Long-term horse sickness
Thanks to The Coast for bringing into the public realm the situation of the horses at Bengal Lancers. The Lancers are a non-profit organization and rely on public money to support their mission, which includes programs, according to their website, to “teach the fundamentals of riding and allow all the participants to take an active…
Restaurant Section
The restaurant section is starting to get a lot of action with readers submitting lots of reviews. Great! But I can only find a way to see the latest three reviews submitted. My only other option is to browse all restaurants alphabetically, and who wants to do that? It would be cool to be able…
Ice!
I hate it!
Treevenge at Sundance: Reitman, Beastie Boys and Street Fighter
Actor Glen Matthews has nicely agreed to keep us up-to-date with the Treevenge crew at Sundance (think Entourage minus Johnny Drama). Besides plenty of Street Fighter II, Jason Reitman pitches and celebrity sightings, the screening sounds like a blast: The screening went phenomenally well, and had the crowd in an absolute uproar. The film was…
Submit a bitch function working again
Er, I think. Please do what you do best: start bitchin’! This site is starving for new complaints. If you send one over the week-end, please send it again. Also — we are looking into the missing comments. If you wrote some gold in the past, it should reappear soon enough, although it will not…
New website has problems, obviously
Everything seems to be up and running, but the bitch submission process has a kink or two to work through yet. We’re working on it. It might get fixed today, but if not, Monday, first thing. I apologize for the delays, and appreciate your patience. I think, tho, that you can use the comment thread…
No More shitty music
Published January 13, 2009. No More shitty music If I hear one more Loverboy song on the radio, I’m going to switch it right the fuck off. Then stick it up the ass of the radio producer. Come to think of it, that goes for Billy Idol, too. Sick of Hearing Irritating Trash
stroller bitches!
Published January 12, 2009. stroller bitches! I am so sick and tired of hearing people bitch about parents with strollers on the bus. Do you seriously think that we enjoy having to cart our child around in a huge ass stroller? No we don’t! Do we have a choice? I don’t!!! Our children are the…
Rails to Trails
Published January 12, 2009. Rails to Trails Why the fuck can’t the province make it illegal for the four wheelers to be on the trails in the winter. Not even for the whole winter, just like three friggin’ months. From Jan1 to Mar 31 they shouldn’t be allowed. They destroy the trails for the snowmobiles.…
hippie culture is dead
Published January 12, 2009. hippie culture is dead WHEN ARE THOSE YOUNG HIPPIE WANNA BEES GOING TO REALISE THEIR PARENTS WOODSTOCK CULTURE IS AS OLD AS THEIR PARENTS TATTERED JEANS OR LOST VIRGINITY IN THE GANGBANG WHICH BROUGHT THEIR MISERABLE BUTTS INTO THIS WORLD? IT’S 2009 DUDES. DUMP THE WEED , YOU’RE OLD FASHIONED. WEEDPUSHER’S…
shitty sports store…never again
Published January 09, 2009. shitty sports store…never again several years ago i refused to ever again shop at a certain downtown source for sports store. why? because when the size 13 shoes i had just bought were stolen from me not an hour later, only to be returned by the theives (without a receipt) in…
Rainmen
Published January 10, 2009. Rainmen Went to my first Rainmen Bball game last night. It was pretty good ball lots of scoring and they won too so that’s cool . I just wish a certain radio station that start’s with a Z did’nt throw up all over the game,playing the same ol crappy music every…
pretty place to live?
Published January 12, 2009. pretty place to live? why are there no decent downtown apartments for rent? just because i’m a student does not mean i want to live in a dirty shit hole in the freaking north end. where are the decent places for those who don’t want to live in a depressing larch…
Phone company
Published January 12, 2009. EastLink What is with the phone company? My friend has been waiting to have his cable bundle moved from his old address since the beginning of the month and three times they haven’t shown up. They never even called to let him know they wern’t coming! Once they said they came…
Chav
Published January 11, 2009. Chav Wow, chav is not a word i heard since i left England, but mt my question is why do ladies go out of their houses wearing PJ pants? Come on at least be bothered to get dressed before you go out! Wearing outdoor clothing
shitty ass landlord
Published January 11, 2009. shitty ass landlord I am so sick and tired of listening to your fucking loud ass television above me when I am trying to study/write a thesis.. you promised me this was a quite building, and it turns out your the one making all the noise!! People in apartment buildings have…
granville butts
Published January 12, 2009. granville butts clean up granville butts you say? everywhere else too. we should ban smokers outside or make them swallow their own butts if we catch them littering. better still force them to swallow their smoke. tabanac tabac
Gee thanks
Published January 12, 2009. Gee thanks Thanks for completely changing my job description, without telling me, after i’d signed a contract locking me into my job for two years! Thanks ever so much for bitching at me when I DON’T do something i didn’t know i had to do, or better yet, for not knowing…
Commonwealth Games West
The city of Vancouver is desperately trying to find $485 million to cover cost overruns and the loss of financing for the Olympic Village, and as a result the city faces a potential downgrade in its credit rating, which will cost taxpayers millions more in increased borrowing costs. Vancouver’s problems are nearly identical to the…
Priority Check-in
Published January 12, 2009. Priority Check-in Flight from Calgary to Halifax on December 26th, 2008: A big fat “fuck you” to the young, healthy, childless couple who got in line for priority check-in even before all the geezers and the families with children! Hope you are also first in-line for check-in to hell. Walther PPK
Where have all the men gone?
Published January 11, 2009. Where have all the men gone? Why is it that all 20-something males are dressing like they are auditioning for a role in Gossip Girl? Ditch the metrosexual garb and dress like a MAN! Sick of sissy men
Sickening War on Civilians
Published January 11, 2009. Sickening War on Civilians So far 879 Palestinians have died in the past 11 days. The Israelis were supposed to stop firing today for a period of three hours; instead they began again after only 1.5! They’ve already bombed a UN school, and they’re using white phosphorus, which is ILLEGAL to…
Love
Published January 11, 2009. Love i’m thinking about moving to halifax to be closer to the person i think i’m in love with. This is kind of silly, i’ve got my life all set up here (another larger city about a dozen hours away) and prospects and all kinds of things. But i feel like…
Seriously?
Published January 12, 2009.Seriously?You’re ugly. You have horrible acne everywhere, and somehow you consider yourself pure awesome?you’re a ghetto-wannabe white boy, wearing girls pants that are tighter than mine, and a faux baby fedora from Le Chateau. What are you?You’re rude, you’re ugly, you’re unintelligent, and you have nothing going for you.Please, do every person…
PAYG
Published January 11, 2009. PAYG I went into a cellphone store to buy a PAYG cellphone for my son. I got in the LINE. I waited my turn. When it got to be my turn, the sales person answered my questions, explained the differences between the two different phones we were looking at, gave his…
“Ecotourism”
Published January 10, 2009. “Ecotourism” I HATE how people self-described as “eco-friendly” feel the need to visit Costa Rica or some jungle wilderness to express their love for nature. They worry about recycling, drive under 90kmph, bitch about Hummers and then go and take a trip to tramp about in some delicate ecosystem somewhere in…
Blackberry Fucks
Published January 11, 2009. Blackberry Fucks You piss me off so much. Its bad enough that 20 year olds and under think they’re important enough to need to “keep in touch” with the world, but please cut the bullshit. You are basically paying extra to be able to surf the net ie. facebook and use…
Provincial government fails to meet environmental goals
The Nova Scotian government took an ambitious step when in April of 2007 the legislature unanimously adopted the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act. The act rightly connected environmental quality with economic success, and to that end outlined a series of 21 environmental goals that are to be achieved by specific deadlines over the next…
Thanks you bitch
Published January 10, 2009. Thanks you bitch So, we were together for almost 5 years. Lived together. You go away at Christmas and meet someone new. We break up. Now the lovely part is that we share an apartment that still has 7 months left under the lease. I am obviosuly not living with a…
Bite and Burn Encore review
An odd assortment of metal-heads, indie-kids and the old-guard gallery crowd came together last Saturday in the spirit of morbid curiosity, voyeurism and artistic enlightenment. A hushed silence and palpable air of tension fell over this group of over 50 people, who jam packed around a small stage at Mount Saint Vincent Gallery for the…
Inanity defined
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more perfect example of meaningless drivel than the nonsense offered up by the Chronicle-Herald business columnists. As I was reading this, I couldn’t immediately decide which was funniest—the reliance on Faith Popcorn as an expert, the completely un-ironic repetition of empty buzzwords or the cross-referencing of one…
Chav Spotting in Halifax…
Published January 10, 2009. Chav Spotting in Halifax… I’ve noticed lots of bitches where people refer to “lulu losers” and “brainless bimbos carrying Dolce & Gabbana.” I think a fitting word for these girls – the ones who wear Lululemon with no intention of exercising or doing yoga for instance, is Chav! You might also…
Are you seriously 30?
Published January 11, 2009. Are you seriously 30? OK, you’re 30 living with four 20 year olds, your a moron. Don’t bitch and complain about us staying up too late, sorry grandma, its 12am. Why don’t you clean up after yourself? I’ve never met someone who is so full of herself. You are fucking annoying.…
Quinpool Superstore woes
Published January 10, 2009. Quinpool Superstore woes I get the idea behind getting rid of plastic bags at the Quinpool Superstore. I don’t think it’s doing much for the environment – the insane amount of packaging used in the containment and transport of the products that the Superstore sells are a much greater problem. In…
Your service SUCKS
Published January 09, 2009. Your service SUCKS I know it’s a lot to ask in an assy town like Halifax to expect anything resembling customer service, but when you pay five bucks for a crappy coffee, maybe someone could make an effort. No chance of that! After waiting forever for a terrible latte, I ask…
Another Israeli Massacre
Published January 07, 2009. Another Israeli Massacre The international silence is a crime by itself. Israel Kills children, women and unarmed men on as hourly basis, and no one seems to care. Then, an ignorant would ask; “why they hate us”. Robert Fisk answers why in his column in the Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html Someone
AAARRRGGG!!
Published January 10, 2009. AAARRRGGG!! I lost my wallet. Fuck! What a horrible feeling. So this is bitch to my self (for being stupid), and a bitch to all those wallet-raiders out there, who find our wallets. Sure keep the cash, anyone who puts more than a couple bills in the ass-sachet is an idiot…
Sure Keep my $600 phone
Published January 10, 2009. Sure Keep my $600 phone I’d love to thank the person who found my iphone after it fell out of my pocket and decided that they should just keep it. I can’t IMAGINE how big of a dick you must be. I am sure you even know what I look like,…
Scooter parking
I know one thing that might help encourage harmony in Halifax…. How about free parking for scooters, following the example of at least one other major centre in our great country? WHAT??? An initiative contributing to bringing down our wasteful consumption and detrimental emission habit, wile relieving some of the pressure in finding the rare…
HRM Plowing
Published January 11, 2009. HRM Plowing To ALL the useless AH’s that plow for the city. Pedestrians pay taxes too consider them when you plow the sidewalks near bus shelters. I can do a better job with a shovel the you idoits do with the snow plow. I think we should get a refund on…
Bumper smasher
Published January 11, 2009. Bumper smasher Thanks ASSHOLE!! Thanks for backing your fucking truck/car with the trailer hitch right into the front of my truck. Really appreciate it you fucking brainless loser. The least you could have done was left a note to say SORRY I FUCKED UP YOUR VEHICLE. Shit happens. But no, you…
Dear Mr. Panhandler
Published January 08, 2009. Dear Mr. Panhandler The answer is always no and yet EVERY time I see you, you ask anyway. I’ve seen you buying scratch tickets so I know what your game is. I try not to be rude with you because I know that you are a substance abuser and or mentally…
wcb
Published January 09, 2009. wcb anyone have a complaint about workers comp i have a huge one willing to discuss screwed over by wcb
Re: Halifixes 2009
The article “Halifixes 2009” was a very well written and poignant article; one I very much enjoyed. I just have one small beef with one of the “fixes”, it being the recorded vote. While I agree that citizens have the right and the need to know how their councillor is voting, I do not believe…
Dear Ms Blocked In
Published January 09, 2009. Dear Ms Blocked In To the stunned retarded cunt who I supposedly blocked in at lunch time today at a well known south end eatery. First off I want to congratulate your fucking mindless inability to figure out how to leave a message on my cellphone. You called me 4, count…
Dear hangover,
Published January 09, 2009. Dear hangover, Being a fairly big partier I have often thanked my lucky stars at what appeared to be somewhat of an inability to suffer the morning after hangover. Today, however, is a different story. I woke up after 3 hours of sleep to go to work only met with an…
Pay the Fucking Rent
Published January 09, 2009. Pay the Fucking Rent I gave you an awesome deal on subletting a room in my house. I made sure you got along with the other people renting there. I let you pay me the damage deposit late becuase I knew you were waiting to get one back from your last…
Dear HDBC
Published January 08, 2009. Dear HDBC I spend about $30 a month to cross the bridge. Why does it take me over an hour to cross the friggin thing? What exactly are these idiots spending my money on? Maybe this should be a bitch about the dumbass drivers who caused me to be late getting…
Cover up
Published January 06, 2009. Cover up Lately all I have been seeing in Halifax is women walking around with their pussy out. Men dont walk around with their dick out. Ladies cover up and wear clothes that fit and not 4 sizes too small and other thing pantyhose are not pants. Robert.
All aboard for Vinnie Carponzo
If you’ve always thought the Music Room (6181 Lady Hammond) would be an amazing place to watch a movie, your wait is over. Tonight at 9pm ($10), the music venue is hosting the premiere of local filmmaker Michael Ray Fox’s Why Vinnie Carponzo Hates Trains, plus some short films and a presentation. Vinnie (David Cantwell)…
Re: Into the Wild
New protected areas are not created by individuals. Your portrayal of the effort to protect the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes area behind Bayer’s Lake was a glorification of one individual among many who initiated the call and fought for the protection of the near urban natural area. For ten years, local community champions, environmental…
for want of the other half of an english muffin, the BLT was not enjoyed
Published January 09, 2009. for want of the other half of an english muffin, the BLT was not enjoyed how in the world did you forget to put the top on my english muffin BLT ? honestly. + you people provide the WORST service of any food establishment(s) ANYWHERE. pissed in the LSC
Pedestrian vs. Driver
Pedestrian vs. Driver I commute to work in downtown Halifax from North Dartmouth by foot and bus. Today I was startled by a driver who insisted it was her role to tell me incorrect procedures for crossing a crosswalk. She beeped her horn and wagged her finger pointing at the flashing hand crosswalk signal. I…
garbage
Published January 09, 2009. garbage I tried counting to ten and it didn’t work so be warned I am going to start swearing. STOP PUTTING YOUR FUCKING GARBAGE ON OUR LAND! That means anything that’s yours and not mine. GOT IT? It’s not that hard to figure out. So we have more land than you,…
Another Metro Transit Bitch!
Published January 08, 2009. Another Metro Transit Bitch! Once again, Jan 7, another storm! It happens every year – we live in the Maritimes! And once again, chaos with Metro Transit. I left work at 1700h (ARSE end of Bayer’s Lake) and went to the bus stop, were luckily for me I have the option…
this is getting old
Published January 08, 2009. this is getting old yup it’s another one: metro transit get your act together… and give me the $60 you cost me by me missing my class because your bus drove by me and another one won’t be along for another half hour. i’d like to also mention that you were…
analysis paralysis
Published January 08, 2009. analysis paralysis I complained about not being in love, about boys being skanky, about how much I have to give. I met you and now I can’t stop complaining about how tight my chest is when you’re not around, how I feel love sick all the time, and how I can’t…
Drive-thru Parking Idiot
Published January 08, 2009. Drive-thru Parking Idiot To the arrogant man who had the second worst parking job at BMO on Lacewood Drive today at 5pm. There were two drive-thru parking spots. I took one, you took the other, but instead of DRIVING THROUGH it you decided to back into the spot. Then, you seemed…
Winter parking ban
To Whom it Should be Concerned! Let’s rescind the Winter Parking ban! I think we are all well aware of the hardships imposed on HRM residents by the total winter parking ban that is now in effect. I know that you have not received many letters concerning this issue, but I would chalk that up…
Do your damn job!
Published January 08, 2009. Do your damn job! My fellow health care worker, in the private sector: When I come in to relieve you after a night shift, and ask how our client was the night previous… please don’t roll your eyes and tell me how she was up and down all night long, and…
We pay for this public debt
Finding intelligent ways to use public spending to stimulate demand and keep the recession brief must include finding methods that will not further burden the public with debt. If the government is insistent upon borrowing money at interest, thereby creating more public debt, to create economic stimulus; The lasting value of any public asset aquired…
The Cost vc FFWD
Published January 08, 2009. The Cost vc FFWD I’m from Halifax but live in Calgary. There are days when I love living here and days when I hate living here but the thing I hate the MOST is Calgary’s version of FFWD. It friggin SUCKS!! Booooo. You haligonians should be happy that you have The…
Quit yer Bitchin
Published January 08, 2009. Quit yer Bitchin Why are the articles in The Coast so damn whiny? Week after week you people bitch and bitch about this environmental issue or that artist problem. You report to the city like they will solve all your problems, but you never fuckin do anything about it. Why not…
Bad Curry
Published January 07, 2009. Bad Curry To a certain restaurant: I waited downstairs for 3 and a half hours while you “interviewed” my hard-working boyfriend for a job position yesteday. He submitted his cover letter and resume and then designed a new menu for you as a “sample” of his work. Were you seriously going…
Young love
Published January 07, 2009. Young love You are always kissing me and baking me cookies and wooing me and buying me presents and making me laugh and tickling me and playing video games and making music with me. I am bragging ceaselessly about how awesome you are and how happy I am, and I think…
Can someone tell me why gas is going up by 10 cents tomorrow?
Published January 08, 2009. Can someone tell me why gas is going up by 10 cents tomorrow? Can someone tell me why gas is going up by 10 cents tomorrow? Oil didn’t go up all that much and it only went up VERY briefly and is dropping again….don’t gimmee no bs. about futures and all…
In the mood to cuss
Published January 07, 2009. In the mood to cuss I’m rarely hostile, but I’d like to give a good ol’ “fuck you” to the cab driver who mistakenly put his foot on the accelerator and then proceeded to turn into a crowd of people at the train/bus station at full force. I’m still somewhat dumbfounded…
The Same
Published January 07, 2009. The Same Hey Halifax Hipsters: You all look the same think the same and ride the same bikes. You are as anti-establishment as tapioca pudding. PS Joining a facebook protest group is just political posing, plain and simple… a ‘revolution’ for the self-absorbed, mindless, and lazy. concretefox
Never-moving scaffolding on the west side of City Hall.
What’s wrong? Never-moving scaffolding on the west side of City Hall. Who’s responsible? Phil Townsend, assistant director, infrastructure & asset management, 490-4000. Remarks: This is part on-going renovations to City Hall. Engineers felt some of the stone work might drop on passing pedestrians, so they erected the scaffolding. The plan was to replace the stone…
Thimerosal testing dangerous
January 7, 2008 Dear Editor: During my visit to Halifax for Christmas, I noticed an advertisement in The Coast by the IWK Health Centre. In the ad, it stated that the Centre is looking for children between 6 and 36 months of age to test a flu vaccine called thimerosal. Immediately, a red flag went…
Trailer cash
Telefilm Canada announced a huge investment in two Atlantic Canadian films, through their Canadian Feature Film Fund. The Trailer Park Boys will be able to eat Spam off golden plates, thanks to the $3,497,846 they received for Trailer Park Boys: The Movie 2, due out this fall. Don’t spend it all in one place. And…
Deerfield
Saturday, January 3, 12:37am at The Seahorse.
Centennial only charges 4 dollars
Published January 07, 2009. Centennial only charges 4 dollars I need to go swimming for fitness reasons, and I swear to God I cannot find any damn place that will not rook me out the ass for it. YMCA – 6 bucks for a day pass, $35 for a monthly membership – but “one time…
Rodney’s missing advisor
To the editor, In “Rodney’s economic advisors” (Dec. 12, Reality Bites blog), Tim Bousquet lists “outside the box” thinkers who should have been appointed to the premier’s Advisory Council to help restructure our economy. I’d like to suggest one more person who Tim and the premier failed to nominate: professor Ray Cote.
Kanye West
It seems that following his filial and romantic losses last year, Kanye West received a large bag of weed and Auto-Tune for Christmas. The resulting stream-of-conscience jam session, 808s and Heartbreak, void of his characteristic wordplay, ends up sounding like a teenage vanity album. Unfortunately, Kanye didn’t wake from his cathartic haze in time to…
Halifixes 2009
Display councillors’ votes Knowing how city councillors vote is important in order to hold them accountable. Sadly, in HRM, finding voting records is not as easy as it should be. Not all votes in council are recorded, meaning there is no record of who voted which way or even who was present for the vote.…
Fix the City: the scorecard
We try. We really try. Maybe our political leaders just can’t see all the broken things in Metro. I mean, that’d be understandable; it’s hard paying attention to all that stuff out there on the other side of the reflective glass in the back seat of their SUVs as they scurry about between their suburban…
Loonie bar scene
Haligonians don’t have a drinking problem. We drink, we get drunk, we fall down. No problem! Oh, and we go a little crazy for cheap drinks. We sometimes have bar brawls. We’ve been known to get a little bit horny, melancholy, belligerent and/or delusional about our hotness when we’ve had a few. And we tend…
Dealing positively
Dan Savage says don’t ride the third rail. qI’m an 18-year-old straight female. Two nights ago, I went to a party. My ex-boyfriend was present, but my current boyfriend was not. I had several beers and while I wasn’t drunk, I was tipsy. I had to go to my car to get my cellphone and…
On the house
There are secrets to greening Halifax in the coastal barrens of Peggys Cove. Scott MacIvor is conducting groundbreaking research there as part of his master’s degree in applied science at Saint Mary’s University: “I’m studying the plants.” MacIvor notes that coastal barrens plants live in similar conditions to those you might find on a Halifax…
American Teen
“The Jock; The Geek; The Rebel; The Princess; The Heartthrob—Who were you?” ask the trailers for American Teen, a doc that follows the senior year of five students from basketball-lovin’ Warsaw, Indiana. (Apparently, there are only five types of teens in America.) In theory, director Nanette Burstein is relying on high school cliches because she…
Jason Fitzpatrick’s skin city
Jason W.F. Fitzpatrick hopes to “stir things up a bit and challenge the way people think” at Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery this Saturday night, by deliberately making himself and others feel uncomfortable. Fitzpatrick talks excitedly of his plans to rig up a “floaty, kind of bouncy stage” out of pink insulation and gyprock, upon…
Brussels: beer n’ frites
Ken Greer and Boris Mirtchev, the brains behind the successful Hamachi mini-empire, have turned to Mirtchev’s Belgian roots for their latest venture. Brussels opened on Granville in September and is comprised of two long narrow rooms, side-by-side. The dining room’s beautiful wood panelling, high-backed banquettes and comfortable wooden chairs provide a warm sense of grandeur.…
Matt Reid and Friends
Long-time Halifax scene-guy Matt Reid assembles friends and family for a delightful collection of piano-pop tunes. Perhaps those closest to Reid know the inspirations for these songs—imaginary or not—but regardless, it’s fun to speculate whether his words address real Halifax people and situations. The lyrics for each of these 12 tracks reads like a direct…
Palermo’s top 10 films of 2008
1) Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller) No other 2008 movie summarized our culture with more knowing wit. Ben Stiller’s directorial effort (a big step up from Zoolander and The Cable Guy) focuses on the insecurities of actors who think they’re participating in the filming of a war epic. Any real parody has to take the step…
Treasure island
Growing up in a small town can make connecting with music all the more special. While brothers Ryan and Aaron Crane didn’t come of age in a small town per se (Charlottetown’s population tops 32,000), you’d be hard pressed to find a more endearing introduction to indie-rock on the island. “It’s a typical big brother…
The Wax Museums
Denton, Texas’ Wax Museums’ self-titled record deals with a lot of the most pressing issues of the day: dogs, dishes, girls, ligaments. Released on Atlanta’s Douchemaster Records, none of the album’s 14 tracks clock in at more than two minutes, which is refreshing. Pretty sweet guitar tone too, for people who dig that sort of…
Fall Out Boy
This typically solid batch of hooks takes a different tack than Fall Out Boy’s 2007 release, Infinity on High, which opened with Jay-Z announcing, “Welcome, it’s here.” Instead, an organ leads into Patrick Stump moping about how “I’m coming apart at the seams.” But lest you think Fall Out Boy has dropped its self-aware wit…
Q-Tip
Mainstream hip-hop sucked in ’08. Overproduction, Auto-Tuned “singing” and overuse of the synthesizer—all signs pointing to a genre in dire need of an enema. Enter The Renaissance, an album that rushes through the system like a sweet and heady colonic. But—contrary to the album title’s suggestion —Q-Tip isn’t orchestrating a hip-hop rebirth. He’s simply doing…
