Dear Mr. or Mrs. Bus Driver
Just to get things started, yesterday I drove across the bridge to go pick somebody up in Burnside. As I get to the end of the off ramp to turn left onto Burnside Drive, (both lanes turn left for those of you who don’t know this) I had this bus driver come so far into…
Bouncers DO set the tone
Just wanted to send a big thanks to the Chronicle Herald, and a big FUCK YOU to the majority of the bouncers in Halifax. For the people who have no idea what i”m talking about, the Herald recently published a story talking about the amount of bad publicity this city has gotten because of the…
Hockey wrongs
This is to the fucking ignorant father who started screaming profanities at the referee of a KIDS hockey game Wednesday night. You stupid shit did you not see the like 50 kids all under the age of 14 staring at you while you proceeded to call him every name in the book because your kid…
Wake up People!
What the hell is wrong with people around here? Why is it that almost every day, I hear about someone being hit in a fucking crosswalk?!? Pedestrians: LOOK before you step out into the street or in front of a car. Yes, you might have the right of way, sometimes, but that doesn’t matter when…
Juno, I know
That poor statue has been eclipsed by the movie of the same name (which as of Feb. 4th, has brought in $119,261,323, landing Ellen Page’s cute mug on the covers of Entertainment Weekly and Vanity Fair.) But this post is about the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences awards. Jill Barber, Joel Plaskett, Wintersleep,…
Spice Spice Baby
listen, I am all about girl power, so don’t get me wrong… but seriously, Spice World has to be one of the worst movies ever made. Really, are you trying to make me believe that British women actually act like that? Granted, the VHS was good for a wank and it did have some memorable…
Dear “Cultural Appropriation”
I don’t know the cultural background of David Hendsbee and that is not really my issue with your bitch.If you are going to make yourself the unofficial advocate for cultural appropriation then perhaps you should educate yourself as to Africa’s history beforehand. There are a lot of white Africans. Where you are from is not…
Our vote for president
By the end of Super Tuesday, I’d gotten so swept up in the US presidential race that I dug out my Yankee passport (I rock the duel thing, thanks to an American/Canadian dad/mom combo) and started poking around to figure out how I get signed up to vote. First stop, the Overseas Vote Foundation. At…
Fuck you, smokers.
I hate you. I wish you’d just give yourself cancer and die, instead of spreading your cancer to me. I cannot stand anywhere at the Dartmouth bus terminal without being surrounded by people lighting up. They do it around children, elderly, asthmatics. You opted to smoke. That was your choice. Don’t force that choice onto…
Gum Flapper
Dear Coworker: If I have to sit through another day of your relentless whining and complaining, so help me god I think I may go off the deep end and kill you myself. Do you really hate your job that much? Is there anything we can do to make life a little easier for you,…
Student Loan
Listen i am sick and tired of the responces I am getting from you I call you everyday and get told somethign diffrent i am trying to get out of working friggin call centers to get a career and the only thing standing in my way is YOU! Smarten the fuck up and do your…
The Source
The T-Room is not The Dome, I as an entertainer strive to provide my audience with a certain atmosphere that is conducive to a good time. I’ve been playing in venues for 10 years and I have never had such an overwhelming amount of complaints from my friends and fans about your bouncers. A musician
smoke inside
i don’t get these smokers who stand outside the freezing balcony to smoke, or smoke outside the car BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO STINK UP MY UPHOLSTERY OR FURNITURE. makes sense to me… your lungs stink already. REASON 2– IF I QUIT SMOKING I GET FRUSTRATED. damn, wank, it’s cheaper and at least you enjoy…
Palace ! Dome ! Only bars to go?
The mind boggles. All these talks about being barred (ugh bad pun) from Palace and Dome, and still you beg to get in? Shoot! what’s in there? The beer’s got something different that you cannot get in the other pubs here? My first impression is there are so many pubs in Halifax, I don’t really…
blade dude
To the jagoff with a razor blade who frequents the second floor of Southpoint Apartments: A lot of people live here, possibly even you. Please stop carving your bullshit into our doors and the brand new wallpaper. It doesn’t make you cool. It makes you a dick. You’re lowering our quality of life here each…
Coast “best of” awards are a joke
Rumour has it that local bands get all their friends to make up fake email address after fake email address in order to keep submitting their votes for that band. Now come on, how accurate is this poll anyway? It should be called Coast “how many fake emails can you make up” awards! You need…
Teach your kids!
To the idiotic parents and school admins that want to ban scarves from school grounds just because one little girl managed to nearly hang herself, stop trying to encase our kids in bubbles! The kid only nearly hung herself because she didnt know how to properly wear a scarf. This is either due to her…
Bitching Entertainment
This is not a bitch but kudos to people like Matt, Leo, NMH, and Christopher. Guys you truly keep this place an entertaining site to keep coming back to. Who needs reality TV when I can be assured that one of you (or all) will have some kind of scathing comment about each others replies.…
The Man downstairs
PLEASE HAVE RESPECT! I just moved in and I think I’m going to be moving out soon. Come on dude, is it really nessessary to fuck your woman so loud I can hear it? I’m sick of it. This guy also leaves his garbage in the hallway, and a shit load of garbage bags that…
Food Court Blabber Mouth
This is for the four-eyed, ponytailed loudmouthed twit who announces everybody’s business in Scotia Square’s food court between 3 and 4:30PM: Shut the fuck up! Mind your business, you braindead asshat! Pissed Off
Oh, I must be a pig
Incase some of you women out there haven’t noticed, the english language is full of loopholes, and massive ambiguities of meaning. If I’m interacting with you in a date like setting and I mention my job as a requirement for communicating a story; you would most likely think I was trying to impress you to…
more bitches pleez
what happened? suddenly all the good bitches have dwindled. shoot, i was just beginning to enjoy reading your bitches bitch. i hope this afternoon wind did not blow all you good bitches away.LOL LUV2readBitchesBitch
Make Space For Others
This is to the old lady on the #9 Barrington on Thursday evening around 5pm. You’re a bitch. You sat near the front which is fine…you just had about 6 bags of groceries/items in which you placed all over the other 2 seats beside you so nobody could sit near you. You’re not a big…
Society of douchebags?
Today, I was witness to one of the most completely inconsiderate acts of human douchebaggery that I have EVER seen. What can I do but sit back and question the very ethics and foundations that we, as parents and educators are instilling in our young people today. Case and point: I actually saw a young…
A blow for some food
I’m bitching on behalf of all hairstylists new to the industry. Hairstyling is a self-made buisness in which it takes about 3-5 years to even achieve full time work. When we start we get paid miniumum wage at part time hours. How the hell does the government expect us to pay back $200.00/month for student…
The Palace Nightclub Eh?
My friend got barred from the palace very recently apparently because of something said on facebook pretaining to the fact that its unjustified that the dome had to raise their drink prices and the palace didnt?? That is what the bouncer who asked my friend to leave said. After co-opperating and kindly leaving with no…
Dirty slobs
Some people need to be taught some manners and how to clean up a machine at the gym when they are finished using it. This is to all the sweaty dirty pigs who cannot wipe down the fucking machines at the gym. I don’t want to sit in your ass sweat. Do you know why…
Downtown grill girl
It is obvious that you have a low opinion of the people you are serving if you don’t think they realize when you are speaking down to them through your not so subtle rude comments. Get over yourself, you are a waitress. We were nothing but polite to you, even after your rudeness was becoming…
Grossed Out at the Gala!!
My sister and our partners decided we would go out for New Year’s this year. Being from out of town we unknowingly booked VIP tickets for a gala at one of Halifax’s big hotels. We soon realized that we may have made a mistake when we were the first people to arrive at the club…
I still want Blinky to Eff-off
To all the people who chastised me for hating Blinky in my previous Bitch: Go to hell! Sometimes people are just annoying, and that makes me not want to be around them. I don’t have to like everyone just because they’re alive. I have the freedom to dislike whom I choose for whatever reason I…
Agricola A-holes
To my wonderful neighbours: You won, you got your fucking way. The car is gone and will no longer be an eyesore in your otherwise perfect view of the laundromat. Next time have the decency to ask me to move it rather than constantly calling the cops and having it towed. You cost me a…
Did you enjoy your dinner?
To the three young punks that ran out on their bill (literally) about a month ago: Karma is a wonderful thing. You’re lucky my co-worker didn’t catch you. You didn’t seem to be the type of people I normally serve. No I’m not judging you on your appearance, only your conduct. The energy coming from…
Idiots
Can someone please explain to me how it makes sense to drive with your dog on your lap? Does that not just seem a LITTLE bit dangerous? It’s up there with cellphones, eating, etc. But I think even worse .. Marly
Thanks for Nothing, Heritage Gas!
Thanks to these twats, our downtown streets were torn up in the freezing cold (what a stupid time of year to do such a thing, given temperature changes and its effects), then hastily paved by a bunch of cretins, creating dozens of fucking potholes, crumbling pavement dips which are a danger to cars and pedestrians…
Scotia Square Bigmouth
Mind your own fucking business instead of blabbing everyone else’s so everyone can hear just how dumb and stupid you are, you twit! Get a life! Peeved
MANNERS!
EAT WITH YOUR DAMN MOUTH CLOSED! yes you.. the guy with the nasal problem that sits behind me… chomping with your mouth open,slurping with food falling all over the place and breathing like its the biggest work out in the damn world to eat.. not to mention answering your phone with food in your mouth!!!…
Eyez on the Prize
I watch you close the front door as your child approaches RUSH HOUR traffic outside your house in DARTMOUTH.I look to see if the other drivers waiting in line see her approaching the road, head down. Obviously she meets with the kids across the street to go to school,she’s probably run between your 2 houses…
Vandalized pay phone, corner of Le Marchant and Coburg.
Remarks: OK, it’s an Aliant phone, just like dozens of other busted pay phones out there. It’s clear Aliant doesn’t give a damn about pay phones and wants out of the business completely. Still: The phones are on city property, with city permits. But unlike a dog permit, which allows you walk Fido down the…
Slippery Slope
To the 4 young “men” who walked by me and my sister Monday Night outside the Italian Market on Doyle Street. We kindly asked for your assistance to push our car, which was stuck on a patch of ice. Instead of helping, we were rebuked with cries of “No way – we’re late for the…
What’s up with this?
WTF is wrong with people. I just read two different stories in the last 24 hours about people neglecting their children, one woman left two one year old kids locked in a freezing car for hours and another left her 8 kids home alone for a month with no food. A 3 month old baby…
Nutwads who complain about The Coast’s Politics
This one is directed to the recent Bitch by the rightwinger who is complaining about the Coast’s left-learning biases.. Alright, you’ve got a point – the coast leans very much to the left. Hell, I’m leftwing and it bothers me some time. But if you’ve got a problem with it, go publish your own friggin…
Beer blogging
Sure, news of King’s College’s so-called “beer class” has made the Washington Post and all the other big-name fancy-smancy international media outlets, but only one reporter is actually attending the class, taking notes from a chair at the back of the room. Read The Coast blog, thecoast.ca.
Keith Urban
“Early bird” tix are on sale for Keith Urban’s concert on the Common this summer—just 89 bucks or $219 for VIP seats. Concert rules prohibit umbrellas and strollers and no food unless you’ve got a doctor’s note for it. You’re allowed to bring “one fold-up bag-style chair” per person, which I note merely to lamely…
James McGregor Stewart Society
Speaking of human rights, theres a relatively new (started in August) local group called the James McGregor Stewart Society, advocating for accessibility throughout the region. Stewart was a Pictou boy whose stellar academic record brought him to Dalhousie University, where he was a potential candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship reserved for a Dal student.…
Pull up a chair
February is African Heritage Month, and celebratory events are scheduled locally nearly every day through the month. The focus of most of the events is rightly on the broad range and depth of African-Canadian culture and history, which, however, necessarily includes discussion of the historic wrongs done to African-Nova Scotians. Halifax has a troubled…
Mount Uniacke Society for the Arts
The newly formed Mount Uniacke Society for the Arts have three fundraising concerts planned in as many months, starting this Saturday with Mir, at the Fire Hall (8pm, $20). Founders Moka Case and Barry Kent have a considerable amount of experience in the music community between them: Kent is a former EMI rep and Case…
Take On Me packs it in
Take On Me, a featured band in our November New Music issue, are calling it quits, to much sobbing and gnashing of teeth from the all-ages community. Their final show is taking place this Saturday, at The Pavilion, with some of the bands that the group has shared bills with in the past. The…
Ragamuffin Kids, Ryan Duffy’s, The Book Room, Ltd.
Nifty kids clothes boutique Ragamuffin Kids (5475 Spring Garden) closed up shop on Tuesday, less than a year after opening. No word yet about its replacement…More Spring Garden shake-up: Ryan Duffy’s Steak & Seafood (5640 Spring Garden) will be moving at a yet-to-be-determined point in the future, to the former East Side Mario’s space, (1650…
Ciboulette means Chives
If youre spent the last couple months groggily mourning the loss of lovely Barrington caffeine provider The Mudroom Cafe (1541 Barrington), cheer up: a new cafe, Ciboulette, opened its doors in the former Mudroom space this Monday. The cafes co-owned by Craig Flinn (the owner/chef of Chives Canadian Bistro, Ciboulettes next-door neighbour) and Brady Muller,…
Burrito Bike
Burritos in motion Hungering for more info about pedal-powered, yummy-food-bearing godsend the Burrito Bike? Heres some: the Bikes open every Saturday from 7pm-2am and if you live in the north end, itll bring you a handmade vegan or vegetarian burrito for $4 (delivery included). Owners Adam OReilly (the percussionist for Fall Horsie), and Sari Lightman…
Cooper Tardivel’s True North martini.
Ever wondered what success tastes like? Not metaphorically, silly—literally! Take that curiosity over to the Mosaic Social Dining Lounge (1584 Argyle), and sample bartender Cooper Tardivels award-winning creation, the True North martini. Tardivel recently won the Bols Canadian Cocktail Championship, a competition sponsored by Amsterdam-based liquor and spirit company Bols (which holds similar national competitions…
A bird can’t fly unless it has both wings
Will the Coast ever publish articles that are Right-wing? Will they ever publish articles that are in favor of economic interests and not social and environmental ones? Squeegee kids? Come on! I know your main demographic is the trendy nouveaux-hippy, but don’t you think that publishing articles that reference the OTHER wing on this bird…
The Tri-umph of beer
This semester, Kings College is offering a course titled “Brewing Science: The History, Culture and Science of Beer,” taught by professor Gordon Mcouat, an instructor in King’s History of Science and Technology program. I managed to get myself enrolled in the class, and so will be posting regular updates on its progress. Okay, I’ve been…
Maria Osende Flamenco Company
Q: This year you have two big flamenco events, Fiesta Flamenca! on February 2 and the festival in the fall. A: We decided to move the festival to the fall, because we thought it would be more appealing for visitors and touring artists to visit Halifax in its best season, we want people to come…
The Commons
So for the big country concert … half the stage is reserved for VIP? http://www.ticketatlantic.com/en/home/concerts/country08.aspx Anyone else disgruntled? I think its pathetic… hope Halifax gets a stadium because the commons suck for concerts! Chris
Words or pictures
It’s always a pleasure to listen to George Elliott Clarke, who’s reading Saturday, February 2, 2pm, at Carrefour Atlantic Emporium (1869 Upper Water), for African Heritage Month. Afterwards, Clarke will rush over to Pier 21 at 3pm to take part in their Global Chinese New Year celebration, kicking off the Year of the Rat with…
Jim Faraday’s Music and memories
The best way to honour the life of a musician is a concert. Thats how friends of beloved percussionist Jim Faraday are celebrating his life. On Monday, February 4, 7pm, at the Rebecca Cohn (6101 University), hosts Bruce Blakemore, Adrian Hoffman and Hugh Jones will introduce performances by Dalhousie percussion students and alumni plus Scott…
Halifax’s Dream Genies
On January 28, this years Genie nominations were announced, and theres solid Halifax representation, thanks to Shake Hands With The Devil (12 nominations, including Best Motion Picture for Michael Donovan) and Poor Boys Game (with three noms), plus a Best Actress shout-out to Ellen Page for The Tracey Fragments. Joining the H-town red carpet…
Christina Martin
Primed with potential, poetics and her 2002 debut Pretty Things, Christina Martin embodies soul and sass. At 28 years old shes been many things (nanny, academic, wife), but recently has come to terms with being a songwriter. Every time I think I am going to do something with my music, I chicken out, she says.…
Laura Merrimen
For the past year, Laura Merrimen and the Lonesome Travellers have been mixing up alt-country and blues rock for delighted local audiences. After having gone through a few line-up changes, the band is currently recording a full-length LP under the aegis of Halifax blues master Brad Conrad. Merrimen, a Hubbards native with a 10-gallon voice…
Jenny Omnichord
If you ditch the riot element of Kathleen Hannas grrrl solo project, Julie Ruin, insert the alliteration and allurement of The Moldy Peaches, then add the carnivalesque connotations of Wax Mannequin, youd get a hodgepodge portrait of Jenny Omnichord. A sister project for The Barmitzvah Brothers Jenny Mitchell, the singer, bassist and resident…
There Will Be Blood
Were it not for the Western trifecta of No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James and There Will Be Blood, 2007 would clearly be the worst movie year so far this decade. There Will Be Blood really is great—its originality cemented by the immediate difficulty of reconciling just what it is and…
How She Move
The low-key Canadiana of How She Move offers a pleasant surprise. Removed from the dance spectacles of You Got Served and Stomp the Yard, its naturalistic grit shakes conventions: Its a great looking hip-hop movie. Director Ian Iqbal Rashid strays from the bright colours of those urban teen films, capturing his heroines pop dreams in…
Oscar touch
I gained some weight. I didnt say anything. Those two lines are in the trailer for a reason: Exchanged in a blazing Arizona parking lot by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, they play as an easy joke in an admittedly hard-sell film. By now you already know theyre siblings. But this bit, like…
Rambo
That Rambo, the fourth in the confusingly titled series, has more gore than the first three combined should just be par for its B-junk function. Except that writer/director/superstar Sylvester Stallone invites cheering at the way civilians are graphically disembodied. Its about the only time the new Rambo tries to be fun. Placing his one-man army…
Eggs-actly wrong
Talk about a coincidence. On January 18, Edinburgh Street resident Louise Hanavan received a letter from the city telling her that her three chickens—Bernadette, Captain Crochet (so-named because she has a little hook claw) and the eponymously dubbed Chicken—had to leave their backyard coop, for being in contravention of Halifaxs Land Use by-law. This chicken…
Askevold’s mystery tour
There are elements of David Askevolds video and photographic work that make people uneasy. They evoke a sense of arriving during the aftermath of a crime, or an accident. Youre not sure what happened, but theres residue. Take one of the cibachrome prints from Askevolds well-known series, The Pit: ghostly figures linger in a backyard,…
Pye is overwhelmed with Feelings
Geoffrey Pye is the quintessential modern Haligonian. Gone are the days of family trees that stretch back generations. That tradition is certainly not in danger of disappearing but, more and more, Haligonians come for school and just end up staying. Pye fits this mould perfectly. Originally from Ottawa (with a stopover in Toronto) he had…
Market driven
In a more corporate setting, the question being posed would involve the terms management team and commitment. But this is a meeting to talk about raising money for the new Seaport Farmers Market, so what the prospective investor asks is more like Are you going anywhere, Fred? Standing in front of about 20 people Thursday…
Labour rules
Halifax appears to be moving toward Vancouver-style party politics for municipal elections. In December, a business group calling itself Citizens for Halifax announced its intention to replace mayor Peter Kelly and every sitting councillor with its own candidates. And last week, a loose coalition of labour activists and progressives explored the possibility of running its…
Hayden hits Halifax
Having spent nearly half of his life as a professional musician, Hayden knows a thing or two about life on the road—passing through the vast and varied communities of suburbs, cities, sleepy towns and the desolate miles in-between. The ever-longing Paul Hayden Desser (known simply as Hayden), recently returned from a European stint to be…
Giving it up to some guy…
QI’m a 20-year-old bi girl and I’ve been with my boyfriend a little over a year. We’ve talked about having an FFM threesome, but the first time we talked about it, we realized we were not on the same page and now every time I try to bring up the possibilities of a threesome, we…
Lindsay Barr
Lindsay Barr While her smouldering green eyes and riot grrrl aesthetic may have helped land her recent video on MuchMusic, its her talent for writing infectious hey, hey party anthems that has earned Lindsay Barr her current buzz. I think rhythmic happenings is my finest delicacy, as she puts it. In 2006, she released her…
Jim Bryson
Last Sunday, the CBC Radio program Vinyl Cafe played Jim Brysons tune Fire Watch from his third album, Where the Bungalows Roam. The shows host, Stuart McLean, also read the Ken Babstock poem (from his book Days into Flatspin) of the same name that spawned the song. Babstock and Bryson are good friends and that…
David Celia
Though based in Toronto and frequently touring southern Ontario, David Celia has also taken to the road in the UK and continental Europe over the last several years to mould his musical voice. The melodic-pop singer-songwriter plays with regular rhythm partners across the Atlantic and always comes home with plenty of material and memory to…
Matthew de Zoete
Hamiltons honeyed songwriter Matthew de Zoete sorts through studying abroad, long-distance relationships, family histories of immigration and friends moving away on his album Across the Sea. Honing the skills of a farmer by day, musician by night, de Zoete is constantly evolving. I need to work on my tractor skills, he says. We live beside…
Mathias Kom
Mathias Kom lives in Peterborough, Ontario, a town he loves for all it offers, from the busy, tight-knit music community to the daily sense of apocalypse conveyed in the citys fortunes. Its not a wealthy town, Kom says on the phone from Guelph, on tour and on his way to Halifax. Besides Trent University,…
