Pewter programming
Mahone Bay pewter experts Amos Pewter, owned by Don Sheehan, have opened a new location on the Halifax waterfront, which Shoptalk disappointingly missed in our waterfront Go Local special last week. No matter, here’s the scoop: Located at 1751 Lower Water Street (the toll-free number is 800-565-3369), Amos Pewter offers jewellery, home décor and tableware.…
Rock Island Cafe is a Bistro
If you’ve been by the Bermudean resto lately, you’ll notice a new menu posted outside. The eatery has changed its name to Rock Island Bistro, along with some staff changes inside. The new chef will tempt you palate with more upscale selections, and the patio out on the sidewalk and in the courtyard around the…
There’s Something About Mary’s 2
“The same menu exactly,” promises Mary’s Place Cafe (2752 Robie Street, 454-2558) owner Ray Khouri about the second location of his popular joint. It will be found in the spot on Spring Garden formerly occupied by Brick Oven Pizzeria (5982 Spring Garden), which has closed. Khouri is in there now renovating, and plans to open…
Idealbikes shifts gears
Dave Schuhlein, owner of Idealbikes, is hiring a management service to run his popular bicycle store. Come the fall (probably between October and mid-November) Schuhlein will be leaving town to be a chef on a yacht, which isn’t a sudden right turn of a career change given his past history working food services all over…
JiXiang Chinese Restaurant opens
China Classic was once there, now it is gone, replaced by JiXiang Chinese Restaurant (6311 Quinpool Road, 429-2828), offering “authentic Szechwan Chinese cuisine,” with free delivery in the area for order over $25. You’ll find lunch combos run from $7.95 through $9.95, and the hours are Mon-Tues 4pm-11pm, Wed-Fri 11:30pm-2:30pm, 4:30pm-11pm and Sat-Sun, 11am-11pm.
Heads in the sand
I’m both surprised and elated at the response to my Twitter live-blogging of the Herring Cove Road bike lane issue, and the comments on the vote tally I posted early today. It’s heartening that so many people are so concerned about bike infrastructure issues. (If you’re not familiar with the issue, see here.) The actual…
What a waste of time
I won’t be in town to see this published. I fly back to BC Saturday, 7am… I drove out here to Nova Scotia for you, piled all my belongings in a little red truck, quit my job, gave up my 20,000 scholarship… all for you. Because you gave me a ring and a promise. NOW…
Herring Cove Road bike lanes nixed by Halifax council
Halifax council Tuesday voted 13-9 against placing bike lanes on Herring Cove Road in Spryfield. The road is scheduled for a $1.2 million repaving project from Old Sambro Road to Hartlen Avenue, and the present four car lanes are considered excessive for the 18,000 cars a day using them. So the city’s traffic division recommended…
If you were a carpenter ( which you are…)
and I were a lady (which I am) would you love me anyway, would you be my baby?? You sir, are just about the whole package from as far as I can tell, and I feel as though you are not into me… which doesn’t make sense because we are basically meant to be. I…
Full moon softball
On behalf of the ladies on my softball team: To the lovely lady on the opposite team who thought she was hidden in the bushes for a pee… Guess what!! So for future reference, because I’m a good guy, I will volunteer to stand behind you next time so that our ladies won’t be so…
FUCK YOU, SLEEPWATCHER
I’ve spent my whole life struggling with nightmares. One of my worst ones, since ten years ago, is of waking up in the same room I fell asleep, and seeing a silent person standing at the foot of my bed, staring at me silently, with their face shadowed. Now I have to hear about you,…
Scheduled: Jim Guthrie, Heck Yes!
Lovelywonderful Jim Guthrie is making a pre-Sappy stop at the Paragon on Thursday, July 29. He’ll be joined by The Skeletons who look cool as balls. $10 at the door. Next to Aaron Riches’ alter egoRoyal City (who Guthrie plays with now), Mr. Guthrie is my favorite Guelphian. His album Now, More Than Ever is…
CANCELLED: JULIETTE LEWIS
Due to scheduling conflicts with her new movie, which our really sharp crack reporting skills have deduced MAY be A Different Kind of Love, Juliette Lewis has canceled her show at the Paragon on Monday August 16. I’m actually really bummed! We could have seen this: whoa! and this: whoaihahahsdhdhzha! and THIS ceci n’est pas…
Lee-Anne Poole Splinters off
Don’t let the plot fool you: Splinters is not based on a true story. It’s just a story that happens to be true. “The actual events of the play are not autobiographical,” insists playwright Lee-Anne Poole. “Besides the fact that, you know, I have experienced some of them.” She calls Splinters, opening at the Plutonium…
Octadamus
For those who haven’t heard of him, ‘Octadamus’ – as I like to call him – is the German match-predicting octopus who so far has a 100% record when it comes to German matches. He predicted a win against the Aussies, a loss against the Serbs, and a win over Ghana. Then he correctly saw…
Down on my luck
Thanks a lot to the bunch of crappy criminals that broke into my car yesterday. Have fun with my credit card its already cancelled, the deck you took, it only fits into my car, and the iPod, well there’s a pass code on it. Have fun with my friends ghetto CD’s, and my empty packs…
Tattooed, Not Deaf
Yes, lady, I understand that these days even women get tattoos, but announcing this to the whole waiting room as you noticed my tattoo when I arrived for my appointment was probably not your best option, as your friend, who quickly changed the subject, silently but effectively pointed out. Good manners have been popular long…
Online groups
This is a minor bitch, so it’ll be short. I’m annoyed… I just wanted to post a ‘wanted’ ad on a site that works to recycle stuff and keep it out of our landfills… looking to see if anyone had a patio set I could use for my deck… how many user names do I…
Mommy, You’re A Big Fat Tub
Dear Mommy: I really wish you wouldn’t eat your face off while I am growing inside your zepplin-sized tummy. That Triple Whopper crap nauseates me, has made me grow three spines and makes my heart beat like Ozzy Osborne having a seizure. I don’t even know what agony you suffer trying not to consume deep…
Slam Dunk Yr. Junk
I walked outside to collect the green bin today, and noticed a sizable pile of compostable stuff on the street. I figured that a bit must have fallen out into the road in the course of its removal. Looking down the length of the street, though, I could see that every single house had a…
How councillors voted on Herring Cove bike lanes
Here’s how Halifax councillors voted last night on the Herring Cove Road bike lanes. A “yes”‘ vote was against the bike lanes: Yes: Adams Dalrymple Hum Johns Karsten Kelly Lund McCluskey Rankin Russell Smith Streatch Wile No: Barkhouse Fisher Harvey Hendsbee Nicoll Outhit Sloane Uteck Watts Did not cast vote: Blumenthal Absent: Mosher
Chenoweth does it again
This is your last chance to get your hands on Laura Chenoweth’s organic summer apparel until she introduces new stuff in September. The Sunshine Clothing Sale happens this Friday, July 9 and Saturday, July 10, from 11am to 6pm. Come for the tops, try the summer skirts, and take away metres of organic fabric. It’s…
Polaris Prize Shortlist Announced
tawny Besnard Lakes Canadian music nerds hovered by their computers/mobile devices today with slightly baited breath, waiting for the announcement of the Polaris Prize shortlist in Toronto. Sadly Amelia Curran’s Hunter, Hunter and Meaghan Smith’s The Cricket’s Orchestra didn’t make the cut. Still, THE SADIES. Also, there are TWO Francophone bands nominated this year (Radio…
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Winner of Best Float Award It is so great to be in a place like Oshkosh for the fourth of July. It is full of all the Norman Rockwell things that are good about America. Oshkosh has been for me a place of myth and importance for a long time, for two big reasons. First,…
From all over the world…
Four long years I waited for our reunion. Our time together is almost up and I have to say it was a very interesting (and sometimes very surprising) visit. Right from day one you decided to leave me with a very nasty taste in my mouth. No harm done, I thought; it was exactly the…
Dear Upstairs Neighbour:
I have no idea who you are. I found the note you left in my mailbox weeks after you’d already moved out. Had I found it sooner, I would have come up. —Basement Girl
Smoking In Utero
Dear Mommy: I really wish you wouldn’t smoke while I am growing inside your tummy. It nauseates me, restricts my growth and makes my heart beat really fast. I don’t even know what the agony of smoking cessation withdrawal is but it will be among my first experiences of life in the world as a…
Made your night…
To the person who found the 40$ that fell out of pocket at Cheers last week, I hope I made your night. —Drunky money lose-r
Barrington Street poised for major makeover
So much for Barrington Street as urban wasteland: Fully nine properties on the street have applied for funding to help rebuild building facades. And city staff is recommending that Halifax council provide the building owners with $200,000 in grant money and just over a million dollars in tax credits to make the renovations become reality.…
Quarterfinal Recap
We are one day away from the World Cup semi-finals and it’s a perfect time to reflect back on the quarter-finals. Miroslav Klose and the Germans are the talk of the tournament Undoubtedly, the most impressive team of the World Cup thus far has been Germany – scoring a total of 13 goals and conceding…
Karma
Karma is going to get you? What is with all the Karma talk on this site lately? This is getting ridiculous. Half the people bitching here are saying Karma is going to get the people that have offended them. Can we lay off the hocus pocus stuff here and stick with the facts please? The…
Hacker
Thanks for hacking into my email whoever you are. —A Hacker’s victim
Where the fuck are your jobs, Halifax?
So I graduated very recently with a Bachelor of Commerce. I have applied to many companies for entry-level positions in my field. Not one of them has even called me for a fucking interview! The few that do respond only respond to tell me there are currently no positions that match my skill-set and experience.…
You’re a professional – don’t block the bloody intersection!!!!
To the stupid highway-style bus driver who knowingly went through an amber light toward a line up of cars already blocking the intersection, and directly in front of the people waiting to cross the street at Barrington and Duke on Monday at about 12:55 PM. WTF???? I thought you were a professional? That’s not a…
He ain’t a good guy
You’re my ex, you are the father of my child, your gf works around our child every day & every day I come in, I have to feel all disapproving eyes on me. Why? Cuz you love to tell everyone there that I’m a bitch…that I’m totally crazy so ‘never listen to anything she says’.…
Drivers License Renewal….. OMG!!!
You MUST go to the Motor Vehicles Service NS office to renew your drivers license. You can’t do it online because they need to get a picture of you. OK. I get it. Why, though, do you have to wait in the same line with literally a hundred other people who are there doing all…
Love!
To the incredible, lovely fashionistas at Halifax’s best clothing/quirky trinket store on Argyle Street. You guys always make my day. As an avid shopper of your store, I am always left smiling by the unpretentiousness, graciousness, humour and above all love of fashion that each of you possess and today was no exception. From remembering…
Red Headed Radiator
To my little (former) red headed radiator, these long summer months are especially long and lonely with you. I miss the days of waking up next to you and laughing about how wild the previous night was, and the anticipation of you strolling down the lane from your house to mine! September couldn’t end quicker,…
To All The Independent Bookstores…
I was greatly saddened when I found out you folks would be shutting your doors forever and thought that you should know that you very often brightened my day with great literature and cheap, delicious coffee. The staff were always around for a great title suggestion or a chat about the positive attributes of anarchy.…
She’s Eclectic: DJ Edition
who wants to drink from the fire hose? Eclectic Avenue, the monthly dance night that also helps raise money for CKDU, is happening again this Wednesday. A cluster of sweet local DJs will be providing the ennatainment this time around: Innez Da Future, DJ Regalia, the delightfully-named Bourbon Jungle, DJ Goldilocks, DJ Fancy Pants Adventure,…
Monitor install
Dear Destiny: Thank you for the cloud that rained down a singular ash, an ash that formed a magnetic field that drew closest to my heart. When I’m with you I feel happiness at its fullest. Your presence cancels out the negatives on the mind and draws in the positives that you give off. You’re…
40’s village man
When I saw you at the car show, my heart skipped a beat, I went again for the donuts yesterday, but saw you again, and am done sir, I havnt been able to get you out of my head. You are my dream man, from your horned rimmed glasses to your overalls and chucks. I…
End of Vacation Blues
I’m glad I have a job to go to but the first day back after vacation sucks. Just sucks. I’m sure the work has piled up on my desk and everything will be ‘urgent’ when I get back tomorrow. Working for a living sucks! If only I could win the millions… —Wish I had a…
I work for my money.
Fuck off to the guy in the red shirt that I gave $2 to for the “ferry”. You said you needed to get home to pick up your kid or some shit. I doubt you have a kid, and if you do I feel sorry for the thing because it has a shitty dad. I…
French First?
French is still a language spoken by a severe minority in Canada, so why speak French first during the Canada Day party? It sucked anyway, but the principle still stands. —Anglais, s.v.p
Money isn’t everything
First of all, I wanted to tell you right the fuck off but you were the “friend of a friend” that ended up squeezing his way into our girls night and they begged me not to cause a scene and I respect my friends so I didn’t. I’m just here to get shit off my…
To the idiot who biked in front of me
When I’m driving up North St, it’s not very nice to suddenly have a bike in front of my car. I share the road with bikers, so FOLLOW THE FREAKIN RULES! —Pissedoff
I want to be you? That’s amusing…
It has been years now since I thought you were my friend, from the outside it looked like we had lots in common but I quickly realized that you have a cold heart and are a rude childish person. I love that you think that I want to be like you. You are the exact…
Patient Motorist
To the douchetard that tried to hurry my wife, step-daughter (in wheel chair) and myself by inching forward while crossing the street (leagally), a hardy big fuck you to you. I didn’t catch what you yelled at us after you drove by. I apologize for putting you back ten seconds for the rest of your…
Dear School:
I hate the way you make me cry. I hate the way you make me feel stupid. I hate that I wake up every morning with anxiety over you. I hate that I can’t enjoy my summer. I hate that I won’t quit you. —Sad Student
Inconsiderate Coward
This is to thank the cocksucker that scratched my red pontiac G5 bumper in the parking lot of the Clayton Park Sobeys on July 2nd sometime between 7pm and 8:30pm while I was buying groceries for my two children. As a single mom, you probably feel I have alllll kinds of money to get that…
Thank you
I would just like to thank the person who found my wallet in downtown Halifax last week, and stole all of the money in it, for ruining my kids summer. Not only did you take all the money, but you passed by pictures of two kids and proceeded to take the grocery gift card and…
Airport Robbery
After a long flight back to Halifax there is nothing like arriving at the airport and paying $21 for a shuttle bus to the city. I am so glad there is no public transportation option (that would make too much sense). To add to this, I asked an airport worker for the cheapest way to…
Kid Rock etc CANCELLED
glad to see harold mckay isn’t the only one making bad decisions You know what’s really awesome about blogging for Scene and Heard? I still get excited when the city is buzzing with those “OH, here comes a big crazy concert!” announcements. And two days/weeks/months later, there’s the inevitable; “Actually, we lied! Concert canceled! Haha…
Cheating Isn’t leaving on good terms.
You really broke him. He hasn’t been the same since you cheated on him. He was one of the guys who would always be there to help any of his friends out no matter what. Most of us now go weeks without seeing him. What bugs me the most is that he wanted to work…
The Bitch Who Stole Canada Day…
To the bitch who decided to prance herself and her little friend into the middle of the seated area and shake her ass in front of all the people who had secured their seats since 2 in the afternoon… give your self-centered little head a shake! Then when asked to sit down you sat down…
Thank you #2 bus driver:
This love goes out to a very nice bus driver on the 2 on Wed night. I was stuck working till 1130 that night and had a called a cab that failed to show up after 30 minutes. Knowing that there was an 80 due to come, I sauntered over to the bus stop hoping…
Currently pissed but still very appreciative
I must admit I am in a very foul mood at the moment… though I can’t very well leave alone the fact that as I pull into the Antigonish Tims last night with my muffler having been dragged behind me for 20 odd minutes, several people there came over and helped me prop it up…
86 night stand
I know there was something that made me not want you, I just wish I could remember what it was now. Because every time you left my room late at night, left me wrapped in my bed sheet, wrapped in something that smelled like you, all I remember is standing in front of the door…
Unintentional
I was convinced I was paralyzed, barely conscious, feeling the blood run from awful places, indifferent to everything around me, in shock. I thought I was dying, and the first thing that came to my mind was that now you finally had a good reason to visit. —ihateyoufornot
Teach your kids some respect
I’m sick and fucking tired of going down town or to a mall and seeing a gang of teenagers being a collective mass of douchebags. While attempting to make my way to a cross walk, one particular bitch, no more than 16, calls out to me “got a dollar for me?” I tell I don’t…
Awww
How come Oprah is not on as much as it used to be? It is like my fave show and she is my idol. Sick of other talk shows, they suck. —Need an Oprah fix now!
I just wanna know already…
So I think I might be pregnant, but the home test said negative. So I go to my doctor to see what he can do for me. He had me in and out of his office in 2 minutes and sent me to the hospital for blood work to check if I was pregnant and…
The urban farmer
“You can see the greens thriving, almost ready for harvest,” Elizabeth Peirce says, pointing at her raised beds of arugula and spinach. “These tomatoes are starting to bloom.” She gently fingers the budding yellow flower. “Beauty.” She’s giving me the tour of her Kline Street backyard, one of her three peninsular gardens. She has another,…
Oceans of Hope
This is an artifact, really, of the Pier 21 museum’s first decade in operation. The 25-minute film screened in-house from the start in 1999. For the museum lover, there’s a kitschy, nostalgic appeal to the costumed actors playing immigrants from different countries of origin and historical eras from Pier 21’s original operation (1929-71) and the…
In bed with my father-in-law
Q I am a married guy in my 50s. My wife and I do some role-playing where I am “Ted,” her real-life father. In her script, I yell at my “bad daughter” (my wife) over some infraction and send her to her room. Later on, I sneak in and tell her that she could “make…
Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist
The producers of Project Runway replicate that show’s successful format almost play by play. Fourteen artists, who bunk and work together for the duration of the competition, art it out for money and a show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Diversity fuels reality-conflict and so you have the cocky self-taught tattooed guy, the bitchy…
Free Will Astrology
CANCER(June 21-July 22) Let’s do a check-in on your progress so far in 2010, Cancerian. The year’s half over, and I’m wondering if you’ve been cashing in on the unique invitations that life has been sending your way. The way I understand it, you’ve been summoned to emerge from your hiding place and go wandering…
Defective shining armour in Knight and Day
Cameron Diaz’s June is blind-sided by Tom Cruise’s rogue ex-CIA agent, Roy, in an airport terminal. It seems that Cruise has been framed (or is he?) for a major breach in government security, and the two must steal away together to far-flung parts of America and Europe. Cruise plays Roy with the usual overwrought commitment.…
Sable Island’s cod killer?
One morning in early April 2003, the villagers of Smith Sound, Newfoundland, awoke to a glimpse of what it might have been like to live there 500 years earlier. The sound was brimming with cod, as far as the eye could see. Villagers rushed out in their boats, scooping the fish up in nets and…
Sarah Harmer
Some people disappear for awhile, and when they come back it’s only then you realize how dearly you missed them. Sarah Harmer’s first album since 2005’s I’m a Mountain is like that, a joyous reminder of a massive Canadian talent. More polished than I’m a Mountain and less melancholy than All of Our Names, Oh…
Gogol Bordello
Eugene Hütz and his merry and mad band of musicians, collectively known as Gogol Bordello, are several albums into their musical revolution. “Revolution is internal/Evolution isn’t over, isn’t over,” proclaims Hütz, the band’s lyricist/vocalist/guitarist, on “Raise the Knowledge.” With Rick Rubin producing, Gogol Bordello’s live, genre-erasing energy is distilled but not diluted. Just listen to…
The Wind Up Radio Sessions
Though the name is confusing, The Wind Up Radio Sessions have nothing particular to do with the radio—this is a poppy folk record made by two brothers and a friend. It starts off with a folkier sound, but hits nearly danceable numbers by the end. The songs feel summery and earnest, youthful and emotional, lyrics…
A costume ball
In a short time, NSCAD University’s new fashion department has established itself as a creative, eco-conscious style force, producing some talented emerging designers. But now, that sunny upstairs studio in Granville Mall is becoming a production site and a starting point for local theatre costume design, too. Last year grad Akshay Tyagi, whose stage-minded dresses…
Band of Horses
“Factory,” the opening track on Infinite Arms, is an elegantly swaying, melodic slow-dance that perfectly illustrates what’s to come: a series of soft rock, lighter-held-high anthems that are neither overly exciting nor are they too bland to be discarded. If “NW Apt.” is the album’s highlight, then “Blue Beard” is its worst offense. If any…
The Common: An Experience For One Person In A Public Place
The Black Eyed Peas might rock that body, while softball leagues sulk in the suburbs about losing their fields, but The Common: An Experience For One Person In A Public Place captures the heart and history of that contentious green space with the complicated reputation. The Common is a site-specific play that takes you on…
The Beauties
This band has grown from a weekly spot at Toronto’s Dakota Tavern to an album of originals. Equal parts twang and bounce, The Beauties seem to have sprung from the same 1980s fount as Blue Rodeo and the late Handsome Ned: music for hipsters and hicks alike to drink beer by. Four of the six…
What’s wrong: White painted cracks, all over the north end.
[image-1] Who’s responsible? Shaune MacKinlay, City Hall, 490-4000. Remarks: People are reporting lots of the “fix me” white painted cracks, some of which have been this way for months. But this is actually a good news story, says MacKinlay, the city’s PR person. Recently the city has acquired some new machinery and so has stepped…
On the boardwalk
Canada Day brings a patriotic list of events to Dartmouth’s waterfront, filled with live music (see the shortlist on page 15), pancake breakfasts (see Events, page 18) and red-and-white painted faces. Walk along the boardwalk anytime between 10am and 6pm and you’ll find more than face paint—over 30 artists will be both showing and creating…
Multicultural Festival takes a leap
This year’s Multicultural Festival is making a move to the Halifax Seaport (by Pier 21), and is helping everyone adjust to the change by providing a free shuttle bus. Hop on the shuttle at Upper Water and Duke streets, Barrington and Duke or Barrington and Spring Garden if you want to hitch a ride, or…
Love Song’s
Love Song’s Tucked into the brick-faced storefronts that line Quinpool Road, Song’s Korean Restaurant is almost tentative in appearance. There is little in the space that feels owned, or makes it feel unique. The chairs and glass-topped tables have that 1980s hand-me-down feeling of furniture that has passed from restaurant to restaurant. The walls are…
A good sport
Sports and movies share many common characteristics. Both inspire intense devotion and hatred among their legions of fans. Both receive obsessive press attention. Both are examples of excess, with Tom Cruise and Manny Ramirez being just two of many options for wasting $20 million in Los Angeles. The sporting world is littered with offbeat and…
Boom Bap with a bang
In the golden days of the Khyber Club you would see Classified, NEP and Jesse Dangerously standing in the same huddle. Buck 65 would watch Skratch Bastid work the turntables while JoRun nodded his head in benediction, as Josh Martinez and EMC used their dreads as skipping ropes. The children of that golden era are…
Total Eclipse of the heart
Hand this much to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, it delivers the user-friendly blockbuster that New Moon fumbled. The problem is the first Twilight was about emerging teenage female hormones and self-understanding. It didn’t care about appeasing its viewers’ boyfriends. By broadening the appeal, Twilight loses its focus. And with it, its relevance. “You can love…
Al Tuck vs. Shotgun Jimmie vs. Fred Squire
“We’re going to be fighting to the death,” says Jim Kilpatrick, AKA Shotgun Jimmie, when asked about the “three rounds, straight rules” Facebook description of his Saturday night show with Al Tuck and Fred Squire. Even if fighting to the death is only metaphorical—Jimmie’s playing The Company House show because he wanted to book something…
The Last Airbender brings out the worst in everyone
So many of these movies simply slap a world up on the screen without bothering to invite you in. You waste two hours of your life watching piss-pot characters bark out the arbitrary details of their inane, meaningless struggles, arcs and journeys. So is the case with The Last Airbender, where fire, water, earth and…
Finding the right English Words
Prince Edward Island pop-rock band English Words—the artists formerly known as Smothered in Hugs—is keeping its sound but changing its name image. “We’re not cute and cuddly,” says English Words lead singer Ryan Crane, of the name change. “The whole thing started years and years ago as a reference to a Guided by Voices song,…
Grown Ups falls short of height requirement
Excluding Punch-Drunk Love, what Adam Sandler movies are you willing to go to the mattresses for? Maybe 1995’s Billy Madison or 1996’s Happy Gilmore? But could those be youthful indiscretions, where Sandler’s goofball-pursuing-his-pleasure shtick felt more like thrilling wish fulfillment than an affront to mature sensibility? In Grown Ups, even Sandler has given in to…
Charter duplicity
On November 24, 2008, the Nova Scotia legislature debated Bill 179, which, if passed, would give the Halifax Regional Municipality its own charter, giving HRM powers that other cities and towns in the province don’t have. No longer would the city have to ask the province for permission every time the city needed to undertake…
High Life
Back in the ’90s a lot of movies got made in the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s success: light, wordy and violent crime films, few of which managed to match his gift with dialogue or structural grace. Here director Gary Yates revives the post-Tarantino genre like the past decade never happened, aiming for more giddy laughs…
Bill C-32
So, the Nanny State in it’s unending moral superiority has decided that it should be illegal for adults to purchase and consume flavored tobacco products, as of July 5th 2010. It was already illegal for children to purchase and consume tobacco products, so this new law does nothing but ban a product in a way…
Don’t Want to be in Love
It had a funny way of sneaking up on me. To love you now is to lose you forever, but If I contain it, I think my heart will explode. I don’t like this unexplainable feeling of love. I tried denial; rationalizing the feelings from when we first met as a silly crush, assuming the…
Gotta Go!
I love this city, but I really hate you. Thank God I’m moving. —HQ
Disobedient Woman
To the guy in the corner store on Victoria Road: I didn’t come out of the rain to be put in my place!. I am an intelligent, opinionated, pushy and radical lesbian… and damn proud!!! —Woman on the Bike
IF YOUR NOT A GOOD MOTHER STOP PROCREATING!
Ok so me and 3 friends were walking down Southpark St last Thursday in the direction of SGR when this mother come along with her two-seat stroller and decides to hit a bump in the sidewalk… no big deal if YOUR CHILD IS BUCKLED INTO THE SEAT! The baby come flying out and smashes his…
Foot Stomping and Door Slamming…
Why? I have lived in over 40 different rental properties and in 80% of them living conditions are made intolerable by women who feel the need to slam doors and stomp their feet. Why is it necessary? Are you announcing to the entire building when you enter and exit your apartment? Are you all looking…
You make me smile
Thank you for walking into my life when I truly needed you. I love you. —Mad Love
Testy Waters
Just wanna give a shout out to all the American sailors for your admirable behaviour this weekend. Out of all the sailors who came to the bar you guys were the funnest and easiest to interact with. You never gave us any trouble and we truly appreciate it! —Halifax Bouncer
To the two men driving down Quinpool:
Thanks so much for offering the drive when I was carrying a heavy load. Even though I didn’t accept you guys made my day. If I see you again, I’ll get you a beer. —Brown haired girl
Magic Mountain Mom
This is for the mother of the four and six-year-old children at Magic Mountain who just a few Saturdays ago was subjected to the misfortune of having to explain to her young children the meaning of my rather vulgar (but rather hilarious) sunbathing result. I apologize for offending your family. I can only hope that…
To my Tall Neighbor
Thank you for rescuing my kitten when he jumped to the balcony below us. I am grateful that you saw me in a panic and were thoughtful enough to come help! I am also grateful that you were tall enough to reach him so he wouldn’t jump and run away!! —Nervous Kitten Owner
Out to the oddball.. :)
You say you are an oddball, While I think you are one of a kind. You are always in my heart & often on my mind! Treating me like I’ve never been before… to me you have opened up a whole new door 🙂 golfing… racing… bowling… talking, But most importantly… Laughing, & Smi)ing… I…
A girl from Newfoundland
You wrote me a sweet message and I never got to know you. You made a short period of school really exciting and you still hold a lot of mystique. Maybe we’ll get that long spoken-about coffee sometime. —Tall, Dark, and Slowly Going Blind.
G.O.
Our random, sporadic nights never fail to keep me smiling the next day. Although I’m not sure how long we will keep this up for… thank you. Thank you for being you: honest, funny, charming, and with a couple insecurities. Your eyes are welcoming, your arms comforting, and your lips always leave me wanting more.…
Morning news
Thank you to the woman who hands out the daily papers at the Dartmouth Sportsplex every morning. You do a great job making sure everyone gets one that wants one. It’s nice to see someone passionate about their job so early in the morning. —Early morning bus rider
Coburg Store
Thanks for the high five the other day at the store. You totally caught me off guard or I would have said more. It’s nice to run into friendly Halifax girls and if you ran out of smokes on your birthday I hope it wasn’t my fault! —Awkward fiver
To my landlords
Just a message to say how grateful I am that you haven’t evicted me when I legally deserved it. I was not in a lease and almost 60 days behind. I’m glad you understood that I am having a hard time finding full time work. so I kept my part time job and found another…
Thanks!
To the couple in Bayers Lake on Sat. June 26 who came to give me my Bfs black coat… I thank you. That was so sweet. I told you we were in a fight and you said you understood. That was nice of you to chase us down. Everything is fine now. Thank you again…
Straight up fun at Reflections
To the theatre major wearing a vest and glasses at Reflections on Friday night: You were a fun dance partner and I wish we could have hung out some more! Even though it wasn’t what you expected, I’m glad you enjoyed the bar. Hope to run into you again sometime! —The girl who was behind…
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
8,000 sailors descend on this city, and the only one I can think about is you. Thanks for giving me another reason to love this wonderful port city. —Love that CF Boy
Lawrence street love
I want to sent out a huge THANK YOU to the person(s) who wrote wonderful messages of peace & love, and lovely drawings at the entrance of so many houses on the sidewalk on Lawrence St. I was having a yucky day and boy oh boy, did that ever cheer me up !! I had…
