Krall takes the Metro Centre
Quiet Nights and very nice shoes. Press releases are like pizzas. They’re cheesy. Or maybe they’re like lasagne, and Garfield likes them. Whichever it may be, no saying I just made up could prepare me for this totally ridiculous sentence from a press release announcing Diana Krall’s upcoming Halifax appearance. Behold: “Even those already familiar…
JSB: Live at the Marquee
JSB intend to work it. Way back in March of last year, you may well have put on your all-neon outfit and headed out to the Marquee to see JSBJSB’s concert and DVD filming. This Saturday, January 31, you can see once and for all if you truly stood out during those sweeping crowd shots.…
Crush Cancer? Don’t mind if I do!
Aquestrya hold it down. Photo: Kelly Martell Photography It’s a highly held belief that concerts for a good cause are 75% more enjoyable than regular concerts. This January 30, 6pm at the Halifax Forum, the Crush Cancer Benefit Concert for Stephen Green hopes to confirm this theory with the help of hosts Megan Edwards (Z103.5)…
Karen Bassett previews Heroine in Toronto
Three local theatre artists are set to show Toronto exactly how violent Halifax can be. Fight master/director Robert Seale, actor/ playwright Karen Bassett and actor Francine Deschepper are heading to a conference hosted by University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. At the Festival of Original Theatre Conference 2009: Exquisite Corpses and Bloody…
Cold Feet
Okay, so if youre not a complete hermit you’d know that halifax is covered in ice and not every sidewalk is shoveled to perfection. On snowy, icy and/or sloppy rainy days, walking on the sidewalks through this city can feel like youre doing a neverending triple jump marathon. So next time youre walking side by…
Fuck you rain
Been crawling the walls for a week straight, haven’t been able to move in all this snow, and right about when im to take the metro to get coffee, it downpours. Now I have to make a makeshift sanctuary. Fuck you rain —Fucker of rain
Bigger rigs coming to a road near you
The province’s Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal department just announced that it’s letting a pair of companies drive truck trains on main highways. The “long combination vehicles” are basically two shipping containers pulled by one truck cab, the industrial version of those crazy tourists you see driving around with a car hitched onto the back of…
roommates!
STOP LEAVING YOUR FUCKIN PUBE SHAVINGS ALL OVER THE GOD DAMN TOILET!!! has the bathroom not already suffered enough having to bear witness to your 30 car pile up of a crap you take every day? having to avoid the washroom before and round meal times just so that i can actually some up some…
Rudy’s II Coffee
To the wonderful staff who work at Rudy’s II Restaurant…. Thank you for always being such a cheerful part of my morning…… you start my day on the right note and have the best morning Java !!!!! Early Morning Grump
The Musical Box at the Metro Centre is coming in the air tonight
Oh, Collins! What a clown! Sadly, I can only think of one individual who will be genuinely excited by this news, but share it I must. Get your motherfucking prog hat on, because on Friday, May 1, The Musical Box presents A Trick of the Tail at the Halifax Metro Centre. What on God’s green…
To the landlords who overcharge….
If you are going to charge over $1,200.00 a month plus utilities, for your 2 bedroom apartment/duplex…please make sure it is WORTH that price. Post pictures of what it REALLY looks like…. Old carpet with burn marks, kitchen from a 1970’s porn movie, A bathroom that you can barely fit it….nevermind the mold growth around…
Bayers Road widening: Chebucto Road redux
Former councillor Sheila Fougere, who represented the Connaught-Quinpool district, was an excellent work-a-day councillor who budged Halifax in many positive directions. But, alas, Fougere will probably best be remembered for her failure to stop the widening of Chebucto Road. That project provoked outrage in the community, pitted the suburbs against the peninsula and revealed that…
it’s winter if you didn’t know…
alrighty people, it’s winter. that means jackets at the VERY least. no…a zip up hoodie is NOT a jacket. and those pajama pants…even though they have the word “pants” in there, they are not meant to be worn outside. i freeze every time i look at you…and i’m cold to begin with too. —28 windchill
Paragon Theatre
The Marquee’s last hurrah comes February 7 with a 50-musician recreation of The Band’s The Last Waltz concert, and then will be no more. But, fear not! The large north end music hall (2037 Gottingen) has been taken over by partners Craig Mercer, Peter Farmer and Mark Townsend, who will tear down and rebuild walls…
Illegal dump sites on watershed land
What’s wrong? Illegal dump sites on watershed land. Who’s responsible? David Hendsbee, councillor for the area, 483-0705. Remarks: Hendsbee is clearly frustrated at the illegal dumping along Upper Governors Street, which leads through the Lake Major Watershed to North Preston. The junk—roofing materials, construction waste, broken appliances and the like is repeatedly trucked in and…
Cold Feet
Okay, so if youre not a complete hermit you’d know that halifax is covered in ice and not every sidewalk is shoveled to perfection. On snowy, icy and/or sloppy rainy days, walking on the sidewalks through this city can feel like youre doing a neverending triple jump marathon. So next time youre walking side by…
Cold Feet
Okay, so if youre not a complete hermit you’d know that halifax is covered in ice and not every sidewalk is shoveled to perfection. On snowy, icy and/or sloppy rainy days, walking on the sidewalks through this city can feel like youre doing a neverending triple jump marathon. So next time youre walking side by…
fuck you security!
I FUCKING HATE SECURITY GUARDS WHO THINK THAT THEY ARE THE SHIT JUST BECAUSE THEY WEAR A JACKET THAT SAYS SECURITY ON THE BACK OH COME ON JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY TOO STUPID TO BECOME A COP DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO PICK ON US WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SECURITY…
Theremin-An Electronic Odyssey
Worth checking out: there’s a free screening of Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey on Sunday, 6pm at Utility Gallery (5224 Blowers). It’s a 1993 documentary film about the life of Leon Theremin and his invention, the theremin, featuring monologues by Robert Moog and Brian Wilson, among others. Apparently Theremin was kidnapped by the KGB in 1938…
Puck stories
Are you a closeted Dave Bidini? If you’re a hockey fan or player, and think you could write about your obsession, Nimbus Publishing is seeking non-fiction submissions for a new collection of hockey-related stories. The editors are “particularly interested in pieces that inspire and entertain readers about hockey’s influence on us as Atlantic Canadians and…
Quiznos worker Dresden Row
You deserve a shout out – Your smile and awesome personality are so worth the extra 5 blocks I walk to get a sub there. You shine like a star. You are always in the best mood and it always makes me smile just to talk to you. I was in a terrible mood the…
Share prepare to trash Euro
Share check those numbers. Photo by Kyle Cunjak and Mat Dunlap Prepare to feel intensely jealous: As you read this, local songsters Share are touring the UK, Ireland and Germany promoting their latest album, Pedestrian, and showing off new material to their handsome Euro audience. Dear Share, please send postcards and pints. Share will be…
Is this a friend or foe of dogs?
I don’t know what exactly this vanity plate is trying to say. This roomy vehicle is a “canine’s lair”? Or this creepy black car belongs to a “canine slayer”? One thing’s for sure: the motor vehicle registration folks should offer a copy editing service.
Oxford Laundromat getting spruced up
There’s been a change of ownership at the Oxford Laundromat, which has been in its digs at 2983 Oxford since the Capital grocery store vacated the space almost 20 years ago. Staff tell us the new owner is starting a renovation Friday, January 30, with hopes that the updating won’t interfere too much with regular…
Dear A. call me
I’ve liked you for years, since high school and you were my secret valentine. I painted a card with a message and had my friend give it to you. And you probably didn’t have a clue. You still probably don’t have a clue. But when I spent time with you and mutual friend, somehow, something…
hate this cold
Enough Said I Hate This Cold Weather. That’s It I’am Moving To Miami, —Fucking Cold
Frozen Cruisers
To the 300 people frozen solid on the St. Lawrence – I love you! Your cruise ship is going nowhere and yet you’re partying and having a great time, enjoying the beauty. Here’s to folks who know how to make the best of a bizarre situation! m’goo
Why do you keeping re-posting the same bitch?
Why are people sending in the same bitch, slightly re-written? Are you not getting this message?: Thanks for your bitch! It’s been forwarded to our LTTWB editor/enforcer who will review it, then post it. Your bitch may take up to 12 hours to be posted on the site (for example, on week-ends or late at…
“Tough Guys” (note the quotes)
To all males who have worn a wifebeater in the winter, have referred to themselves as ‘hard as shit’, taken steroids, have bought a 50cent CD and haven’t bought a Public Enemy CD, yelled at girls from Dad’s car, given a 70-year-old lady the finger for driving slow, and who use the words ‘gay’ and…
famished & freezing felines
so, i met yet *another* cat on the way home the store today (stray cats always gravitate in my direction for some reason). anyway, the poor thing was shivering in the freezing cold and quite obviously malnourished. kitty conspicuously perched himself upon someones front steps to greet me as i walked by, meeowing beseechingly in…
Poet’s night, and the feeling’s right
HRM’s poet laureate Lorri Neilsen Glenn is inviting all authors who have published (or recorded) a book or chapbook in 2008 to read at the inaugural HRM/Mount Saint Vincent University Authors’ Night, on Thursday, January 29, 7pm at the MSVU Library. The free night’s open to the public, and there will be readings, performances, a…
Best club EVAR
The Ottoman Lounge: Oh, the coloursssss Some of you may remember when CBC Radio 3 sought out Canada’s best record store last year with their nationwide Searchlight poll. For their second fact-finding mission, they plan to identify Canada’s best live music club. CBC Radio 3 asks: “Will it be the legendary Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver…
Show up to get down at The Company House
Wise Old IDOW Anticipated new Gottingen Street venue The Company House would appreciate your moral support this Tuesday. In preparation for their opening for the In The Dead of Winter Music Festival, The Company House must be approved for a liquor license. The hearing is being held at the Utility and Review Board (3rd Floor,…
Horrible sidewalks
I would hate to be a person who is physically disabled. HRM has practically bound these people to their homes. Side walk clearance in a joke, and the goddamn curbs have 4ft of ice and stretch out into the road way. It’s bad enough for able bodied people trying not to fall and break anything,…
Karaoke is Japenese for The End Of Civilization As We Know It
Just filled out your “Best of Music” survey. As a musician (i.e. someone who plays a real instrument and sings with other real people playing real instruments), I was appalled to see a category for Best Karaoke Host. That is akin to having a Winter Olympic event on a ski hill for tobogganing. Sure, toboggining…
Rejoice!
I would just like to thank life for providing me with some wonderful experiences over the past month, all the beautiful people I’ve met just in passing, recognizing and respecting one another simply by acknowledging our existence, and I thank life for the lows that bring perspective and growth to prepare me for all the…
The little things
To those who hold the door open that half a second for me, who give me the briefest smile as they pass, who actually say hello and make some small talk; you give me faith in humanity. Your few minutes of warm are sometimes the only thing to get me through my day. Thank you.
This site!
I lurve the new site. As a Haligonian, who lives in Calgary temporarily and also just helped launch a newspaper site, I couldn’t be more fucking proud of my hometown. Rock on, Halifax. Unlike Ralph Klein, someone in the West love you. mmmbutter
Floaters
Ohhh the way you chug along the harbor! Little pucks with towers, pushing your way through from shore to shore! I love our ferries! From my rubber room with a view, I see you, heading to where your going, with people all a floating! I LOVE YOU!!!!! Merry me!
E-rok
You rock my world, polar bear. Thanks for keeping me warm. Lover: Heat-Seeking Spider Monkey
Fat Honker
I used to have a nice tiny nose, but I developed a tic when I was 13, and I haven’t been able to stop twisting and pulling at my nose. Now, my nose is stretched out, and twisted off to the right, and looks like a giant eye sore because I have a thin face.…
Sidewalk manners!
I’m getting rather sick and tired of the lack of sidewalk manners. If you are walking with your friends please move into single file when you see someone coming in the opposite direction so they can pass. Sailboats
Hey Halifax!
So, often I hear people getting all frustrated with the past, saying like “omg she said this and this wasn’t right and he doesn’t care” etcetc. Two things: Life doesn’t always cater to your specific egoic desires, and also, the time is right now. Every infinite fraction of a second is a new time to…
Clothing Is Not Optional
Sorry to do this, but after the past week I’ve seen this way too much.What is it about -15 C weather that makes girls think that a short skirt and tights are going to keep you warm? I don’t know if it’s the cold, or are you just stupid? Let’s do the math, shall we?…
Freezing my friggin ass off
I want to thank the club for permanently freezing my ass for most likely the rest of the winter season. I understand things aren’t looking positive for this club, but holy moly…..a little heat couldn’t be to much to ask for when it’s -kazillion degrees outside. Jackie Frost
Art & architecture: Twisted Sisters architects delight
In yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Lisa Rochon wrote a great story about the new University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy building in downtown Kitchener (my birthing grounds). Since the demise of the manufacturing industry, the city’s downtown has gone the way of the shitter. In fact, King Street, where the new building is located, has…
Top secret skating rinks
A press release from Councillor Andrew Younger: Councillor Andrew Younger is calling on Halifax Regional Council and the Executive Management Team to move council’s discussion and all reports related to the multi-plex RFP results to the public forum on Tuesday instead of the lengthy in-camera meeting as currently scheduled. “The RFP was a public document…
Drunk tanks
In part this is bad headline writing: Drunk tank no place for students – group In part it’s a failure on the reporter’s part to put the issue in broader context. But mostly it’s the student activist’s narrow world view. Had he questioned the use of drunk tanks as a safe policing means, regardless of…
All Fed Up
If you’re looking to be our roommate, you’ll inevitably be one of two types of people: 1. Someone who says they are clean and IS clean. 2. Someone who says they are clean and ISN’T clean. If it was a pie chart, the first group would be a tiny sliver. For them, congratulations. You win…
Fucking fed up
So I’m fat. No getting around that. And for the for the past fucking month and a half I’ve been TRYING to lose weight. I exercise almost every day, I started eating 1500 calories a day which was half of what I was eating and no weight loss. I went up to 1700 figuring 1500…
Thanks!
This isn’t so much of a bitch as it is a comment on silliness.When you go to certain retail stores and try something on they ask you for your name and write it on the door along with the amount of items that you have. Kind of funny though, you uhm,…spelled my name wrong on…
Fatabetes
Stop lumping me in with fatabetics. I have TYPE FUCKING ONE DIABETES. It wasn’t avoidable like type 2. No matter how many cheetos I put back in the bag, no matter how many forks I put down and no matter how many times I got off the sofa to do things other than take a…
Everyone knows you.
Everyone knows why you did it. Everyone knows you’re taking advice from someone who has nothing to lose. Everyone knows you fired me on a technicality. Everyone knows you want control. Everyone knows you’re not going to get it. Even you know. Three months to go
Clear Your Sidewalks!
To the fuckers on Jubilee who figure that they are too fucking good to clear their sidewalks of ice and snow. Fuck you! I fell over on the ice you can’t be fucked to salt or shovel. This isn’t a one-off, you’ve consistently failed to clear snow or ice all season. If I actually hurt…
The Halifax Sexplosion
The 1st Annual Everything To Do With Sex Show pulls down its inaugural drawers at the Cunard Centre, January 23-25. The three-day event has long been a success in cosmopolitan Montreal and Tonronto, but will it fly in conservative Nova Scotia? “We are entertainment, but we are also about education, and knowledge,” writes Sex Show…
Mocean Dance review
Sorrows is an absolute joy.
All ages hardcore bonanza this Saturday
For those of you who like to sail on a sea of your peers: You’ll want to go to the super bodacious all-ages hardcore show at the Pavilion on January 24 (6:30pm with Last Laugh, Pest Control, CI, Megalodon, Stay Hungry and Shitkicker). Special guest DJ James Reid will be quoting The Wire and playing…
new coast website
the new events calendar is a terrible set up. please make it more easily browse-able! i don’t care about knitting. i’d just like to see the events by day and when ‘next page’ meant the next day, that was great! but now it’s fucked! come on, i’ll even say please. —onlineeventsfinderguy
The way this works.
So this is the mirror world to Love The Way We Bitch, OK? People have been asking for this for years now, ever since Love The Way We Bitch became the biggest thing in the Halifax Blogosphere. After an unending river of spleen, spew and filth, here’s your chance to engender a little good karma.…
MOVE THE FUCK OVER
To the kids who go on my bus every morning, quit hogging the fucking two seaters behind the second door. When you see the bus filling with people and there are ten of them standing in the isle, pick your “precious” little knapsack up out of it’s personal seat and free up some damn space.…
Keep your judgement to yourselves
Who do you people think you are mainly my family, to say that i have a problem. i have a few pictures on Face=Book. and you all Judge me, Well Fuck you mom , you done worse things then i ever did. You call a couple of pics on a site obsessive. please. save your…
Helter Shelter
Another smashed bus shelter, what more do I say. Umm, I suppose I could call it a minor inconvenience, but really it makes me mad. How could people be so thoughtless? It’s winter, that means lots of wind, rain, snow or some combination of those and other bad weather. The shelters, though not perfect, are…
Over-concentration of pole-mounted trashcans at the corner of Almon and Gladstone.
What’s wrong? Over-concentration of pole-mounted trashcans at the corner of Almon and Gladstone. Who’s responsible? Don Pellerine, supervisor of public works, 490-6087. Remarks: After our Fix the City issue pointed out the dearth of trashcans in the north end, a reader called to complain about too many pole-mounted trashcans at this intersection—couldn’t one of these…
Supermarket Ripoff
To customers of a large national supermarket chain that does not have its head office in Nova Scotia: be very aware of price ripoffs when you order from their deli counter. They seem to have a strategy that involves posting one price on the product in the case, but having another higher price loaded into…
CFAT strikes again
This Saturday night, 8pm at Neptune Studio Theatre (1593 Argyle), the Centre for Art Tapes is holding their 20th-anniversary Media Arts Scholarship Screening. For the past six months, Bethany Riordan-Butterworth, Suzi Cameron, Leah Girardo, Kate McKenna, Leslie Menagh, MJ Sakurai, Bonita Hatcher, Jacinte Armstrong and François Gaudet have been busting their asses, learning the skills…
The Gideons remember Peter
Friday, January 16, 1:50am, at Gus’ Pub
All ages Winter SEED Multi-Arts Coffee House sorts you out
Hey! Guess what? You live in a terrible ice-covered snow globe of a city and it gets dark at 1pm or something ridiculous and you set unrealistically high goals for your New Year’s resolutions (PS: No one has an all raw food diet except for Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna or maybe a budgie) now you…
Where the fuck are the curbs?
Snowplowing and salting so far this year SUCKS! Main roads done first,then side streets, then roads are SUPPOSED to be pushed back to the curb. Well where are the supervisors of this work? I see 3-5 feet of ice-hard snowbanks extending into the roadways and merge and turning lanes only half done. Sloppy fucking work…
Not a lonely wilderness
To Tim Bousquet, New protected areas are not created by individuals. Your portrayal of the effort to protect the Blue Mountain—Birch Cove Lakes behind Bayers Lake in “Into the wild” (Dec. 18) was a glorification of one individual among many who initiated the call and fought for the protection of the near-urban natural area. For…
CYrus no tough gun totting guy but a really nice guy.
To All of you people who think Cyrus is a tough prick. you’re wrong. The Real person underneath all that brass is a Nice and warm guy. Too bad he didn’t play one on the show. i talked to him a couple of times. in person he’s a Really cool guy. so thanks Cyrus for…
Wark STILL wrong about Israel
Bruce Wark, Just how long did you live in the Middle East? What is your frame of reference that you claim to understand the dynamic that is the complicated Israeli/Palestinian/Hamas relationship in your article, “War crimes” I was inclined to believe, as you did, that perhaps the Israeli reaction to these things is overzealous—maybe even…
Wark wrong about Israel
It’s unfortunate that Bruce Wark doesn’t do his homework before condemning Israel outright in War crimes. It is also unfortunate that he didn’t consult any Israelis about the trauma they have suffered over the years. The shooting of rockets for years by Hamas into populated centres, with the primary objective being civilian casualties, is the…
Wark wrong on Israel
Mostly, I like Bruce Wark’s editorials. But War crimes (Jan. 12), not so much. He essentially blames Israel for the whole conflict and labels Israel an oppressor. Perhaps Wark’s column is designed as a counterattack on the so called pro-Israel bias in the press. Yet, we must ask why the press is so biased. Are…
Pizza woes
I will post it here, for everyone to read, for your customers to read, because I know you carry the coast, and you would not respond to my e-mail. To a certain downtown Pizza place who’s name may rhyme with male genitalia. I work in a downtown Halifax hotel, and part of my job is…
Are you freakin kidding me?
To the cab driver who took Barrington instead of Robie off the MacKay bridge to take me to CUNARD STREET this morning at 8:30am… are you kidding me? OF COURSE it was going to be bumper to bumper. So, I told you so. And I want my $20 back. Misses her car.
Obama Obsession
It is a good step that a black man has been named president of the United States. It is exciting that the New Democrats are finally in power of the USA again. But I want to remind our country of CANADA, that although this news affects us, Obama is not our president. The United States…
Blaming four-year-olds?
It was great to watch the segment about last week’s crosswalk collision on the news last night. A girl was nearly killed, and what is the response from the police? “Pedestrians shouldn’t use the crosswalk”. A crossing guard would make it a lot safer for the kids going to and from school, but apparently it’s…
Los Campesinos!
With their second release in under a year, the Campesino! family has proven what their persistent punctuation suggests: Los Campesinos! have an unshakeable formula. The harmonic chemistry and spry colloquialisms of vocalists Gareth and Aleksandra Campesino!, backed by catchy jingle-jangle and dauntless energy, have created a signature sound. The challenge Los Campesinos! now face is…
The Danks
PEI loves its keyboards and I’m OK with that. I haven’t paid much attention to its music scene, but as recent EPs and conversations with island-born musicians have shown me, this is a mistake. There are danceable bands over there, The Danks being no exception. Featuring members of Two Hours Traffic, hitting somewhere between that…
In-Flight Safety
Departure time has arrived for Halifax’s In-Flight Safety. While the album design for The Coast is Clear (the band’s first full-length from 2006) was awash in Maritime blue and green, the cover of this new album (with artwork from former Coast art director Kate O’Connor) is inky black with pinkish-red strokes, drawing the eye to…
How to spend Halifax’s economy into gear
There’s plenty of work that needs doing in Halifax, and plenty of people ready to do it, says Halifax MP Megan Leslie. And the federal government should put those people to work as part of an overall economic stimulus package. Leslie takes me on a four-hour tour of her district to demonstrate the kinds of…
So long to Sundance
Here’s an excerpt of Jason’s last post from Glen Matthew’s Sundance blog: At the shorts awards party we met up with a lot of the jury from the festival and many of the short filmmakers. They gathered everyone up to annouce the awards for short films. Adam Burke, Rob Cotterill, Zander and I were standing…
Bush whacked
George WTF Bush spent the last few weeks of his failed presidency on a public relations campaign, trying to paint his time in America’s highest office as something other than a failed presidency. His main tactic was to portray himself as a war president—the tireless leader of a nation dragged into battle by the September…
Treevenge leaves a festival winner
Yesterday, Sundance Film Festival awarded its 2009 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking to Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and the Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking was given to Lies, directed by Jonas Odell. Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking to were given to The attack of the robots from Nebula-5, directed by…
Good vibrations
Q: I love the wife I married two years ago, but she absolutely can’t come unless she uses a vibrator on herself. She’s asked me to let her use it during sex or for me to use it on her, but I’ve refused. It’s bad enough knowing I can’t compete with that thing without having…
L’Orkestre des Pas Perdus
Chaos has more impact if encountered in the midst of order. L’Orkestre des Pas Perdus, the veteran Montreal nine-piece, serves up a smooth opener to establish sanity, then takes turns calling it into question. Every wind instrument you know is usually blowing. A designated few keep time while the rest go off, sometimes in the…
Morse’s environmental shakeup
The shocker in Rodney MacDonald’s recent cabinet shuffle is the replacement of environment minister Mark Parent with veteran David Morse, who leaves natural resources. It’s a sign of an urgent environmental crisis that Morse considers this a promotion. As Ecology Action Centre director Mark Butler puts it: “Ten years ago, that’s a demotion.” After a…
Brain Trust
In almost every art form, collaboration is integral, if not vital in inspiring and evolving an artist’s career. But most painters, printmakers and sculptors prefer to work in isolation. There is one exception to that rule—graffiti. In the world of street art, collaboration is pretty much the norm, with artists putting up pieces side by…
In-Flight Safety
Departure time has arrived for Halifax’s In-Flight Safety. While the album design for The Coast is Clear (the band’s first full-length from 2006) was awash in Maritime blue and green, the cover of this new album (with artwork from former Coast art director Kate O’Connor) is inky black with pinkish-red strokes, drawing the eye to…
Frida Hyvönen
So, you weren’t looking for a singer who embodied the late Laura Branigan? Well, here she is anyways. Swedish singer-pianist Frida Hyvönen sounds scarily similar to the late singer (“Gloria”) from the ’80s on “Dirty Dancing,” “Science” and “Birds,” three of the album’s best songs. And, like Branigan, Hyvönen sounds both powerful and pathetic (in…
Eisener’s Sundance salutations
A day in the festival life of Treevenge director, Jason Eisener—excerpted and edited from glenjm.wordpress.com. January 20, 2009 We picked up our badges, got our tickets, then I had to get on a bus to go to the directors’ lunch. It was a cool coincidence that I sat by the director of Dead Snow, Tommy…
Range of Mocean
Watching Estelle Clareton describe the band member that inspired her new dance piece for Mocean Dance is like attending a show in itself. The petite choreographer from Montreal stands on the Dunn Theatre steps, hunches her shoulders, spreads her arms in the act of holding an accordion and thumps her left foot on the next…
Baghead
The Duplass brothers (The Puffy Chair) have the distinction of making the first mumblecore film in which the timeline is definite: we know it will take place over a weekend, unlike predecessors Dance Party USA and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which drift aimlessly and seemingly endlessly toward neither progress nor resolution. Baghead has a typical…
My Bloody Valentine 3D
Without the 3D, My Bloody Valentine 3D would probably be released direct to video and forgotten. (You can watch it in theatres not equipped for the third dimension, which would be like playing records without speakers.) Like Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, it’s a film so lame they had to make it 3D. And unlike…
Notorious
Once more, with not much feeling, the biopic formula infects a celebrity’s life. Notorious reduces the career and death of Biggie Smalls. The year 1997 wasn’t so long ago that it’s forgotten, even if it isn’t often considered. But Notorious has no feel for the 1990s. This distinctive point in rap history (when east side/west…
Jolie wanderer
Jolie Holland is in Brooklyn, New York, at her apartment south of Prospect Park, when she answers the phone, turns off some tinny-sounding music in the background and says hello. She sounds tired, and explains she is getting over a cold. Her speaking voice, with just a hint of a southern accent, is surprisingly quiet…
Brent Randall hits a perfect harmony
More than two years back, The Heavy Blinkers were playing the Atlantic Film Festival’s street party on Argyle and they invited Brent Randall on stage to perform his song “This House,” the eighth of 13 tracks on his new—and first full-length—album, We Were Strangers in Paddington Green. Wearing loafers and clutching shakers, Randall delivered a…
Matt Mays & El Torpedo w/The Arkells
Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24 at the Marquee, 2037 Gottingen, 10pm, $25-$30, 1-888-311-9090, sonicconcerts.com.
Welcome to Love the way we love!
The flip side for all you Bitchers and Haters, to give props and good vibes to samaritans and big ups to the awesomeness going on in Halifax. Be positive! Send out your love to those deserving! Whether you know them or not! The Best of your Love the Way You Love will be printed in…
New website Bitches!
The website is cool, Coast! But, come on, it’s far from perfect. It cheeses me off that the restaurant section can be sorted by price but only by dollar sign (what the hell does $$$$ mean?) Let’s make it our own! Website is Far From Perfect!
NFB’s free screening room now online
This is an amazing and progressive move from the NFB. Right now over 700 films are available online for free, any time, and in high-resolution. New films will be added on a weekly basis from the NFB’s catalogue of over 13,000 productions. According to NFB, films from the Atlantic region that are already available include:…
Sundance inauguration
Glen Matthews writes from Sundance: A few weeks ago whilst planning for this whimsical adventure, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that we would be on United States soil when Barack Obama’s inauguration would take place. We woke up early enough to catch a bus down to Main Street where they had a whole bunch…
Crappy sewage plant
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] </big Last week, the brand new Halifax sewage plant—-the largest and most important component of the $330 million Halifax Solutions project—-crapped out. Evidently, a power outage led to some as…
Hey losers…
Enough with your sorry ass love lives and depressive personalities already. This is a bitch section, not Dear Fucking Abby. Love, Bitch editor
Canada Pooooooooosssst!
Recently I’ve discovered that it costs $8.28 to send a 5-oz. package by regular mail from Halifax to Bridgewater. Bridgewater is an hour’s drive away. I’ve also discovered that it costs just $1.31 more than the above price, to send a package weighing more than a pound all the way from Toronto to Bridgewater -…
Treevenge Tree Shirts
To celebrate the invitation to this week’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the guys behind the insanely popular horror/comedy short film *Treevenge* are getting into the merch biz. If you doubt the power of Jason Eisener and Rob Cotterill’s bloody hit, stop by Pretty Things Boutique (5685 Cunard, 492-8329), and grab one of…
