cell phone whores
Attention all cell phone whores: Can you just put the thing down for the duration of a car journey??? Nine times out of ten, whenever i see someone near miss our car on a turn or nearly run a red, it is because they are on their fucking cell phones!!!!!!! (Note to government – WAKE…
Canada’s Ocean Gay Ground?
You need a note from your doctor to get an ‘accessibility’ place. You need veterans papers to get a ‘Veterans’ plate. You pay a donation fee for a ‘conservation’ plate (species at risk) What are the requirements to get an ‘Oceans Gay Ground’ plate? Seriously who thought of that dumbass term anyway? BJ..:P
Rachid Taha
Rachid TahaTuesday, July 15, 9:59pm, JazzFest tent photo Julé Malet-Veale
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I suggest if you ever *speak* to anyone else like that again, you limit yourself to those that have either come out of, or have a season pass to your va-jayjay. I’m not your emotional tampon. Never again
Poopy bag tree decorators at Long Lake
To Long Lake Provincial Park Visitors, PLEASE stop putting your dogs poop in a plastic bag and tying it to a tree and leaving it there for someone else to pick up. There is NO someone else and no one wants to pick up your dogs crap. Kick the poop into the woods, it will…
24-Hour Zine Challenge
Not up for a concert this Saturday? Believe it or not, there are non-music-related events happening in the city that day, too. The hands-down coolest: the third go-round of the Anchor Archive Zine Library’s annual 24-Hour Zine Challenge — an event aimed at celebrating zines (self-published magazines with small print runs) and introducing the uninitiated…
NS-Fed Offshore Deal
How is it that the province can claim a victory in a new revenue sharing deal where NS gets $870 million over 15 years… Last year the province claimed our share was worth $1.8 billion and now we’ve accepted less than half of that? I have not seen anywhere in print where there is any…
bugs
will the bedbugs ever go away? Covered, fumigated, oiled.
Not-so-Tasty
to a certain pizza place on main st. what kinda shit show are you running there, everytime you fuck up my order. i should come down there and take your jobs Cook who actually reads slips
noberry like a NSberry
It’s strawberry season in Nova Scotia; time for some homegrown heady goodness! I went to the grocery store, hoping to score some sweet treats, only to find California strawberries! Will somebody tell me what the #$%* is going on!!?? Not at one store, not at two, but at three f’n stores!! Why are they selling…
What ever happened to good ol’ fashioned money?
Each time somebody hands me a plastic card to pay for their one, small coffee, or anything under $20 for that matter, part of me dies. Why has everyone become such slaves to electronics? Is it laziness?? Go to the fucking bank and get some real fucking money and stop wasting my time, your own,…
i hate people
someone please tell me whos braniac idea it was to give the source bouncers handcuffs? their fucking fat heads are enough to keep people out of the doorway theyre guarding, do you really need to handcuff non-violent crying females to prove a point? i have seen sooooo much useless violence from this team of “professionals”…
To the Blonde Bitch in the BMW
Thanks a lot for letting your shopping cart roll into my car and dent the passenger side door in the parking lot of the Panavista Sobeys on Tuesday evening and then jumping in your car without at least acknowledging it or, heaven help us, apologizing. If some one had done that to your precious BMW…
Rachid Taha Rocks El Halbah
If you were planning a night of hushed, introspective sounds Tuesday soir at the Jazz Tent, ya picked wrong, Jacko. What Algerian-born French singer Rachid Taha and his force-of-Nature band of merry men and opening act Kojopresented over the course of the evening was git-up-on-it musical combustion. Hotter than a stroll on the sun I…
Drunk tank
HRM police are a joke they took me in the drunk tank because they were pissed at me for questioning authority because they searched my friends purse . I had four beers over 3 hours. Anyways the main bitch is. to that fucking over weight prick I met who threatened me and said I was…
Cry babies
To the anonymous people who come online to thecoast.ca to leave angry comments: Get a fucking life! Instead of waiting til your safely back in your home, why not make it a point to do something about it! Do you think there will be a revolution starting with your little rant? What do you think…
Come back down to earth
To the ladies of Halifax going through everyday life looking even too dressed up for high school prom: Leave your high heels at home…in fact, don’t even have them there. They pretty much never look good. Get some cute little flats or some nice flat-soled sandals and the guys will praise you…and so will your…
Bucking Fackwards……
WHY is it that the less work you do, the more money you make??? I fucking HATE it when all the precious “bosses” come around with their 6 figure salaries and sit on their fat asses and tell us what we’re doing wrong. News flash ass holes — if you just ONCE told us we…
Friend…
To my friend who loves to get intoxicated and then drive, it’s not just your life you risk asshole. tired of trying
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segue to pedestrians
Remember segueing me into traffic while three of you took up the sidewalk? Call me a Luddite but — well maybe you can “call me” on your advertised cellphone plan. Thanks. Ian
ATV-Gate
What is with the secret sponsers who “gave back” $230K for the ill-fated ATV’s for kids fiasco… Who gives away that amount of money and does not expect something of greater value in return? If there is a requirement for political donations to be publicly disclosed, why not with this type of highly irregular payment……
Metro Paper = Recycle?
The Metro Newspaper is handed to Halifax/ Dartmouth Ferry riders. Most of them seem to be recycling them on the other side of the trip! This means that all that paper, ink, etc are being used for about a ten minute read and then recycled! Maybe there should be a REUSE pile at either end…
Pete’s!
Hey Pete’s! Turn off your ugly-ass trucks while they’re stopped for a delivery and give me my plastic bags for free! Bitchin’ Begger
Hey Rosetta! have a CD, don’t you know
You know Hey Rosetta!, right? They are releasing their much anticipated CD Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And Through Your Blood) at Summersonic this weekend (July 20 on Citadel Hill), so remember to bring extra cash and get yours before all that’s left at their merch table is a frazzled merch person.
The Aeolian Singers want you!
Are you a lady? Do you like to sing? Have you ever sung in a choir? Now might be your chance to make use of all those properties and get in on the The Aeolian Singers auditions for all voicings (soprano 1, soprano 11, alto 1 and alto 11. If you have choral experience, you…
Jon Mullane’s Olympic achievement
Halifax’s own Jon Mullane (not the In-Flight Safety Jon Mullane) recently got his song “Make You Move” picked up by NBC for their Summer Olympic Promos. The spots will air during the late night shows The Tonight Show, Conan and Carson starting in mid-July. “It’s fantastic that people are connecting with song. It’s exciting for…
A safe way home? don’t think so
To the cabdriver who kept my roommate locked in your car for over an hour, feeling her up, and taking advantage when she was intoxicated and needed a safe way home. FUCK YOU, EAT SHIT, choke and DIE!! you should feel safe that she doesn’t remember what cab company you work for, or your name,…
Grocery
Portland St Superstore, Saturday July 5, I have a full cart of groceries worth $150 +/- ready to go to the checkout… I check my shopping list and realize I forgot to get coffee cream… So back I go to the back of the store.. There are a bunch of pallets full of new stock…
Bitch about shuttles…
With all the bitches about the lack of buses to beaches lately, I just wanted to add one about the lack of ANY kind of transportation to Keji (besides renting a car of course.) I thought camping would be the cheapest way to go but almost $400 for a car for a couple of days……
better brown-nose bedford
why do they cut down trees to widen chebucto? to let bedford drive faster to halifax. halifax no longer counts. why? bedford has all the money and the politicians know that. pass over halifax, money talks, and the spineless politicians drive from bedford BBB
turn it down!
to all you annoying fuckheads who cruise around town, especially late at night, blasting trailer-trash hip-hop/noise on a set of subwoofers that cost more than the shitbox car you’re driving… do you attention-seeking losers have any idea how pathetic you are?? get a life for fucksake! if i had a rocket launcher…
Holly Cole
Sunday night. It was a pumped queue, peopled mainly with the “we-live–well” set (all ages), that snaked back from the Jazz Tent along Queen Street heading for Morris. Explanation for the line length? The Holly Cole show had sold out. How long was it? Long enough that you felt, in it, you could possibly, while…
Horror Scene I Only Read About…Until Now
This is to the stupid fucks who thought it would be a good idea to take their young girl to Lawrencetown Beach on Sunday along with their three medium sized dogs plus one 3-legged German Shepherd mix. Nice enough scene, quite a family oriented outing. BUT THEN WHAT THE FUCK POSSESSED YOU TO LET ALL…
Government stupidity
The Magazine hill has road sign’s stating that our hard earned gas tax dollars are being used to fund the Median project. I think this is very funny. Just fix the roads and do it fast . What a bunch of idiots. The money that was used to create this sign, could have been used…
To my fucking inlaws
You moved that friday, after your son was trying to re-establish a mangled relationship with his mother, she decides not to tell him she is moving! We find out after we get there to find all her stuff gone. After talking to the neighbors we find that you got a 20ft moving truck to move…
Web site nazi sounds off
My bitch is about people who post the exact same bitches twice in a row, or three or four or five times in a row because they can’t figure out the bitches must be approved by someone. Also, those who don’t check to see that their bitch was posted over a week ago and post…
you are not anarchists
To the herd of hippies living in the corner of the commons by robie and quinpool- you stink. literally in this case. You are NOT actually homeless, are you? you’re mec bags, abundance of booze and cigarettes, and oh-so-alternatively-bad-ass ripped fishnets under short shorts topped with a dog collar tells me so. You’re ruining that…
Blast Tango In Halifax
A chilling word made its way to some of us filling the Jazz Tent to capacity and then some on Spring Garden Road Friday night – a lovely warm summer evening. Headliners. Orquestra Tipica Imperial had somehow lost their way from the airport to downtown. But, we were quickly assured, they HAD made it and…
Chocolate Ashtray
So I took my ten-month-old to Chocolate Lake for his first swim a couple of days ago. The water was fun (though chlorinated? WTF, HRM? That’s another Bitch, though), but when we were back on the beach, he spent his time toddling around trying to pick up the copious cigarette butts littering the beach. I…
I wanna go to the Beach!
Rainbow Haven is 6.5km past the end of the bus route# 61. Why can’t Metro Transit extend that route by 6 lousy km so people without cars can get to the beach once in a while? Not even all year. Maybe just from Canada Day to Labour Day. It wouldn’t even have to service the…
Letters to the Editor
Not So Satisfied I have recently quit my job at Satisfaction Feast, during the three months I worked there I did not recieve any vacation pay or holiday pay, I had pay cheques bounce and my employer tried to convince me to work Canada Day for normal pay (minimum wage). I know I am not…
Flame OFF
Thanks a lot to the store across the street being rebuilt. I am sure that everyone around you wants to share in a bit of “your lightning” as the fire marshall put it last night as he was putting the fire out after the attempt to set our home on fire. You can burn your…
Blister in the Sun
What the fuck?!?! This city sucks so fucking bad in the summer. They have a FREE bus that rides to LIMITED downtown areas that you could WALK to essentially if you needed to or if you really didn’t want to pay the TWO DOLLAR FARE to get to but there are absolutely no buses that…
Go North! festival deadline
Just a reminder for all the artistically minded souls and venue-having mofos who’ve been meaning to get involved with this year’s Go North! festival, but haven’t quite gotten around to making their intentions concrete: the deadline for artists and showcasing venues to sign up for the festival is July 18. So, if you’re a north-end…
The Dark Knight
I can’t help but notice all the publicity that “The Dark Knight” is getting because of Heath Ledger. Hands down he is a great actor and his death was tragic but I cant help but wonder if there would be this much Oscar buzz and publicity if he hadn’t died. It seems like celebrities get…
2b theatre Fiesta!
If you’re a sometime recluse like me, this summer’s jam-packed sched of various festivals, happenings and capital-e Events likely has you ready for a siesta. Resist the urge, sleepy-pants — it’s time for a fiesta, courtesy of lovely local theatre company 2b. The company were already planning to do a performance of Hannah Moscovitch’s one-act…
there should be a ban
where are the webmasters here? the same few people clog up this site week after week with their shit! some should be banned so everyone can be heard instead of just a few peopel with dumb names and dumber things to say. the harbours almost clean- why can’t the coast throw out the trash? clean…
a bad banana with a greasy black peel
Since when is a banana art? Since when does a full time art instructor deserve a grant to go out and shop for color-complementary bananas??? Ship this exhibit to the Banana Republic with the rest of the over-priced garbage! The grinch ain’t got nothing on you!
Mean Girls
Its no wonder I am gay. Some or alot of you girls are such bitches. Ya all are so scary. No wonder I have barely any girlfriends. I am such a nice guy and some of you want me to be friends and hang out sometimes but man you girls arn’t even nice to eachother.…
Maybe I can submit a Photo
Photo submission is working now? Photocop
Moolicious
July has plenty of riches, both in our country and across the border. Originally based in Charlottetown, PEI and with a prime location in the Historic Properties (Upper Water Street), COWS Ice Cream was given top drawer status as they recently ranked number one on the World’s Top Ten Places for Ice Cream by Tauck…
R.I.P. Ethiopian Restaurant, Hello Aleppo
For those who loved and mourned the loss of the Ethiopian Restaurant (6184 Quinpool), dry those tears and head on over to Aleppo Restaurant (6184 Quinpool) for a delicious feast of Middle Eastern cuisine.
Car Share
Nothing says automobile share like the astronomical price of gas and rising environmental concerns. Three business partners – Peter Zimmer of the Ecology Action Centre, Mike Velemirovich, general manager of Hillcrest VW and KIA and Pam Cooley, former Haligonian and current CEO of Vancouver’s Choosethical Ventures Inc, have teamed up to create CarShareHFX.”If you own…
Susie Opens Up Her Cupcake Shop
One of the many charms of visiting major metropolis locations such as Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal are the specialty shops. Downtown Halifax just got a little sweeter, as Susie’s Shortbreads plans to open a storefront location (1589 Dresden Row) in August. The official opening announcement may still be under wraps, but the menu promises 15…
Long Lake Fire Flakes
To the guys who left their large, still-flaming bon-fire going Wednesday night at Long Lake: what the f**k were you thinking?! Did you some how miss hearing about the recent huge forest fire, the need for rain, and basic bon-fire ettiquette? The increasingly strong night wind was blowing huge amounts of sparks from your fire…
Photo for metro-recycle bitch
Published July 09, 2008. Photo for metro-recycle bitch I tried to submit a photo to go with my Metro Recycle bitch but couldn’t get logged in. Hmmmm. Holly Hammett-Vaughan
Language-Arts have a secret EP for you
Language-Arts is the musical creation of classical guitarist and vocalist Kristen Cudmore and double bassist Michael Vaughan. Along with Karma Sohn (keys and vocals) and Gregor Phillips (drums and percussion), the band makes their way to Halifax—on their first cross-country tour—for the JazzFest (at the Seahorse Tavern. Fri Jul 18, with TFC). But they aren’t…
Park Lame
To the similac-loving douche-bags at Park Lane mall on tuesday the 24th who complained about me breastfeeding my baby boy.. what do you think we have breasts for? When he’s f-ing hungry, I’ll f-ing feed him. And to the dickhead security guard who asked me to leave.. it’s not f-ing nudity and it’s not offensive.…
chebucto widening
sneaky, underhanded thoughtless council who re-voted on a closed subject and now there are people losing their homes, their trees, their bit of neighborhood. it just breaks the heart. On what freaking city model does widening actually work???? sad to see it happen
Enjoy Your Ticket!!!
I am so happy that my apartment building is FINALLY giving out tickets to those who park in the fire lane and others parking spots. I was so F***in tired of seeing people parked in the firelane KNOWING that they would get away with it, because our supers weren’t gonna do anything about it!!! And,…
no pita for you!
Just flipping the bird to the pita hole nazi downtown who bitched at my wife for using the washroom when she “wasn’t a paying customer” – I was the one who placed my order with HER money! What a dipshit. No wonder the place was empty…or why there were no employees in sight. shoulda got…
Port business way down
Can we finally admit that chasing the “Atlantic Gateway” dream maybe isn’t such a hot idea? Semi–Annual 2008 Statistical Analysis for the Port of Halifax The Port of Halifax has experienced a decline in cargo volumes in the first half of the year. Overall total TEU’s year-over-year have decreased -16.3% for the first six months.…
Why Why Why do you do this….
Ok here it is…WHY is all I want to know are you always telling me you want to be with me and you have to see me….REALITY CHECK…YOU have a WOMEN ! How many times can I tell you until she is gone I won’t be around. I play “the other women” for NOBODY !…
Apartments behind the times
My apartment building does not compost, nor does the super show interest in being involved with the practice. So now, I have to use a bin in my kitchen and dump it in a green bin at a friend’s house once a week. Another friend’s building composts, but doesn’t recycle. What’s up with that? I…
Beach Fuks
To the guys in the piece of shit red car today at Rainbow Haven Beach, who asked me so nicely “What the fuck am I looking at?”…well I was looking at a bunch of losers in a red car, that’s what I was looking at. Is your dick that small that you have to start…
I missed my coffee…you must pay…
while waiting in line at the airport to get coffee before a flight recently, I had the wonderful exprierence of watching over parenting in action. despite the fact there was a line ahead of them (giving ample time for food selection and a thourogh rehearsal), and a line behind them, all of passengers who clearly…
Jazz Fest 2008
Starting Saturday, Graham Pilsworth will be the eyes, and more importantly, ears, at this year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival. Catch all his reports right here at thecoast.ca.
Plotting scheming furniture…
offical notifaction to my desk chair: I’ve caught on to your fiendish plan to destroy me. you can plot with the coffee maker all you like, but you will not succeed in your plan to decapitate me, trip me, or otherwise toss me onto the floor. you will succumb to my ass, whether you like…
Bone dry fountain in the Common.
Remarks: The fountain was built in 1967, before locals were smart enough to want fountains you could stick your feet in and let the kiddies run through. So the thing’s a disaster waiting to happen—gazillion megawatt cables running at ankle height, through water, no less. Hence, the hideous fence to keep us out. Bigelow says…
Vinyl albums spin new art
There’s no question vinyl records are no longer the prevailing way for people to listen to music. That doesn’t mean they’re dead to everybody. Records certainly look better in all their seven-to-12-inch glory than CDs enclosed in flimsy jewel cases. And, while CDs continue to lose the war with mp3 technology, vinyl sales are on…
Drug detox programs shut down
Local addiction detox programs are closed for the entire month of July, leaving hundreds of addicts with no immediate place to turn. “The choice wasn’t ours,” says Tom Payette, director for district addiction and treatment services for Capital Health, which operates the only detox programs in HRM, at Nova Scotia Hospital in Dartmouth. “Capital Health…
Tideview cider house rules
Old-style Valley hard cider made of ribstons, pippins, balwins and spys, poised to take Halifax by storm
Hancock
Writing a review for Hancock demands a commitment the movie itself doesn’t return. Hancock plays with our emotions: It’s alternately one of the best movies of the summer and one of the worst (or, at least, it can get as bland as the ones dedicated to being consistently boring). Start with the concept: Will Smith…
Extreme Group nails it
There once was a nail without a job.He’d done his duty proudly for years.Then one day it was taken from him.He was sure someone would notice and put him back to work.But no one did.Hope turned to despair.Finally he decided he would be ignored no longer…. Cue a warehouse worker beginning to stand up under…
Super High Me
[image-4]Published July 10, 2008.Super High MeDirected by: Directed by Michael Blieden (Universal Studios)Comedian and marijuana enthusiast Doug Benson is a semi-funny guy who’s amassed a lot of very funny friends. Many of them—including Patton Oswalt and Bob Odenkirk—show up for cameos in Super High Me, a comedic doc that shows Benson staying sober for 30…
The Coast’s Jazz Festival picks
Forget travelling this summer, take a trip around the world with these 10 musical acts coming to this year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival. By Sean Flinn, Graham Pilsworth and Sam Worthington. Orquesta Tipica ImperialWith e-stringz, Friday, July 11 at the Festival Tent, 8pm, $25-$30 Kicking off this year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival is Argentina’s not-to-be-missed Orquesta Tipica…
A renewed Erin Costelo
In the span of a year-and-a-half, Erin Costelo’s gone from playing for her cousin, her sister and her husband (that trio, she says, were the only folks there to witness her first flirtation with playing live) to performing at the cabaret-style Holiday Inn Select Commons Room July 13. In honour of the leap from the…
Give the drummers some more
Katie Patterson is home just long enough to do laundry after a gig with Drum! in Ottawa and then she’s taking off again, this time for Privateer Days in Liverpool, where she’s playing with pop/rock band Modern Citizen. The 20-year-old drummer talks breathlessly about playing on a “turning stage” in front of a crowd she…
Uranium mania
Finally something to cheer about. The McRodneyites are considering lifting the ban on uranium exploration in Nova Scotia! The government launched its review of the ban after reports that there may be a shitload of the valuable mineral buried in central NS. If exploration confirms this, there would be intense pressure to mine the stuff…
Savage Love
Q: I am a heterosexual male in my 20s, and I need some help putting a label on my kink/fetish. I usually don’t care much for labels in any aspect of life, but I’m hoping that knowing what to call this may help me find others who share the same interest: I love it when…
ATV vote-mongering
Everyone’s talking about the Nova Scotia government’s ATV fiasco. I’ve heardabout it half a dozen times this week. And that’s really saying something, because I’m writing this while on vacation in Ontario and Quebec. Now, bulletins from Atlantic Canada don’t much make news up here in the National Capital Region in any sort of on-the-street…
