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As a resident who lives near the Commons, it’s lovely to see people walking by with their ice skates slung over their shoulder, cheeks rosy, and full of spirit following a skating session at the Oval. But come on Halifax, it’s no longer a temporary establishment, you know that we love it, so what’s with…
[Image-1] I bet you have no idea what you have done, what you took away from me on that day, what you continue to take away from me. I wish I could face you today. I wish I could make you feel as ashamed and scared and broken as you made me. I wish I…
There was absolutely no need to give my car a “love tap”. I was trying to get out of a gas station onto a busy street. Like the other two or three people walking past, it would have taken you TWO STEPS to go behind me (also known as common sense), there was lots of…
[Image-1] This is just to say hi to the beautiful young lady with the fantastic heart-warming smile on the 54 bus Saturday around 12:30pm. You made my week when you spoke as you got off on Caladonia. I hope I run into you again sometime and maybe have the courage to talk with you!! You…
A year ago, you broke my heart. It still hurts. I guess you had your reasons. Don’t we all. And you’ve apologized, at least for some of it. But I can’t forgive you. How could I? What you did is still hurting me. A god damn year later and IT STILL FUCKING HURTS. I wish…
It’s been so long, and the dentistry students have opened the world up to a new level of misogynistic behaviour in public. —Ryan
[Image-1] So I’m taking the sex survey, leering at my screen as fond and tragic memories come flooding back… and then a frown creases my face. The questions start getting really weird, like having someone walk in on you or you them… well how about neither! If you hear grunting don’t open the bloody F’in…
As the result of that false report to HRP about me you had your friends make, undercover cops showed up to question me for suspicion of dealing drugs out of my apartment . You did threaten revenge if I fucked you over,yet from day 1 you lied to me about whom you’re friends were…As a…
[Image-1] I know we’re not supposed to like anything beyond what we have, but today I’m thankful for that elusive Thing in life that makes things magical, that rare tantalizing glimpse beyond the ordinary drabbiness. The life beyond the details…The Hand That Paints The Sunset, the glimmer in friendly eyes, the breath of air beyond…
While I do enjoy a good cup of joe when early for a job interview please pay more attention to your dairy experation dates/ counter time. Your man bun sporting,dated music taste and lack of customer care may or may at fault for my vommit after visiting your otherwise very nice establishment. not super pissed…
To the black guy that assaulted me at 830am on Summer Street Wednesday morning, and damaged my bicycle. Go to anger management. You need help. I banged on your window because you were putting my safety at risk when you tried passing me aggressively with no space between my bike and your car. All for…
Banking can be this uncomfortable. Prepare to be screwed again and again. This time it is a new fee for transferring your Mutual Fund. Not 10 bucks, not 20, but 75 Canadian dollars. Prepare for insertion on March 31. —FUFI
[Image-1] I guess this is more of a bitch at myself. I found a bus pass the other day. I was the only person sitting in that particular area of the bus, and figured that it had been left by a previous, long gone rider. I put the pass in my pocket and took it…
I chatted with Andrew Al-Khouri—a musician and tax man who cooks everything from scratch, doesn’t watch TV and happens to be Halifax’s representative in Master Chef Canada’s second season—over a piece of carrot cake. Get to know him before the show premieres this Sunday, February 1 on CTV after that big football thing. Tell me…
Oh Halifax Transit, please fix GoTime. You’re never on time anyway, but the phone service at the very least gives me a pointless numerical time value to curse you with under my breath. I look forward to it several times a day, but you’re no fun. If you fix it ASAP, I will take the rest…
Do not cough unguarded in my general direction, especially in close quarters during the winter. If you have a tissue handy, use that. If not, use the crook of your elbow. It’s a very simple rule of etiquette. It’s inculcated in most of us by the age of five, and it’s not too hard. —I…
I will never forget this one man who thought he was doing me a favor by wanting me to lick his ass. He rolled up, legs in the air naked, spread his cheeks and looked like he hadn’t wiped for days. NFW I was gonna rimjob him. Attorney or not! —Dating: it’s scary out there.
[Image-1] We stood beside each other for the whole concert. I wanted to say hello but was too shy to interrupt your digital communication. If you’d like to go get coffee sometime, leave your phone in your pocket for a minute the next time we meet and I’ll introduce myself. —The girl with the braid on…
[Image-1] Libraries are places to read, to study, to enrich oneself. They aren’t malls. They aren’t hang-out spots for you and your loud, obnoxious, inconsiderate friends. Is library etiquette dead? Did it die between the time the Spring Garden Library closed and the Halifax Central Library opened? I’m conflicted on which should be the quietest…
Just because someone doesn’t agree with what you think, doesn’t mean you ignore them. When trying to come to consensus, consensus does not mean exclude all people who hold different ideas then yours, so that you can surround yourself with only those who vote the same as you. Blocking people on FB (now we can’t…
[Image-1] Public obsession with HBO’s Game of Thrones has swept across North America like a Dothraki horde. Anyone daring to speak out against our television king faces a gruesome beheading—or at least disapproving talk show audiences. So it’s not surprising to hear Cineplex confirm that Game of Thrones: The IMAX Experience will be screening at…
Today East Coast Music Week announced the nominees for the 2015 East Coast Music Awards, held this year in Saint John’s, NL April 8-12. Showcases, awards, galas, panels, conferences, schmoozing—it really has it all. Rich Aucoin made out like a bandit with six nominations, Jimmy Rankin has five, Radio Radio and The Trews follow with…
[Image-1] Many companies talk about mental health, but did you know Telus puts its money where its global telecommunications leader of a mouth is? Last year, Telus—home of Canada’s most reliable 4G mobile network—donated (in part) $450,000 of funding to mental health initiative The Sandbox Project. “TELUS is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing…
[Image-1] To the group of undergrad gents that volunteered to help my passed out boyfriend and I at the Golden Arches on Quinpool on Saturday night: I cannot thank you enough for helping me get him home. Thanks to you he avoided what would have been an inevitable and all too depressing trip to the…
To the asshole who almost knocked me off my bike with your car with Alberta licence plates near the citadel today: What the fuck were you thinking! It sucks enough to have to bike home in the rain, why do I also have to deal with insane Albertans on the road in Halifax? You seemed…
You were unlucky in love for all of your 33 years of life and stated many times the good guys were taken. So what do you do? You find yourself a paired up guy, a guy who was my best friend’s boyfriend for 7 years! Plenty of single guys around but you pursue a man…
Recently i have been building a gaming pc. And for an OS i chose that certain brand of software.After 2 days of trying to install the thing on my Hard drive i decided i needed help, and so i call that certain brands technical support hotline(India) . After a frustrating half hour chat with a…
I find myself exhausted and weary with the thought of our staggering dysfunction as a society. It’s everywhere… Mean-looks on the streets, socioeconomic prejudice, individual dysfunction and a system divided internally and doomed for inevitable collapse. Sadly, Halifax is a glaring and loud example of our deepening crisis- the loss of human solidarity. That spark…
[Image-1] It’s tough out there. That’s especially true for journalists facing a shrivelling job market. Right now, nobody knows that better than the dozens of newsroom employees cast-off from the Chronicle Herald last year. Back in December, president and CEO Mark Lever eagerly told the media there were only two “voluntary” layoffs, in contrast to…
To the two people in the catering truck who helped me when I crashed my bike on the corner of Jubilee and Vernon: I didn’t say thank you, so I’ll say it now. You guys were awesome. Thank you! I’m all fixed up and have two new front teeth to boot! —Worst grocery run ever
Stephen Harper your an unethical, lying, manipulative,hypocrite who only cares about himself. —It’s time to come out.
Aside from a handful of zealots, union members don’t give a shit who represents them. This is all about who is going to pay the mortgage on that BIG shiny new building and the salaries of the ridiculous number of people that work there. I’ll tell ya who’s gonna pay that mortgage and for all…
[Image-1] Ok…so looking to buy a house and we gotta have a garage (it’s a guy thing apparently). I sort on MLS/viewpoint with ‘garage’ checked then scroll through the results. Do I see a ‘garage’? Yes…only…there’s no way to drive a car into it….unless you count driving over your back lawn and creating your own…
Vanity Fair’s Monday report from the Sundance Film Festival has an unlikely Halifax connection. One of the movies VF’s Richard Lawson had to undure is I Am Michael, wherein James Franco and Zachary Quinto play a pair of Halifax magazine editors. The Halifax part isn’t what makes them Franco-worthy, it’s that after launching the publication…
This is about a certain chain coffee shop. I was a regular customer at your establishment for years getting a steeped tea with 2 milk for my morning commute to work every day. Slowly the service has been declining AFTER prices have gone up… drinks made incorrectly, hot beverages not ready during rush hour, wrong…
Are drivers in Nova Scotia ever going to start signalling more than 3 metres before they turn/brake hard?! It’s bad enough that the arrows painted on the roads are also very close to the white line. While riding one morning, a car proceeds to instantaneously brake and swerve right (in front of me). As I…
re: the editorial, judgemental flag of ‘male tears’ attached to a recent LTWWB posting. Moderator, with all due respect, if you want to partake in the forum, get out from behind your one-way comments and join the fray. get yourself an avatar and prepare to engage with others. to sit safely behind the moderator position…
[Image-1] To the two women at Pavia on the fifth floor Central Library, who spilled a coffee on the floor which also splattered across my newspaper which was on my table : You both are educated self observed slobs with the manners of a pig.One of you wiped my table using the same napkin one…
[Image-1] I know you’re holding back. And I have been patiently waiting for a sign from you that maybe something will really happen between us, but I am not sure for how much longer. You know I want to kiss you in a thousand places between the top of your head and the tips of…
Lawyers for Ryan Millet, the dentistry student who blew the whistle on the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen,” held a press conference Wednesday morning to share the news that Dalhousie is still bungling this whole Facebook situation. Yeah, shocker. Millet went before a disciplinary hearing Tuesday night in hopes of getting his suspension from clinical…
Well, look what we have here. Twitter investigator @HalifaxRetales pointed out this morning that the oft-denied Urban Outfitters Barrington Street location (the one that’s supposedly moving into the former Sam the Record Man) is finally hiring. That’s about as real as it gets if you ask me. And if not, this is the longest episode…
As the festival moniker promises, In the Dead of Winter kicked off last night under a blanket of a freshly fallen snow. Dance Movie swooned at the newly relocated Seahorse Tavern, which moved from Argyle Street to the underbelly of the Marquee. With her powerful vocals, singer and guitarist (and Coast employee) Tara Thorne gave…
[Image-1] Halifax has seen more than its fair share of live music venue closures in recent years. The reasons for closure are complex and diverse, ranging from regulations that can best be described as “hostile to business,” to economic factors revolving around people being unable to spend all night paying $6 per drink in a…
[Image-1] The Dalhousie dentistry scandal has dominated local headlines for more than a month. The public has reacted with fury to sexist and homophobic remarks by fourth-year dentistry students, and references to faculty showing students a video of women in bikinis to wake up male students. All this has been compounded by the university’s messy—and…
Chess with the Doomsday Machine To February 7 Alderney Landing Theatre WHO HE IS I grew up in a theatre family—my dad had a company and my mother performed, I grew up in that environment, ended up in Canada and did theatre studies at Dalhousie. Maggie [Stewart, OneLight’s managing director] and I started the company…
Alana Yorke w/Brinleigh, Greg MacPherson, The Skydiggers Thursday, January 22 Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 8:30pm, $20 “I’ve been making music forever,” says Alana Yorke. And anyone who listens to Dream Magic—the local composer/singer/pianist’s latest—can hear the years of experience. “Ian [Bent, Yorke’s partner] is my co-producer and arranger for specifically orchestral instruments like…
Owen Pallett w/Dance Movie Thursday, January 22, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 Owen Pallett is one of the busiest musicians in Canada. With a solo career spanning a Polaris Prize win, multiple records—including his latest, In Conflict—he’s a recent member of international musical explosion Arcade Fire, garnered an Academy Award nomination for…
Brinleigh picks ”The Company Store” by Greg MacPherson: I snuck into my first bar, The Upstairs Club in Sydney, to see Greg perform. I was wide-eyed and 16 with a satchel full of homemade apple wine. His well-defined biceps inspired me to do push-ups every day. Corey Isenor picks “Place I Call Home” by Spencer…
Alex Oh Sushi & Rolls Hours: Tue-Wed, 11:30am -10pm; Thur-Sat, 11:30am -10:30pm; Sun, 12pm- 9:30pm It’s a busy Friday night at Alex Oh Sushi. The dining room is tiny, but full; the heat of the small crowd has the windows sweating against the outside cold. My friend is running late, so I sit at the…
Cheelin Restaurant 1496 Lower Water Street, 902-422-2252 Succulent, intertwined chicken fried noodles, glistening pan-fried dumplings and steaming hot and sour soup are only a few of the mouth-watering dishes at Cheelin Restaurant, one of Halifax’s best-known Chinese cuisines. This month, Cheelin celebrates 20 years in business at its Brewery Market location. “We are the best,”…
[Image-1] “Anybody had sex in the new library yet?” one user asks. “So not ready to be an adult” reads another Yak. Yik Yak is the free mobile app currently causing panic in news articles across the country. The anonymous service allows anyone to publicly post their thoughts, and read what others within a 2.5-kilometre…
With three nights (and one afternoon) of gentle shows to ease the pain of a 5pm sunset, the ninth annual In the Dead of Winter Festival comes when you need it most. Get your tickets while you can and read our features on Alana Yorke, Owen Pallett and musician’s picks of the festival. CLICK HERE…
[Image-1] It was a “perfect storm” of failures that lost the municipality $11 million in building the Washmill Lake underpass. Yesterday, auditor general Larry Munroe presented his 129-page report to the city’s audit and finance committee. It was the culmination of a two-year long investigation into the Bayers Lake capital project. While Munroe—at great length—detailed…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18) According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, 2015 is the year you can get totally serious about doing what you were born to do. You will be given the chance to slough off all that’s fake and irrelevant and delusory. You will be invited to fully embrace…
Myles and Northwood’s stoops were probably 10 feet apart at the most, and though the stoops were about to function as spots for incidental social encounters in citified environments, just the sheer notion of Myles making small-talk with Sarah—this paragon of coolness who just now came outside and sat down with a pack of smokes—terrified…
Head games I read Heather Miller’s letter about wearing an “illegal helmet,” and want to share that the exact same situation happened to me the first year The Oval opened (“Put on your thinking helmet,” January 8). I asked to speak to a manager or a person in charge when I was asked to leave…
Second World Collective official launch w/Keys N Krates, gLAdiator, Sleepy Tom Saturday, January 24 at 9pm Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $35 www.secondworldcollective.com Toronto’s Keys N Krates walks the line between rap and trap, and that’s mostly because it’s not easy to describe what type of music they play. A live band playing electronic on…
Q I’m a straight 18-year-old girl in my first sexual relationship. Things are a little awkward, and I could chalk it up to inexperience, but here’s what I feel conflicted about: I have a vore fetish. It was a fascination for me as a young child and became a sexual thing around the time I…
Piaf Friday, January 23 at 7:30pm Rebecca Cohn, 6101 University Avenue Known as The Little Sparrow for her distinct voice, petite stature and wide eyes, songbird Edith Piaf has been transformed by Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada into a production by Igor Dobrovolskiy. “I blended classical elements of the ballet with her typical movements—arms strong,…
Developers are constrained by them. Tourists are lured by them. The city is shaped by them. But how exactly do the protected views from Citadel Hill work? At last you can see. A video information service from PLANifax and The Coast.
The 39 Steps To February 15 Neptune Theatre, 1592 Argyle Street neptunetheatre.com “Kinetic” and “joy” are words Rhys Bevan-John uses a lot when he talks about the Neptune Theatre production of The 39 Steps, and that makes sense: the long-limbed, rubber-faced actor is known for his exuberant physicality on stage, and this play makes the most…
