Coming soon to Queen: FANCY
With Queen Street’s MAKENEW on the move, there’s room for a new face on the block. Make that two: Amy Honey and Sherry Lynn Jollymore, they’ll be debuting their new collaboration, a curated vintage and handmade clothing boutique and art gallery, come February 15. Honey—known for Fancy Lucky Vintage, her Etsy line and Lawrencetown shop…
Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon’s takeover
Wikipedia has a problem. Of the 20,572,652 editors that populate the online encyclopedia, only 13 per cent are women. Organizers of the Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon event believe that this lack of female editorship results in less content about notable women. “It seems that the ratio of the content providers is being reflected in the actual content…
splitsville
1. a class 1 driver’s licence for a lonely trucker job 2. a pair of steel toed boots for some tedious low-paid factory work 3. some janitorial experience 4. a desire to go to Alberta That is a summary of the qualifications you’ll need before even thinking of applying for any kind of job in…
Dan Doiron’s blues man group
While you’re heating up Lean Cuisines in the office microwave, Port Hood’s bluesman Dan Doiron will be putting away some ribs and mac and cheese—sweet tea on the side—in Memphis, Tennessee. The winner of the East Coast Blues Society’s Maritimes to Memphis competition, the Cape Breton guitarist and his band will be shredding their hearts…
Saving the Farmers Market is localvores’ job
It is time to put the history of the Seaport Farmers’ Market in the past. I don’t give a fig who did what. What I do care about is having a daily source for local food and a place where I can shop that is filled with local family businesses. Don’t penalize the vendors at…
Pay it Forward = Tim’s Scotia Square
Thank you for the kind man in front of me in the Tim’s line last week who paid for my coffee via a pay it forward last week. I was having one of those days where every task was an obstacle. Standing in line I was counting to 10 in my mind because the service…
Clayton Park grocery guy
You work at a grocery store chain in Clayton Park, and you’ve cashed me through off and on for the past 3 years or so. One of the first times we met, you commented on my nerdy t-shirt, and you’ve made some cute comments to my son from time to time too. You stood out…
Halifail
I moved to Canada from England 2 years ago and became a proud Haligonian. I loved it here and thought the people of the city were so nice. Until this weekend. Some ARSEHOLE took my wallet and Halifax Moosehead’s T-Shirt on Saturday night. They ain’t worth anything in money but it was all really important…
Storm Closure
So after a major fuck up on the part of my employer during the first blizzard and forcing all their employees to work and then risk their lives getting home. My employer actually closed on Wednesday. I thought hey, they learned something, great! Only to get to work a day later and find a memo…
Sailor Bup’s Barbershop is open
The latest buzz on Argyle Street is Sailor Bup’s Barbershop (1574 Argyle Street, Suite 5). The vintage-inspired, affordability-focussed old school barbershop opened for business last week, and owner Mark Peyton couldn’t be more pumped. “I’ve always been into the barbering culture and traditions,” says Peyton who’s been working on making Bup’s a reality since the…
MAKENEW’s moving to Agricola
We kind of saw this coming last spring when MAKENEW (1526 Queen Street) introduced a men’s line and spilled over into a second room, Anna Gilkerson—local designer and curator of the boutique-style thrift shop—needed some room to grow. It turns out she needed more than just an extra room, which is why she’s expanding the…
Blonde and Brunette
Thanks to K and R. 2 beauties who could have done whatever they wanted tonight but decided to hang out with me. What a time. Thanks girls. —Your Plumber
Way past due date
There’s a certain show on the taxpayer funded channel (CBC) that has the number 22 in the title, why is this shit still on the air? At conception it was funny, now it’s a flop house for the talent challenged. Wit, humour, cutting edge should feature in a show that I’m fucking well subsidising, instead,…
a fellow missed cnxns reader
ma gurl lizzie, u know who u are. now u can read the missed cnxns and luv the way we luv and u will not be imagining/reading 2 deeply into the OMG THAT IS TOTALLY ABOUT ME. cause this is TOTALLY ABOUT YOU. c u @ THE SEAHORSE RETRO NIGHT SEPTEMBER 2014. u saw st.…
Pissed-off Pedestrian
What kind of coward laughs at a perfect stranger from a moving vehicle for no apparent reason? You do, assbag! P.S: I love yoga pants too! —Laughter Made For Aggravating Outing
licorice spice
You’ve come into my work a few times now. You seem nice and have a beautiful smile. Last time you were in we talked about your job and my old job. When you said you tree plant in the summer it sparked my interest. I miss the forests of BC. I’m too shy to ask…
Scammer
How odd that you “lay me off” after I file a complaint with the labour board about your attempt to scam $15,000 from the government.The good news is I spoke with 2 auditors for over an hour who now have my testimony and many incriminating emails between you and your partner in crime. You better…
I love you…… MORE!
I love you so much, you make life fun and memorable. I love our late goodnight calls, cuddles and our kitchen dancing to snow globes. Through it all, the support and love you give me is more than I could ever ask for. Thanks for being my rock. I love you, MORE (I win) —Your…
Metro Transit Charmer
To the 80 Sackville bus driver that stopped me when I got on to tell me I was beautiful. **BLUSH** Thank you. I was begrudgingly on my way to my second job that day and you made me smile through my entire shift. You’re not so bad yourself! —Earmuffs
Hey Neighbor :)
Thanks so much to my AWESOME neighbor for shoveling my driveway for me this morning, especially with all of that heavy plow stuff at the end!! You are the best dude 🙂 Hope your day was great, and know that I will definitely be paying that awesomeness forward!! Cheers! —Thanks for a great start to…
blonde dreaded cashier
I’ve been doing my groceries there for years and you’ve worked there the entire time. In the past few months your demeanour has changed completely – you seem much more upbeat and happy. I used to try and talk to you, let you know someone notices and gives a fuck, but you seemed too far…
Your Dog is Not a Child
My child does not shit randomly everywhere making you spend hundreds of hours of your life cleaning my child’s shit off your carpet, your shoes, your car, your child’s clothing; fucking everything and everywhere. My child does not have sharp teeth which injure or maim people and destroy fucking everything in the house, nor does…
Slipped Disc
So my GF sees this thing on the internet called “Autofellatio”. I said “auto – what?” She says ” Auto fellatio… I would like to see you give it a try.” and continues to explain the method and mechanics of it me. So… being the good sport I am… I curl myself up into a…
This isn’t goddamned Tron
What is with all the drivers who randomly turn into oncoming traffic because, fuck everybody? You decide to just slam a left turn into oncoming traffic like the christ of retards, then look at me with confusion when I flipped your trifling ass off. The worst part about all this? The person you end up…
Deep radio craphole digs deeper
For years the radio stations in this town have sucked. Douche DJ. Nickleback. Bieber. Stupid commercial. Repeat. Now there is a new station that takes suckage to new levels. You claim to play only new cool music, then play a song that either sucks or is by a dude who’s been dead 20 years. Your…
Elsie’s Used Clothing overflows into Something Elsie’s
Maureen Court knows an opportunity when she sees one. With 14 years of running the wildly popular Elsie’s Used Clothing (1530 Queen Street) under her belt—and decades working in fashion—she’s about to open her second shop on Queen Street’s magnetic Vintage Row. Something Elsie’s (1528 Queen Street, conveniently next door) will take the place that…
E-Cigarettes: Health Department Stupidity
How can the government classify e-cigarettes the same as tobacco cigarettes? This is vapour, not an exhaust tube of toxics like regular cigarettes. And, if this vapour is harmful, then give the public some solid evidence of this! Why this fucking witch hunt over a product that can actually help people quit? —Tired of Being…
Re-instate the SGR Cop
The issue of bums, panhandlers and other assorted dross accosting and pestering taxpaying citizens on what is considered the street where most downtown workers walk, has been covered plenty of times in this forum. I’d like to see the installation of a newer and more aggressive SGR Cop, one with the full backing of the…
Hey You Goof
I know we decided that we should take these next couple months apart to figure out what we want, and cut all contact. I might not be breaking that agreement, because I don’t know if you read these when I’m not there. I just want to say thank you for being wonderful. You’ve always been…
Snow Day Wednesday
Every school in the province closed EXCEPT Dal. WTF?!?!?! Dal students are not expendable. Our safety matters, too. Have you been checking the social media sites? We’ve been roasting you all morning. Thanks for finally coming to your senses and closing Dal at noon. But next time, remember that your inattentiveness meant that the better…
The Hub closes its current location
Late on Monday night, The Hub Halifax (1673 Barrington Street)—a space that’s been an incubator for entrepreneurs, start-ups, community-building and many a brainstorm for five years— posted an announcement that it would be closing its current office at the end of the month. Though the decision was made to coincide with the end of its…
Spa Chappelle’s skin win
Just about seven years after opening, Spa Chappelle (5832 St. Margaret’s Bay Road) is celebrating its second location this week. Owner Shannon Chappelle says the new space (located at 65 Dellridge Lane, in the rapidly growing Larry Uteck neighbourhood) allows more room for both services—facials, body treatments, manicures, pedicures, infrared sauna, to name a few—as…
You should know about YogaShare
Community is what Guylaine Williams loves the most about yoga, which is why she wants to make it as accessible as possible. “Yoga and Yoga Inc. have never been synonymous, and I’ve struggled with that for a long time,” says Williams, who after teaching yoga in Halifax for over a decade began renting her own…
Duelling abortion-themed bus ads come to Halifax
Bus ads have awoken the abortion debate in Halifax. After pro-life ads appeared on buses earlier this month, a pro-choice organization is raising money to advertise on the entire Metro Transit fleet. Sexual and gender resource centre South House has collected nearly $1,900 toward its $4,000 goal. The group advocates for a person’s right to…
Hot Oral Sex (and more)
“Sex is an integral component of intimate relationships,” says Jess O’Reilly, a doctor, Toronto’s Playboy-TV host, author and sex educator, “But we live in a culture in which having sex is acceptable, but talking about sex is taboo.” Thus, The Everything to Do with Sex Show is designed for dialogue. From seminars to main-stage acts…
There’s a reason Halifax traffic is hell
There’s a reason traffic is hell in Halifax: The 91 signalized intersections on the peninsula are regulated by a traffic control system that is using traffic data from the 1990s. Much of the subsequent updating to the system, reflecting data collected over the past 20 years, has been completely lost. Over those two decades, everything…
Bass Bias’ amazing bass
The walls of The Argyle’s basement will be shaking on January 24 as part of the latest edition of Bassment Bump, a series of shows put on by local label Bass Bias Records. And if an evening of shaking it to a DJ spinning bass-heavy tracks in Halifax’s literal underground doesn’t sound like your cup…
Letters to the editor, January 23, 2014
Cross drivers P. Ryall (“Road rage,” Letters, January 16) makes a good point. I have many times seen pedestrians crossing without looking. Two statistics are particularly interesting: 1. Most car/pedestrian accidents occur at crosswalks. This is not because nobody ever crosses in other places. It is because people who cross without a crosswalk know they…
Sarah & Craig
Who says high school sweethearts never make it? Not Sarah O’Brien and Craig Steeves. Through university, summers apart, masters degrees and internships, they’ve remained as tight as they were in their Fredericton High days. When working in geology in Tanzania, Sarah bought herself the bright blue Tanzanite stone that Craig would eventually pop the question…
Lucy & Ron
Lucy Sowerby never wanted a traditional wedding. So when her partner of almost 12 years, Ron Francis proposed with a ring inside a Kinder egg that had been carefully reassembled, it was entirely unexpected. “I thought at first that the ring was a Kinder prize,” says Lucy, “and I said something like ‘It’s actually kind…
Jenny & Pamela
When Pamela Mosher bought the rings for her and Jenny Johnston, she had it all planned— a romantic sunset proposal on Citadel Hill—but her nerves got the best of her. “I was so nervous about doing it that I ended up asking, at home, the same day I bought the rings,” she admits. Fortunately, that’s…
Pamela & Ryan
It’s like a scene straight out of a romantic movie—on a last-minute trip to Paris, Pamela Duggan and Ryan Wells were walking along the Pont des Art bridge admiring all the padlocks that cover it as symbols of a couple’s love when Ryan dropped down on one knee. To Pam’s surprise, their own padlock had…
North star
“People forget that we are alive,” says Tanya Tagaq. The Inuk throat-singer from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has been performing her unique style of traditional throat-singing for over a decade. For In the Dead of Winter, Tagaq will perform her original score to the 1922 film Nanook of the North at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on…
In the Dead of Winter 2014
Nothing warms the body and soul like music. Put a cork in your winter whining and join the rest of the lovely neighbourhood at IDOW, January 23-25, a three-day festival of soft, loud, uplifting, heartbreaking and soul-exploding sounds from our cover star Tanya Tagaq, as well as Kathleen Edwards, Dana Beeler, Timber Timbre, Fiver, Ostrea…
Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre’s music is the kind of moody indie-rock often called “gloomy,” “atmospheric,” “evil,” even, kind of stuff that blows across the streets of New Orleans, scores haunted houses and churches the world over. But the band’s fifth album, Hot Dreams (out April 1), was created in a pair of unlikely places–written in sunny California,…
The hurt locker
Q I’m a straight 24-year-old female, and I just recently lost my virginity. I’ve had sex only three times (not with a monogamous partner) and have found each time to be incredibly painful—even when the guy’s just using his fingers. I’ve always been extremely sensitive. In the past, I’ve had guys run their hands over…
Kathleen Edwards
Kathleen Edwards is on a break. After more than a decade of worldwide touring, four full-lengths, 11 Juno nominations, one Polaris Prize gala hosting gig and a pair of Letterman appearances, she’s back in her hometown of Ottawa with a new house and a new dog and no new songs. “I’ve been in that constant…
It’s time for some customer etiquette
We are all maintaining our new year’s resolutions around this time. This year, what if we resolve to treat people better? Let’s start with those who work in the service industry—the people whose primary job is to serve you as the customer, so places like retail and the food industry. You should work in customer…
Dana Beeler
“I just wanted to amp it up,” says Dana Beeler. “I was tired of being nice.” Beeler is referring to a recent shift from her country and bluegrass beginnings to an edgier sound. Beeler’s roots are country-fried, having played bluegrass with her family and releasing the twangy debut full-length The Long Goodbye in 2012. But…
Ostrea Lake
“They think it’s the place in Germany,” says Elias Abi Daoud, leader of Ostrea Lake, of when people say his band’s name aloud. Really it’s the road he grew up on in the decidedly more rural Musquodoboit Harbour, between Porters Lake and Lake Charlotte. But his baritone ukulele-based, harmony-grazed pastoral folk songs do have their…
Saba & Doug
Saba Chishti and Doug Belding have talked every day since they met in January 2010, making it mighty hard for Doug to sneak off from Saint John to Moncton to buy an engagement ring without Saba finding out. But he pulled it off, and at the end of a long night out–with a ring burning…
Fiver
Over the phone from Sackville, NB, Simone Schmidt says that she’s “feeling good, just relaxing in a room that isn’t” hers. The Toronto-based singer is referring to her disposition during some downtime on tour, but the offhand comment functions just as well as a more symbolic statement; an inferred reference to Virginia Woolf’s feminist text…
I, Frankenstein
Aaron Eckhart is one of those guys Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with, the kind of person often attached to the sentence “A fine actor, but….” He’s handsome but not quirky, not quite Clooney-level charismatic but leaps and bounds above a Bradley Cooper. Somebody took a chance on making him an action hero and…
Outsider Insight chance
“I know how much art did for me and my mental health. I thought it would be good. I thought it would be cool for other people with mental illness to experience how therapeutic it can be,” says Gavin Quinn through a smile. Quinn is the project coordinator and impetus behind Outsider Insight, a peer-support…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Aquarius!(January 20-February 18) The Aquarian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) wrote more than 200 novels under his own name and 300 more under pseudonyms. On average, he finished a new book every 11 days. Half a billion copies of his books are in print. I’m sorry to report that I don’t think you will…
Stubborn Goat time
The Stubborn Goat is an almost perfect blend of the styles found at the owners’ other popular establishments, Durty Nelly’s and Saege. It’s a restaurant that seems built around the idea of appealing to as many people as possible—there’s a thoughtful beer menu, a simple wine menu and the food focuses on trendy comfort food…
We wanna see your PDA
Love hurts, love stinks, yadda yadda yadda…we don’t wanna hear it. But what we do want are mushy, sweet, poetic, raunchy (if you have to go there) declarations of love/luv/lust. We’re calling it PDA, Printed Displays of Affection. And we want yours. If you’d like to see your dedication to your boo in print (for…
Hope she was worth it…
Again? Really? Hindsight is 20/20 because I really should have just known you wouldn’t stop. So much for marriage, and babies, and my name tattooed in “elvish” on your ring finger. HA. P.s your mother says I still get the green chair and we can have secret shopping trips together. Your sister is also my…
Hideous bus rider
Please stop taking up three seats. Please stop yelling. Please stop eating with your giant mouth open. People are afraid for their small children and pets. And most of all…SHUT UP! —Squashed rider
Underthinking Public Employees
Yesterday my car was broken in to and purse stolen (I know, although it was a short time, I shouldn’t have left it in the car hidden under the other bag. Lesson learned). I had to take the bridge to get back to Halifax, the bridge with the $1 toll. Since my wallet was in…
Asshole Thief
Thanks for stealing my wallet containing my rent money back in the late 80’s. It’s been 25 years and I have yet to meet anyone lower than you. You are a supreme waste of skin. You insinuated yourself with my friends at the bar, then listened to me tell you how poor I was. I…
Boneheads’ Fairview location has closed
Just over a year after opening it, Boneheads BBQ announced via Twitter last night that it had closed its Fairview location. It’s sad news for diners in the Dutch Village Road area, but rest easy meat lovers—the grill is still on at Boneheads’ flagship location (1014 Barrington Street).
Cold blooded spot stealer
Parking in the downtown area is tough to come by. That’s why I pay a hefty price for my underground space. Having underground parking is an extra bonus during our ridiculous winters. So you can imagine how angry I was to arrive home the evening a BLIZZARD is forecasted to find a car in my…
Lazy Mr Plow
You drive right down to the end of Barrington Street, plow one sidewalk, but not the other? What’s up with that? You drive right in front of the one you neglect, why not plow it? I know I’m paying my taxes on this side of the road. —Neglected
Dear Employers.
With yet another blizzard approaching for tomorrow how about letting your employees either stay home or go home early lest they are stranded if the busses are pulled off the road. I know that the massive amounts of sales during a blizzard will hamper your decision as you are lounging at home comfortably with your…
self confidence boost
Thank you to a certain long haired babe for making me realize that I am also a babe. I hope we keep knockin’ boots and smoking. You gave me the final push I needed to love myself. Honeymoon phase 4ever? —happy n sappy
Last Minute Save
To the man who woke me up at 6:58 because my car was about to be towed- Thank You! Sorry that I too flustered (furious) to tell you then, but you saved me a ton of money and effort. —Plaid PJ’s
Get it together
Today I hate Halifax… I am from here, I moved back three years ago from Vancouver, and initially was very happy to be back, and very happy to meet all the people from Ontario who have moved here and love it, but today I fucking hate it!!! There is nobody here my age to date,…
Get over yourself
I’m sorry if you got the wrong idea- but I don’t have a thing for you. I just want to be friends. Which shouldn’t be a problem because you do, supposedly, have a girlfriend. So, chill out. —Just remember what I said
Re: the brand new Highfield terminal
Hey metro transit, I’m curious. What was the point in spending likely millions on this new transit terminal if your riders still do not have a warm place to wait? Sure, you’ve gone and built not one, but two small, mostly exposed shelters, but to be honest they are worse than the last one (who…
