Spices and salts
Shoptalk reported not long ago that former CBC Radio One Maritime Noon host Costas Halavrezos was now a spice merchant, operating out of the The Brewery Market also known as the Historic Farmers’ Market (1496 Lower Water Street) on Saturday mornings. “It’s interesting to note that a significant number of people have told us they…
Halifax council hires Richard Butts as new CAO
After a four-hour closed-door meeting, Halifax council Tuesday voted unanimously to hire Richard Butts as the city’s new chief administrative officer. Butts is presently a deputy city manager in Toronto. He will start work in Halifax City Hall March 28. Breaking with past practice of contracting for the job with former CAOs Dan English and…
Skinny jeans
What is with guys wearing skinny jeans and then trying to sag them? Really, does wearing tight ass jeans that are made for women make a guy cool? Then sagging them. What the hell? May as well put a bra on too losers. —Man up suckers
Take a Cough Drop
You suffer from one of the following afflictions: a cold 360 days a year, a pot-smoker’s cough or a post-nasal drip. Or maybe it’s all three. All I listen to all day is “ahem, ahem, AHEEEEM, cough-cough-sputter hack-hack”. My grandfather who smoked for 70+ years didn’t hack up his lungs as bad as you. It’s…
Authentic Food
Call it what you like, authentic or ethnic, but several restaurants in HRM claim to serve such food, whether it be Greek, Indian, Thai, or Middle Eastern, but they fail to mention that their menus are “westernized” to the North American palette. Do they seriously think we can’t handle the real food? Do they assume…
Detention trailer arrives
Joseph Kahn is the video and commercial director who some years back gave the world the amped-up motorcycle action picture Torque. We’re excited by his next feature project, something called Detention, partly because the trailer is such a hoot, and partly because The Coast’s former film critic Mark Palermo—also a filmmaker in his own right—gets…
Halifax fashion style
When did sweat pants become a fashion statement? News flash! It never did. There seems to be a misconception about Halifax fashion. Halifax does have the free spirit inspired fashion style but sweat pants is and never will be included in that style. Sweat pants wearing people look bummish and sloppy that won’t be taken…
After Hours Club
Ok… Well let’s see the weekends. First of all, the clubs out here are from 2 to 3:30 am and then they want you to go home like little children. How come everywhere else they have after-hours clubs from 3am to 8am but not here? It’s dumb and stupid we need a after-hours club. Think…
Restaurant Assholes
So my girlfriend and I wanted to get a bite to eat. We came to a certain restaurant 5 minutes before it closed, and were turned away. What the fuck! So what if we came in 5 minutes or 5 SECONDS before closing, this place was technically still OPEN. You lost my business, assholes. Sending…
Top annoyances…
I love to read the bitches. There’s nothing like a good rant (especially one you personally agree with) to pass the time and get a good chuckle on the go. However, I’ve found that I have to draw the line at reading the comments. The circle jerk from the “Top Commenters” list gives me a…
If Karma Doesn’t Hit You, I’d Sure Like To…
He didn’t deserve what you did to him, no one would. —Calling Karma
Food Court Blabbermouth
This is for the 4-eyed imbecile who hangs around Scotia Square food court in the afternoons dissing everyone: Your mouth is as loose as your morals. You need to shut the fuck up and mind your own business. You are a pathetic disease-carrying brainless piece of shit with a proven affinity for the lower half…
Road Rage Much?!
To the gigantic douche bag driving a blue hatchback on Queen St and Clyde yesterday afternoon, CALM DOWN! There was no need to lay on your horn the way you did. The woman in front of you was going the speed limit! Also, there was no need to tailgate. There definitely was no need to…
Suivez Moi….
I will follow you anywhere, Buttons, but you have to help me up first as I have fallen pretty hard over here… —Your lovely xoxo
New Friend
To my new friend: I know you don’t want anything serious, so I put on a serious, tough guy, casual relationship appearance when I am with you. But I want you to know, if there is one thing I want in this world right now, it is to be with you. You’re the coolest gal…
Shit Shovellers
Dear Neighbours, I realize you’re young, but I’m not your mother. I also do not want to be out in the cold shovelling the sidewalk. I also have responsibilities and things I’d rather be doing. But no, I actually get up off my ass and shovel the walk. Yet, even though I have given you…
Full Force Gale
I’m really excited to see you tomorrow, I can’t help but laugh every time you smile. I want to be where you are, you remind me of all the good stuff back home and all the even better stuff in my new adopted city. I’ve seemed to found my way out of this and you…
Your kindness shines through
To the wonderful dude who gave my boyfriend and I a lift after I slipped on some ice in front of your car that awful Monday evening… thank you so much! People like you make me love Halifax more and more. You were so kind, and it was greatly appreciated. I hope we meet again.…
Lazy
I HATE lazy people. It really grinds my gears when people message me on Facebook or talk to my boyfriend about how I need to stop by, because they miss me, or haven’t seen me in a while. You know what? There’s a REASON I dont visit, and if you miss me so much, walk…
Bread and Whine
We miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor. We miss you more than that movie missed the point and that’s an awful lot, fille d’agonie. And now, you’ve been away a week and all we’re trying to say is – Pearl Harbor sucked, and we miss you. We…
Halifax pedestrians
I’ve been away from the fair city of Halifax for a couple of years now, and above all, I miss the pedestrian traffic. I can’t believe how much consideration drops when you go one province west. Here, no one moves to offer you more room on the sidewalks, more than once I’ve been stuck standing…
#4 to the Rescue
I was in the storm yesterday, there were no cabs answering, traffic jams everywhere. I started to cry thinking of getting stuck downtown. Then the skies opened up and the number 4 came up the street by Scotia Square with a halo. Thank you bus driver for helping me to get home. Big hugs! —Thankful
Guy in Red Car
Thanks to the guy in the red car that stopped to check if I was alright when I slipped on the ice this morning. You sir are a kind fellow! —Sore Knee From Hitting The Ice
Food inflation and shrinking packages
Is it me or are most people blind to the fact that the cost of food is almost slipping into the realm of hyper-inflation? Packages are shrinking and yet prices stay the same or rise. People seem to take this as a fact of life like death and taxes. What will it take before we…
Useless
To the guy suing the casino for letting him gamble…TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. That is all. —Responsible
Ice Ice Baby
People who don’t shovel after a snowstorm are jerks. People who don’t shovel after a snow/freezing rain/rain storm are giant assholes. My walk to work this morning was the most treacherous one this winter. The sidewalks were a complete sheet of ice. For every property that did clear their sidewalks, 15 others didn’t. I didn’t…
The Halifax convention centre is dead in the water
Last week, CBC blogger and Twitterer extraordinaire Kady O’Malley chronicled an astonishing PR push by the federal conservatives, an unapologetic celebration of a spoils system of government. The Conservatives rolled out 70-80 Economic Action Plan celebrations, each in a Conservative riding. They ranged from an underpass in Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia to new locker rooms…
Route 10 Bus Hero
Last night you saw me wave to you. The wind was gusting freezing rain at me as I struggled through a snow drift. You stopped and waited for me to cross the street to reach the bus stop. It took me a few minutes. You waited. You are the kindest, best-est bus driver EVER! My…
Fix the roof
The hallway roof has been leaking for at least 3 of the 4 years I have lived here. Your solution has always been to just put a bucket under it. I’ve called you every time the hallway leaks, even though it’s outside of my apartment not in it, for three years.This means almost every time…
Suddenly We Decide He is a Maniac
More hypocritical crap from politicians, the UN, etc. Suddenly now the head of an African country is a bad guy. What about when he attacked the Americans through Pan Am 103… Or helped other terrorists… assassinated dissidents… that was 1972 to 1988, so they only had 23 to almost 40 years to wring their hands…
Shitty Weekend
Saturday, a certain brain dead door man at a bar downtown not only insulted my intelligence, but berated and assaulted me for not respecting his authority… or so he saw it. Had I been causing a disturbance, mouthing off or doing something to justify pointing this out then saying so would be reasonable. Was I?…
An Open Letter to Halifax’s Weather
I’m pretty tolerant when it comes to bad weather. I’ve lived in Calgary and in Vancouver, so whether you decide to go with biting cold or grey and rainy I’m pretty much okay with. But could you please stop constantly changing your mind every few hours? I’m getting really tired of wearing my winter jacket…
Missed Steaks
People of the world: MISTAKES HAPPEN. Honest ones, absent-minded ones, flubs, misjudgments, snafus, gaffes, oversights. Great Leaping FUCK, this month I feel as though I’ve encountered countless turd baskets who seem to firmly believe that they are superior to their peers. To you folks I have this request: Take a good hard look in the…
Dear Mayor and future Mayors of Halifax
What the HELL!!! Did I seriously hear you consider the option of keeping the skating oval? A lot of people are interested in keeping it on the commons for public use, but you aren’t interested in charging the users of the oval a fee for using it? But you do want to use 1 MILLION…
Splice moves
Splice (444-4225) formerly at 1668 Barrington, is relocating to 5158 Sackville, under Newcombe’s Ink and across from Reflections, as of today, March 1. “We’ve been on the same block for six years…but we figured it was best to get to ground level because we want greater visibility for our new retail section that’ll open in…
Hot Bus Driver
To the sexiest hottest bus driver that does the #32 and picks me up at around 5:40 pm, I look forward to seeing you every Wednesday. You always put a smile on my face when I see you pulling up to my stop. I love you, I always wanted to tell you but I choke…
NOFX Are Coming
Here’s a couple of summer-y concert announcements to ease you as you trudge, ever-forward, through these remaining weeks of winter doldrums. NOFX has announced Halifax as a stop on its upcoming “Great White NOFX Tour.” They’ll be playing the Halifax Forum on June 15th with Teenage Bottle Rocket and Old Man Markley. Tickets are $25/$30…
Full Moon Fever in HRM Lately
Wow, drivers here in HRM are just outta their skulls lately… I am going to weld steel bumpers on my car and pray to make it to the store in one piece. Lalaland real estate must be booming! —Tired of Needing an Air Horn
Why do “Non Muslim” girls like to hit on Muslim men?
I don’t honestly give a fuck about relationships. The problem I have is that people insist on telling me stuff that personally isn’t my business to begin with! I also don’t wish to be drug into who slept with who and who is out to get who crap. That was high school leave it there.…
When no means yes… just add high heels, a tube top and make-up!
A woman in Winnipeg was just told by the judge at her rape trial that being raped was her fault because she wore a tube top, high heels and make-up, wanted to party and therefore ‘sex was in the air’. WTF is THAT? Sex was in the air? Surely that is open to interpretation and…
Excuse me, “Sir or M’am”
I don’t care if it makes you feel old when I call you Sir or M’am. It’s what I was told to call people when I was younger to be courteous and polite. So don’t tell me how old it makes you feel or that your real name is Lester; I didn’t want to talk…
Thanks for the punches to the head
Why at the ages of 21 and 22 would you resort to physically attacking me when you didn’t get your way? It was 10:30 on a Friday night and we were in my room hanging out as I did not want to disturb you guys by being in the common area. Being noisy in my…
Slush shower
Ok, so it snowed the other night, I can deal with that, it is February. It is also thawing and melting, again I can deal with the messy sidewalks and crosswalks and everything else, we all can we are Canadian. But, (and you knew there would be one) this is to the little snot nosed…
In Love with Buddy
To the guy that stood next to me at the City and Colour concert—you made my night that much better! Your dog Buddy was so well behaved and he kept my feet warm for the majority of the time by sitting on them! Thank you and thank you Buddy! P.S. You have a gorgeous smile!…
Backup blunder
To the man who tried to help my boyfriend and I back out of a very tight parking spot in a busy parking lot on Sunday, I thank you for your kindness. Even though we had to wait an extra 10 minutes after you left for other cars to leave their spots before attempting the…
My Cup Runneth Wild
Every lingerie store I go to sells only padded bras. Underwire, I can understand (the girls need it if they are above a B), but padding??? On a C cup??? I don’t think any girl with a C or bigger needs padding of any kind. And what is with the push-up trend on these sizes?…
With you on my mind and my heart
I had an amazing weekend in Halifax, I’m from out of town right now. A group of us went to the last Canada Games concert last night. Her favorite artist was playing, my other friends were with their significant others and it was just me and her, and it felt so right, after the concert…
Hand and heart warmers
Thank you to the wonderful blonde girl with the glasses who gave me one of those handwarmer things at City and Colour, it made my (embarrassingly drunk) concert going experience even better! Thank you! —Thankful drunk
Thanks to late night revellers!
Thanks so much to all the party people who helped push my rear-wheel drive car out of its slippery parking spot Saturday night on Prince street. I wanted to get out and thank you, but didn’t want to get stuck again! You saved me from the parking ban devils! —Volvo driver
Cafe Karma Elves!
I want to give a big shout out to some local cafes! I was at a lot of them last week in a flurry of meetings. At one point I left my notebook behind with all kinds of important stuff. On Friday I found it in my mailbox wrapped in plastic and safe from the…
Dislocated shoulder
To all the people on the #20 bus around 5:30 on Friday who I startled when my shoulder dislocated… I apologize for freaking you out by not wanting to call the hospital, and thank you for not calling the hospital. It just takes a moment to pop back in, and it’s difficult in a moving…
Dear Period
Stop coming every two weeks. Just. Stop. And while you’re at it, stop sticking around for almost a month at a time. It’s really starting to get annoying, and I would like to have sex again at some point. Please stop being an asshole. —Aunt Flo’s niece
A Halifax Academy Award-winning connection
Though they won’t be getting one of those golden statuettes nor did they attend the Vanity Fair party in Hollywood last night, local sound experts Brian Power and Graham Colwell were part of the Inception sound team that won Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards. Ellen Page, who played…
Team Coast Watches the Oscars
Team Coast Watches the Oscars
Another Clayton Park food destination
A couple weeks back The Feed reported about all the delicious options in Clayton Park, but we neglected to mention Monsoon Cafe (480 Parkland Drive, 431-7161), specializing in East Indian fusion cuisine. The cafe has a breakfast menu—including the Monsoon omelette with malabar spuds and the omelette paratha wrap and a selection of coffees, espressos,…
Khyber Flea Market redux
It was a big hit back in November so it’s happening again: on Saturday March 5 from 8pm-12am, the Khyber(1588 Barrington Street) will host a Night Flea Market. You’ll find more than 30 vendors on the second and third floor of the Khyber Building. Attendees can expect reasonably priced vintage clothing, baked goods, small-scale artworks,…
Franz
To my wonderful group, it was so nice to spend time with you traveling to Toronto and Montreal this week. I think it made us an even stronger group and hopefully gave us more ideas to branch out and become better. Viva la revolution! Special shoutout to the girl who was with me for the…
No-shows
What is so hard about letting someone know that you are no longer interested in buying the item they are selling or would like to cancel an apartment viewing? In the past few months, I’ve had three no-shows for an apartment viewing and two no-shows to buy something. Are you so busy that you simply…
Bus Conversation
Please, riders of the buses in our fair city, you must know that a conversation on a bus is not a private one. Rider 1 with friend, please don’t talk about how your daughter crushed her foot and had to have blood drained with a needle. Rider 2 on cell phone, please don’t gab loudly…
Black Moor Noise
Hear part of the Background Noise chat with Mark Little above. If you’re like me, you just don’t know where you’ll be getting your radio jollies now that Andrew Krystal has left Maritime Morning, am I right? Cough. Well, for those who like their radio humour loud and crude, Background Noise might be the thing…
Jazz
I was always curious about you but didn’t dare to take the plunge until recently. I guess I was intimidated by your incredibly large repertoire and the elitism I falsely associated with it. You came into my life at a time when only a handful of rock or “alternative” (if the term still means anything)…
Love Drug
Love is the real drug, the most wonderfully dangerous substance I have ever used, the god damn cadillac of internal chemistry. I often ask God why didn’t he spare me from the suffering and give me a lesser sentence like heroin addiction, at least you can find that shit on the street for rendered services…
Bigger would be better
We can pretty much buy anything we want. Food, clothes, makeup, shoes, houses, cars. But in order to dramatically change our bodies, it normally means surgery (well to make things BIGGER anyways). Why can’t I just take a vitamin and get bigger boobs? It’s not like I’m flat by any means, I just want bigger…
Random Play to close
Last week Shoptalk reported Random Play (1587 Barrington Street, 445-1056), the last place to buy music on Barrington, was offering a 20 percent sale through February. Now we’ve heard more news about the business that is bound to disappoint music fans. “We’ll be closing no later than the end of March,” says owner Steve Brown.…
Nose Whistlers
Why oh why do I have to be submitted to the dreaded nose whistler? Can’t you hear it? I can from all the way over here. If your nose if whistling, you either suffer from some sort of nose problem like a hole in your septum or you have a booger up there. Chances are…
The Local Cable Company
In the past 8 or 10 months, the cable company has implemented a policy of booking more service calls than the technicians can handle in a given day. The idea is that you are booked to wait home in case the technician gets freed up due to a cancelation or customer not home. They have…
Thigh oh why
Damn you thighs! I want to lose weight this year. I joined a gym. But you thighs, oh why, oh why must you cause me so much agony. You’ve both conspired and rubbed together plotting your ways, and now I am rubbed raw. Now I am left with tender loins, haven’t been back, but the…
Consistently poor staff
To the chain store selling imported furniture and panels, you need to know that I’ve visited various locations and it’s always the same—staff so apathetic that anemia would be a step upward. They rarely talk to customers, and usually gather around the counter, chatting. Maybe I should write a letter to the company, who knows?…
Something Catty Going On Here
You like the warmth of my keyboard, I get it, but I have a new screenshot saved to my desktop every day. Simple things, like the short cut on my key board turning off the wireless, take ages to figure out because I don’t understand how you’re little paws press the function key and the…
Lobster Guy
This dude who opened for GBS was the suckiest thing I ever saw. The blow up lobster was my thrill of his so-called entertaining. Yo dude you knew it was an outdoor event, but all you did was complain about the cold and your hand being cold. You fucking sucked! —Loved Allan Doyle and the…
Bus odor
To all the people that cover themselves in perfume and cologne before they get on the bus… STOP! No one wants to smell alcohol on their way to where they are going! You smell like the cast members of Jersey Shore. —Bus rider
Your monotonous statuses get you deleted
To my annoying roommate, you had a fit the other day. I thought it was something serious. Nope, it was you complaining about being deleted by another 6 people on facebook, after being deleted by 5 people the previous week. You know why? Because you write about how much you love your fiance in every…
Well then…
So yeah, there was something between us… what does that mean? You have tantrums and then go away. I can only be left so many times without tiring of it. You’re a special man, and damn funny. So many great memories. I miss the fun we had. The nachos and wine. The roof climbing. Though…
The fake homeless
I despise the fake bums that are flooding Spring Garden Rd. I’ve recently found out that they make more money than I do. I overheard a conversation between two dudes in front of a coffee shop yesterday. One said he made $120 bucks on Saturday between 5pm and 2am. That really grinds my gears. As…
I love Nova Scotia
I crossed over the bridge to Bree tonight. I had to meet some friends at the Prancing Pony. They never showed but the evening wasn’t a complete waste. I got to listen to an old friend play and sing. He writes fanciful songs about love and loss and just plain living. I hadn’t seen him…
Can Halifax become a Fair Trade town?
[image-1] Halifax city councillors may be consuming nothing but fair trade certified products during meetings if a new campaign to have Halifax recognized as a “Fair Trade Town” gets enough support. In export-oriented economies in the developing world, workers are often exploited and have limited rights; “Fair Trade” seeks to undo that harm by ensuring…
Introducing: Girl U Want
Conflict of interest alert: Oh hey, remember that girl DJ night thing I mentioned awhile back? Well it is happening THIS TUESDAY, HOLY FUCKING SHIT! It’s called Girl U Want. Come and party with me and a bunch of cool girls while we play our favorite songs. You will hear everything from Motown to electro…
Bay of Fundy tidal proposal moves ahead
Multi-billion dollar corporations are investing resources, time and money into developing tidal power in Nova Scotia, but if we’re to believe provincial authorities and the corporations’ reps, the corporations have no idea if they’ll make money or not. Last year the province issued a Request for Proposal for development of a tidal facility in the…
Oval costs revealed
Keeping the Common skating oval in place for another year will cost “at least $750,000 to $1 million” in capital costs. The capital cost figure was revealed in a city staff report to council. “The figure came from Terry Gallager, manager of Facility Development,” explained finance director Cathie O’Toole. “It was an estimate of $750,000…
Free Will Astrology
PISCES (February 19-March 20) I’m hoping that you will grant your ego more permission to shine in the coming weeks, Pisces. I’m hoping you will allow it to unveil more flash, feel more zeal and exert more force. After all your earnest bouts of self-sacrifice, you deserve a poetic licence to brag like a hip-hop…
Metro transit love!
To the #6 bus driver in the morning. I love getting on your bus, where most bus drivers would give you dirty looks and mumble you always have a smile and say good morning and when people cut you off you smile and don’t start yelling. You’re an awesome bus driver metro transit needs more…
Vinnie’s loves food
A row of stools lines each of the large windows at the front of Vinnie’s Pasta Bar. From the outside, it looks like just another take-away joint. Inside it’s warm, the air tinged with the scent of tomato. It’s dim, almost dark inside. It’s an easy atmosphere. Chocolate and caramel tones give an intimate-date-restaurant feel…
Lambs still screams
The Silence of the Lambs was released on Valentine’s Day, 1991. Directed by Jonathan Demme and adapted by Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris, it stars Jodie Foster as FBI cadet Clarice Starling, assigned to profile notorious criminal Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) as a rote exercise, but really to enlist his…
St. Cecilia Series’ dynamic duo
Anyone who sees Jocelyne Roy and Michelle Yelin Nam perform would probably be surprised to find out that prior to this tour they’d never worked together, let alone met each other. In 2009 Jeunesse Musicales Canada contacted Roy (a renowned flautist with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne) with the opportunity for the collaboration, a chance she…
Ugliness looks beautiful in Biutiful
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu foregoes the multiple-plotline approach he employed in previous films like Babel and 21 Grams, but that doesn’t mean Biutiful is any less complex. There’s still plenty of plot, and although it’s essentially a character study, the character—a dying street hustler (Javier Bardem) and father of two who can communicate with the dead—is…
The censored truth
I thought of my dear departed parents last week when a guy in Amherst collared a would-be bank robber and held him for the cops. The CBC dubbed the guy a hero, but my parents, who grew up poor in the Dirty Thirties, would have sided with the robber. “I hope they never catch him,”…
Jon McKiel’s house
It’s Valentine’s Day, and I am sitting in a diner talking to a man about goat penises. This is not the ideal day or place to discuss this kind of thing, but Jon McKiel is no ordinary musician. In his short time on the Canadian music scene, McKiel has dazzled critics by creating dynamic rock…
Could it get even bigger?
Q I am 50 and a lesbian. I have had a pretty active sex life for the last 30 years, including a couple of long-term relationships. For the last three years, I’ve been with a woman I love very much. We have amazing sexual chemistry—by far the best I have experienced. For the last two…
Mogwai
At this point in Mogwai’s 16-year career, the band has reached a pretty formulaic point. Loud guitars plus vocoders plus atmospheric tremolo picking plus post-rock drums equals epic music for BMX films. But the Scottish guitar army has never said it was anything but a slow-core band in post-rock shoes. With its new label home…
Corinne Bailey Rae
Considering everything on Bailey Rae’s first two albums came from her own pen, the cooing Brit offers a departure here with five covers. The live version of “Que Sera Sera,” though heartily applauded, hardly rates nearly half the disc’s length. The rest is stellar in range and execution. Bob Marley’s “Is This Love” makes it…
Bright Eyes
After two outings under his own name and an indie-supergroup side project (Monsters of Folk), Conor Oberst ducks back under the umbrella he’s best known for—Bright Eyes. Though most of the ramshackle alt-country has been obliterated, Oberst’s piercing lyrics and strained vocals remain, entrenched in big-picture songs about spirituality and philosophy, themes explored last on…
Roomful of Blues
An octet is bound to experience change over 40 years, and Roomful of Blues has seen a few new faces. A consistent sound is what holds its audience. A new singer like Phil Pemberton keeps things fresh, especially if nobody in the band writes songs. One trademark is the brisk exchange among guitar, trumpet and…
Buck, up
memory lane Buck, up It’s never easy looking back at the person you used to be. For musicians, old songs can serve as diary entries, resulting in wistfulness, rediscovery or total embarrassment. When Buck 65—AKA Rich Terfry—took a look back at two decades of recordings in preparation for the release of 20 Odd Years, a…
Catching the bus
I am so unbelievably happy, yesterday was an awesome day. I was leaving work, checked the bus time, went to wait, and it pulled up on time, I didn’t have to wait at all, got to the bridge where I usually see all my buses pull out as I pull in, but not yesterday I…
The rise of Kuato
Why won’t you be at Celebration Square drooling in Dallas Green’s direction this Saturday? Because you’ll be at the Paragon, swaying gently to Kuato’s opening melodies and nodding your head in fluctuations directly proportional to the rising tension of its brooding post-rock ballads. At Saturday’s Winter EP release show, Kuato will again tease Halifax with…
Borderline or not
Sometimes I feel sorry for you but, other times I just wish you’d grow the frig up! You may have had a rough childhood but, that doesnt give you the right to use and accuse people. Telling people I abused you is just plain evil. I don’t care if you’re sick or not, it’s just…
Angry Birds
Angry Birds is one of the most popular mobile games in history (don’t worry, Tetris, you’re safe—for now) especially on the iPhone and iPad. But how does it fare on a home console? Angry Birds can be purchased on the PlayStation Store for $3.99 and you would think, since it costs more than its iOS…
A fail for Hall Pass
Welcome to yet another buddy comedy based on the insulting stereotype that married men are overgrown children stuck in a trap, the prisoners of joyless prudes who get off on denying their husbands pleasure. In this Farrelly Brothers film, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are granted a week of extramarital freedom by shrewish wives Jenna…
GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 is a revisiting of the first person shooter that started it all. GoldenEye for the N64 has a special place in many gamers’ hearts, but this re-imagining comes up short. The game is quite different than the original—it keeps some of the same motifs from its predecessor, but this is a complete retrofit.…
Hey there little fella
You have little man syndrome, we get it. You’re 5’7. It’s a little shorter for a guy but please stop being so insecure about it. No one cares! You’re 28 not 13. I don’t want to hear about the time you fought ‘three guys that tried to jump you in the commons but you kicked…
Oh No, Theodore! celebrates year one
Oh No, Theodore! is about to have a birthday. The Fredricton-based band will turn one next month, and what a year it’s been. “Where I was last February, I never would have imagined I’d be playing in a different city every other weekend,” says frontman Jeremy McLaughlin. This time last year McLaughlin was doing his…
The Chicago Code
The central cast in this new show from Shawn Ryan (The Shield) comes with great TV credentials: Chicago’s first female police superintendent is Jennifer Beals of The L Word; one of its best cops is Jason Clarke from the woefully underrated Brotherhood and his young partner is Matt Lauria, late of Friday Night Lights. There’s…
