ew, no.
Okay, i know the fat topic is a bit of a repeat issue on this board, but i have just watched my boss eat his fourth donut of the day. FOURTH! It’s 2pm, and who knows, i may have missed one or two. There are bad eating habbits, and then there are disgusting eating habbits.…
Psyco Path
To the north-end psychologist in the argyle socks. You are the most arrogant pompous excuse for a human being that ever called themself a professional. Put your shoes back on, shave off that stupid beard, and try listening to your clients for a change instead of pratlling off about how great you are. Cause I…
Its that time of year again
Seal hunt. Any thoughts? Stirring the pot
RACISM? or Poor Educational Judgment?
Well here is a topic that doesnt get much of a bitch on here. A certain Sackville Jr. High school had a guest speaker who is an up and coming rapper / singer, in, to do all three. This is how it went: 35 students were called into the gym one by one from each…
To the fat-ass fucking twunt who so rudely bitched behind me for taking up too much room;
Published February 22, 2008. To the fat-ass fucking twunt who so rudely bitched behind me for taking up too much room; I hope you’re fucking happy with you and your fat assed self for destorying my appetite with your idiotic, sarcastic and condescending “Excuse YOU” comment as I was leaving the Sackville McDonald’s this morning.…
Don’t want to chase waterfalls
Alright, can someone give me the contact of the apartment board. I got a dick of a landlord who litterally bit off my head when I called him at 2am after knocking off work and finding a huge water bubble on the ceiling of my kid’s room. After much fuss he decided to deflect blame…
mo money, mo misses
to those rich bastards who piss all over the mens bathroom in the big shiny offices. We all know you are loaded and probably pay someone to clean it up at home, but here just hit the damn drain! sick of steppin in it
Love the way they bitch
Hey Coast. Make the “recent comments” sidebar longer. Some of us don’t have time to lurk on LTWWB all day long, but still enjoy looking at the train wreck that is the comments section. Only having links to the four or five most recent comments in the sidebar forces us to search through each individual…
hey slut
I am sick of your big fucking mouth. You love to talk about other people’s live and you have no problem telling everyone everything. Listen bitch, you are a whore. You cheat on your b/f. You’ve brought these men to your own house with your kids there so you can screw. You are a fucking…
Last Name Woes
Dear Landlord, When another landlord asks for a reference, check the person in question’s last name. It was the other Adam who doesn’t pay rent, is loud and answers the door naked. Not me. I lost that apartment. Non-Asshole Adam
retail bitch
to that bitch, that said I didn’t know what I was doing when asked about advil and arthritis, first of all I am technician I can’t counsell you jack ass, Why is there so many unpleasant assholes in this city? Anyone who works with people knows that its a bitch when someone acts like a…
Just SHUT UP!
It’s all about you. There is no ifs or buts you act like you care but once someone bitches to you, you have to bitch right back with something worse that makes people bad for you. Do you like the attention? Do you think this is the only way you can get it. I have…
The Coast awards
Why is it that every year it’s the same people winning the “best of” awards with the Coast? Same bands, same restaurants, etc. There doesn’t seem to be any credibility to it when it’s the same people that win all the time. In fact, wouldn’t it be easy to fix? All you have to do…
ABBA Assholes
Okay, this is to the singing troupe on the 20 downtown on Friday the 29th of February.No, singing and screaming at the top of your lungs does not make you cool, it makes you an idiot. No one wants to hear your shitty renditions of Abba songs, a serenade of nails on a chalkboard would…
Letters to the Editor
The following is a letter I have sent to Harold Windsor, Halifax and region’s one-man school board:Dear Mr. Windsor I loved the title Imagine for of the School Board’s school reform process. I’d like to accept your invitation to imagine, in the hope that it’s not too late. Imagine school as the heart of community…
Cartoons
My friends and I love the Coast but man, you cartoon page is not funny. I mean, I know you are trying to be artsy and unlike newspapers but scatter some Garfield in there or at least something that makes some form of sense. Cartoon Confused
White Trash
To all you smokers out there who insist on tossing your butts on the ground, think again. Who gives you the right to dirty our green spaces, business entrances, bus stops and parking lots? Don’t give me any crap about no place to throw them because if you really cared, you’d canvass for more cigarette…
lol lol
where the fck is lol? this bitch is full of lol lol
Learn to conjugate
I’m so tired of hearing “I seen” coming out of people’s mouths. It’s either “I saw” or “I’ve seen.” There is no “I seen.” Stop saying it, you sound like a moron. Visible Cringe
Movies. Oh Movies. Wherefore art thou?
After Empire Theatres killed Famous Players a few years back, the amount of diverse movies coming to Halifax has decreased in a dramatic way. I have been waiting months to see The Signal and Diary of the Dead but they never came, and probably never will, to any Nova Scotian theatre. This is really disappointing…
illiterate buggers
amazing how many illiterates we have here on the web. check out the comments wherever you please..yahoo news, youtube,etc. can’t spell for nuts. even my 6 year old niece caught the mistakes. worse, they criticize spanish,italian, rumanian, portguese,etc comments demanding english pleez (that’s how they spell please). there spelling is even wust then dare empty…
move if you so hate it here
i work all across canada, and i come here and read how terrible it is here. you know what? this is a great city, lots to do in the summer. nothing in winter? so what? you had a great summer why not rest. that’s what i do. the trouble is i suspect these whiners are…
Fat People
Why are fat people so obnoxious?? Is there something in the fried chicken that makes you HAVE to be so goddamn loud-mouthed and annoying? I realize that some of you come from generations of fat obnoxiousness, but enough already. The worst are fat families. Entire clans of them filling up the cart in the supermarket…
Fuck off about MT already
I’m so fucking sick of people bitching all the time about Metro Transit. If you don’t like hearing about it, don’t read LTWWB you might say. Good advice. Except I can over hear people everywhere complaining. In the lineup at the grocery store, at the bank, at the pizza place, walking down the street. I…
Goodbye Nova Scotia
According to an article in the Gazette, the Nova Scotia government currently does not seem to think that reducing the insane tuition increases for professional students is an important topic. It’s to the point where student loans do not cover the entirety of tuition. For instance, I find it very counterproductive that the government expects…
Animal over lovers
Alright, I am normally a calm… Wait, I can’t even say that with a straight face, I am fucking pissed off most of the time. Recently I’ve been reading all the hoopla regarding ‘seals’ and to a lesser extent animal rights. I laugh my balls silly after seeing these hypocrites in action. Example number one,…
Has to be said…
I don’t know whether this will even be posted, but I have to say that Liz Feltham may just be the worst restaurant reviewer I have ever read. If she gives a bad review, then I am more apt to try the place out. By what standards does she judge the restaurants? Exactly what qualifies…
Hollis Street
I walked down Hollis Street from Duke to the bus station. I had some garbage to toss and I noticed there was not one garbage on that whole street. I guess Hollis Stret thinks it is too good for garbage cans. Oscar the Grouch
Marquee
Dear Marquee Bouncers, you are not cops or even close to being cops, and your authority is miinimal. please remeber this when you go on raging power trips and decide to cast your angry, depressed, repressed, jealous, wrath upon innocent people. i know you probably suffer some horible trauma from the past, or there is…
morons all except a few
except for a few regulars (miles, christopher, ginger,lynn,etc) the rest of your regulars are a bunch of total imbeciles with nothing to comment except flame the bitcher. if this is as creative as you half wits, the coast must be hard-up for comments, or else they would have chuck the sorry lot of you a…
Evil Twins
Dear landlord, When a landlord calls you for a reference, please check the LAST NAMES of the tenants, and keep in mind that if you claim “Over 400 satisfied renters” that one or two of them may share a first name! I have don’t stiff you on the rent, I don’t have ‘loud promiscuous parties’…
UP YOURS you cranky shit!
OK , I think I got your attention here. This is how most of you answer a bitch. For F#ck sake, Ginger’s a moron. au contraire, “assholes” , it’s not about Ginger, it’s about a bitch. You’re all over the place with nothing but name calling the others. Here’s a taste of your own limited…
Need Closure
So… About the guy who was certain his roommate was rubbing her Va-jay-jay (anyone else see that word in Cosmo? Hilarious) on his pillow… I need closure! We thought it was night sweats, you thought it was mental abnormality. WHAT HAPPENED? Meeting VaJourned
re: lol lol WHERE? NOT WHAT?
ONLY ONE OF YOU UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION. newsgal, hooray! That’s OK, at least most of you made an effort to answer the question. I said, MOST of you. The rest of you are absolute losers with nothing to say . CRAP ON YOU. Loud On Losers
Roll Call!
While I realize this is a Halifax themed newspaper, I know many posters here aren’t local. Who’s Haligonian, who’s Ex-Haligonian and who’s an Internet Immigrant? Coast Customs
Losers Only Life
how many losers does it take to change a light bulb? how many times do you hear “get a life” in the responses here? and you are the same ones who spend your whole life answering bitchers? look who’s talking. Get A Life Yourself LOL
Woodbury Animal Butchery
To anyone thinking of getting their puppy spayed at the Woodbury Animal Clinic on Robie St., Don’t. My 10 month old puppy’s stitches ripped open. I brought her back in, and they stapled her stomach together without putting her under, or freezing her wound. The staples soon fell out, so I brought her back in…
Mexicano? ha!ha!
Senor speaks Mexican, ha!ha! What’s that? I just found out that we don’t speak Spanish in Mexico, we speak Mexican. Too much, hombre I can see your schooling paid of. Hey muchacho, want to learn some Mexican? ha!ha! Guacala muchacho:)
Oye gringo
Mexico has the largest Spanish-speaking population in the world with more than twice as many as the second largest Spanish-speaking country. Almost a third of all Spanish native speakers in the world live in Mexico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Pancho Villa Conquistador
Matt, Cranky, Poop,etc
http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm Get a Life,huh? lol
Pillow talk
This isn’t so much a bitch as it is a question for a previous one… Why would you assume that your girlfriends’ roommate’s pussy was the smell on the pillow that you sleep on? Why would anyone, female especially, use a pillow for masturbation? Why did your mind go there immediately when you smelled something…
Which school did you go to?
Some of you regulars are amazing. Can’t spell, bad grammar, and you even dare correct others on that. At least, one of you admitted to only having Grade 6 education. I thought Canada provides free education till pre-metriculation. What were you doing? By the way, can some of you dopes tell me which school you…
To the guy with the yeast infection cheek
Set up that video camera. Borrow something if you don’t have one, set it up in the GF’s room, and get this girl on tape. It’s sounds like a stretch, but if you’re right, that girl is fucked and you need to get her ass arrested. You can explain shit to the GF later- once…
Deceptive Roomate
I’m submitting my bitchery not only because I’m frustrated beyond imaginable, but because I think future roommates can benefit from my past naivety. Not only was I screwed out of my damage deposit (the apartment was immaculate when I left it), but my roommate also failed to pay her share of months worth of power…
Go F*&^K yourself. Please!
I wrote a past bitch here about my lovely lady co-workers and the enviornment. I hope SOMEONE I work with reads this and clue’s in but dammit I highly doubt it. Thanks again ladies for making my life a living hell at work. What the hell is wrong with 98 percent of you, can ANY…
Makes Me Vomit
To all you fucking assholes out there who drive by in your cars or stroll down the street, you see a “hot” or appealing chick, so you decide to yell, “hey sexy!” or just simply honk you’re horn with a disgusting lick of the lips, Fuck you. i am one of those constant female victams…
Grammatically challenged drinking sign.
Remarks: This town has an embarrassing inability to correctly use the possessive. McNabs Island? Susies Lake? Fergusons Cove? No, no and no—that’s all wrong. See, there’s this thing called an apostrophe, a wonderful invention, from back in the 17th century. Maybe we could consider using it. Anyway, no one at Charlies sees anything at all…
Mangled roadside memorial on Barrington Street.
Remarks: Michael Brooker died at this spot in October when, while cycling down the sidewalk, he swerved out into the road to avoid a pedestrian and was struck by a truck. Denny subsequently built the roadside memorial, which consists of a white bike and various remembrances, to call attention to the lack of bike lanes…
SNeLlen
Way more fun than the Oscars, fo shiz — Page hosts Saturday Night Live tomorrow, which after three decades and scores of SNDead jokes is still a huge fricking deal. You can always tell who the real talent is within this structure. Last week’s host Tina Fey played Juno in a sketch, so even if…
I SET UP MY FREINDS CAMERA
That night I made the bitch I told my GF what I thought was happening with her roomate and she fucking flipped the fuck out, seriously, I was thrown back. I have been with her for almost a year and didnt know she had that in her. She didnt even bat an eye when I…
Cock-a-doodle-FLU
Anyone else think it is unwise to allow people to raise chickens in thier backyard in the city? I am all for green initiatives and sustainability, but I don’t think farm animals belong in the city, they belong in, well, farms. I don’t know how much of an issue the rats actually are, but let…
You Forgot Your Lunch!!
To the drunk idiots who sat behind me on the bus the other night, more specifically the girl who let her lunch go on the seat behind me: Next time, STAY THE FUCK HOME! The last thing I want to do after a long day at work is listen to some drunk girl screaming at…
My squeegee kid
Nice letter, mom. At first I thought I’d ask you why she just doesn’t get a job like most everyone else, but then you say she ‘chose’ this life. Fair enough. Could somebody please mention to her the next time they see her that “street person” probably won’t go over to well with the admitting…
bartender
I heard a Nightclub bartender bragging about how she loves to get people kicked out for no reason. If she doesn’t want you there, she’ll get you out. Wow, that’s something to be proud of. Something to be proud about
Tree Muggers
I just want to say a special f*ck you to the asshats that have been trashing (ie. breaking in half) the nice trees planted on Hollis Street ouside of the Provincial Building. What the f*ck is wrong with you? Did that tree say something to upset you as you staggered home from another booze filled…
Singapore, Malaysia,
Thailand, Hong Kong, Senzhen, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Those are the countries I’ve been. Where have you people been? Is there a travel group here? Sometime it is nicer to meet fellow travellers to dicuss things to do regarding travelling, instead of finding it out from the net. Wanna Save The World? Join The Club, :)!
How many of you are undergraduates
and work/worked at a call centre? Did you work at call centres after getting your undergrads certificates or when you were studying in a college/ university? Any of you are/were a PCW? Which care companies are the best? Thanks! An Immigrant Going Desperate
Eglish please
Why do people feel the need to talk like dis n dat n type shiat like who da fuk carez. Last time i checked, it was never actually cool to do that, nor would anyone hire you for a job, nor is it easy for anyone to understand what you’re typing. We come from an…
vrrrrroooommmmm wtf??
Yesterday, I was waiting for my bus I get EVERY SINGLE DAY, same bat time, same bat place…the number 17 on bayers road. I was CLEARLY standing in front of the bus shelter in perfect view of the driver. As the bus came closer I steped up to wait for its arival, the bus motored…
Print my bitch
I wrote a pretty good bitch about the how the extreme leftist stance of the Coast exists solely to attract a demographic for advertising purposes. Of course, it doesn’t get published…. Did I strike a nerve? Prove me wrong
pizza sucks
there are two pizza joints on the road. the first went through many name changes yet remained a good place to eat. the second spot opened up. we gave them a shot, actually several, all to a disappointing experience. NOW the second place is under new management….where did the old management go, to the FIRST…
Bottomwriting call
Bottomwriting is dead, long live bottomwriting. Perhaps you’ve spied our thin and elegant strand of words that runs along the bottom of each page of The Coast. Last week, Ryan Turner’s novel Radiostation Berlin concluded. Before that, we serialized Stephanie Domet’s Pawnshop Blues. These were wonderful stories in this format and now we’re chuffed about…
J.R. Carpenter
Nova Scotia-born and Montreal-based writer and artist J.R. Carpenter lectures at Dalhousie Art Gallery (Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University, Thursday, February 28, 8pm) about her electronic literature. Her web project, The Mythologies of Landforms and Little Girls (1997), uses a map of Nova Scotia to generate a non-linear story. Her work has evolved over the…
Eyelevel movies
Movies are more than the Oscars. Sometimes we need to look at something besides beautiful people on a red carpet, supposedly stunned award recipients and montages of “those we’ve lost this past year.” Centre for Art Tapes programming coordinator John Mathews continues to curate a provocative program of short-ish films screening at Eyelevel Gallery (2063…
Merritt Awards nominations
Nominees for the 2008 Robert Merritt Awards have been announced and 13 theatre companies from around Nova Scotia received nominations in 11 categories. For its innovative production Revisited, 2b Theatre is vying for seven Merritts, including Steven McCarthy for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Outstanding Direction for Christian Barry and Outstanding…
Medium Mood
Who says you cant rock on a Wednesday? The Medium Mood kick off their tour at Gingers Tavern on March 5 (with Play Guitar and The Establishment). Heading to Quebec and Ontario afterward, Andrew Gordon (bass, vocals) hopes to leave ears bleeding. A larger tour follows this summer (Germany and US, holla). Gordon, Adam Hartling…
Bearly’s Bissextile Bluegrass Bonanza
Wear your comfy shoes on Friday, February 29, to Bearlys Bissextile (AKA leap year) Bluegrass Bonanza (8pm, $8/$5 sliding scale). This flat-pickin, boot-kickin good time features the music of The Smokin Contra Band, The Strangeboys and Oh Dinah. All proceeds support the Save Lincolnville Campaign. A contra dance, explains Dave Ron (mandolin, guitar, banjo, vocals),…
To the people upstairs:
What exactly are you doing up there? I spend a lot of time pondering the sounds that come from above and I have some theories. You are training an army in the secret of darkness. You are insomnac stomp performers. The only thing that lulls you back to sleep at night is using your power…
Soup Sergeant, Cafe Istanbul, Keiths, Model Shop, etc.
All three Soup Sergeant locations (Spring Garden, Quinpool and in the Bedford Place Mall) are apparently toast, but the Spring Garden storefront will soon have a welcome new tenant—Turkish restaurant Cafe Istanbul, the venture of Erkut Surmeli, the former owner of Turkish Delight and Anatolia. Learn more next week…Tux store The Model Shop (6169 Quinpool)…
Superstore, Pete’s bag policy
It’s official: the Atlantic Superstore on Quinpool is now a plastic-bag-free zone. The store’s the fourth location owned by Superstore’s parent company, Loblaw Companies Limited, to stop offering bags at check-outs, following in the footsteps of stores in Milton, Ontario; Langford, BC and Sherbrooke, Quebec. While it may seem like Loblaw execs are throwing darts…
Cooking for pets class
If you’ve spent the last week hungering for more news about the city’s new pet-food cooking classes, feast your eyes here. Said classes are being run jointly by Willow’s Pet Place (1526 Dresden Row), vet Dr. David Evans (of the Chester Basin Animal Hospital), Jude Major (one of the people behind the pet treats from…
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Downtown Halifax Vision
If all goes according to plan, downtown Halifax will be rebuilt as a Shangri-La on the Atlantic, with attractive buildings constructed on a human scale along pedestrian-friendly corridors leading to parks on the waterfront. People will live and work and play downtown in celebratory exultation, sidewalk cafes will flourish, puppy dogs will be petted, babies…
X-citement Video ad
This is in response to the letter written by Jasmine Marsh (“Give a hoot,” Letterhead, Feb. 14) directed at an ad placed by X-Citement Video in The Coast Feb. 7. First, I do not understand how that ad can be deemed sexist. It’s directed towards women that come in and buy lingerie. Men don’t buy…
Youth Car insurance
Us teenagers have it hard these days. We have to endure homework and minimum wage jobs to get ahead in life. Now there’s another thing to add to the list: gender inequality. Recently, I discovered teenage guys get the bad end of two sticks: We’re young, and we have to pay more for car insurance…
Founders Corner rebuts
“Founders Corner flubs” (Reality Bites, Feb. 14) is written with many flubs! You mention at great length a subcontractor infraction with a municipal bylaw (hauling a truckload of demolition debris to a New Glasgow-approved disposal site versus a required HRM-approved disposal site), yet fail to mention this was a permit requirement between the subcontractor and…
Victims of the week
The Coast is turning into a regular “victim of the week” rag. A few weeks ago it was someone else’s fault the squeegee kids couldn’t work like the rest of us, and now the bridge commission is to blame for jumpers (“Adam’s fall,” Feb. 7.) So, I guess Lawtons is to blame for overdoses and…
HPV treatments
Past experience has shown me that fine-tip cauterization gets rid of HPV outbreaks in one or two sessions without any lasting scarring. Such quick, in-office, anesthesia-free treatments are available in Vancouver, BC but nowhere in Nova Scotia. (I’ve been told repeatedly it’s been banned.) People impacted by HPV need to put together info packages and…
Letters to the Editor
Silence = Death First off, I want to extend a warm thank you to Matthieu Aikins for his informative and well written article “Adam’s Fall”. Mr. Aikins’s article brought needed attention to the controversial issue of suicide and the MacDonald Bridge, and a preventative measure (suicide barriers) which is being ignored by the city because…
Letters to the Editor
September 12, 2007-09 It was a sad day today when the One World Café closed its doors. For me personally it was a boot to the voids. This was a neighbourhood café in the truest sense of the word. A place to hang with friends. A place to perform with my band, which we did…
Letters to the Editor
Adam Cashen’s story was tough to read. I was struck by the detail that he was a heavy drinker/partier; that drinking can be found in so many stories of personal dissolution. People frequently get drunk in order to feel more sure of themselves socially, and to feel happier than they otherwise do.Frequent or heavy drinking…
Letters to the Editor
“Parkspace or Parking Space?” Dear Councillor Gloria McCluskey, my name is Neil Melanson, and I am a resident of Downtown Dartmouth. I was walking by the Dartmouth Commons recently, and read the sign on Wyse Rd. regarding the upcoming renovation project. I read that there was going to be a revamp to the area, with…
Letters to the Editor
After hearing what I consider to be dangerously irresponsible minimization of the risks posed to visitors to the Commons expressed by senior police officers in the media after yet another poor soul was attacked there, my opinion of the Halifax Regional Police dropped pretty low. However, I have been so impressed by the high level…
Letters to the Editor
Hi,I just think that we spend tons of time criticizing the government (while not running for office) and we could stop for a sec and look at the good in our area. Have you ever heard of Kids sport NS here on spring garden road? This organization gives money to low income people! My son…
Letters to the Editor
QEII Foreign Lottery I think it’s somewhat hypocritical for the QEII foundation to look for local support in buying their “Home Lottery 2007” tickets when most of the prizes are out-sourced to foreign countries. All but one of the vehicles are made abroad and of course all the bikes and electronics are foreign. They couldn’t…
Letters to the Editor
I just wanted to applaud Lezlie Lowe on her great piece on the HPV vaccination. She is absolutely right – we never heard squat about HPV in junior high health class – it was all about not getting pregnant! The first time we heard about HPV was from our doctors, followed by “oh you’re going…
Letters to the Editor
Hey coast,Check out this travel article from New York Magazine about Halifax. They love our fiddle music! http://nymag.com/travel/weekends/halifax/ By Tanya
Letters to the Editor
Fish: The Other Green Meat? I‘d like to thank Leslie Lowe and the Coast for an engaging cover story this past week. There has been a flurry of talk about ‘food miles’ and ethical eating in Nova Scotia as of late, and I thought September 20th’s “Green Meat” feature added a thought-provoking point of view…
Letters to the Editor
Ian Gormely’s story on BC “band of the week”, You Say Party! We Say Die! ( Say What? Oct. 27th) should’ve been slotted in the comics section of the Coast. I was rolling over with laughter over bass player, Stephen O’Shea’s description of his band’s song writing process, “There’s actually a lot of thought that…
Letters to the Editor
Hats off to Rod (of the Bloomfield Community Centre) and his entire volunteer crew for the incredibly wonderful and unexpectedly HUGE local block party that they put on for the adjoining residents of Almon & Bilby in Halifax’s North End last Saturday night. Sprigg’s Lane, an eyesore of a road (if it can be generously…
Letters to the Editor
Hey Kyle,I just wanted to comment on Leslie Lowes feature of “Think globally, eat locally” of Sept. 20, 2007. Her article should have begun with “He’s one of the local food dudes.”The article neglected quite a few chefs that I see at the market every Saturday and who actually use the market to supply themselves.Maurizio…
Letters to the Editor
There is an Email that asks if anyone has had a problem with a Dartmouth Police constable – Cst. Charles Bruce and if you reply, directs you to this paper. Cst. Bruce is a friend and a dedicated police officer. He is very proactive and enforces the laws ans statutes of our community. If a…
Letters to the Editor
Dear Halifax,I bike to work- down Quinpool and Cogswell to the Scotia Square area. Having sidewalks on both sides of the street seems accessive for the areas of Rannie Dr, Cogswell, all the way around Citadel Hill and all the way around the Commons. These sidewalks that do not haves homes immediately off of them…
Letters to the Editor
Lezlie Lowe’s very lame counterpoint to squeegee legislation is just about the quality of journalism you’d read off the side of a Cheerios box. Our story’s heroine, Ms. Talbot, is as Lowe puts it, ‘more articulate and well-spoken than practically every other 21 year old I’ve ever met. Yeah, she’s damn smart. While the rest…
Letters to the Editor
The heading on your January 10 issue should read, “The Few, The Proud, The Actors”. The last time I saw that runt in the middle she had the mandatory ‘whoa-is-me’ pout on, and a sign that said “Because chicken tastes better than pigeon”. Cute. In reality, it should have said ‘Because I prefer Chinese food…
Letters to the Editor
The more I read Lezlie Lowe’s article on squeegee kids, the more it pissed me off. Especially the part where that squeegee chick complains about it being hard to live off welfare when she lives in an $850 a month appartment. Guess what Danielle? You can’t afford to live in a nice appartment when you’re…
Letters to the Editor
The Coast is turning into a regular ‘victim of the week’ rag. A few weeks ago it was someone else’s fault the squeegee kids couldn’t work like the rest of us, and now it’s that the bridge commission is to blame for jumpers. So I guess Lawtons is to blame for OD’s and General Motors…
enough already
If anyone else says the word squeegee kid I’m never reading the coast again. Find something else to talk about Halifax, why not pick on another sad demographic for a while. me
Coyote travels lightly
With a name like Ivan E. Coyote, it’s surprising—ironic—the artist remains elusive. Coyote has made a name for herself writing stories about the wilds of the Yukon, gender-bending and growing up rough and tough, and will bring her stories to Halifax during the first week of March. In some native mythologies, the coyote is known…
Dan Savage says wash the floor.
At first glance, I am the guy your mother wants you to marry: successful, sweet, clean shaven. Below the surface, I am the guy your mother warned you about: pierced tongue, tattoos and enough kinks to make a porn star blush. A couple of months ago, I met a woman who wanted to be a…
Radiostation Berlin (part 4)
“Leave me,” he told Blood in a near whisper. “Stop it,” said Blood. “Leave me.” “Are you a man, Private?”Benjamin stiffened. His lip grew firm. “We can show no signs of weakness against the enemy, Private.”Blood’s voice was stern, but sympathetic, as though it were part of a half-hearted act. “Yes, sir.” “Think of Lord…
Rewind and respect
A single rack in the inconspicuous part of a local video store holds the last vestiges of a dying era of home entertainment: the VHS tape. After reigning for over two decades as the chosen form of home movie watching and recording, the VHS format is taking its last gasps in some hold-out stores in…
Radiostation Berlin (Part 5)
As they pass St. Matthew’s he points to the steeple and talks of his old congregations. As they pass Concordia, he stares for a moment and squints at the sun. I’ve read a few things about her, says Edward. You didn’t believe that patriotic nonsense, did you? That she put on a Charlie Chaplin moustache…
Cuba libre
With Americans craving political change, it’s been useful to see the US response to Fidel Castro’s resignation last week; the biggest change the northern hemisphere has seen in a while. Barack Obama said he would take a different approach than the trade embargo the States has maintained against Cuba since 1961, and meet Fidel’s successor…
Atlantic Climate Change Conference gets green
“In the weather deck of cards, there is a joker around every bend. Our weather is dangerous and volatile. We have to come to this less romantic conclusion that we are going to have a different climate and now is the time to prepare for this,” explains Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips.Phillips will host…
Motorizing motivation
Nike—the super-sports mega-marketer, not the fair-ankled Greek deity—has a hold on the essence of humanity. The company’s most famous sales slogan, “Just do it,” has got us all pegged. Why do I think the marketing giant’s message is so prescient? Because when it comes to just doing it, for the most part, we just can’t.…
SAWS!
In the wake of Hurricane Juan, two philosophies of forestry management are coming into conflict: tinker with it or leave it be.In 2003, Juan slammed straight into Halifax. Among other damage, the storm took down 4,000 acres of trees in the redundantly named Lake Major Watershed Protected Water Area, a 17,000-acre protected area that supplies…
Re-schooled
Oh. Now I get it. This is what it’s like to be the parent of a school-aged child. Which is to say, worn to the nub by the blind machinations of the Department of Education and the Halifax Regional School Board. This morning I could be hanging out with my daughter. It’s a PD day…
Margot at the Wedding
Margot at the WeddingDirected by: Noah Baumbach(Paramount)In Noah Baumbachs The Squid and the Whale, there were many laughs (like when pretentious teen Walt called a story by Kafka Kafkaesque). In Margot at the Wedding, Baumbachs latest, the laughs are fewer, which makes the hurt the films characters inflict on each other harder to watch. When…
Binge drinking, big fighting
Halifax drinkers get drunk and fight too much now. Not like the 1980s…
Be Kind Rewind
One good thing that could have come out of a long Writers Guild strike is the broadcast cancellation of the Oscars. Studio productions are so dependent on award consideration that it would have been a chance for Hollywood to rethink its strategies. Celebrating the joy of making and watching movies, without the goal of prestige,…
In Bruges
The challenge of finding a new slant for the hitman-genre is partly remedied because In Bruges is set in a city many North Americans have never heard of. Bruges, the medieval Belgian city, is where assassins Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) hide out—and rethink their professions—following a flubbed job. Playwright Martin McDonagh uses…
Sleepless Nights
“I think we really have the Beatles to blame for that.” There’s something you don’t hear every day. The Beatles are many things: influential, lauded, a cash-money machine—but rarely the subject of blame. To A.A. Wallace, lead singer and mastermind behind Halifax’s Sleepless Nights, it really is the Fab Four’s fault. “It all comes from…
