressful that job is? Well this women sure didn’t. She reduced me to tears and I retreated…
Snooty waitress
It was obvious how stuck you up you were, but you did your job well and we got along without problems: until the end. You gave me the bill ($27.58) and asked if I needed change. I gave you $30 and said yes. When you returned there was only a loonie in the bill holder.…
Do it yourself
Dear whiney restaurant patrons: Do you have nothing else to do but complain about the service at restaurants? Is your life REALLY that hectic that you need someone else to feed you? “I waited 35 minutes for my order and blah blah and I didn’t get the table I wanted and I spend too much…
cold & hungry
for the love of god people… please FEED your pets! i got hungry kitties showing up at my back door day & night, presumably because they’re not getting fed at home. how would YOU negligent cat owners like to be wandering the freezing cold streets & alleyways, begging for scraps of food?! have a heart…
more positive since leaving???
To the twit that wrote “Angry Halifax???” Have you travelled at all? I have lived all over the world, and I have got to tell you that the people of Halifax have to be some of the friendliest people that I have ever had the privilege to meet. Maybe You! Should lay off on the…
Dear Student Loans
You are the most useless bureaucracy ever created and I want to firebomb your offices. The fact that I will spend the next 20 years paying you back for what is arguably the most inefficient government department EVER created INFURIATES ME. I’m going to be paying you prime plus 2.5% for service that has included:…
A big thank you
To one of the 30 or so people who were at the Alehouse late last night, who rooted through the pockets of my coat until they found my ipod. It was my birthday no less. Get fucked. Tuneless
Civic Guy
To the jack that was driving up and down Robie Street on Saturday morning complaining about his vehicle and the dealership. Grow the hell up, there are better ways to voice your concern. Contact the manufacturer if you are not happy. I wish i had a gas guzzling pig of a truck just so I…
Halifax Sidewalks
It’s only the beginning of this wonderful winter season and already I’ve had 2 pairs of shoes ruined by the slush and salt of Halifax. Walking is my primary mode of transportation and I’m not taking the bus! Can’t we at least try to keep the sidewalks a little clearer?! Everyday the walk to work…
I’m an MT, not a Hooker
To the server at pizza place on Saturday night – just because I am a massage therapist does not mean I do “massage therapy with happy endings” , as you thought it funny to say after you asked what I do. Do you get bigger tips for happy endings in the bathroom after your shift?…
Pedestrian Rage… “I has it”
I like to think of myself as a rather patient person. However, since moving to Halifax a little over a year ago I have encountered more ignorant, incompetent, and distracted drivers than I ever thought imaginable! It seems as though every time I leave my home I narrowly miss getting run over. I choose to…
Angry Halifax???
Why is there so much nasty, sexist shit written on this website? I get that its a site for bitching but it really seems to bring out the absolute worst in people. I am suprised at how much hating is going on in Halifax- really, the rest of the country isn’t like that and its…
stupid cyclists
I almost hit a cyclist a few weeks ago because he didn’t follow the rules of the road while I was and I had the right of way…he decided to ignore the stop sign and turn, thinking he could beat me to it…well let me tell you…I’m lucky I was paying attention, good God he…
All together now: Re-brand!
The usual collection of our betters is at it again, telling us to get over our culture of defeat and get onto the new joyous bandwagon of putting the province “on the right track.” (Just don’t ask for a raise, wise guy.) This time the lecture comes from one Tim Outhit, who heads up something…
My lovely coworkers
To some (not all) of lovely ladies that I work with. What the eff is your problem. Just because you are in a snit because your boss gave ME some of your work doesn’t mean that you team up to try and get me in shit. I didn’t change your fucking precedent! If I had…
rude people on the bus
To the two loud bitches on the 1 from the bridge terminal to dartmouth, December 11th. You sounded like animals on the bus, you were screaming, incredibly loudly, irritating everyone else on the bus. How fucking old are you? It isn’t like the bus was packed, it was 10:40pm. I also need to bitch about…
HEELS IN THE SNOW????
To the young lady obviously on her way to St. Mary’s University this a.m on the #14 bus….WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???? we are in the middle of a snowstorm and you are wearing SPIKED highheels with bare feet…do you think its summer? spring? fall? I guess you only need to be book smart to get…
Swiped bike
To the cunt who stole my bike off the stairs of a bike shop I briefly visited: Back in July I brought my bike to the top of the stairs of a bike shop I visit and buy my parts from. While I was inside you decided it’s your bike now. Ever penny I worked…
Parking Bitch
Hey administration thanks for banning us from parking in the parking lot as of monday. There is always enough room for all of us to park and you just can’t leave well enough alone. My parents pay taxes so you can park your damn vehicles their so why shouldn’t I be able to park there?…
anal retentive asshole
to the anal retentive asshole I met near the rotary: I’m sorry I slightly bumped your car, not even enough to knock over a green bin Thanks for taking my insurance information. There was not one little tiny mark on your damn car. Now your taking it into the shop to see if its been…
Stolen Purse
To the person(s) who stole my friend’s purse on Friday night at Reflections… How about giving back the pink Motorola Razr that was in it? It’s no good to you and I don’t feel like paying for a new one. Merry Christmas…. Mel
Lay off the horn
To the driver at the Chebucto/Mumford intersection that had to wait an extra 15 seconds for my friend and I to cross the road: Seriously, dude, we had the right of way, you saw us in plenty of time- you even stopped. However as it was that every inch of the ground was ice and…
UGH.
I am a grade eleven student at Halifax West High school. I have never seen a school a school of clique-y, judgemental, ignorant, immature people in my life. You’re an idiot, don’t you ever talk to me like that again, or you’re going to get your’s someday. You’re greasy, an attention seeker and think you…
My Horrible Neighbors Suck.
To the two dickheads who live below my girlfriend and I: What part of “I work at 4:30 in the morning” don’t you fucking dolts understand? So many fucking times we’ve asked you to please keep it down but you just keep ignoring us for some reason…Maybe you altogether lack common courtesy and general politeness…
what’s with that lame-ass cunard centre
Went to the Feist concert last night. Great singer, great band, great show, totally shitty venue. who the hell booked her in that crappy, neck-craning space? was the cohn booked with one of our stellar (ha!) east coast acts (bruce guthro, i’m lookin at you). cripes. now i gotta pay for a cryopractor (that’s right…
Neptune Theatre script submissions
Although we believe that some contests are only interesting when they involve top models bawling and bitching, we do like Neptune Theatre’s Trident New Play competition. The theatre is looking for unpublished scripts which will be judged by a panel of professionals and narrowed to three finalists. After a reading, the play will receive a…
Helen Hill Animated Award winner
Unfortunately the awards and screening night scheduled for December 12 at eyelevelgallery was cancelled, but the Linda Joy Media Arts Society announced a winner for the first Helen Hill Animated Award, in memory of the beloved filmmaker. Appropriately, another much-loved animator, Heather Harkins, takes the prize for She’s a Lady Animator (two of my favourite…
Khyber events
Run, swim, skate! It’s your last chance to see, touch and fondle Allyson Mitchell’s Finger of Craft, the shag-tastic installation between the front doors of the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art (1588 Barrington). The Coast and Canadian Art cover gal transformed the peeling walls into a purple and red forest of discarded rugs, macrame and…
Surf Show
Surf ShowSaturday, Dec 8, 11:42pm, The Seahorse.Aaron Fraser
Khyber, Windom Earle, CKDU, Special Ed
On December 15, all should prepare themselves for the utter delight of supporting not one, but two of the city’s most treasured resources: The Khyber Institute for Contemporary Arts and CKDU. The Khyber’s annual Holiday Toast is partnering up with CKDU (which makes it extra awesome) and the night is packed to the rafters with…
Noodle Nook moving? Peel Pub closure
Noodle Nook (5239 Blowers) has closed its door—at least for now. Owner Ron Lovett gives us the lowdown on last week’s surprise closure: “For now, we did close that location.We’re looking at moving it. We’re not getting business at that location.” Lovett says he may try to relocate the restaurant to Scotia Square. The restaurant…
Attica
Home-decor heaven Attica (1566 Barrington) expands this weekend. The store, which formerly filled two stories, will now take up four floors of the building that houses it, as it takes over the space recently vacated by the Spirit Spa. On the third floor, you can find children’s furniture store Attica Kids (which closed its Bayers…
Mortimerstore.com
For the last few months, Mortimer Cordero’s online emporium mortimerstore.com has been selling reasonably priced electronics and designer fashions over the internet. This weekend, Cordero will launch his Halifax shop, also called mortimerstore.com, on the Birmingham side of the City Centre Atlantic. Despite the store’s name, you don’t need a wireless connection to enjoy the…
Mongolie Grill
Back in the day, when Genghis Khan and his Mongol troops were feeling peckish after some empire-building, they apparently used to sling a shield over a campfire, and toss whatever fresh food they could find onto the shield for a good cooking. New Halifax restaurant Mongolie Grill (1645 Granville), the first Atlantic branch of a…
Pete’s Frootique
Things are set to start moving and shaking, renovation-style, over at the Pete’s Frootique in the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford early in the new year. Why the changes? “The basic idea behind the whole renovation is better flow for the customer,” says Jeff Supple, store manager. Plus, it’s time for a change. “It just looks…
Lighting the Common
Downtown councillor and Coast-reader-favourite Dawn Sloane completed an after-dark safety audit of the Common this week. (New rule: Every public official charged with protecting public safety downtown should have to tour the Common at night. As of today, it’s mandatory. Agreed? Great.) Sloane, with a handful of other city staffers, gamboled around the Common at…
Anti-squeegee legislation
A bit of Halifax-centric provincial legislation is up for its third reading today in the legislature—an amendment to the Motor Vehicles Act. And Darcy Harvey, for one, isn’t happy about it. If passed, Bill 7 will make it illegal—or, even more illegal—for anyone to approach a vehicle to offer or sell goods and services. Although…
Lost children can be found
To the editor, I am writing about Stephen Kimber’s article (“Lost Children,” The Coast, Oct. 25). The tragic situations he describes highlight the complexities involved in child welfare work and illustrate factors that have an impact. As social workers, we could not write a story like this one because we are not at liberty to…
Bluck suck blue
To the editor, I just sat down with The Coast issue featuring the top 50 albums of 2007 (“Disc Disc Bang Bang,” The Coast, Nov. 29). Next time your writers decide to wax poetic on what they consider to be the best albums, they should at least know which albums they’re talking about. Wilco’s new…
Highway to Hell
To the editor, I have to respond to Chuck Warren’s response (Letterhead, “Twinning is Winning,” Nov. 28) to Tim Bousquet’s article (“Dual Nature,” Nov. 22) on twinning the 103 Highway. His solution is a much better one in terms of lives saved. If this province were to get serious about reducing car traffic, we would…
Council blames city
To the editor, The members of HRM’s municipal-industrial complex misconstrued the ramifications of the Celine Dion concert controversy and came to the same conclusion as always: They would be rich and famous if it weren’t for the wrongheadedness of fellow citizens. Perhaps the source of the problem lies elsewhere. All kinds of different acts perform…
Kelly don’t walk
Mayor Peter Kelly, My daughter is in your son Blake’s class. I didn’t think it was a good sign for the public school system when I found out that you were enrolling him in a private school, but I made that choice, too, so I really can’t complain. The thing is, we’re not like the…
What is Halifax?
I visited China a few years ago, and heard a tour guide sum up the nation’s major cities in a sentence. “Beijing is five years behind, Hong Kong is now,” he said, “and Shanghai is five years ahead.” It was a lesson in urban planning—not to mention an ad for Shanghai—that stuck. A good city…
Bros before hos
Q My two roommates are in the same frat. Roommate A and his GF have been going out for about a year. Roommate A is a great guy, but maybe a bit too nice: Recently, his GF cheated on him and he forgave her. Her infidelity did not come as a surprise to the rest…
Fund razing
Holly Taylor has to feel happy. Students at Saint Mary’s University have voted to stabilize and more than double funding to the Saint Mary’s University Women’s Centre, which Taylor heads up as coordinator. But that levy vote isn’t all good. With it has come the news that the SMU Women’s Centre is losing the financial…
Sleazy money
On Halloween night, six people gather in a Spring Garden Road cafe and trade horror stories. “I’ve lost all my money and I live on credit. In the past 13 years, I’ve lost $250,000 at VLTs. Somehow I’m $30,000 in debt again.” “I’ve always tried to tell the truth, so I knew I had a…
Doorstep politics
In a municipal election—or in this case, by-election for the vacant District 8 Woodside-Eastern Passage—it all comes down to the doorstep. On a sunny but several-degrees-subzero Tuesday morning before this Saturday’s vote, Beverley Woodfield prepares for another tour to the community’s stoops. “It is tiring,” she says, breaking out into a laugh. “But I see…
Rules to give by
Oh please, no, sweet jesus: not the man box. You know, the man box: those jewellery boxes that aren’t for jewellery (because only men who are homos wear jewellery, everyone knows that) but sit atop men’s dressers to hold pocket change and a watch. The man box has got to rank—along with teddy bears, Christmas-themed…
On patrol
Bloomfield Street ice floe
This Is England
This Is EnglandDirected by: Shane MeadowsAllianceThis is England is set in 1980s Thatcher-era Britain—most of its characters are skinheads. For some, like kind Woody (Joseph Gilgun), being a skinhead is a style choice. Woody shaves his head, wears combat boots, and is best friends with Milky (Andrew Shim), who’s black. Other skinheads, like angry racist…
Class act
After her classmates had filed out of their grade nine and 10 music class in an adolescent ruckus, Shannon O’Toole poked her head back into Mal Kazi’s classroom. With her head down and hair in her eyes, she darted in, handing Kazi a well-folded piece of paper. He began to unfold it, but O’Toole scolded…
Hissyfit Christmas Drag Show
Looking for something to lift you out of those holiday blues? Why not check out your favourite local rockers decked out in drag for the holidays? The latest installment of Reflections Cabaret’s wildly popular Hissyfit series brings eight bands, including Die Brucke, Money Over Bitches, War Pony, The Visitation, Doug Mason and the Certified Legends,…
Control
The musician biopic isn’t my favourite genre. Most movies can’t find new ways of expressing that all celebrities’ lives are the same. Here’s how these films work: Musician gets a record deal, big fanfare, takes a wife, develops a drug problem, isolates his family, hits rock bottom and has a comeback. Death is optional. The…
The Golden Compass
It might seem obvious to point out that The Golden Compass is New Line’s latest hope of capturing the Christmas box-office dollar of The Lord of the Rings and Narnia franchises. But it’s that corporate cynicism that ruins the movie. The Golden Compass plays so cautiously in its need to please that it never transcends…
Word is Bondi
“I’m not going to find this restaurant,” I think. I walk past Bondi—twice—before spotting the “Bondi” sign in the window. It’s dark inside, with no other guests, and I ask the man at the bar if they are open. He assures me they are and I sit down to wait for a friend. It’s lunchtime…
Take your pils
Propeller just launched Atlantic Canada’s first bottled premium lager.
Objects of affection
Looking at art is a kind of reading. An artwork may be an easy read, simply a piece of t-shirt wit and nothing more. Or a work with an easy first read may stand up to years of study. A work may be written (read: painted, cast, printed and so on) in a foreign or…
Book reviews
Abstract Painting in Canada by Roald Nasgaard & searchable archives.
DVD reviews
This Is England, directed by Shane Meadows & searchable archives.
Candid cameras
This year has been brought to you in part by the number eight—as in Super 8. The little-camera-that-could led to another visit to the Atlantic Film Festival in September by LA-based filmmaker Norwood Cheek, who led a workshop of filmmakers as they made music videos for local bands. Also hailing from Los Angeles, the ukulele-…
CD Reviews
We’re over the rainbow with Shooter Jennings, Steve Bowers, Sondre Lerche, Jesse Dangerously and Rufus Wainwright & searchable archives.
