Ace + Bearly’s = burgers
Even the juiciest secrets have to reveal themselves eventually. It’s official, Ace Burger Co. (2605 Agricola Street) will be taking over the kitchen at Bearly’s House of Blues, Burgers and Ribs (1269 Barrington Street), and the switch will happen just in time for Burger Week (March 20-26). Mimi Iatrou, Bearly’s owner, “had seen what we…
Bitches and Comments
I have been a frequent reader and poster for a long time. sometimes serious, sometimes silly, sometimes middle of the road. I have found that any bitches posted with “sex” involved seem to receive the most comments. Serious posts with good valid points get some decent comments at first then the comments seem to totally…
ladybugs
Ladybugs are still bugs, like ants or cockroaches and are just as creepy and need squashing —Bug hater
Transit for dummies
Before you leave home, make sure you have fare, pass, or tickets. Leave home early enough to give yourself time to get to your bus stop. While at bus stop waiting, please get fare, passes, tickets ready before the bus shows up. The bus driver as well as the other passengers will appreciate this. When…
What happened to customer service?
I just spent the better part of 10 weeks dealing with a dry cleaner, I feel that I am almost obligated to pass on my experience in hopes that no one else will have to face a similar scenario. In December, I dropped off a blazer (which had only been worn twice) to be cleaned…
HIPSTERS
SHUT UP. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS, SHUT UP. THE WORD HIPSTER HAS NO MEANING. LITERALLY, IT HAS NO MEANING. DID YOU REALIZE THAT PLAID AND GLASSES AND MUSIC AND BEER ARE JUST THINGS THAT THE MAJORITY OF HUMANS NEED AND OR ENJOY? IF EVERYONE IS A HIPSTER THEN NO ONE CAN BE A…
Tricked again
You went to the market with me…I listened to you complain and whine about your housemates, that chick who threw herself at you-and you rejected firmly. I wake up to the rudest email from you, dictating to me as if we go out, who I should be hanging out with etc. we are NOT dating.…
Needed that…thanks!
To the guy(s) who stole the grill off my Volkswagen this past weekend…I just got it back on the road last week, thanks to the generosity of my son. The way the car looks now somehow personifies the way I feel because I’m on income assistance. Thanks for the extra kick while I’m down. Hope…
See you later scum ball company
I have been renting with a very large rental company for the last year (Their profits are in the Millions maybe even Billions annually) and since week 2 of living here you have been nothing but a slumlord!!! It took you 6 months of me calling weekly, writing several letters, talking to senior managers and…
Tiny Willy
So there has been a lot of posts lately about men with small dicks. But all my troll posts about fat chicks on dating sites NEVER get posted. Literally dozens of them. Yeah Ok, I’m just trying to stir the pot but so are these tiny dick trolls. So why post one and not the…
Thanks for having a “Heart”
An big thank you to a certain pizza establishment in the Hydrostone for going the extra mile on Valentines Day. You took my idle request and turned it into reality. You are too kind–thank you!! —Appreciative
Selfies
Can’t you see how fucking hard I am trying not to care? I grew some facial hair and wear the hipster attire so that my circle of hipsters – which is growing ever so large – will accept me. I am desperate for attention, but people don’t seem to notice because of my thick rimmed…
Random Act of Kindness
A very warm thank you to the table who paid for our supper last night at an Acadian pizza establishment, in Bayers Lake. It was very generous and kind of you. We will pay it forward. —Fortunate
You asked me if I had submitted a love…
Yes, I have, in the past. They have all been about you. Yet for now, I have no reason to send a love letter floating down this venue on the internet where your hazel eyes will scan cautiously, trying to pick out the words dedicated to yourself. If I am ever ready to love you…
No More Naysayers
The Naysayers love on Feb 5th is the most beautiful and generous post I have ever seen, it made me catch my breath. If it was intended for me, I want you to know your support means the world to me and that I will always care, and always care that you care. The world…
Speeding Ticket
Holy christ are the tickets ever expensive out here. I moved out from Ontario last summer for work and have been loving it. I was driving 70km on an 80km country road (too many turns and pot holes to do 80!) and got busted for doing 70 because it went down to 60km as I…
Garlic Express
Sweet fancy Moses – would the passenger who is eating the bulb or so of garlic each morning and boards the 7:30 a.m. #14 to St. Mary’s, please have mercy!!! I jumped off the bus and waited for another one, late or not. Vile. —Not Anne Rice
a sad little poem about feelings
if only there were a Plan B for feelings I would have gulped them in fistfuls quiet and unrequited you look for greener pastures and greener still always did like a man who couldn’t love me always did admire the way your face looked above me never did expect to win friends first sure but…
Head for The Hills Bowtique
A year-and-a-half after opening Bowtique Hair & Makeup at 1668 Barrington Street, Meg Ryan has cut to the chase and opened The Hills Bowtique in tandem with Monica Anthony. The sister salon with made its debut at 639 Portland Hills Drive last week next to Finbar’s Irish Pub, bringing the same good looks from downtown…
Halifax Camerata Singers’ “Saints and Legends”
Nick Rudnicki Jeff Joudrey leads a heavenly chorus Choral music is not my thing. While this may be an odd way to begin a review of a choral music concert, I don’t think you need to be a choral music connoisseur to sing the praises of Halifax Camerata. This mixed choir, led by Artistic Director…
Police announce independent review into Holly Bartlett’s death
Halifax Regional Police and the Halifax District RCMP have announced an independent operational review of their investigation into the death of Holly Bartlett. Holly Bartlett died on March 28, 2010. The day before, her severely injured body was discovered under the MacKay Bridge in Halifax. Her death was the subject of a December feature in…
Hard to beat Eddie
During an outing at the Lower Deck, a friend started crashing from low blood sugar. A glass of pop was brought after which our waiter, Eddie, walked off without a word. I was a little surprised as he is usually more attentive. I should have known better – he shortly returned with a chocolate bar…
Cloning in HRM?
Why are all young men starting to look the same in HRM? Seriously. Hipster culture is almost as mainstream as Apple gear. A beard! A vintage haircut! OMG. So original. Try being yourselves for once, it’s sexier. —waiting for change
Tiny Penis Means No Pussy
I found out the other day from a credible and trusted source of mine that the last girl I dated dumped me because of the size of my penis. We didn’t sleep together, but at a pub after we both got buzzed, we made out and she got a good feel of my hard penis…
Long Lost Cab Driver
You remembered me the other night before you even turned around. You said you recognized my voice, even though it had been almost two years since you’d switched to that colour cab company. I have to admit, I was more than a little happy to see you. As you said, we definitely had some really…
Clinical Depression
I can’t believe how many people here who use this place have been affected by Clinical Depression in one way or another. We have to hide so much. Sure… go ahead and say to an employer or prospective employer “Oh… by the way… I take medication in hopes of keeping my clinical depression in check.”…
Share the Fucking Road!!!!!!
First off, while I don’t live in Halifax anymore, I’m not far away and I’d imagine a lot of people in the HRM have the same problem. During this week’s two storms, I was unable to use the sidewalks in my town because guess what? They weren’t plowed!!! Now I’m a pretty easygoing person and…
Take this note and shove it
I have heard of a store credit if you have fully purchased an item but I have never heard of a store credit if you have an item on Layaway. Prom season is upcoming and I went to this particular store to look for a prom dress for my daughter. Being a single mother and…
customer disservice
To the new fast food joint; your customer service is really lame. I went with my reusable mug to try some of your coffee which was free for your promotion. First, I experienced attitude, for I guess just ordering a free item, second, my mug had a bit of old coffee in the bottom and…
yeah, right
If you want me to let myself care again then get a little backbone…..line-ups are’t attractive to most people who are worth spending time with……. —ssdd
MIMI or A Poisoner’s Comedy
Pleasure in Paris It’s not often that “feather-light”, “sexy” and “serial killer” belong in one sentence, but for MIMI, a light-hearted musical comedy about a comely, hedonistic 17th century mass murderer, the words go well together. This is a show that’s all romp, from its opening ménage à quatre through Mimi’s discovery of the pleasure…
Wading pool…
…Sudden realizations; Artificial constructs…or reality transcendent?…I.choose reality… and her presence, or lack thereof, is my ocean of doubt… I have yet to see the shore, but I know its there… — …not drowning yet…
Who needs coffee when you’ve got smiles?
I don’t often get the bus before 6am, and I’m typically cranky when I have to. Luckily when I do, I’m greeted by a delightful driver who greets me cheerfully, and tells me he missed my smiling face when I don’t get that bus for a long period of time. It melts my heart. Metro…
I hatechya Captcha!
It is bad enough that I have to type in a login and password on your website every few days because your ‘remember my password’ feature gets reset. Now I have to type in some crazy arse captcha code to prove that I’m not a computer. Your website is entertainment. I don’t have to be…
Sneezing on the #7 bus this morning
To the moron who sat beside me this morning on the #7 bus. Yes, I know I sneezed 3 times (quite loudly and forcefully, I might add). BUT, I sneezed into my jacket sleeve (as we were advised to do when H1N1 was an issue). There was no need for you to immediately lift your…
Beautiful SMU students
Our poor school received a bad reputation because of a few awful humans and some negligent leadership, but to those students who are spending their winter break rebuilding a home in Alabama, you’re representing what we should all be. I salute you! I love you! You are a few among the thousands of AMAZING SMU…
Hey Inch Worm!
Inch worm is what I like to call impatient people that never come to a full stop when you’re in the crosswalk….they slowly inch forward as if to say ”Hurry up and cross already!”. I get it ….your time is more valuable than mine it’s such a pesky inconvenience to have to stop for us…
Taxi
Thanks for lying to me, taxi. After telling me repeatedly over a 45 minute stretch that your car was “a few minutes away” it never did show up. I could have built a car in the time you took to concoct your increasingly lame excuses. You suck. I hope HRM reads this and implements a…
I missed you crazy cat lady
It’s been almost 4 months since we last spoke. Then out of the blue I get a text from you. I’ve thought about you that entire time. Even had a dream about you a couple days before you texted me. I really did miss you and I am really glad that we are talking again.…
Make less, pay more – that’s the Maritime Way!
Prepare your taxes using an online tool. Before you actually submit it, play around with some of the fields. Toggle your province of residence and see how it affects your taxes owing / refund owing. For myself, the difference between Nova Scotia and Ontario is $23 taxes owed in Nova Scotia and $2,100 refund in…
i could never tell you
that i’m in love with you, best friend. you’re the reason why i get up, get dressed, go to the gym, why i’m nice to people, why i’m brave and strong, why i believe in myself and why i want a better life. the best life. i want the best life with you. i’m too…
Feeling the Love on Valentine’s Day
Love goes out to the organizers and to the gypsy jazz band who performed at a local hotel on Valentine’s evening, from a same-sex couple who danced the night away in an open and inclusive atmosphere. We could not have felt more welcomed! Kudos to our fellow dancers! Class act! —Love Conquers All! XOXO
Drug Store Cashier
You are so fantastic for such a young woman you make me laugh and have such a great outlook on life I look forward to seeing you when I stop in you make me remember why life is worth living… —20 years to late…
icy nemesis
So I’m taking a shortcut despite danger keep out tape, decide to turn back, slip, hear something snap, think, that’s not good, find I can’t stand. Alone. Start to call out for help. A couple of women parking cars come to my aid, as do some nearby workmen. In particular I thank Catherine who insisted…
And in the end…
I hate you. I hate you for making me someone I wasn’t. I hate your cocky laugh, I hate your frumpy body, I hate your big ass teeth and your big ass feet. I hate your fucking face. I hate that you somehow turned this around on me in your own mind. This was your…
Deadzone For Jobs
What the shit guys. I have lived here for nineteen years and I’ve been jobless for 3 months. Yes it’s winter. Yes I’m not passing out twenty resumes a day, everyday. But holy jesus, I understand now, why everyones leaving! But it doesn’t have to be this way!! I’ve had an ego death and then…
Hey Bus Driver
You pulled up to the bus stop on Spring Garden. I couldn’t get across because of the traffic light. I waved to you. You saw me. I saw you see me. But you didn’t wait. Instead you pulled out then the light changed. So now you are at the light, which allowed me to cross…
Cruel Canada Goose
I guess you think you are pretty beautiful in your coyote fur jacket. You are not. That wild dog was though. People like you suck the magic out of this world. Hope you find yourself in a leg hold trap someday soon, suffer and are skinned for a fucking jacket. —ThatFadIsSad
Enough Already!
I’m so fucking tired of hipsters… they all work so hard to be cool and show their individuality by sharing the same opinions, loving the same things and dressing the same androgynous way. Can we please have the next wave of what’s cool already so we don’t have to look at these sheep any more……
Roll up the Rim to not destroy my planet
I love the concept of free food, drinks and bikes. I have a travel mug and think that Tim Hortons has got to love that fact, and can show it by letting me participate in the contest by rolling something other than a cup I am not going to use. Hello disposable culture lovers, lets…
The Loretta Saunders I know
This piece was originally posted by the Halifax Media Co-op. We thank them for letting us share it. As some of you may know, Loretta Saunders, a 26-year-old Inuk woman from Nunatsiavut (Inuit territory in Labrador), has been missing since Thursday, February 13. Her family and friends first became aware of her disappearance on the…
Purcells Cove backlands targeted for development
A major firm is making a last-minute attempt to open up the Purcells Cove backlands to development. The backlands were zoned “urban reserve” in the 2006 regional plan. That designation prevents the area from being developed for the 25-year lifetime of the plan, or until 2031. At that point the area will be reassessed for…
Confessions of subtle racism
Anybody who visits Halifax MP Megan Leslie’s office from now until April will encounter the work of textile artist Tamara Huxtable. Much of Huxtable’s art is text-based, with words and phrases embroidered onto unframed pieces of fabric. “This medium just happened to align harmoniously with the ideas about identity and eventually race politics that I…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces! (February 19-March 20) From 2010 to 2012, Eric Garcetti worked as an actor on the TV cop shows The Closer and its spin-off series Major Crimes. He played the mayor of Los Angeles. Then in 2013, he ran for the office of LA’s mayor in real life, and won. It was a…
The Bear
Claire Cameron’s most powerful gift to readers is the reflective yet juvenile voice of the narrator, five-year-old Anna. Anna leads the reader and her two-year-old brother, Stick, away from the remote campsite and the confusion and horror of the large black beast, her missing father and her dying mother whose last request is that she…
Hyperbole and a Half
She did it. Brosh’s most excellent blog is now in book form. Hyperbole and a Half is hilarious and heart-breaking. Her writing is great, her illustrations fantastic (with herself in a pink shift and a poof of yellow hair). Much loved: stories about her simple dog and helper dog, described with words not usable here.…
Cool Tools
A catalogue of possibilities. Guaranteed you will want 4,000 things from this huge catalogue. The web site is kk.org/cooltools; the book harkens back to The Whole Earth Catalog: everything under the sun. Just as big and heavy. They don’t sell anything—but they do tell you where to get it or how to make it. 3D…
Letters to the editor, February 20, 2014
jobs Work load You say you are frustrated when we blame the city for no work, but you later point out the fact that after a co-op or internship most graduates with a degree are forced back into waiting tables or retail stores and believe they should be at something better (“Don’t blame Halifax for…
A slice to remember
Your unpretentious, hardworking neighbourhood pizza joints don’t often get the spotlight. We tend to take their greatness, and their appreciation for quantity (XL pizzas and slices so big they droop over their Styrofoam plates) for granted. Sure, these aren’t the newest, trendiest talk-of-the-town restos, but no matter how you slice it the modest pizzerias that…
The Xtreme factor
Hot chicken tamale. BBQ bacon cheeseburger. Peppercorn chicken ranch. Onion ring burger. Spicy clubhouse. Chicken Caesar. Chili. Taco. Thanksgiving. Xtreme Pizza is not fucking around. Nine years ago, a pizzeria named Saluzzo opened in the south end of Halifax. Two years later the decision was made: it needed a name change. They wanted the name…
The Insistent Garden
“It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.” So says the narrator of Rosie Chard’s sophomore novel. The former landscape architect brings her encyclopedic knowledge of plant life to bear in this dark domestic tale of a young woman, Edith Stoker, whose family is suffocating her. Set in 1969 East Midlands, UK,…
The life and times of Pizza Corner
Angel or devil, blessing or curse, Pizza Corner was, at once, a slice of heaven and the third circle of hell. Perhaps it still is. All I know is once you’ve scrambled out of your 20s and left late nights downtown behind you, it’s easy to think of it as nothing but a neon-lit, pepperoni-scented…
Blank Realm
On the Australian trio’s fourth full-length, they do practically everything right; but nothing really “right on.” Grassed Inn is a charming record full of steady, stretched out rock songs. Throughout a protracted 45 minutes, Blank Realm’s influences float safely between the shambolic shores of Flying Nun New Zealand and the more straightforward, earnest sounds of…
Heart of garlic
If you wind up at Freeman’s at the end of a long night—whether you’ve spent it slamming back beers or cramming for a final exam, if you’re a local or an out-of-towner—and ask for a recommendation, chances are it’ll be garlic fingers. The uniquely Nova Scotian, highly addictive snack is comfort food at its finest,…
Marissa Nadler
“Still remember all the words/to every song you’ve ever heard/drive,” Marissa Nadler sings on the mournful opener of her sixth record, the ironically titled July. But there’s nothing sunny here, nothing that’s gonna make you want to head to the beach, and you would not even dare bump this on the way. This is a…
Cheap Eats 2014 is HERE
Your unpretentious, hardworking neighbourhood pizza joints don’t often get the spotlight. We tend to take their greatness, and their appreciation for quantity (XL pizzas and slices so big they droop over their Styrofoam plates) for granted. Sure, these aren’t the newest, trendiest talk-of-the-town restos, but no matter how you slice it the modest pizzerias that…
The black female form, reborn
A chorus of giggles, snippets of conversation and the swishing of snowsuits emanate from a group of local children as they crowd against the heavy, closed doors of the library’s Terry Symonds Auditorium. The door hinge creaks and squeaks its swing song as it opens just wide enough for a small head to peak inside.…
Go for the cuckold
Q I am a straight male, married to a woman for 25 years. Our marriage started to go sour about 14 years ago. Sex was infrequent and stultifying. Finally, when the kids were old enough, I made plans to separate. When my wife got wind of these plans, she finally agreed to work on our…
Ryan Hemsworth’s in the mix
When Ryan Hemsworth was invited to the press conference for the 2014 Juno Awards nominations, he thought he was just going to a music industry meet-and-greet. The Halifax-born, Toronto-residing music producer went to the early February event with his manager and a representative from his record label. “They got through choir album of the year…
The power of voice
The voice is I and I. I and I meaning the voice is in us all to equalize. To harmonize. To totalize. The voice is alive. Word is Bond says the voice so speak with righteousness. The voice is dub, soul, reggae, hip-hop, drum and synthesizer. The voice is Word Sound Power swag and style.…
Zuppa makes Mirth!
“Our new show is based on Plato’s Symposium, which is all about love,” says Zuppa Theatre’s Sue Leblanc. “We’re incorporating the themes of love and joy into the play, which is a bit of a departure for us.” No kidding. Though the veteran company is all about inspiration and innovation, it’s also often coming from…
Thick as Weed Thief
“It wouldn’t be a hard thing to put one over on us,” says Aaron Burke, vocalist for Weed Thief, “but we’re no thieves.” Drummer Tri Le adds: “In high school, everyone got ripped off.” On Friday, three-piece Weed Thief releases a new tape at Plan B to follow up last year’s pair of EPs. “Weed…
All the Rage
This new collection of short stories from UK writer A.L. Kennedy will probably make you sad. All of its characters are in love in ways that are bad for them, and they are all painfully aware of it. In the title story, a man waits for a train with his wife and recalls his years…
Serafim and Claire
Mark Lavorato’s third novel, Serafim and Claire, plops us into a dirty, cutthroat Montreal in the 1920s. Claire is a dancer whose ambition probably outweighs her talent and who is mostly alone and mostly sad. She dreams of stardom but things go a little wrong along the way. Serafim has just come to Montreal on…
