Outdoor Film Experience proclaims this summer the Summer of Spielberg July 19-August 23
First it was Bill Murray, then it was Johnny Depp, now Steven Spielberg joins the crew of men honoured at the Outdoor Film Experience (rebranded after 12 years from alFresco filmFesto). While I’ve no doubt that Spielberg will bring out the punters (I’ve been watching a lot of Kitchen Nightmares lately), in light of this…
An ode to the Common
Crust punks Open alcohol Making your way downtown McCartney (as in Paul) Oval Noise complaints This year marks the 250th birthday of The Halifax Common or “The Commons” as it’s most commonly referred (pun intended). If you’re from Halifax you probably have a memory associated with this open space in the downtown area; whether it’s…
Great start to my day via bus ride
This morning as I got on my usually bus to my summer job, I was greated by a cheerful beautiful smile and a happy “Good morning!”. I was shocked and it immediately put a smile on my face. The rest of the bus ride was prompt and on time and she was just as cheerful…
You make me feel like a million bucks.
You’re a knockout. You’re the first thing on my mind in the morning, and it makes me so happy to have you beside me when I wake up. When I’m with you I feel like I’ve been lifted up and placed on a mountain. It’s unreal. It’s waaay too early to say this, but I…
My Body is my Own!
I am so sick of people going out of their way to try and make people who smoke feel bad about themselves. Why even bother saying something- I don’t go around Halifax making comments about your lifestyle and you shouldn’t either. Minding my own business in the corner is not me forcing you to smoke,…
On the left
I don’t get upset when you motor vehicle drivers don’t check over your shoulder an open the door nearly knocking me off my bike. Nor do I get upset about you pinching me off the road. But for fuck sakes don’t yell at me for trying to turn left. Yes I ride on the right…
Go for the Gold Medal Plates
The time of year that people deem awards season is over, but not for Canadian foodies. Gold Medal Plates, the country’s most prestigious culinary competition, will return to Halifax October 17. For Gold Medal Plates, the top chefs in 11 different Canadian regions are chosen to sharpen their knives and create their most innovative dish…
Smoking in bus stops
Please don’t. :/ I won’t even say this in an asshole way. Just please don’t smoke inside of bus stops when it’s raining especially. NONE of us there wanted to inhale your disgusting cigarettes. If you want to kill yourself, do it in the rain away from people who value their lives and away from…
Not So Maritime Friendly
Here in Halifax, we all are aware that transportation sucks in a major way. I haven’t experienced or even heard a positive story about a certain “maritime bus company that took over a former bus company”, and today was no exception! I’ve had enough of this tardy, rude, ignorant, all for profit, anti-friendly bus company.…
Will Your Tastes Change?
I don’t mind most tattoos but what is it with people who get tattoos of shit that will be outdated in two years, maybe sooner? The decision you make at 20 or 25 will impact you your entire life. Those anarchist emblems will embarrass you in middle-age like nothing else will. They will be expensive…
I hate that too!
I hate rainy weather on the weekend. I hate women that wear their pajamas in public. I hate smokers. I hate rush hour traffic, fish that don’t bite, ducks that fly too high, and sun that doesn’t shine. Minimum price on milk is too fickung high. The rust on my car just keeps getting bigger…
Which came first: the scooter or the morbidly fat person?
Which came first: the scooter or the morbidly fat person? Our health dollars at work. I know it’s politically incorrect to dis someone because they’re different or have a genetic condition or whatever and I do apologise. But…when a person becomes so hopelessly overweight that they can’t walk because their hip joints are ground down….well…fook…
Another ( yes another!) bus bitch
Please oh please people who take the bus and listen to music – turn it down!!!! I love music , listen to music all the time, appreciate that music is how people make public transit bearable! But no one wants to hear just bass, muffled lyrics, and that general annoying racket that is second hand,…
Bedford’s Taz opens tomorrow
Bedford is about to get a whole lot louder because Taz Records’ new location opens tomorrow. Owner James Donnelly says he has wanted to open a second location for quite some time and Bedford made the most sense. “There was a great space that became available so we just went for it,” says Donnelly. “There’s…
Nyan Cat flies into Halifax on a pop tart rainbow
From today’s exciting announcement from Hal-Con: “We’re excited to welcome the creative genius behind one of the internet’s most famous cats to Hal-Con this year (Nov 8-10, WTCC). Christopher Torres’s 8-bit creation of an intergalactic feline with a toaster-pastry body who flies through space on a rainbow trail exploded onto the web in 2011 and…
The Madonna Painter
The Madonna Painter is really quite extraordinary. The play, by French Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, is set in a small Quebec town in 1918 (although the time and place was not explicitly clear, at least to me, in the Taboo Theatre production) during a devastating flu epidemic. In response to the outbreak, the town’s…
Lookin’ at you, kid.
I understand why you moved away from this beautiful city to seek out greener pastures. With everything you had here, things in your new city must be difficult. Despite our problems, and our inability to love each other the way we both wished, you will always have a place in my heart and in Halifax.…
Dal Bro, A Love Story
You’re honest, aggressive and let’s face it, a DAL bro! You like sports, I like art. You jam to classic rock and I’m more into indie and punk. I’m sure that neither of us are the kind of person the other usually goes for, if that makes any sense. All that said, there’s something great…
Halifax, I’ve Given You My All (And You Have Given it Right Back)
I love you, Halifax. I’ve lived in this city for 22 and a half years, and now I am leaving town. The memories that occupy space in my head will never fade. This is an ode to you, and the beautiful people that live inside this city making it breathe and glow everyday. This is…
In the wrong city
We met at the cabaret, where I drank too much, too fast, and unfortunately led to me falling asleep quickly and waking up feeling pretty ill. I wasn’t sure if I should make this a love or a bitch, because you said you wanted to stay in contact and then changed your mind and didn’t…
Love that your back…
To a certain bitcher, I love that you’ve come back! please do not leave again. your the only reason i come to this website. don’t listen to all the haters, just believe in you’re self. hope to see a lot more of you on here! —your the best, you’re #1 fan
Sweetest Boy
Everyday with you is better than the last. Each adventure we go on adds to the list of the best days of my life. I truly never want to be without you. Thanks for putting up with all of my crazy antics and my tattoo/hello kitty obsessions. You’re fantastic. —crazy for you
Lowest form of life
to the cocksucking fuck waste of fucking oxygen breaking into cars in my neighborhood last night, FUCK YOU!!!!! You stole something that belonged to my 7 year old son, not sure the crack dealers are going to be willing to trade for that. You are a waste of oxygen stealing from a kid like that,…
Rename Kelly Street
I want to start a petition to rename Kelly Street Ozzy Street. Just take a tour down Osborne Street and you’ll see what I mean. —Meow mix meow mix please deliver
Ladies Beer League starts TONIGHT
It’s hard to express how happy this makes me. Tonight marks the inaugural meeting of Halifax’s Ladies Beer League, a righteous craft club giving we beer-loving women (or beer-hating women for that matter) a place to get together to learn about and think about great beer, plan beer-related events, and of course, do some drinking.…
2013 Sobey Art Award shortlist announced
WOOT! Go Tamara Henderson! Read this, a press release from the AGNS: “June 13, 2013 – HALIFAX, NS – The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation today announced the five artists who have been shortlisted for the 2013 Sobey Art Award, the pre-eminent award for contemporary Canadian Art. The 2013 Short…
Men are behaving like assholes?
While I agree with your reaction to those men you met on the street; I do think your title is missing one very important word “Some”. Some men behave poorly, Some women behave poorly also. BY throwing us all into one category, you become the same bigoted type of person that you criticize. Halifax is…
dont care you want ur D*ck sucked
ok, im going to try to be as politically correct about this as i can. First i would like to start by saying I have absolutely nothing against gay/bi-sexual people,in fact I’ve experimented myself. What do I have a problem with at the moment is a group of Men ages 25-70 that meet on the…
Killzone: A Love Story
Heat Theatre’s mandate is simple: Produce plays that are “too hot to handle”. And there’s no doubt that Killzone: A Love Story falls within this mandate. It’s a provocative, disturbing and altogether harrowing journey into the mind of a soldier severely damaged by war and shunned by society. Although the conflict is never specifically named…
Bikes and Boats
In the coming years HRM is going to be shutting down bike and pedestrian access to the bridge while it gets reno’d. If this city had any balls at all (and we all know that it doesn’t) they could hit it out of the park if they gave free access (oh ok, lets keep it…
Bad drivers on the 101
I drive the 101 to get to work and everyday I drive the same way. The posted speed limit is 110km in most places. I drive 100km because for me its safer. I dont care that people pass me, Im glad I’m not in the “main group” of cars passing and driving like idiots. So…
Accessibility committee to look at sidewalk cafes, sandwich boards
For most, sidewalk cafes mean a lovely dining experience outside with friends. But for people who use wheelchairs or have reduced vision, the cafes can be an in-navigable obstacle course. Recently, the city’s Accessibility Advisory Committee decided to take a look at by-laws regarding encroachments, sandwich boards and sidewalk cafes. In the worst situations, sidewalks…
New abuse allegation in Rehtaeh Parsons case
Rehtaeh Parsons had visited the IWK when she was having suicidal thoughts. We’re not sure what happened next. During one breakdown, says her father Glen Canning, staff stripped the alleged rape victim naked and kept her in a solitary room overnight. But “we’ve reviewed the situation thoroughly and the accusation made was just not true,”…
Curb your enthusiasm for the Neighbourhood Yard Sale
Thirty-some years ago a fire blazed through the Chebucto Street townhouses. Looking out for their neighbours, residents from surrounding streets pulled up its socks and got together to help the people who’d not just lost belongings, but their homes too. Even though it was built around loss, this neighbourly spirit was the start of an…
A true East Coaster
If that frosty beverage you’re clutching ever-so-tightly is royalty, this Inkwell Handmade Modern Handmade Boutique & Letterpress (1658 Market Street. 405-8309) is a suitable throne. What began as a funny made by Inkwell’s Andrea Rahal—who, with word play in mind, joked about printing East in large letters on a coaster—turned out to be the spark…
Dead funny
Although Count Dracula is a comedic version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that doesn’t mean it’s without suspense. Thanks to some effective sound effects (such as the distant howl of dogs and suitably sinister music) and some pretty nifty special effects and lighting (like the eerily-lit fog, a creepy, careening bat and a stunning entrances and…
On your Whitehorse
The epically-titled album The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss marries Luke Doucet’s famous guitar work with Melissa McClelland’s sultry voice. The duo was in the middle of recording in Vancouver, eating lunch at a diner with a glass top table featuring vintage postcards underneath when title inspiration struck. “One [postcard] was of…
Stigma screening
“I was going to do this long-distance kayak trip with my friend, but he died while we were kayaking together,” says Zac Crouse, who was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the accident. Afterward, what was originally going to be a film about touring his first solo album You Plan to Do…
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! Gemini (MAY 21 – JUNE 20) Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions of dollars. But while alive, he never got rich from doing what he loved to do. He expressed frustration about the gap between his ambitions and his rewards. “I do at least three paintings…
New Music 2013
Bricks Following up December’s self-titled demo, Halifax/Newfoundland noise-punk band Bricks has been working on a new split-tape with local d-beat pals, Sleight. Anticipating the release this summer, Bricks will also hit Montreal and Ottawa with its raw hardcore like a sushi special. “One of our best shows so far was total chaos in a six-foot…
Rap city
Psyc Tha Prince (AKA Devell Thompson) is cruising down Main Street in Dartmouth in a gold Jeep with family. His girlfriend, their one-week old baby Jace and his friend and musical collaborator RellzInYaGirl (AKA Dorelle Parsons, AKA Relly). The whole crew is headed to The Spaceship, which is their studio hangout in the basement of…
Showing your Rage
“My musical history? Oh holy shit,” says Cody Googoo, the driving force behind Negative Rage. Sitting on a rock in his backyard, Googoo lists his previous bands: Road Rash, Megalodon, Envision, Word on the Street, Negative Circles, Coming of Age, Grump, Bricks, Concrete Asylum—he might be forgetting a few, but it’s been a packed four…
Men are behaving like assholes, and I’m sick of it
The other night, two friends and I were on our way to Gus’ Pub, and, on Agricola Street, we encountered a man and two of his friends coming the opposite direction. The most obvious guy was a large, fairly intimidating dude who was staggering and holding a beer in each hand. He came up to…
Bi chicks pitching fits
Q I’m a 27-year-old bi chick who just moved in with my girlfriend of 10 months. I love her, and it’s a great relationship—hot sex, laughs and good conversation. Here’s the thing: I like to smoke pot, and pot makes her very uncomfortable. We’ve talked about it and I’ve been up front with her from…
Man of Steel
Superman deals with daddy issues while killing thousands in the amazingly off-mark Man of Steel. Years ago, on a far away planet called Krypton, two married scientists…what’s that? You already know Superman’s origin? Well too bad, because director Zack Snyder is going to waste forty minutes to retell the beginnings of the most well-known fantasy…
Letters to the editor, June 13, 2013
Master Plan The review of HRM’s “Master Plan” confuses me. HRM seems hesitant to make any substantive changes. The document states that the plan will be reviewed every five years to gauge whether it is meeting its objectives. HRM is 10 percent off its suburban growth target of 50 percent suburban development. In actuality, HRM…
This Is The End
The apocalypse is as good a time as any for a crew of vapid actors to deal with their issues in This Is The End. Featuring a slew of Apatow-regulars (Apatownies?), TITE features the end of the earth raining down upon California. That such devastation (and the rapturing of good souls to Heaven) is entirely…
Body movin’
What do you get when three experienced artists decide to work together on an experimental project? The result is a one-of-a-kind, interactive experience that pushes technological boundaries. The sights, sounds and symmetry of movement are on full display in Motion Activated. Hosted by the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Motion Activated is performance art created…
Hungry for the Food Wolf
I see the little clapboard sign for the Food Wolf on the sidewalk before I see the truck itself, tucked away slightly off of Gottingen Street, across from the Marquee Club on the corner of Falkland, in the gravel lot they call Squiggle Park. Allison and I meet there shortly after the truck arrives for…
Unmissable misfits
It’s not an exhibit you’re likely to see anywhere else, but the one-off works at Parentheses Gallery will redefine your expectations of a gallery show. Mis-fit is a collection of work from 38 artists, unique works that are “other” in some way—some were created to fit the show’s theme like Jon Claytor’s painting of a…
