WTF!
I’ve been on your stupid website for 10mins now and can’t figure out who is playing live. All I see is postings for Karoke nights and open mic’s….WTF!! is there no live shows in Halifax anymore, or is your website completely retarded, I am partially blind and have a speech impedement, but I am pretty…
Bloody oil in NS
It has come to my attention as a concerned citizen of this great province that we are dependant on “bloody” oil from countries in conflict. Not a drop of oil that feeds our homes comes from Alberta. The money we use to buy oil goes into partially funding insurgents we are trying stop in the…
Prostitues ftw!
Why is prostitution still illegal here? I don’t get it, legalizing it has worked beautifully back home. There are so many benefits. Come on Halifax, what are you afraid of? Fire and Brimstone? —so smite me
Cost these days
So… the economy is crashing due to everyone being broke. Therefore your going to raise the cost of metro transit to $2.25 AND not raise our mim wadge? how is that so called “helping”? —Jane D’oh
Tipping
When you go to the hairdressers and you are happy with your end result you tip. We make mim wadge which is hard to live off of! start tipping your hair Dresser! —Jane D’oh
taxman – sneaky or stupid?
I’m doing my ’08 taxes and find this great glitch ripping graduates off tons each year. If you write off the interest paid on your student loans AND use your tuition carry forward, you don’t get credit for the former. The calculation on ‘Sched. 11-tuition amounts’ doesn’t take into account you will be claiming the…
Gottingen Street, the new Barrington Street
…and Barrington is the new Gottingen. Check out this 1950s era news reel on Halifax.
Just A Thought..
Why do people have to use the word “retarded” when they wish to express their obviously unintelligent opinion about something? Seriously, it’s tacky and pretty offensive. Grow up, please! —That’s So Raven
Dear punk kids
Why must you hate on ravers? Have you nothing better to do with your life then try to squeeze into skinny jeans, and bitch about anything that’s not depressing?? I to remember a time when everything sucks, i hope you all grow out of it soon. Until then though i leave you with this. PLUR…
FASTER
To all of you idiots out there who apparently can’t read road signs, the speed limit on the bay road between the intersection going to dunbrack and the intersection going to exhibiton park is 80 km, not fucking 50. I’m aware that 80 can be a scary speed for you pensioners, but some of us…
About Citadel High School
hi i am here to bitch about the fucking teachers and the lates. ever since the first year this school was built it was a good first year and now there getting more horrible by day. now they are complaining why students are showing up so late for class when the teachers make us sign…
To the dick who shit their pants this morning on the bus!
K, so, you couldn’t just clamp your ass cheeks together and hold it a minute or two longer…until you got off the bus!!! You were standing next to my head and you let one rip – no, I didn’t hear it, but, we could ALL smell it! RANK! You disguisting, filthy, pig! I hope you…
Dear Coworkers:
You all know i’m not a perky morning person. I drag my ass until i wake up, and after a little caffiene i’m fine. (I’ve always been that way, and if i ever do change into one of those perky morning people, please shoot me.) Why must you badger me for the first hour of…
You are not better than me
Have you ever met someone that, despite their politeness and their smile, is obviously condescending? There is a girl that I work with who is like that. I could never call her rude, in fact she is “nice”, but I get this vibe that she thinks that just because my title has the word assistant…
I hate the GDL program!!!
Okay, I’m 28 and was born in raised in Montreal, where you don’t need a car or a license! Now, I move to this city and the buses suck and transit sucks, so now I need to get a license and a car! I’m 28 fucking years old, and I have to go through the…
Who put this door up?
Man-on-the-street (and my boss), Coast editor Kyle Shaw took these photos on his way home last night. We’re assuming it’s a clever art project—if you know whose it is, please give me a shout at arts@thecoast.ca.
Meaghan and the Bee
One of the women Jill Barber shouted out in her ECMA acceptance speech on Sunday night was Meaghan Smith, who’s out with Stuart MacLean’s Vinyl Cafe Tour, along with ECMA winner Matt Andersen. She phoned us from a parking lot in Port Hawkesbury. “It’s one of the funnest shows, I think, if I was going…
Smiling for real
To the kind (and handsome) stranger at the Dartmouth bus terminal, You brightened up my gloomy day by telling me to smile like I meant it. Sorry if I seemed a little startled, I was just lost in a world of worries. I smiled all the way home (and meant it). Girl at the terminal
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Love you more than Gummy Bears. Princess
doggie love
I just wanted to send some love to my beautiful awesome dog, who is the most loyal and obedient little man who has ever been in my life. He has brought more joy in my life than any human companion could ever. And alot of love to my great landlord who took a huge risk…
“Needs” to thank you
Thanks for always letting my dog come in with me to the Needs in Highfield Park. You always have a treat for him, he lives for that kind of stuff. He’s such a goober. And to all vendors (who don’t sell food or meds) that allow dogs in. I really appreciate it because my dog…
I miss your HUM
If there are any people out there from Boston: Hello. I miss you Beantown, a positive nickname. I like my commute to Lexington with all my fellow commuters. Your bars and nooks and huge malls. My apartment and things. You rubbed off on me and I on you. You gave me understanding and life. I…
Spring please hurry
I love you May… when things are in bloom. Do hurry. Winter has been long and we do so miss you. Everyone who is tired of cabin fever
Headlights on Prospect Rd
These are the things on the front of your car that you turn on when it’s dark out. When someone flashes these at you, that means you need to turn them on. Driving 101. —roadkill
Dear PM
I hate you. You’re turning the Canada I know into some strange Bizarro-world. You’re a sneaky, pucker-faced, Lego-haired ASS. It must have been odd to hear so much cheering during Obama’s visit, lord knows nobody does it for you. It’s so frustrating to hear new, insidious laws being passed and knowing there’s shit-all I can…
theres pobably no god ad
there’s a lot of controversy about this ad and why it should and shouldn’t be up because other churches and religious causes are allowed to post ads in public space. well i think the answer is simple. Whether he is or is not real, he gives “children” hope and faith and you should never bash…
Naked In the Sauna?
To anyone who thinks its a good idea to stretch naked in public saunas: Eww! — Grossed Out
Naked In the Sauna?
To anyone who thinks its a good idea to stretch naked in public saunas: Eww! — Grossed Out
BORING BREAK UP STORY
Dear Best Friend: I don’t want to date you, but I don’t want anyone else to date you either. The thought of you being with someone else is killing me. But if you asked me to date you tomorrow I’d say no. What is wrong with me? —*sigh*
ECMA ferry dispatches: Mardeen
From singer-guitarist Travis Ellis: “It was a wild weekend for sure. Arrived in Corner Brook on Wednesday. Played four shows in total. Got to see a lot of friends and attended many parties. In our hotel we had good friends Smothered in Hugs and In-Flight Safety so the partying didn’t really end. Attended the awards…
What Is Wrong With Parents?!?!
Ok, so I’m all for allowing children the freedom of expression and basicly lettign them wear whatever they want. but what is so wrong with parents that they’re allowing their daughters to dress like prostitutes? And don’t say that the kids are sneaking out and dressing like this once they’re away from home. Yes, I’m…
WTF If Wrong With A Natural Plant?!
I have never been considered a “bad” person. Yes, like most people I did get into trouble as a teenager, but I have no criminal record and received straight A’s all through school. I recycle, compost and try to limit my use of electricity. But, like a lot of people that I know, I break…
Observation.. #1
I read the coast bitches everyday at work, and enjoy most of the entertainment I read. (ppl are funny) Especially when they’re pissed off- half the bitches are about nothing!! (just like mine) But Drunk Gilr- Clean up your picture. your tooo skinny to be confident– eat something! —YOU BUG ME
To:
the fat chick who was KNITTING during [a very small] lecture today: get some fucking class- you cannot possibly know how stupid you looked (since you are oblivious to how RUDE that is) so here it is: you looked fucking retarded sitting there knitting- i needed a fucking spoon to dig my eyeballs out they…
ECMA ferry dispatches: Ruth Minnikin + Don Brownrigg
Ruth Minnikin, whose highly anticipated third album Depend on This will be out in mere weeks, checked in with reports from ECMA and, as a bonus, the Memphis Folk Alliance, which occurred the week before. “I played three shows and saw wicked bands like Pat Deighan and the Orb Weavers, Carmen Townsend and Ryan Cook…
Ilan Sandler and Graeme Patterson make Sobey Award longlist
Ilan Sandler’s Ear the the Sky, floating in Halifax Harbour. The longlist for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award, given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated, was announced this week. The list includes Graeme Patterson, best known for his…
Council approves bus fare increase
Halifax council this afternoon approved a 25 cent increase in bus fares, with similar increases through the rest of the rate structure– monthly passes, etc. The fare increase takes affect July 1. See my news story on Thursday for more information.
ECMA ferry dispatches: Share
Rest assured there were no short-shorts in Newfoundland. (photo courtesy Kyle Cunjak) “Dear Tara,” writes Andrew Sisk of Share, “I don’t know if people who have never attended one of these industry conferences knows what it’s like, but it’s a mixture of Weekend at Bernie’s and Wayne’s World 2. We stayed in Hotel Cornerbrook with…
blocking the mailboxes
This is in hopes that possibly the offender might see this. Every friday night, a certain house in Fall River has a party, and the cars park all down the road. There is always one vehicle that parks right in front of the community mailboxes, making it almost impossible for people to get their mail.…
Crotchy hands on route #51
To the girl on the 51 every morning who cannot keep her hands out of the front of her pants: PLEASE STOP. Why do you walk around like that? Every single morning, without fail, you’ve got your disgusting hands shoved into the crotch of your jogging pants, digging around in your fur burger for god…
bitchier than thou
This is a bitch to all those bitch-hating, greasy asshats who post bitches complaining about us bitchers. Really creative, bitching about bitchers… ooh the irony. I suppose you think your clever but really, you’re a self-hating heap-o-bitch yourself. and to get this point across, so am I. —zZz
EMOKIDS ARE FUCKING ANNOYING!
EMO KIDS… I’d laugh, if you weren’t so goddam annoying! You live in he surbs, you come from middle class families with a roof over your head and food on the table each night, yet you walk around the city, head hung low, intent of feeling sorry for yourselves. ‘Nobody knows the real me,’ ‘Why…
Another Bitch About Metro Transit
What else is new… another angry bus passenger. But seriously, what the hell is up with route #18? I am a student and this is the only bus route that will take me from home to school. During the past month, I have waited at the bus stop for as much as 50 minutes for…
Gum
There is no excuse for sticking gum under the table at our cafe (or anywhere), absolutely none! We have THREE garbage cans, that’s THREE garbage cans… do us all a favor and either a) spit out your gum BEFORE you order, or b) spit out your gum in the garbage can after. If I witness…
Dear World
Thanks for sending a whole lot of goodness my way when I needed it most. I was in a situation where it would have been very easy to forget how fantastic people can actually be. Feeling Spoiled
I’m sick of successful people
I don’t understand why i don’t have the motivation to sit my ass down and study for the looming midterms i have this week. How do kids actually sit down and study? What the hell is wrong with me? Instead of studying for my tests im getting drunk and bitching about why i can’t study.…
Drug store Douchebags
I work at a drug store, and this is friendly message to all of you asshole customers out there who come up to the cash register, drop your FULL basket of crap onto the counter and then stand there with your mouth open like a complete tool, not thinking that it would be easier AND…
The cat in my apartment
WTF is your deal? You act soooooo hungry in the morning and then IMMEDIATELY after I feed your ass, you puke all over the floor. And you’re all like “I’m not cleaning that shit up, I’m gonna take a nap now” and so I have to be the responsible human and do it. Oh, and…
To the asshole or bitch who keyed my car
I drive a black Pontiac G5. You keyed it from one end of the driver side to the other. This was obviously intentional. I don’t know who or why someone would do this, or when it even happened, but let me assure you that you are a piece of shit! This car was still brand…
East Coast Music Awards results
Jill Barber took Danny Williams’ advice to “Go wild!” (Jacques Boissinot / CP) Hometown heroes hey rosetta and Halifax ex-pat Jill Barber were the big winners at last night’s East Coast Music Awards in Corner Brook, making each of their suitcases three and two pewter music notes heavier, respectively. Outside of lifetime achievement winner Dick…
Two If By Sea Bakery
In its hopeful quest to become Brooklyn to Halifax’s Manhattan, Dartmouth likes to sneak up and surprise you. Now, another milestone has been reached: There are now freshly made croissants at the underrated Dartmouth Farmer’s Market. Tara Macdonald’s Two If By Sea bakery has been selling croissants there since last November. In the true DIY…
Turn your car lights off
To the couple who live above my basemet apartment and park their car directly in front of my bedroom window, please turn off the fucking lights to your car when it sits idle in the drive way for 10 minutes at 6:30am! Even with the blinds shut the light still shines through like a search…
tough night?
To the driver of a certain Metro Transit bus in Dartmouth. I am fully aware that there are cameras on the buses now. I suppose at 10:00 the other night it was perfectly acceptable for you to stop the bus in the middle of the street (with only you driving, and me in the far…
North end, how I love this place…
How I love my hood, the people, good and bad, the bars (Gus’), the diversity of the people (love your garden Laura, old plastic toys rule), the common courtesy that most people still have, even the down and outs (excluding Johnny F of course). The entertainment planned or not. Walking down the street and having…
Cut Me Off Will You?!
To the asshole who cut me off TWICE on Sackville Dr on Saturday… fuck you! Not only did you feel the need to come halfway into my lane when pulling intot he lane next to me, but you then felt the need to pull inbetween myself and the car in front of me when there…
thats enough, the coast
I’m sick of The Coast and it’s “holier than thou” readership. Leave it to every major center to have at least 1 pompous, “I’m cool because i’m not mainstream”, annoying, poorly written newspaper. In Vancouver it is the georgia strait, here it’s the coast. You need to stop publishing this piece of garbage for a…
bitches
To all the charming people who stalk the coast website, Your enlightening comments on every single Bitch have turned my life around. I found them endearing and informative. At first I thought you were all a bunch of losers with nothing better to do other than add your worthless two-cents to the internet, but I…
Coffee joke
To a certain coffee place: What the hell happened to you? I used to enjoy spending time with you. Your sandwiches used to fill me up and get me through my day. Your coffee helped to wake me up and your employees used to make me laugh when I was down. Now your sandwiches are…
automobiles
Dear everyone with a car, Please go fuck yourselves. I walk, bike or bus and I don’t like to be poisoned by your exhaust all the time. Get your ass on a bus or bicycle you lazy prick. —a love of clean air
bags of dog shit
To all the people who pick up their dog’s shit with a little plastic bag and then throw it away. Why the fuck are you putting biodegradable poo in a non-biodegradable plastic bag only to throw it in the waste bin. Or better yet, throw it in the trees so bags of shit can decorate…
Poor Peanuts
Ok, so I’ve just seen the new peanut free food commercial, in which a mom is packing a lunch and pulls out a cupcake that has an animate peanut in it. The peanut is smiling, and happy, until she screams in terror and shoves it back into the box. We leave the commercial watching the…
ANOTHER BUS BITCH
After reading a story in the paper today about the bus driver and the courier driver, one has to wonder why the police did not file a report. If this had been anyone else he or she would have been charged. It seems to me that their supervisors let the drivers do what they want.…
Visa-fairy
To whoever found my Visa card and dropped it off at the bank: Thank you! You saved me from the hassle of cancelling the darn thing and I only experienced about 5 minutes of terror – the bank called me right away! Visa-dropper
U2
Dear U2, Thank you for your new album. It is flippin’ sweet. Lemon
To the blonde girl at work
I love the way your stories last forever. I love how you laugh at your own jokes while slapping your knee. I love the way you smile at me in the morning. I love the way you just looked at me and blushed. I do not love how you’re married…and how you’re straight. You buff…
GET UR OWN JUNIERS!
Two the STUPIED FUCKERS who who ate my FUCKIG box of junier mints!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU!Q!!!!! I no u come in late, u LOVE to party but this time youve gone to far. I hade a really rough day at my job, at least i HAVE a job, FUCK YOU! U act so tough cause ur…
Backwards School System
To a certain elementry school where the fuck do you get off locking an autistic child in a storage closet with gym mats taped to the wall? What kind of fucked up school are you? And to the teachers who did nothing to stop it, do you have any morals what so ever? And to…
Economic predictions, pt. 2
Today we have Avrim Lazar, president and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, telling the Chronicle-Herald editorial board that: The global economic downturn has been nothing short of devastating to most of Canada’s forestry products industry. But Mr. Lazar, who is based in Ottawa, says he expects a turnaround by the end of…
Perks
Dear Superintendant; It’s supposed to be a secret that you don’t pay to do laundry. It’s not. You use your little key, open up the coin box, and flick the little switch as many times as you need to. No big deal. I don’t care. I guess you deserve some compensation for occassionally throwing a…
silly girls
we live in Halifax, which is in Canada, which means we have this season called winter. so stop complaining that you have to walk in the snow and it will ruin your fucking fancy boots you payed over $200 for. they don’t even look that good. why the hell would you buy super expensive boots…
Sidewalk Choc(olate)
To those of you who neglect to pick up after your shit-factories on Brenton St. between Morris & Clyde, fuck you fuckbags. I shudder to think, but I can only assume that it is dog shit. Regardless, it’s frigging disgusting. I’ve never seen so much crap in one place. it’s as if someone held their…
To my colourful ex-wife
I hope you have a splitting headache this morning. You were a raging twat last night. Does it make you feel younger? It doesn’t make you look younger. —sincerly..bored of your phone calls.
HRM’s mayhem of mixed messages
I know most of you bitches will say, “If you don’t like it then leave,” and I forgive you, for you come by this perspective by following the example of your backward-thinking leaders. Isn’t it time we lift the wool from the eyes of the disenchanted HRM? “What the heck am I talking about?” you…
Seriously? 10 Dollars?
When did it become acceptable to pay 10 dollars cover for not a lot of new value added in a recent new drinking establishment? Don’t get me wrong, I am all for high end spots that may charge more in exchange for better decor, service, crowd etc. but seriously this is Halifax, not New York…
TIRED OF THE HALIFAX PUT DOWN
You don’t like here ,LEAVE! Take your fucking degree and go to Alberta to be a fucking laborer ,yes making big bucks but at what expense?, going to University for 2 or 4 years to muck the oil fields. You could of had the same jobs without going to school. I am pissed off because…
“Good Vibes”??? eeeewwww.
wanna know whats annoying? the introductory paragraph to the love the way we love section. its so smug and stupid, calling all the people who write bitches, haters. and then it tries to sound cool talkin bout big ups and props. loser. —onetime
Everyone who writes in library books!
You know who you are. You make annoying vertical lines alongside paragraphs you want to block-quote in your essays, scribble what you believe to be the “theme” of a chapter in the margins, and underline every third fucking sentence–even if it’s already in italics? I wish someone would pee on everything you own. —Heathoh
Stop blaming the Wrong Things
Three things that people blame the wrong party for that really annoy me: 1. Tim Hortons cups on the ground- Tim’s has nothing to do with the garbage on the ground. They are not responsible for everyone’s inability to put their garbage in its place. There’s plenty of other litter on the ground, it’s just…
Editing?
Okay, why doesn’t the Edit feature work? I write a post, I go to Preview, notice a typo, try to correct it through the edit comment feature, and lo and behold, the typo’s still there when I post. Very annoying. I may have bad sentence structure skills, but I take pride in my spelling. —Typos…
Dear beer..
You gave the the worst headache of my life this morning. And you made me take dirty pictures of myself and send them to people I don’t know very well. And still… I want to see you again.. and again.. stop embarrassing every one you meet. —sincerly…hung over.
Oh NSSL where art thou?
Dear Student Loan Office: Why do you praise your new NSSL dispensing system as OH SO MUCH BETTER AND FASTER now that this new company has the contract to dispense the funds when it takes just as much time to get your money? Your website says it takes 2 business days now and praises itself…
Squeaky boots
Dear boots: I love you. The very sight of you make me happy. You are the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn and you’ve held up well over these past 3 years. But you need to stop making that terrible squeaking sound when I walk on the tiled floor at work. It’s embarassing. You…
recycle this
to the people living above me not willing to do thier part. its not law to compost or recycle but you dont have to stuff “my!!!!!” green bin with your take out wrappers tim hortons cups diapers and actual garbage bags. you have it so full of garbage it is spread all over the whole…
plea to dog owners
this is not so much a bitch but a plea to all fellow dog owners. im sure everyone is tired of no dogs allowed in apartment buildings, so lets show halifax what responible pet owners are capable of. Lets clean up thier poo, spend time to train them, if you have a job that has…
You’ve gotta ski the rock. And then sing on it. Since you’re already there.
When not showcasing, hey rosetta will be conducting tours of the greater Corner Brook area. (photo Julé Malet-Veale) Not everybody (AHEM) could make the long, pricey trek to Corner Brook, NL for the East Coast Music Awards this weekend. So feel like you’re there by watching the show at 8pm on Sunday on Bold (the…
AGNS cancels Lord Dalhousie exhibition
With a three-day snow/freezing rain storm looming (and who knows what else mother nature is brewing), it’s no surprising news that the AGNS is still having problems with ground water. According to a press release: “The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia continues to work with the Department of Transportation, Infrastructure Renewal to address this issue…
Can I have some change?
I usually will give change when asked. However.. IF I am nice enough to stop, dig through my wallet and give you some, it is extremely rude to ask for MORE. I gave a man at Mumford Terminal $2.60 in change and he asked if I had a dollar or two more ??? WTF? I…
escort service in Halifax
when this city would have a decent escort service? I am not looking for something like Toronto but for fuck sake even Saskatoon has better options than what we have here! —me
New Dog Day!
You might have heard that Dog Day has a new record out in April. Perhaps you would like an ear gander? You’re welcome.
Bus Etiquette People!
Since there are so many people in HRM that are totally retarded in terms of bus etiquette let me give you a crash course. 1) Fuck off with the cell phone. Turn it off, eat it what ever, but don’t bloody sit there and pretend that you are more important than everyone else on the…
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
To the driver who laid on the horn and screamed at me on Main Ave Thursday night: Go fuck yourself. Yes, I was walking in the road. Main Ave only has sidewalks on one side of the street. I got off the bus on the side without sidewalks, and my options were to A; try…
Technology is Ruining Us!
Click. Click. Click. Tap. Tap. Tap. Silence. Waiting. Anxiety building. Minutes feel like hours, and occasionally they turn into hours. Beep Beep. Sigh of relief. Click. Click. Click. Tap. Tap. Tap. Repeat. You know what that is? Some of you are laughing, some are still not sure that right there, is the sound of our…
NovaScotian Crystal in the clear
Have the relentless tales of the recession been getting you down? Well, here’s a story of survival that may lift your spirits. NovaScotian Crystal (5080 George Street on the Waterfront, 492-0416) is a company that has enjoyed 14-15 percent growth for years. Their goblets and decanters have fans around the world, and tourists love them.…
You’re so pretty
To the beautiful manager types at the skateboard store in Mic Mac Mall, you are both amazing at your jobs and our company is lucky to have you both and you should never forget that. Across the pond mgr
boyfriend
Thank you for letting me wake you up by getting back into bed to cuddle every morning. It is my favorite time of the day.<3 sugar face
MIKE you’re an amazing man
Mike S. You’re an amazing man. No one is like you. Your kind heart and smile makes you one of a kind. Talented. Gorgeous! Smart. The ladies love you I can’t blame them. You don’t know how much of a role model you are to so many kids, keep making us ladies blush with your…
HRM’s missteps with parking enforcement officers
A former training officer with Halifax parking enforcement is speaking out publicly about the starvation wages being paid to the 10 officers who patrol downtown streets in Halifax and Dartmouth. Forty-seven-year-old Paul Keast says Securitas, the company which took over parking enforcement last September 1st, is forcing out officers earning $11 an hour and replacing…
Bitter sweet love
Why do I sometimes feel so in love that I want to vomit? This is all so… beautiful and perfect and you are all I want. I have let myself be completely vulnerable and it freaks me out that I have unwillingly given you the right to rip my bleeding heart out. I’m at your…
As Far As The Eye Can See
Dear Tim Horton; Why is your garbage everywhere I look? Did you really hate nature? Perhaps that’s your legacy —victorthecreator
Your comic section is truly horrible
the ability not to draw is one thing, but why does the Coast allow such stupidity in the comic section?Most are poorly drawn and severly depressing.I know you get what you pay for(and obiously no one is getting paid here), but seriously, is this the best metro has to offer? Just once I would like…
Cry Baby
To the man having the infantile temper-tantrum tonight on North street because someone was blocking an “intersection” delaying him an entire *GASP* two minutes: Get a fucking life. I rolled down my window and said “Life is hard, isn’t it?” to which you replied, like a genuine crybaby, “It doesn’t have to be…this is a…
Be aware of wildernesses
To the editor, Recently, the Department of Environment released a public discussion document for the province’s three new wilderness areas: Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes, Ship Harbour–Long Lake and Shelburne River. The paper, “Socioeconomic Impact Analysis of Designating Wilderness Areas,” identifies a range of land uses occuring on these properties. The document also identifies activities that…
Dance story in sharp step
Dear editor, Having been involved in the contemporary dance community in Nova Scotia for 30 years as a performer, producer, publicist, writer, editor and administrator, I have to congratulate Sue Carter Flinn on her piece, “Dreaming, desperate, devoted to dance��� (Feb. 19, Feature). In an era of superficial, quick and dirty, poorly researched journalism, it’s…
Harbour Solutions solution
To the editor, For more than a month, millions of litres of untreated human and industrial sewage have flowed into Halifax Harbour every day. The resulting stench is a stark reminder of the $332 million spent on the inadequate, accident-prone Harbour Solutions Project. The chronically malfunctioning main plant doesn’t even meet federal requirements. It’s simply…
Free speech for all
To the editor, The letter titled “Abort anti-abortionists” (Feb. 19, Letterhead), was most distasteful and written in very hateful language. The writer wants to abolish the right to free speech at SMU and ignore the rights of the unborn child. In a free country, university should be a place for free speech, free thought, debate…
A Premier correction
Superstarr DJ Premier will drop by on Friday, but not, as today’s paper says, at Rogue’s Roost. The show is going down at Peddlers Pub. This ticket link comes up “sold out” but maybe there’s a line you can stand in for door tix. Call Peddler’s at 423-5033 to double check.
show schedules
Would it be too much to ask for simple run times eg: Feb whatever until March whatever? It would facilitate driving from another area feasible!! —cball
there probably is/isn’t a god
to the dumb assholes parading around this town with posters proclaiming “there probably is/isn’t a god, now stop worrying and live your life” fuck off, i don’t really care what your ideal systems are, and i’m not forcing mine on you, but i sure as hell feel like it now. maybe some “there probably isn’t…
Pip Skid hits the floor
February 21 at Gus’ Pubphoto Scott Blackburn
Emergency shelter politics
One size doesn’t fit all. They tried to tell us so. After their warnings fell on deaf ears, this coalition of do-gooders now known as the Out of the Cold shelter organizing committee switched tactics. They combined their considerable resources and contacts and started working to create a new homeless shelter—-one that would fit the…
Banish these so called ‘words’
not really in any order: asshat, tool, & troll(especially on here) -SWEEET (that drives me) awesome and of course the word LIKE over and over again Where do u folks come up with this crap???? —Pets over most peeps
Not fit to line my bird’s cage
Just want to say that the Coast is not fit (most of it anyway) to line my bird’s cage…..stopping using so much coloured ink and in particular red…..otherwise it’s a fair read….for him and me. —carzy old bastid
Student loan collectors will burn in hell!
to the student loan people who demand money from people you just lost their jobs in this economy — FUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK YOU!!! Oh, I can’t say it loud enough or strong enough, I don’t care if that’s what they taught you in your fucking training session, to act like cocksuckers to people who HAVE NO MONEY.…
FU Hospital on the Harbour View
I was just going to tack this on to the other hospital bitch but I started ranting. We had to go to the hospital near the NSCC(a.k.a. you might as well die at home) for my husband. We got in in about 2 hours, because a very very old man with a concussion kept trying…
Fired Up!
There’s trouble in a comedy when the preppy bad guy who is going out with the girl the good guy likes is no more intolerable than the good guy who complains how intolerable he is. I don’t care if the bad guy is mocked for listening to Chumbawumba and Lou Bega, Fired Up! has no…
Madea Goes to Jail
It’s easy to dismiss Tyler Perry’s movies as cheap and preachy, but they need to be viewed in a full audience to be appreciated. Seeing Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail revives a sense of film-going as a social experience. He deals with relationships in spiritual and broadly comedic terms, and audiences are invited to…
MacLellan on home ground
“One of the reasons I wanted to move back home was because I wanted a better garden—the house we had in Halifax had a shaded-in yard,” says Catherine MacLellan. “This has been a snowshoeing year for me. That’s the culture I live in right now—skiing and drinking rum.” That culture is located in MacLellan’s home…
Local catch key to fisheries
We’ve got a strange relationship with fish. On the one hand, Nova Scotia pretty much is fish. The human geography of the province consists mainly of hundreds of settlements built around the coves and inlets that stretch along our coasts. From the Mi’kmaq forward, fishing has been the foundation of the local economy and fishing…
Pamela Under Water w/Dreamsploitation
Pamela McInnis knows how to do up a birthday right. For her 30th birthday party Thursday night, she is releasing a new CD, Last Night’s Lipstick, at The Company House. Expect baked goods. A former member of The Middleclass Pushovers and Museum Pieces who’s also played with a lot of bands around town, McInnis released…
Tar struck
Were those really beads of sweat glistening on Pete Mansbridge’s polished pate last Wednesday? The CBC TV anchor had worked himself into a lather on the eve of a presidential stopover in Ottawa. “What’s at stake when Barack Obama knocks on Stephen Harper’s door?” Mansbridge bellowed. “This meeting is unlike any other in recent memory…
Woodpigeon
Woodpigeon’s second album is finally widely available. Formerly sold at the Calgary band’s live shows, it’s now been re-issued with a bonus 10-track CD. After releasing Songbook in 2006 about living overseas, Treasury is supposed to chronicle singer/guitarist Mark Andrew’s return to Canada, but the album sounds more like America—the 1970s folk-rock band that is,…
Let the Right One In
The writer Douglas Winter once said that horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It’s a fitting sentiment to apply to the beautiful Swedish film Let the Right One In, which takes a played-out horror trademark—the vampire love story—and infuses it with great tenderness and depth. On paper, the plot is deceptively simple.…
Holiday dispirit
Hey you! You with the wreath on the door! You, there, with the 30-inch faded plastic candle on the balcony! Your intentions might once have been good, but now, instead of spreading cheer, you’re killing us all. You’re putting the “Christ! Enough already!” back in Christmas. Get your damn holiday decorations down. Is it a…
Mark Olson & Gary Louris
Some partnerships were just meant to be. Ever since alt-country pioneers The Jayhawks broke up—though Olson and Louris have both released highly acclaimed solo albums—it was never quite the same. For the first time since 1995, the two have recorded together for an album that showcases how well their voices mesh. When those harmonies click,…
Where are you #61
To the young hot bus driver that does the route 61 a couple nights a week. It’s been a couple of weeks no and no sign of you. I miss sitting in my spot on the bus watching you drive wondering what’s going on in your mind as you take me home safely. I want…
Eleni Mandell
Los Angeles-based singer Eleni Mandell sings of a night in Montreal in the opening and title track, “Artificial Fire,” and released this album, her seventh full-length, on Toronto label, Zedtone. The title track is one of the album’s best, for the rhythmic strum of Jeremy Drake’s guitar part as much as anything else. He works…
A hint of gay panic
Q: My boyfriend of 16 months and I have a great relationship. He loves my blowjobs, but he will not kiss me if I have his come in my mouth. It grosses him out. We have talked about this, and he won’t even try. I have no problem if he kisses me after going down…
Franz Ferdinand
On the Glaswegian quartet’s first album in three years, there is no lapse in hooks and flourishes. A few tunes on Tonight: have a little too much going on. Then there’s “No You Girls,” with irresistibly propulsive bass and a beat that got the “disco sucks” memo but ignored it. The unconscious is a generous…
Red, Hot & Various
Since 1989, the Red Hot Organization has released 20 diverse compilations—appealing to fans of everything from mainstream to jazz and Latino music—benefiting AIDS awareness and funding around the world. For indie-rock fans, though, not since 1993’s No Alternative (Nirvana, Pavement and Sonic Youth) and 1995’s Red, Hot and Bothered (Built to Spill, Folk Implosion, Grifters)…
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Five
For their latest compilation, Drawn & Quarterly heads north, with three stories set in northern lands from two Scandinavian artists and one American. North American publishers have been steadily putting out translations of work from the Franco-Belgian comics tradition over the past few years, but there’s some great work coming out of northern Europe these…
Art of living in the Khyber ICA
After seeing off a friend, Stephanie McNair walks across the freshly mopped, grey wooden floor to greet a new guest. The walls, including columns and moldings, have been dusted and painted a pristine white. High-ceilinged, the large, open space has no walls; no rooms, only the component parts of a small or studio apartment-based life…
Regicide
I’ve been looking forward to visiting the Crown Diner. Owned by two professional chefs (Harvey Eade and Moody Fadhil), their early press release trumpeted an “everything from scratch” menu. I’m excited. For a diner, the decor is upscale—definitely not going for a nostalgic feel here. A few fish-shaped light fixtures are left over from a…
The Rocker
Everything about The Rocker is a minor version of something else: Rainn Wilson is a lesser Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate is the underwritten sort-of love interest usually played by Maura Tierney and the movie itself is sub-School of Rock. But director Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) infuses the film with enough homage, sight gags and…
Meet the Pretty Bloody ladies
The horror webmistress speaks slowly and clearly from behind her desk, half-lit in shadow, intoning with sober conviction. “I’m not a dark person,” she says. “I’ve never been in jail, never murdered anyone, never had a crack addiction, and I was never a prostitute.” “If anything,” she adds, “I was just slightly geeky.” This interview…
you.
you talked and talked and acted like a real man. but surprise surprise you turn out to be just another horny BOY. to think i almost bought your crap and spread my legs. fuck you, you leech. —a queen who deserved better.
Being Mayor is Just Moving Your Hands
This city has gone to “H” when it comes to going through the process of approving construction projects. No, do not approve buildings that are different or too tall as it may block the view of that dank and lifeless Hill. Be careful and treat the south end with understanding, yes as councilors we know…
insincere asshats
i hate my family. i really do. went on a service trip for ten days, didn’t miss them a bit. they’re allways calling, saying they love me, blah blah. i come home, they nag me, ignore me, bore me and swear at me. well fuck you. now i’m never coming back. —on my own
Rent Increase
Grr rent increases, again. It would make sense if there was a reason, such as improvement to the building. You put rent up when fuel prices went through the roof, now they are lower and rent didn’t come down, instead once again rent goes up. It would be nice to say have a stove in…
The Shitty Health Care System We Have
My better half has been suffering from an ailment for the past 22 months. We have done everything under the sun to try and get this fucking thing diagnosed. No luck, nada, sweet fuck all. The pain she suffers at times is unimaginable, dibilitating no less. Well today was the straw that broke my back.…
I slipped on ice today, and I’m pissy about it
Goddamn you once again, HRM Crosswalk Authority. Why is the button for the crosswalk on South Park and Clyde so far from the sidewalk? There’s ten feet of icy mush between the button and the sidewalk. And today I slipped and fell while traversing it. It was terribly embarrassing, and I hurt my hand. Put…
