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To all the idiots who need lessons on how to to park: they are very inconsiderate, they are non-humans who insist that they are more important than others. I can’t even count as high as the amount of c#@$$ that do it to me, and I can’t be the only one. I have one question directed at these mouth…
To the guy stomping around the north end wearing shitty far-right patches on his clothes: why are you wasting your time with that trash? Grow up! You look like you’re in your 40s, it looks like you could use a friend! Go out and meet people, drop that bullshit hate you literally wear. Get off…
Why are news sources STILL reporting on this Lori Loughlin college-admission scandal? Get over it. The rich get perks in this world. Always have. That’s life. Leave poor Aunt Becky alone. — Unjust Interests of Justice
Last week somebody bitched about the lack of loves in this section. Fuck that. There shouldn’t be loves in this section at all. The Coast should get that weak shit outta here and let us bitch non-stop. — Shade Thrower
Just want to send some love out to the people who’ve had my back from my teen years to now. My longtime chosen family who get me and who have seen me at my worst, and supported me and encouraged me during my struggles, are the ones whose words ring through to my soul and…
The more I traverse the city, the more annoying I find it that we have two large car dealerships within our urban core (and even more farther north). Should not we be more critical of how we utilize our city’s space, and not allow glorified parking lots to set up shop, especially in the city with…
Love is hard. Dating apps are harder. Take it easy with a classic paper Valentine. Click on the download icon at the top left corner of the PDF below. Then open the file and click print. Fold on the marks in half and half again. Then go out into the world with love and optimism…
The Braid Couture Art ShowFeb 15, 8 pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street) braidcoutureshow.com $35-$45 From ombré hair to pastel colours, hair trends come and go. But braids, from cornrows to the French variety, have long been a hairstyle staple across cultures. Tara Lynn Taylor is organizer of the Braid Couture Art Show, happening…
The app-based sharing economy has produced no shortage of bizarre and terrible business ideas. Ever hear of Leftover Swap, the short-lived San Francisco startup that aimed to reduce food waste by letting users sell yesterday’s clammy noodles to nearby strangers? Didn’t think so. But Alberta electrician David Thiessen is out to prove there’s life in…
Since last week, the RCMP has been executing almost daily raids and arresting Indigenous land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory in BC, enforcing a court order to remove people from the land granted to Coastal GasLink for its pipeline construction. Since the raids began, people in Halifax have been taking action—at MP Andy Fillmore’s office and…
Book Launch: Desmond Cole in Conversation w/El Jones Feb 13, 7pm Alumni Hall, King’s College 6350 Coburg Road Free Desmond Cole’s activism and journalism have focused national attention on systemic racism and police brutality in Canada. Now, he’s launching a book on the subject. In The Skin We’re In, Cole chronicles one year of anti-Black racism…
Grafton Park and the old Memorial Library beefed up their protections against being flattened in the future, as regional council approved heritage site status for the building and the entire property it sits on at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Grafton Street. The designation as a heritage site—versus just a heritage property—means that…
The Coast’s readers dish the dirt and delights of dating and sex in Halifax. From keeping their socks on, to running out of Tinder options, looking for love in this city is sometimes wild, sometimes weird and sometimes realized among the bushes at Point Pleasant Park.
Evelyn C. White on Toni Morrison’s Sula Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road Feb 18, 7pm, Free It was the late 1980s and I wasn’t feeling Toni Morrison’s latest release, Beloved. Not even a titch. This, despite my respect for a cadre of African-American writers then so enraged by the “sometime-y” treatment Morrison…
There’s one thing in Halifax that no other city in the country has: a one-of-a-kind non-profit riding school and equine therapy centre in its downtown core. This little non-profit-that-could has stood the test of time for over 80 years while the city grew all around it. The Halifax Junior Bengal Lancers, founded in 1936 to…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AQUARIUS ( January 20- February 18) Aquarius(Jan 20-Feb 18) Aquarian author Derek Walcott had a perspective on love that I suspect might come in handy for you during this romantic Valentine’s season. “Break a vase,” he wrote, “and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry…
W hen it comes to feeling yourself, sometimes it’s a new outfit, passing as female, after a good workout, after a drink, or for many of you, after a fresh new ‘do. Steph McNair of Maneland Non-Binary Beauty has thoughts on why. “There’s a lot of people who struggle to self-love but need to. With…
Q My boyfriend and I were having relationship issues until we tried something new: pegging. He wanted to try it, but he was afraid and sometimes said the idea disgusted him. Then we tried it, and it was better than normal vanilla or even kinky bondage sex. It was the most emotionally connected sex we’ve…
With its sultry lighting and amorous ambience, The Middle Spoon Desserterie and Bar has been a prime destination for romantic evenings and mouth-watering desserts since 2011. The only bar of its kind in the province, Middle Spoon’s two locations—one downtown (1563 Barrington Street) and one in Bedford (Sunnyside Mall)—offer a variety of flavour combinations in…
Ideally, the person who slid into your DMs would arrive on the highly anticipated first date ready to provide any need-to-know info you weren’t able to suss out from their social media. With their horoscope’s rising sign or what Hogwarts house they’d be sorted into, you could quickly decide if this situation is more “thank…
Child soldiers The article written by Matt Stickland covered a lot of very important points regarding Omar Khadr (“If Omar Khadr is a terrorist, then so am I,” Cover story by Matthew Stickland, February 6, 2020). I think it was very well done. That being said, I think it fitting that Dennis Edney, Omar Khadr’s…
Catching up on all the hottest Oscar flicks? Cineplex has your back, with the multi-nominated Little Women back onscreen at all Halifax locations except Lower Sackville. Bong Joon-ho’s history-making Best Picture win Parasite is still on view at Cineplex Park Lane while 1917, the sibling-strewn war flick Joon-ho beat out, is on view at all locations, too.…
The Braid Couture Art Show Feb 15, 8pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street braidcoutureshow.com $35-$45 From ombré hair to pastel colours, hair trends come and go. But braids, from cornrows to the French variety, have long been a hairstyle staple across cultures. Tara Lynn Taylor is organizer of the Braid Couture Art Show, happening…
The things that make Halifax is a great place for getting outdoors—all the trees and lakes and parks—also make Halifax a great place for getting busy outdoors. In the 2020 Sex + Dating survey we asked people where they’ve had sex in public. The answers were all over the map, literally. So for purely scientific…
Jenn Grant w/Don Brownrigg, Kim Harris Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Dalhousie Arts Centre 6106 University Avenue Feb 14, 8pm $31.50-$36.50 The singer-songwriter was surrounded by activity at her home: Her husband and consistent collaborator, producer Daniel Ledwell, was taking down holiday decorations; their son, one-year-old Gus, was in her lap. Her attention shifting between Gus and…
