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[Image-1] Why do people think that their neighbors property is a good spot to dump their snow? —snow thanks
Cannot believe the cretin drivers in this city, especially at the Bayers Lake Business Park. I saw a flurry of bald tires and horrific drivers who didn’t understand the concept of endangering others. I fear for both good drivers prepared for this weather and pedestrians alike. It’s like being in a live Frogger game. —SLOW…
[Image-1] You really suck, and you made me hate Nova Scotian drivers even more. Would it really have been too difficult to give me three extra seconds to get past you before having your turn to go? I was driving down Allan St. last evening, which are all single lane because of how much snow…
[Image-1] I want to wish you the happiest of Valentine’s days! Everyday I wake up and feel that I’m so lucky to have you! You’re kind and stubborn and most important, we get each other. You keep me sane. Plus you look fantastic in ears and a tail! —See You Tonight!
A couple of weeks ago someone backed into my little grey truck, basically caving in a large area above a back wheel. It seems to have been a red vehicle that hit me; I found a small paint chip in the center of the big ‘ol caved in area. The hit man/woman drove away without…
[Image-1] I’m so sick of being nickled and dimed every time I leave the fucking house. I went to the store and asked the clerk if he gave cash back. I have to make a purchase from his shit shop and he says for the 40$ I have requested, they charge $1 per $10 cash…
[Image-1] Thanks to the university student (I’m assuming Dal) who gave my car a push at the corner of Robie and University the other night. I would have been stuck there for hours and so would the 100 cars behind me. —Rear wheel drives suck in the snow
[Image-1] It was around 8:30pm when I hit the three-hour mark of the most epic “snow-vs-shovel” driveway battle of all time. So far the snow was winning. I found myself facing the icy wall that waited in between the sidewalk and the road. The sidewalk was at my back. The wall towered over me as…
[Image-1] THANK YOU! You saw me picking away at the large, icy chunks of snow on my driveway, and you came by to plow the entire thing. You didn’t ask for anything in return and only said that this will make my life a lot easier now. You have seriously made my day, especially since…
[Image-1] This goes out to the two beautiful humans that were helping people push their cars out of the slushy snow on Monday night on Herring Cove. I was lucky enough to not get stuck, but you boys were angels for standing out in the stormy mess just to help out others. —Only my second…
[Image-1] Thank you again to the pretty lady who picked up my library CD off the ground and gave it back to me on the bus. After waiting for more than an hour in the storm for a bus, only to fall flat on my face while running after it when it finally came, you…
[Image-1] At 5am Friday morning, I was shoveling my driveway from a rampageous snow storm of biblical proportions. Then suddenly a snow plow charge up the road in my direction. My heart stopped. The man looked at me, smiled, then plowed my driveway flat, like a smooth hot pancake on a crispy cool morning. Thank you Mr.…
[Image-1] Thank you to the man and his dog who helped me get my car out of the icy parking lot in Fleming Park yesterday. You and your sons saved me. You could not have known, but I had just found out half an hour before that my granddad had passed away. You kept me…
[Image-1] I hurt along with those I have hurt in my past. I’ve been shot down and also being guilty as such. I yearn and hold on to a fanatical love with a very strong grasp, should I let go, render myself to the abyss. I’ll quit being dramatic. If you love and accept me, take me…
[Image-1] I imagine the sidewalk ploughers are getting a lot of hate today, but I noticed you go the extra mile to push sidewalk snow out of the way of my driveway and not leave it piled up there. Appreciated. —Jenn
[Image-1} Thank you does not even come close to how grateful I am, for the young lady who returned a purse to a shop on Dresden Row on Thursday. You didn’t just save someone time and money trying to replace those cards and cash, you saved a life. Literally saved a life. I wish I could explain…
[Image-1] I know everyone is going to hate me for this but I love the snow! Do you think we could make a Canadian winter zen garden with (gasp) snow? This morning I listened to music while shoveling. What was the very first song? Lo and behold! “Move Bitch” by Ludacris. Thank you, universe. —Happy…
Cool guy Steve Albini has been announced as East Coast Music Week’s keynote speaker for the 2015 conference. Albini will speak Saturday, April 11 from 4-5pm at the Harbourview Salon in Delta St. John’s. Please read Albini’s powerful “The Problem with Music” essay while listening to In Utero and the entire Big Black discography and…
Hey, burger addicts! I have valuable information to share with you. Now that our annual Halifax Burger Week (March 19-25) has grown to supersized proportions, and will include 64 (!!!) local restaurants flipping delectable patties all week long, it might be challenging to get a good sampling of what’s out there. Unless of course you…
Are farmers’ markets better than grocery stores? You’ve probably asked yourself this very question. But you’ve probably never done a side-by-side comparison with a video crew to try and answer it. Because that’s what we’re for.
[Image-1] To the red head on the #1 bus Monday reading the history of rock. We sat beside each other and kept making eye contact looking out the window trying to figure out where the bus was in the storm. Wish I would have said hi because you seemed nice talking to your friend so…
I swear the last guy in there left his cell phone, and it’s on vibrate. My vagina buzzes enthusiastically at random times. Sure hope the battery dies soon, this is annoying. —shut up kundalini
Has anyone else noticed the latest trend in Selfies, where people are taking selfies in bed, lying down on the pillow. If you need to take a photo of yourself, could you at least maybe get out of bed first? You must be so lazy you can’t even lift your head to take a picture?…
[Image-1] Ok. Here’s the deal. You are making the roads more hazardous when you leave work earlier during a snow storm. Here’s why; there are two major traffic rushes during the afternoon. One happens at 3:30, the other at 5:00. If everyone decides to leave at 3:30 or 4:00, it creates a clusterfuck on the…
[Image-1] It’s probably safe to say there’ll be no Valentines sent between Jono Developments and HRM this year. The municipality’s been dealing since 2011 with the legal fallout from trying to sell St. Patrick’s-Alexandra elementary school to the Joe Metlege-owned company. After in camera discussions at the last Regional Council meeting before the Christmas holidays,…
Last week saw Halifax Regional Council assemble amid snowstorm and sickness to hash out municipal matters. It seemed like every second councillor had some sort of flu, with mayor Mike Savage in particular barely able to speak. So no judgments on anyone’s dedication as we present HRM council’s attendance records for 2014. It’s Brad Johns…
Kevin Smith loves to talk and if history is to be trusted, he loves to talk to Haligonians. He sold out his 2011 appearances and is back for more at the Spatz Theatre (Citadel High School, 1855 Trollope Street), on Sunday, March 22 (doors at 5:30pm, film at 6pm). Before the Q&A, there will be…
[Image-1] I still miss you and love you. I’m sorry it couldn’t work. —Groupie
Yo, people who ride halifax transit! If a person gets on the bus with a cane it probably means that person would love, and by that I mean needs(!!!) a seat. I’m so goddamn tired of getting on a full bus with my partner and having absolutely no one offer them a seat. I frequently…
[Image-1] My favourite toppings on pizza are: pepperoni, mushrooms, pineapple and raisins. I was aware that no pizza place would hold raisins to put on their pizzas because I’m sure I’m the only one who eats them this way. So I brought in a box of raisins when I went to order pizza at the…
The Macdonald bridge is going to be closed from 7pm to 530am for 2 FUCKING YEARS!? My full time night shifts just got A LOT shittier! —Night Owl
Drivers and pedestrians, young students and elderly homeowners, everyone’s pissed off about the snow on our streets. Two snowstorms in one week is apparently all it takes to make HRM completely inaccessible. City sidewalks are filled with more stomped on white powder than a nightclub bathroom. Side streets remain free from any visible asphalt. Even…
First of all, yahoo for arts funding. Second of all, yahoo for detailed reports from the city explaining which arts organization are recommended to receive exactly how much (or nothing at all) and why. Click here for the full report, it’s very informative. Here’s a quick breakdown of how much each HRM-based arts organization (I’d…
It was a nail-biter, but your boy Andrew Al-Khouri officially moved on to the top 16 of Master Chef Canada last night. Number one take-away? Don’t boil pasta with the lid on (it’ll earn you a judgey scoff from Alvin Leung). You can watch episode two for yourself here. Related Stories
Drake notoriously does not give a shit about the Grammys (still, I bet he would have been into that Annie Lennox performance), so he skipped it and spent some time with his OVO buddies in Toronto at King of the Dot’s Blackout 5 rap battle featuring none other than Nova Scotia’s rap pride and joy,…
[Image-1] What’s left on the radio turns 30 this month and they deserve some birthday hugs or at least a god damn cupcake. What a weird and lovely little piece of Halifax history! —That magnet on your fridge
To the men I always seem to meet, Why are you talking to me? Why did you touch my arm? What about my appearance, or gesturing, or greater body language was at all compelling? I assure you, I do not want any attention from you. Leave me alone. The time I was on the phone,…
[Image-1] The Bluenose belongs on a dime and Nova Scotian’s don’t need to spend any more of them to keep number 2 afloat. Sink the Bluenose by putting it in a museum. —Not one more Bluenose dime
Science is not infallible but it’s our best hope for progress. Case in point, measles and other diseases that were on the decline but have resurged due to irrational fears that vaccines somehow cause harmful side effects. The vaccine paranoia goes back to a single 1998 study that claimed a link between vaccines and autism.…
Hey Mod… why are there never any new bitches posted? I know you have some in the que because I wrote several. Do your fuckin job and post some. There used to be new stuff posted daily now it seems like we’re waiting weeks with the same shit. This site is pure shit without constant…
Keep on dreamin’ like you should Just never in my neighbourhood. I hope your life takes you far away from our ocean playground. Take’em with you for all we care. —seedyions
So trying to walk anywhere is a task. The side walks do not have salt and its a nightmare trying to walk anywhere. Hello city have you ever heard of salting the ground? Makes it hard to get put and about. —ice is everywhere but no salt
[Image-1] This doctor was not just incompetent, but aggressive He dismissed my rape, by a stranger as unimportant even though that’s why I went to him in the first place. I requested that he refer me to someone else, he refused to do so and pressured me to continue seeing him. He engaged in boundary…
[Image-1] To my new family on the ladyboard: May the day break open like a kinder surprise egg and bestow upon you a metaphorical something requiring just enough assembly to be fun and engaging and maybe have stickers for eyes, because each and every one of you has given me that kind of joy at…
Dear CRTC you guys are a bunch of fucking IDIOTS – People in Canada are so short sighted when it comes to the Superbowl – we want to see the american commercials. WAH !!! Guess what all you stupid fucks – someone has to pay to see this shit right now a canadian network pays…
[Image-1] I’m in love with all of you beautiful ladies. Thank you. I’m grateful. —funky,cool,emailer.
[Image-1] I’m trying to wrap my head around what it is in Halifax’s culture, and Nova Scotia in general, that is so negative and pronounced… I mean, the proof’s in the pudding and I’ve never seen so many downtrodden, moody and just plain miserable fuckers in all my life. I often wonder if there’s some…
So I have been commuting from Halifax to Dartmouth for about 9 months now via the Mackay Bridge.Going to Dartmouth is fine,hardly any traffic.Coming back during rush hour is an absolute nightmare!If it’s not the cheaters who can’t seem to choose their lane after the tolls and try to cut in on the other side…
I know you want to be my friend and I wanted to be your friend, but I can’t deal with you. Instead of just running away, I’m going to tell you why I can’t deal with spending time with you: you don’t listen. I mean, really listen. When I talk, you nod your head and…
More Barrington Street news! And it brings us the end of the Halifax location of Patty Howard’s Kitchen Door Catering. The Bedford-based caterer and take-out food shop opened its downtown location in 2012, pairing up with fellow wedding and event favourite, Layers Cakes at 1276 Barrington Street, offering frozen takeaway meals, and grab and go…
[Image-1] First, fill up a juice box with urine and fecal matter. Then place it next to the small crack at the bottom of a cell’s door. Stomp on it as hard as you can. The offending slosh will spray out through the crack, covering the cell’s occupant (and everything else) in piss and shit.…
It turns out a ton of old windows get tossed out in Halifax. Vlad Kovalik and Jelsi Mynott took notice of all the wasted glass and then took artistic action, teaming up to create minimalistos. Using only recycled windows, their handmade, handcut and soldered with lead-free silver alloy terrariums range from prisms to teardrops to…
After two years of socializing and strategizing via board and card games, Games People Play has gotten too big for it’s Barrington Street britches and has announced it’s giving itself a great anniversary gift—an upgrade. The hobby shop/ hangout closed up shop last Sunday to move its operation to 5217 Blowers Street (just above Burrito…
After nine years of serving up locally-inspired meals and a consistently on point brunch game Saege Bistro (5883 Spring Garden Road) announced yesterday that later this month it’ll be closing its doors permanently. According to a release the building’s management, Westwood Group, will be renovating the space over the next few months and the restaurant’s…
[Image-1] Convicts don’t get much sympathy. They broke the law, and that’s enough for some people to write them off completely. Drew Butler admits he wasn’t always the best kid growing up, but he never used to be this angry. It’s now been three months since Butler’s been released from prison, just in time to…
[Image-1] I was born in Halifax and raised in Uniacke Square (Squaretown or Squizzy for those who are familiar). I was always apprehensive about allowing society to determine what labels I should wear. Eventually, I would decide myself: middle class (I like it here), African Nova Scotian, womanist, artist. I choose to be known as…
[Image-1] Haligonians who buy their pot legally probably noticed changes to their dealers’ websites last month. On January 12, it became more difficult for medical marijuana users to figure out what they’re inhaling, extracting or otherwise consuming. Over the last year or so, Health Canada has cracked the whip on these private companies’ advertisements, telling…
[Image-1] Quentrel Provo knows a lot of people along Lake Major Road in North Preston. All those people, friends and family, asked him a lot of questions one day after the police pulled him over for speeding. He was embarrassed, he says, especially because he was working as his church’s youth pastor. “I was actually…
Singer Reeny Smith will be performing at the upcoming Feel the Love benefit concert for Dartmouth’s Akoma Family Centre, a short-term care facility for children in the foster care system, and an organization that Smith has been involved with for “a few months on a few different occasions, I go in and play music, get…
Zoe Michalik is coming full circle. The 19-year-old began her dance career at Dartmouth’s Coastal Dance at the age of four, was accepted into the National Ballet School at age 11, graduated and became an apprentice with Emily Molnar’s Ballet BC last year and is returning to dance in Halifax with the BC company, this…
There’s a reason I don’t like to try a restaurant in the first few months it’s open. It’s the same reason I don’t try to eat a fried egg two seconds after it’s been dropped into a hot pan: it’s not ready yet. I had low expectations for Robie Street Station when I met Allison…
WHO THEY ARE Angus Campbell, Josh Counsil and Doug Kehoe—longtime BFFs and the trio behind the up-and-coming Wrought Iron Brewing Company—met studying engineering at Queen’s. They were dormmates, housemates and long-distance, post-grad buds before finally deciding the best way to get the gang back together was to go into business. “I think we all complement…
Q My husband and I are a straight couple in our early 50s, and we’ve been married for more than 30 years. We were raised to wait for sex till we got married—this was back in the early ’80s—and we did. Our wedding night was pretty disappointing since neither of us knew what we were…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) In 1753, Benjamin Franklin published helpful instructions on how to avoid being struck by lightning during stormy weather. Wear a lightning rod in your hat, he said, and attach it to a long, thin metal ribbon that trails behind you as you walk. In response to his article, a…
Back to Barrington Mimi Fautley nailed it last week (“Why does Barrington Street remain barren?” Voice of The City). Renting to national/international chains does not guarantee payment of rent. Just ask all the mall owners across Canada who leased space to Target. —posted at thecoast.ca by joeblow Spot on. Why won’t the market adjust itself…
Sarah revealed that she saw three small tied-off latex baggies of who-knows-what fall out of the backside of Gertraud’s pajama shorts, and Myles’ eyes forwardly displaced themselves a comically gruesome distance out of his sockets, so far out in fact that Sarah would later tell friends that she had only seen that kind of eye-pop…
Marking Director X’s (AKA Julien Christian Lutz) first feature film debut—he’s most often found behind the camera directing music videos for Ciara, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Drake or Iggy Azalea—is a very different venture. Undone, a film set in Nova Scotia, deals with racism in Nova Scotian communities, family and love. Written by Floyd Kane,…
Encounters is a collection of six short contemporary operas about what happens when two people meet by chance. This is the first opera staged by the newly formed Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University and it promises lighthearted and funny entertainment. The collection was first presented at the University of Toronto’s New Music…
The attendant sat wordlessly at his desk as I entered the gallery. Each footstep took me further from the outside world and moved me through an eerie place of dimly lit corners, ghostly voices and uncanny objects. A tall pile of porcelain femur bones dominates one wall, slices of paper-quilled dissected bodies rest in glass…
A tip for all my weed-smokers: never soak your blunt wraps. Things burn better when they’re not weighed down. Same goes for your blunt raps and Dartmouth rapper and WESC activist Jay Mayne wants to catch fire with his latest self-titled 15-track record that leaves his heavy 2014 ECMA-nominated project, F*kit, in the ashes. This is an airier, more cohesive and much more honest collection of cloud rap, start to finish. “It…
