High 5: The Coast redesign in song
We redesigned the paper but I’m still here doing these songs for you. 1. “Change,” Kelis 2. “I’m Different,” 2 Chainz 3. “Looking Good Feeling Gorgeous,” RuPaul 4. “Positive,” Dog Day Deformer by DOG DAY 5. “Pretty Hurts,” Beyoncé
Certainly Cinnamon’s kitchen sitch
Certainly Cinnamon (1673 Barrington Street) might be your favourite spot to grab a sandwich and a cinnamon roll, but it’s also a catering king pin—a catering king pin that’s been working out of three separate kitchens in order to make its 60-plus weddings a year work. After appealing to our nosy side with a tweet…
To Intolerance
This is a message to everyone who is upset, angry and annoyed about things that do not directly affect them; Homophobic, trans-phobics, Kink-phobics, Xenophobes. Yes I mean you people. How does it affect your marriage if two women you don’t know get married? Religious Rhetoric you say, yet you wouldn’t stone someone for not being…
Devour! is bringing Anthony Bourdain to Nova Scotia
It’s been tough for Devour! The Food Film Fest’s Lia Rinaldo and chef Michael Howell to keep kitchen confidential on this one, but today they were finally able to spill the beans and announce that Anthony Bourdain will be helping them kick off this year’s festival in Wolfville. Holy shit, right? “He was always our…
I try to hold it in, but…
It’s me. I’m the one who keeps farting during yoga. —I’m sorry!
Hanging up my helmet
Ok, I’m done. After braving the city traffic on my bike for 7 years, I am packing it in. The reason? The air-head bimbo who pulled alongside me waiting at a red light, leaving about 5″ between her car and my bare leg, so close I could feel the heat from her red Honda Civic…
The African Queen
I smile to when I remember us. And when I go to Schooner it evokes memories of you and when I found a copy of the African Queen there, I turned almost expecting to see you pleased with my find. I bought it knowing if you knew it would make you smile —your girl from…
Dog Park Bystander
To the middle aged man who was walking his small dog, and carrying a purple ball-thrower in Africville dog park on Tuesday evening. Thanks for just watching as my girlfriend was attacked by the chained dog near the exit by the museum. You listened to her calls for help, as that dog was snarling and…
Girl at my apartment building, red dyed hair
I see you walking your dog all the time. We always seem to see each other in the lobby, and I notice you always give me looks. You’re gorgeous and look interesting and I want to meet you 🙂 Hope to see you soon 🙂 —Tall guy who always takes the stairs.
I’ve cleaned it out since then…
Our relationship ended in 2011. Why am I still occasionally finding random condoms that you stashed away in different parts of my bedroom closet? They’re not drugs or stolen bank money leaving them in the box, or in one spot should have been fine. —Found one today!
The best little music festival around
Thanks again to the little town on the marsh that opened hearts, minds and doors. The camaraderie of a music festival mixed with your small town charm is almost too much to handle. We were loud, broke and hungover, and still you were kind. Thanks x a million. —Sappy Happiness
friendly fire
Friendly fire casualties.I was killed by friendly fire. —The Guy You Saw
Unenforceable
Why is it that Custody and Access orders have written on them that they can be enforceable by Police ect. I spoke to a police officer and he said that “Ultimately if the mother will not co operate there is nothing they can do and you will have to go back to court.” If a…
Khyber Art Society names new artistic director
[Image-1] Even with all the recent news about their former home, the Khyber Art Society itself has been relatively quiet lately. That’s likely due to the difficult task of finding a replacement artistic director after the recent departure of Daniel Joyce for greener pastures. Today, the Khyber’s board announced that out of 20 applicants and…
Halifax wants an open data relationship
If you love something, set it free and maybe it’ll come back as a cool app. So hopes city council, which today will give first reading to a proposed administrative order designed to release multitudes of imprisoned data from within the city’s towering servers. It’ll mean Halifax will finally formalize an “Open Data” program which…
Honeybee Vintage Bridal takes flight tomorrow
Here’s some proof it’s possible to be something old and something new simultaneously. The hive of activity that is Gottingen Street officially welcomes Honeybee Vintage Bridal (2130 Gottingen Street, Suite 101) to the mix this weekend. Melanie Peters’ boutique of lovingly collected wedding garb, party wear, jewellery and accessories from the 50s, 60s and 70s…
Pair accused in Loretta Saunders murder going to trial
The pair accused in Loretta Saunders’ murder will stand trial for first-degree murder, justice Anne Derrick ruled Friday morning as Saunders’ family and friends watched from the gallery. In her decision following last week’s inquiry, Derrick found there was sufficient evidence that a properly-instructed jury could find Victoria Henneberry and Blake Leggette guilty of the…
To all the lovely queer people in this city
Corporate pride is a huge bummer, and always fails to represent what pride is actually about- protesting, getting angry and active about the injustices and violence that continue against queer, trans, non-binary people, and remembering those who came before us. Still, this is a love because I am so grateful for Rad Pride and the…
Morning Bus Stop Beauty
I’ve been getting the bus at the last stop before the bridge for over a month now. I noticed you immediately and have had a tough couple of weeks but you are the highlight of my day. I’ll never have the guts to talk to you and I figure you have some lucky guy anyway.…
Smokin Shelters
You know those bus shelters that are enclosed? The ones that have “No Smoking” written on them 4 separate times? Yeah, that means DON’T SMOKE IN THERE! I’m glad you and your cigarette kept dry and warm while the non smokers and smokers that are actually literate, stood outside in the rain. I shouldn’t have…
flour power and the persistent prince
the other day at a major grocery store, i maxed out my debit card trying to buy flour. i was all tears and grief mixed with wild abandon bawling. i am not a pretty crier, it was very embarrassing for probably everyone, if not just for myself. with hardly a word, you paid for my…
Fuck you cancer
You killed my Dad today you nasty prick.. —Mr. Meaty
The Coast
Great cover – Garry Neill —Cover art
Forum Fans
So here we go again another renovation. 39 million dollars to “save” and “renovate” the forum. Does anyone actually think that this is going to stay on budget and the money won’t be blown? This is the Bluenose all over again. We need to really sit down have a rational talk about what is economically…
No “reel” deal at all
I took two reels of film into that place where they transfer movies and such and not only did the owner jack my price up (at pickup time) by HUNDREDS of dollars but he refused to give me my precious family films back until I paid. This is piracy and sleazery in action. Totally disgusted…
To the ignorant A-Hole throwing a huge rock in our car Friday night
We are now under 500 $ because not only you broke the window, but you threw that rock so hard that it also broke the inside panel of the passenger door. You may have noticed that the car is an honda fit with a baby car sit in the back, common car around. Why? Because…
North End Magic
I love our North End hood. I love all you folks for supporting my business and I am loving supporting all yours. Keep the business openings happening. Keep all the different types of people here- we love you all! There is major magic brewing in this community let’s keep it going! —Happy Hoodster
Thank you from the bottom of my…well you know…
I thought I had lost my drive. Funny thing is I didn’t lose it, I just didn’t have it for him. Thank you for making me realize I still have a lot of lust left to share! —The Garage Girl
Garry Neill Kennedy: The last king of NSCAD
Is it easy to surprise Garry Neill Kennedy? Probably not. The self-described “78-and-a-half”-year-old has seen it all, from his days as the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design president through his long years as university professor and artist. But students from Printed Matter at the University of British Columbia, a course he taught with…
Begin Again
The biggest mistake you can make going into Begin Again is thinking “It’s the Hollywood version of Once.” Because it kind of is—boy (Mark Ruffalo) meets girl (Keira Knightley), makes pretty music in cheap, innovative ways, there is some Sex Tension—but Begin Again has neither the songs (these are by Gregg Alexander, the “Get What…
Sex Tape
This feels like an ’80s comedy with technology jammed into it, similar to that Jack Ryan sequel earlier this year that was all about Russians. It’s also very possibly the world’s most expensive iPad commercial, as every character onscreen says the word at least thrice and talks about what amazing products they are. (So amazing…
A Most Wanted Man
This is a John Le Carré adaptation, so prepare to have a sore post-perplexion face after seeing it. Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his last full role, is a German intelligence officer who has a couple big bungles in his past (including 9/11, whoops), so when a Chechnyan refugee (Grigoriy Dobrygin) washes up in Hamburg with…
Lucy
So many Scarlett Johansson movies commit the lazy sin of hoping you’ll find her hot enough that the bad scripts and low-impact performances be but a breeze on your boner. Lucy is not much different in this regard: a junk-science story of a woman whose turn as an unwitting drug mule unlocks the full killing…
Seripop culture
It’s a partnership 12 years in the making—most marriages don’t last that long, #realtalk—but what Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau of the Montreal-based artistic duo Seripop have is an evolving creative bond that has pushed their artistic boundaries, from musicians screenprinting concert posters in 2002 to installation work in 2007 and their current almost video-game…
Memories of Loretta Saunders
James Saunders wears a shirt with a photo of his sister and their father as he hands out pink bracelets in her memory. The bracelets say “Loretta and the stolen sisters,” and the shirt, one of more than a dozen worn by her family in court last week, reads: “Speak the truth, even if your…
Seconds chances
If you’ve ever missed an opportunity to get the autograph of noted comics writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley, you’ll get another chance when he visits Strange Adventures in Halifax on August 2 as part of the tour for Seconds, his new book about restaurant meals, house spirits and magical, mushroom-induced do-overs. Similar to the good fortune…
All hail White Sails
Red, green and yellow horizontal stripes cover the White Sails Bakery & Deli, making the restaurant an unexpected yet easy-to-spot rainbow on the side of Peggys Cove Road in Tantallon. A big lawn, covered with an array of Adirondack chairs and picnic tables, slopes down to the water of Whynachts Cove. It looks like a…
$Rockin 4 Dollar$ nine lives
$Rockin 4 Dollar$ has been brightening up Mondays/ruining Tuesdays for an impressive nine years running. Though it always feels like a party when it’s your turn to spin the wheel, this week’s installment might have a little more oomph as they celebrate nine years and prepare for an upcoming location change when Reflections Cabaret moves…
Good Morning Halifax
“My favourite Dad joke?” answers Toronto-based comedian Mark Little. “This one. Question: What’s brown and sticky?” Wait for it. Brace yourself. Answer? “A stick.” The former Picnicface laugh master is back in Halifax and he’s reviving his evening talk show Good Morning Tonight just for you. With Andy Bush, Bill Wood, Everardo Ramirez, Paul Doucette…
How open should I be?
Q I’m a 27-year-old straight guy who’s been in an open relationship for six years. I often seek out extracurricular activities, but I am unsure of how to bring up my situation without doors closing. I wrote to a seduction blogger who often writes about open relationships, and his advice was to not mention it…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Leo (July 23-August 22) The earth has been around for almost 4.6 billion years. But according to scientists who study the fossil records, fire didn’t make its first appearance on our planet until 470 million years ago. Only then were there enough land-based plants and oxygen to allow the possibility of fires arising…
Letters to the editor, July 31, 2014
Sidewalk closed use other side Just like spending millions of dollars to widen Robie Street at Chebucto or millions to widen Chebucto Road itself, blowing $12.9 million on the North Park roundabouts project is out of sync with a big-picture integrated transportation strategy. The money will do nothing to reduce heavy reliance on cars by…
Voice of the City
Like many people, I often ride my bike to work. As a person with a disability living in Halifax my transportation options are as follows: One, take a bus route which uses ALF (Accessible Lower Floor) buses. Two, use Access-A-Bus services, for which one must be declared eligible through a registration process and then must…
Debate Club
Gentrification is not a natural, unchangeable aspect of city life [“Debate Club,” July 22], nor is it a matter of certain north end residents having a taste for fine food. Gentrification, or more accurately, displacement, results from the desire of landlords, developers and their financiers to turn the biggest profit possible, clashing with working people’s…
