Rank, Inc. appeals its tax bill
The company building the new convention centre is getting a boatload of tax money for the project, but it doesn’t like its own tax bill. Rank, Inc., owner of the Nova Centre complex now under construction downtown, also owns an office complex at 7051 Bayers Road. The company is appealing its 2013 tax assessment for…
Hart and Thistle closes today
The sweetest spot on the Halifax waterfront is officially up for grabs. Today, via Facebook, Bruce Keith announced that after five years of pub eats and brilliant craft beer Hart & Thistle Gastropub (1869 Upper Water Street) was closing. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id…
Spritelike
You said you wanted to meet me but then you disappeared with your 200+ fish. I have a feeling that you are one of a kind; if you don’t see this I’m just going to start walking around until I find you. —Spacenerd
You saved my Life! (or at least my leg)
Just over a week ago, I was on my way down to the bus stop in Woodside/Dartmouth when I slipped and fell down a steep icy hill. I heard a snap and sure enough I had broken by leg so badly I could see the bone bulging out. I laid on the side of the…
Pass the barf bag
I’ve been taken on a wild ride the past several months that made me nauseous.Only i was being driven in circles.While being fed regurgitated lies bought at stops along the way. —Call housekepping #7 needs a mop and bucket
Depression
Screw you depression. Suck it. You wreak havoc on so many peoples lives. You are one miserable fucker. —Depression Sucks
Dear Winter
you can fuck off any time now. Go on – shoo!!! —Sam
I don’t wanna ask, but…
As a queer lady, I wish I knew if women were interested in other women or not. When’s an appropriate time to even ask that question? I’m surrounded by lovely haligonians and I don’t want to mistake their kindness for flirtation….but I also don’t want to miss out on any opportunities….! Ak me out or…
2014 – the year of renewal?
Can Halifax get over it’s washed out cliches this year? The scene is tired; Drunk coked out bar types pretending to be happy drinking their lives away with inflated scenester egos, hipster beards playing in shitty hipster bands, “lifestyle” drinking, shitty wages/jobs, etc. Most importantly, purple/red/green pants – they suck, have always sucked, and will…
Phishing scammers on Kijiji and elsewhere
Do not do business with whataweek 65 @ gmail . com. He or she is running a phishing scam, asking you that once you receive their Cheque, to cash it and forward the excess to a shipping company. The cheque will be bogus and you will be ripped off for the total amount. This is…
Christmas by the Sea sails away
Lynne and Michael Pierce have spent 27 years helping shoppers count down the days until Christmas at their shop Christmas by the Sea (1880 Hollis Street), which made its beginnings in Saint John in the mid-’80s. “It was a perfect storm,” says Michael Pierce, who says a rough couple of years in combination with a…
Lady Talisker
By the time I could come outside after you, you were already gone. Hope you come back sometime. —Bartender
stop procrastinating
just do something already! I want you, and you know it. —diving in the deep end
Bad bar
I will never again give any of my money to that popular downtown bar that I only ever visit to make my friends happy. I was treated like a piece of shit when I entered, and I was “removed”, despite being the most sober person in the bar because I was “slouching” or not “having…
Ellen Page Coming Out Front Page News????
I am so fucking sick of every serious issue in the media being minimized because someone decides they want to reveal their muff-munching status. Who the fuck cares? Shouldn’t this be a non-issue these days? Why consume every media outlet with this unnecessary crap??? —Sick of Media Whores and Their Lame Confessions
The only criteria of sucking is to SUCK
So what, you dislike someone that genuinely deserves your scorn.. until you find out they belong to a ‘protected demographic’, that is. I’m here to tell you right now. I don’t give a sweet flying fuck with a friday night whore if you’re male, female, gay, straight, black, white or anything else that could possibly…
Chinese place
So I call a certain Chinese food place. The day before Valentines day. I ask if I can place my order for the next day knowing they would be busy. So they take my order I ask if they can have it ready at 6:00 pm guy on the phone says yup. Fast ward to…
Selfies
I don’t get it. —Mirrors
Thumpers is moving to the Trillium
After 18 months of looking for a new place to call home, Thumpers Salon (1813 Granville Street) has sealed the deal—it’ll be moving to the Trillium (1445 South Park Street). “We love the building we’ve been in for 10 years, but there have been logistical challenges,” says Thumpers’ owner Malcolm Norton. “We’ve not been crazy…
Scaary Bus Driver
Let me describe today’s short bus ride across town. Bus driver was agressively driving and jerking us all around on the bus saying Fuk this and Fuk that about other drivers. I mean he had one bad case of Road Rage! I was nearly jerked right out of my seat 4 or 5 times which…
YOU FOUND IT!
(spoiler alert :this is the end of a scavenger hunt). Great job! HI, I love you so much, you are the cutest little ewok I ever did meet. The fates have brought us together even though we both weren’t looking, and I think that is a very special thing. I am excited to continue growing…
Middle Eastern Beauty
To the Sweet Iraqi Girl who works at the grocery store. We have talked a couple of times. Sharing stories of our very different sides of the world and and how we got to Halifax. you’re hilarious and beautiful. Keep on Keeping on. —That other foreign person
sleep ovahs
Hey Coffee place, I slept in your cafe. Overnight. A lot. Thanks! ♥ —bad_barista
You give my butterflies butterflies!
I don’t see you around much anymore since work is my life, but when I do the butterflies in my stomach are unbelievable. When you brush my arm the warm tingle spreads through me like liquid, and the butterflies do backflips. The way you kissed me was perfect! I want more please! —Why you gotta…
Where I am now
Every day, I wake up, and I know that you’re not there. And you never will be again. That you’re somewhere else, with someone else, and I can’t even know if you’re happy or not. I’m sure you are. You have given me so many reasons to find a way to be a better person.…
A word
No I am not intoxicated.. this is a legit bitch. I hate the word Nosh…it is so ladida drive around in your environmentally friendly car that runs on human farts car kind of word. I should start a revolution the likes of Lenin to abolish the word. It is food and drink/food and liquid/ or…
Don’t you dare bitch about being single anymore!
You found him. Yes, you found this really sweet guy who was a way better match for you than any of the other men you have ever dated. It took a little longer for you to find the right person than it takes many others (you’re 34), but you found a man who was PERFECT…
LGBTQIA+
I am not Lesbian, nor bisexual, nor transgender. I have stopped questioning; I am not intersex and far from asexual. I don’t understand the “+”, but that’s irrelevant. I am gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. Please stop referring to me as a LGBTQIA+ person. I am gay. —The Exclusive Mr. Meaty
DOJ – Jury Duty
You mother fk’in cheap bastards. You summon me to jury duty, of which step one is fill out this paper and send it back to us. Here’s a self addressed envelope…you supply the fucking stamp. Not bad enough all the aggravation and cost involved in performing my “duty”, your gonna suck some real fucking “money”…
Bridge Brewing is now North Brewing
Year one has been a big one the beer artist formerly known as Bridge Brewing Company (2576 Agricola Street), the north end’s newest micro brewery and Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s New Business of the Year. We say formerly because today, after just over a year of selling Belgian brews to the HRM, owner Peter Burbridge…
Halifax’s urban forest plan moves forward
While the benefits of street trees are obvious—shade from the hot sun, or a perch for chattering starlings—the most dramatic benefits are not so obvious. According to the city’s urban forest master plan, each year, the urban forest saves $2.1 million reducing stormwater run-off, $9.6 million mitigating air pollution and $12.4 million reducing energy costs…
Bicyclists express concerns about roundabouts
Crosswalks at two proposed roundabouts could be heaven for pedestrians, but hell for cyclists. At a consultation last week, city representatives touted the benefits of the planned roundabouts at the intersection of North Park Street with Cogswell and Cunard Streets, including crosswalks they say will decrease motorist-pedestrian collisions. Pedestrians negotiating the Cogswell intersection, for instance,…
More Than Honey
The future of the world’s bees is threatened by colony collapse disorder. The tiny creatures responsible for stinging people, making delicious honey and pollinating 80 percent of the world’s plant species are disappearing on an epic scale. More Than Honey buzzes around the globe to explore the condition of bees in Switzerland, America, China and…
Robocop
Some dudes are really mad that this 1987 robot cop movie has been remade, as if a Paul Verhoven film is a monument of satire and nuance, but they must be real mad because they didn’t do that nerd thing of going to see it anyway, and Robocop totally tanked. Anyway, it’s 2028 in Detroit—though…
For the love of art
Do you like the dark and smoky? Or perhaps warm tones with a distinctive flavour? Studio 21 gives you a chance to find out at its first Art and Wine event, Friday, February 14, 5-7pm. Visitors will be able to sample wines that match the feel, depth and mood of selected paintings from the exhibition…
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 2 picks up the moment its predecessor leaves off. Wise psychic Elise has just been strangled and the Lambert family must leave their home while police investigate her murder. The family lodges at grandmother Lorraine’s house where the hauntings continue and the focus shifts to saving father Josh. There’s a sinister presence inhabiting…
Cafe Karachi cravings
I love breakfast. It is, to put it very simply, the best. But, as a reluctantly aging night owl who steadfastly refuses to wake up, wipe the sand from my tired eyes and embrace a weary, grown-up existence as a morning person, my favourite meal—even if it’s admittedly by default—is brunch. From the moment I…
The Holy Mountain Analog Band
Hiraeth is a Welsh word. There is no English analogue for it, but it envelops nostalgia, loss, missing something and homesickness. Right now I miss my friends. Right now I’m thinking they’re probably listening to the dumpster-load of Fela Kuti dropped onto Bandcamp two weeks ago, hitting the illicits and on the nights where the…
Fully RealEyez
“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever done in my life—putting out an album,” RealEyez (AKA Erin Dorrington) says as she sits in a sunny north end cafe. It’s hard not to get swept up in her excitement. Warm and enthusiastic, throughout the conversation Dorrington tells some harrowing facts about her past, but brushes the…
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed and starred in this film festival favourite. JGL plays Jon, a character who objectifies and consumes everything: church, family, friends and women. Jon does not experience authentic engagement or real love. Everything in Jon’s life is a transaction, especially sex, which might explain why he prefers porn to real women. “Nothin’…
Wyrd Distro for the people
This Saturday, outsider art site Weird Canada launches Wyrd Distro, its not-for-profit indie music distribution service for the entire country. This is monumental. Twenty-one celebration parties will happen across Canada simultaneously, featuring regional bands and a videochat with Weird Canada’s founder Aaron Levin and executive director Marie LeBlanc Flanagan. The Wyrd Distro is a game-changer.…
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt releases a book about every 10 years. The Goldfinch began gestating around 1993, while the author was visiting Amsterdam, was researched largely in a New York library and further inspired by a trip to Las Vegas. So it’s no surprise that the novel treats all three places with such detail they become surrogate…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius! (January 20-February 18) Do you feel oppressed by Valentine’s Day? Maybe you’re single and reject the cultural bias that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm. Or maybe you’re part of a couple but are allergic to the cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the marketing assault.…
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt releases a book about every 10 years. The Goldfinch began gestating around 1993, while the author was visiting Amsterdam, was researched largely in a New York library and further inspired by a trip to Las Vegas. So it’s no surprise that the novel treats all three places with such detail they become surrogate…
The boy feels strange
Q I am an 18-year-old pansexual girl. I’m currently in a relationship with a guy. He is a bit younger, though mature for his age. We get along great, our friends like us together, yada yada yada. He wants to do the waiting until marriage thing for sex. I’m cool with that, less pressure in…
That Awkward Moment
Three of the best young actors working—Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller—star in this tonal misfire that can’t decide whether it wants to be American Pie or early David Gordon Green. And so we all suffer. The debut of writer-director Tom Gormican—his only other credit is as a producer of the wretched Movie…
Fuck yeah Kaleigh Trace
It’s that time of year again. Store aisles are cramped with paper hearts and mushy sentiments, and most people are suddenly obsessed with the status of their sexual relationships. But for one incredible woman, sexual health is number-one on the priority list, all year long. The voice behind the sex-positive blog thefuckingfacts.com, the lady behind…
Love & lust by the numbers
100%Of the hundreds of people who filled out the Sex & Dating Survey did so anonymously and without compensation, graciously providing a glimpse into Haligonian bedrooms for the enlightenment of all. The Coast and science thank you. 99.6% Of survey respondents feel their political views are best represented by choices other than prime minister Stephen…
Halifax isn’t to blame for young people’s poor job prospects
Every day I read another opinion piece about how the Halifax job market is terrible and why people are being forced to leave the city in order to find work. Every day I get more and more frustrated at people trying to blame this city for their inability to get a job. When I was…
Letters to the editor, February 13, 2014
Will work for life The Halifax job market is difficult to get into straight out of school, but easier if you’ve already got a bit of experience in whatever field you’re working in (“The Halifax job scene has failed me,” Voice of the City by Heather Boucher, February 6). Getting that experience might mean putting…
After I’m Gone
After I’m Gone is a story of secrets that don’t stay buried. Felix Brewer jumped bail before his trial in 1976 and 10 years later his mistress Julie disappears and is assumed to have joined him–until her dead body is found. The book alternates between Sandy, a widower and retired detective working the cold case,…
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Woman Rebel is a comic book biography of Margaret Sanger, turn-of-the century birth control proponent and woman’s right trailblazer. A large part of the book’s charm comes from the cartoonish art style: It looks like a Little Lulu strip, if Lulu grew up and traded in pranks for activism. The book is an interesting look…
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Jackass boys are up to their old tricks, with one exception: this time there’s a plot–sort of. Although the narrative effectively piggybacks an array of stunts, it’s little more than a shock-comedy showcase. Johnny Knoxville stars in the titular role as 86-year-old Irving Zisman who lugs his eight-year-old grandson on a cross-country road trip.…
