Tongan Death Grip LP Now Available
The end of the postal strike in Canada (for now) heralds the arrival of bills (bad) the “Stephen King Rules” t-shirt that I ordered online like six weeks ago (good!) and Tongan Death Grip’s LP Chula Vista (yeah better!) which you may have read about here. What I’ve heard is really good, lemme tell ya,…
Happy Anniversary Dahmer
Are you hungry? Feed till you’re full. Wink wink nod nod! Lots of love – insert public show of affection here. —Your ‘Full Meal’ Dealer
Cover Your Mouth
Ok seriously, who sneezes and does not cover their mouth?! The guy sitting next to me that’s who! He turns his head and lets out 2 big sneezes without covering his mouth! SICK. Your snot & spit is going everywhere, we are breathing it in. You are a grown fucking man, cover your frigging mouth…
Shitty Mother on the EP Boardwalk
Last night on the Eastern Passage boardwalk we saw you drag your crying 3-4 year old daughter to your SUV by her wrist, and watched in awe as you yelled (extremely loudly) things at her like, “YOU REALLY PISSED ME OFF, THIS TIME! I TOLD YOU WHAT NOT TO DO, AND YOU FUCKING DID IT.”…
Off The Hook starts up again this week
The summer season of Off The Hook—the Community Supported Fishery organized by the Ecology Action Centre and a small group of Digby fishers—starts after the long weekend. That gives you only a few days to sign up for the eight week-long program. Here’s the price deets: whole (gutted) fish: (2-3 lbs each) One Fish: (weekly…
Ants
You suck suck suck suck suck suck suck! I wish you would stay the fuck out of my house. —Go Terrorize a Picnic Somewhere
I Hate Motorcycles
So, I’m driving along the highway, minding my own business and watching my speed to ensure that I stay under 110 so that I won’t receive a huge speeding ticket I can’t afford to pay or lose points on my licence, when of course, as usual, a motorcycle flies past me, weaving in and out…
My Favourite Ice Cream Parlour
I love you. I love your burritos, I love your coffee, and of course, I love your ice cream. You’re all so sweet. I love you, please never leave my north end life. —A Regular
Carbon Arc fundraiser and French film screening
On Thursday, June 30, the 7pm screening ($6) is A Nos Amours (1983), a French drama about a troubled 15-year-old girl. Next week, Wednesday July 6 and Thursday July 7 (both 8pm, $10/$12), as a fundraiser for the weekly cinema they’re screening the silent classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wednesday) and Dziga Vertov’s 1929…
I Heart Bikes rides the waterfront and beyond
I Heart Bikes (1325 Lower Water Street, iheartbikeshfx.com) is a seasonal bicycle rental service situated on the Halifax waterfront between the Emera Electropolis building and Bishop’s Landing, offering a fleet of 10 bikes at a rate of $9 per hour for tourists and locals, with daily punchcards available for regular users. Each bike comes equipped…
Opponents rally against ‘free trade’ with Europe
CUPE and Council of Canadians bring their fight against “free trade” with Europe to Halifax as they argue CETA would lead to the privatization of local services including the provision of drinking water, public transit, health care, education and even hospital food.
Remembering Peter Falk
“The most wonderful man I ever met,” says Bill Morash, who worked with Peter Falk on A Town Without Christmas (2001) and Finding John Christmas (2003), both TV movies shot in Nova Scotia. Morash was Falk’s stand-in. “We both got the same one eye,” says Morash. “They used to call me the Peter Falk of…
Hamachi House celebrates 10 years
Before the month was out we just wanted to give a tip of the hat to Hamachi House (5190 Morris Street, 425-7711), for a decade in business. They’ve been celebrating since June 4, their proper birthday, sending $10 gift certificates to their 15,000 online members and offering special features in all the Hamachi restos across…
To My Gay Son
Ever since I caught you watching your Twilight DVD, I knew you were gay. I just want you to know that I’m ok with it. You don’t have to hide it and over-compensate by acting like a tough white supremacist. I know you were badly hurt when the exchange student you fancied rejected you and…
Humani-T second-floor patio grand opening on Canada Day
If you’re looking for somewhere to hang Canada Day, drop by Humani-T Cafe (5755 Young Street, 454-9999) and enjoy its new upstairs patio. (Maybe more of a balcony, then.) To celebrate they’re offering Maple Gelato with pure 100 percent Nova Scotia Maple Syrup. We’re already salivating thinking about it, in a very patriotic sort of…
Halifast Bike Courier rides
Halifast Bike Courier (266-3278 [FAST], halifastbikecourier.com) is a new local bicycle courier, an environmentally and socially responsible solution to deliveries on the Halifax peninsula and beyond. The business offers a 15 percent discount to registered charities and donates 2.5 percent of its net profits per month to not-for-profit organizations. Prices start at $4.25. Car service…
Coconut Grove No More
alison lang Tupperware Remix Party at Coconut Grove, October 2010 Coconut Grove Nightclub is turning into a yoga studio. According to an article in today’s edition of allnovascotia.com, the Grafton St. venue will be closing down at the end of the month and transformed into a Bikram Yoga. Owner Remo Petrella says he’s working on…
Princess Diana patches by NSCAD artist at Lost & Found
Available now at Lost & Found (2383 Agricola Street, 446-5986) are a series of patches by NSCAD artist Elise Boudreau. “Screen printing patches and zine-making is my attempt to marry my politics with my art practice,” writes Boudreau in an email. “In the recent process towards selling my work online I have been immersed and impressed…
Get a Job
To my oldest and best friend: get off your ass and get a job! I’ve known you pretty much all of my life and I’ve stuck with you, but man you need to rethink some things. You have a family to support and yet you always find an excuse not to work (not the right…
Must Eat
I went to my favourite take out place yesterday in Dartmouth crossing, and the bitch is closed. Then I find out all the locations are closed. With no warning, they just weren’t paying rent or something so they all got shut down. WTF is that? That franchise gets me addicted to their overpriced delicious stir…
Flakes
There’s nothing I hate more than making plans with someone for the next day and then they say, “Oh, I’m tired.” Uh, we made these plans yesterday, you should have gone to bed on time? Now on one of the few nice days we’ve gotten this summer I have to figure out something else to…
Best Friend Gone Traveling
Dear best friend, you left this little country south of Canada to go find your love in Hali. Not being able to call or text you, randomly crash your family parties, or go on adventures in the city is… foreign. I never realized how much I’d miss you until you were really gone. I hope…
South End Bitches
This bitch is for all the people who come to the grocery store and buy $400 worth of groceries without even saying hello to me, then throw their reusable bags in my face and stare at me while I bag them ALL without any help and then complain that I’m not doing it “right” or…
Posties Need Love Too
To all of you who come on here to bitch about posties being greedy, or lazy, or not needed anyway because nobody uses the mail service: What is your frigging dysfunction? If you don’t use the mail service, then shut up and fuck off. And if you do (and you probably do, and maybe are…
Service with a Smile
I understand your job sucks but that does not give you the right to treat your customers with disrespect and be blatantly rude to us when we come in for a sub. The past four times I have gone to your location you have been a complete dick to everyone in the store. I work…
Get Off the Trail
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve seen the same fat guy on a green scooter riding up and down the multi-use trail along Lake Banook. My hunch is that the scooter is electric and I notice that he does not have any plates for it, but it definitely does not fall under the category…
CUPW Thugs
I wasn’t surprised to see that CUPW thugs continue to barricade the sorting plant on Almon Street on Monday morning. It can’t occur to them that a starting wage of 24 dollars an hour and two months of vacation every year, for someone with no college degree, is unusual. News to CUPW: get an education…
Drivers
If you drive less than 5 miles to work every day you are lazy. Just today I biked from my house to school in less than 15 minutes. I guarantee you that to drive that route would take just as long. The best thing is I am getting exercise, not wasting money on gas, and…
Possible Metallica cancellation: City picks wrong target in attempt to recoup concert costs
Harold MacKay is right: He doesn’t owe the city of Halifax one cent. But city administrators are demanding $359,550 from his wife’s company, MacKay Entertainment, before agreeing to provide city services to the July 14 Metallica show on Citadel Hill. The city oversees and regulates police, fire, licensing and other aspects of the concert; without…
Talib Kweli and Idle Warship cancelled, The Pharcyde confirmed as replacement at 2011 Halifax Jazz Fest
Talib Kweli has unfortunately cancelled his 2011 Halifax Jazz Festival appearance in Halifax with Idle Warship (link above is to his Twitter feed, scroll down to June 25 for his stellar interactions with pissed off fans). Halifax Jazz Festival, however—ever the lemonade makers—have confirmed The Pharcyde in Idle Warship’s place. You happy? I’m happy. If…
Rename Halifax Regional School Board
Maybe to appease anyone with a bee in their bonnet without researching any part of their claim. Reminds me of the video of the Vietnamese shooting the Viet Cong in the head and how people went bananas without researching the event. Obviously these assholes never opened one of their own fuckin’ history books. Is there…
Whoville
Remember in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas that the Grinch stole all the Christmas presents and decorations and thought that he could stop Christmas, but the town folk of Whoville just celebrated anyway like nothing happened? Well, I see a lot of parallels of that story to the post office shenanigans. They stopped offering their…
Eat More Fibre
This may sound pathetic but one of my biggest pet peeves is having to hear my husband take a dump. Seriously, I can’t stand the groaning, panting sounds that come out of my bathroom. It’s gross! I’ve put up with it for 4 years now and he seems to poop everyday so I don’t think…
Dear Roommate
Yeah, I hear you creeping out to look for more cookies in the middle of the night you dick. I hid them. Thanks for drinking a litre of my toddler’s homogenized milk with the ones you stole earlier too. And that time you devoured half a loaf of my bread after I was asleep and…
The Divine Feminine Spirit
You rode out in front of me on a bike, in a purple dress and I exclaimed in French, my enchantedness. So glorious, and perfect was your female form, I immediately went home and spent the next 6 hours making a water painting, something I’ve never actually done before. I think I might have just…
Concertgate 2010
Am I the only person who is sick and tired of hearing about the concert scandal? —Not a Country Music Fan
Outta My Way, Fool
We don’t come to your place of work and get in your way when you’re trying to do something important. Why do you feel the need to park your car in a bus stop and make our jobs more difficult? Your obstruction could mean a wheelchair passenger cannot be unloaded, or passengers are let off…
Loose Ends
After having dreams about you for the last three months, the loose ends that you left are starting to get to me. I’m not IN love with you anymore, and nor are you in love with me, but the fact that we were best friends, and I have no idea why you’ve been so mad…
Keep on Head Banging
To the driver of the #1 Spring Garden to Dartmouth, that pulled up to next to my car on Spring Garden at Summer last night and started to rock out to the heavy heavy tunes coming from my car, I waved as you pulled into the stop you waved back with the devil horns \m/.…
Stalking? That’s Wishful Thinking
This is to the trashy girl who accused me of “following her around” at a grocery store on Saturday. Fuck you, why would I want to follow your gangly, pimply face around? All I was doing was buying some goddamn Tostitos, and you have to come up to me and accuse me of following you…
Feelin’ the Love
A big MUAH to all the amazing peeps at certain bar on Saturday night! After a depressing week and being cowardly dumped in a Facebook message by a guy I was seeing for a bit citing ‘I’m not ready to date’ and then despite him showing up at the same bar and making out with…
Parenting Skills?!
Earlier today I went to the nearby corner store to grab a pack of smokes, which is nothing out of the ordinary, but today things took a turn towards “WHAT THE FUCK?!” As I approached said store, there was a baby stroller outside, left unattended, with the CHILD INSIDE OF THE STROLLER! I do not…
Mind Your Own
To the woman who had the audacity to call Child Services on my father for no rational reason, seriously, what the heck? To summarize: you called Child Services because my dad left his youngest daughter in a car with her nearly 6 year old brother for two minutes while he ducked into a neighbourhood gas…
Drivers Here Suck
Thanks to the OP who posted about 18-somethings who can’t bike. I appreciate the distinction from bikers who have experience biking in cities and bother to learn road rules. As an experienced biker, I wish people would know how to drive! How do some of you get off with a license? Please refer to the…
Girl with the Books
I love that you read. I love that Dante gets you excited. I love that you know authors I mention. I love that you are always smiling. I love that you love your job that most people would hate. I love talking to you. I hate that I am on my way out of this…
Hate the Way You Bitch
I was so disappointed to read the bitches this week, especially the one regarding the naked bike ride. First off, this annual event was advertised. If you have an issue with naked people, then stay the fuck inside for an hour! Secondly, don’t push your repression and anger onto other people. All the persons involved…
Dear Postal Worker Haters
I just want to say that I think everyone is being WAY too negative about the CUPW strike. Have you all forgotten that it was the CUPW that picketed for 42 days in 1981 for paid maternity leave and won? Which in turn is why mothers get one year paid maternity leave now? I think…
Maybe it’s Time to Rethink This
It’s a cool Friday evening, I have the house to myself for the weekend and there’s the incredible aroma of roast chicken in the house. I’m enjoying a predinner magazine and there it is again… the cough. You live across the street and you smoke outside, but maybe you shouldn’t. That cough where you sound…
Edmonton, the Unloved City
Edmonton doesn’t get much love, but since I’m stuck here I figured I might as well try to like it and see the positives, so here I go: I love your giant mall with the fake ships and waterpark, too cool! Mini-golf, ice skating, roller coasters, and the Fantasyland Hotel too. Whyte Ave is always…
Dear T
I haven’t really been thinking about you lately, until I dreamed about you last night. I don’t remember what it was about, but it served as a lovely reminder that you’re an actual person and not a figment of my imagination. Even though you don’t respond to emails well, I’m still around and will respond.…
Cornwallis renaming is the right thing to do
I hadn’t reported on the proposal to change the name of Cornwallis Junior High because I was on vacation, in Germany, when the proposal was put forward, and so wasn’t in a position to interview people. I did, however, follow the story on local news sites, and was pleased to see the school board unanimously…
TGIF
Working for me is a real love/hate relationship. I love the work I do, I hate the work I do. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it… Will someone please tell me how to get on the gravy train of welfare/disability paycheques? Getting up at 5:15am every morning sucks! —Grateful for Friday
I Miss You, Posties
I completely support your right to fight for fair wages and to hang on to the benefits of a job you’ve been doing for years. I’m a union supporter and I hope you come out on top after all of this… I just wanted you all to know how much I miss you. People say…
Postal Strikes and Heartaches
I never knew how hard a postal “worker” has it. Getting up in the morning and placing things in boxes. It’s pretty much like a fast food restaurant. Only thing is, people still use restaurants. The whole world is financially screwed. Why should I feel bad for a service that does not serve. Just like…
Downtown Waiter
To the poor guy who had to endure two meals with my way too vocal mother, and then one with my entire family for my graduation dinner a while ago – I’m sorry if my mom embarrassed you with the heckling to ask me out. She’s lovely but strange. I couldn’t believe you remembered where…
My Sister’s Stupid Friend
When you come over to our house to have some drinks, pace your fucking self! You got up outta your seat all loaded and started dancing and had the fucking nerve to tell me to stop playing Xbox and to get up dancing! I force myself to tolerate my sister’s friends when she brings them…
Driver Double Take
I was minding my own business, listening to my tunes, waiting for the light to change to a white hand. Sunny Day, new sneaks, all’s good… and you drove by in your Jeep. I don’t know if you thought you knew me… but you were surely hot. —Blond girl
Tokunbo
Nigerian-born Tokunbo texts up a storm at 2011 Atlantic Fashion Week Shops of Mills Event Danna Storey writes and curates the Youlookfiiine street style blog (youlookfiiine.wordpress.com)
The Apprentice
You changed a flat tire and then it went flat 3 minutes later. The second time around you removed the glass from the tire. I get to work only to have the tire blow out in my office, after removing the tire I discover the tube size isn’t even remotely correct. We’re talking about a…
Scumbag Mother
A few minutes ago I could hear the sound of a small child crying hysterically and calling, “Mommy! Mommy NOOOO! Please wait!” I looked out my second floor window and below I saw a large, heavily pregnant woman speedwalking down the street pushing her stroller, puffing away on a cigarette, all trashed out of course.…
Motorcycle Noise
Why is it that a motorcycle owner can make their bike as loud as they want to the point my whole home will shake as they go by and that is ok, but yet if I have a custom exhaust on my car that isn’t anywhere near as loud, I can fail safety inspection and…
24 Hour/Military Time
After reading a report that said that upwards of 65% of under 5’s cannot tell the time using a standard clock face, and are so programmed to a digital time, maybe it’s time we taught the little diddums how to function in 24 hour time? I am aware that this is stretching the brain power…
Self Service: Music, burlesque, poetry and more
Calling all loners! Stewart Legere and Lee-Anne Poole are holding an event this Saturday at the Plutonium Playhouse (doors at 8, show at 9, $10/$15 sliding scale) with you in mind. Dubbed Self Service, the evening features music, poetry, burlesque, drag, theatre and dance performances by Tiny and Hunchy, Rouge Fatale, Tanya Davis, Krista Davis,…
Super-er-man?
While shopping, hundreds of people managed to navigate their way through a huge crowd of frantic Friday shopping folks who have over-scheduled lives, and no time in which to live them. But, you just saunter along (mayhap you are to understand in your own head that our fair planet does revolve around just little ‘ol…
Rich Bitches
Dear university students who somehow manage to claim all the apartments in this city and leave them open for ‘two months of summer’ but still somehow retain the rights to the lease after that: Fuck you. —About to be Homeless
Be Nice to Job Applicants
Listen, I know it’s a bad time to be looking for a serving job. I realize that you did a bunch of hiring six weeks ago. That timing didn’t work for me so here I am, pounding the pavement with a smile on my face hoping that you will hire me even though I know…
Ghost Mail
I sent out a pile of wedding invitations about 2 weeks before the mail strike went on. A large amount of them never reached their destination locally but some did reach Chile? Seriously? Did a Canada Post employee throw out some of the mail in spite of the impending strike? I’d like to think not…
Tattoo Gone Horribly Wrong
I went to get ink done at a local Halifax tattoo shop that will remain nameless, the girl was a half hour late for the consultation so another artist said he would do it. I pay $103, all is good. The day of my tattoo he was like, “Oh yeah man, sorry we lost your…
Art is Good
I’ve had it with all the shitty graff artists threatening our cities peaceful yuppie scum with death threats and all that. That is the shitty part of this. In response, I have sent out 19 of my paintings to the city, to make it look nicer, give it some colour, distract people from “BURN CONDOS”…
Guidette
I love Snooki! Stop hating on her. She’s funny and making tons off doing nothing. —Stop
Peter’s pants on fire
Mayor Peter Kelly is a liar. Which isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker. In his profession, being flexible with the truth is akin to a basketball player being tall or an undertaker being creepy. What matters in our politicians is whether they’re lying for us or to us. Kelly has long been an expert at keeping the…
Killer kings
You better bow down to these kings—they’re using their royalty for good. Oz (Mr. Gay Halifax III) is the brains behind the Drag ‘n’ Shag, an event gathering the best of the city’s drag kings and genderbenders to take the stage and raise awareness and funds for the local trans community. All proceeds from the…
Reviewer unmoved by Cars 2
Pixar’s run of quality animated movies is stellar, with the first Cars the exception proving the rule: It looked good, but was hollow as a wheel-well. The sequel exists only because the merch haul of the first one was so large, and somehow it manages to be slicker, more action-packed, and even less moving. Its…
Go Local: Bedford
For peninsula residents who only travel through, Bedford can seem like nothing more than the traffic-clogged Highway. But while it’s true that most of the retail in Bedford straddles the highway, there are real gems of shops to be found, which bring character and depth to the town. Bicycles Plus Ten Mile House, 1519 Bedford…
Bad Teacher barely passes
Jake Kasdan’s comedy is a series of disjointed gags and one-liners without a satisfying through-line, intermittently amusing but ultimately unsatisfying. Cameron Diaz plays the unprofessional educator, Elizabeth, whose teaching repertoire consists of R-rated movies and whose life ambition amounts to finding a sugar daddy. Spotting a candidate for that role in a wealthy colleague (Justin…
Gwen Noah Dance presents The Tulip Saloon
It’s a sunny day in Halifax, and veteran dancer and choreographer Gwen Noah intends to make the most of it. Despite raising a blister on her foot, she’s walked the many blocks from her home to her office at Halifax Dance, and suggests that the interview be conducted on a bench outside. She lights up…
The Tree of Life about nature versus grace
Terrence Malick’s movies are more poetry than prose, tethered to conventions like plot and character by only the thinnest of connective strands. So it is in The Tree of Life, which is in one sense about a man (Sean Penn) recalling the grief, anger and joy of a childhood ruled by a loving but stern…
Big night under the big top
This isn’t your average night at the gallery. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is spicing it up, letting loose and getting a little bit kooky for their second annual big top-themed fundraising gala. It’s a red carpet event that encourages “circus formal” attire and raises money for the AGNS’ arts education programs (including their…
Bailey Williams
Danna Storey writes and curates the Youlookfiiine street style blog (youlookfiiine.wordpress.com)
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! CANCER (June 21-July 22) A company that manufactures processed food made a promotional offer: If you purchased 10 of its products, it would give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man named David Philips took maximum advantage. He bought 12,150 pudding cups for $3,000, earning himself more than a million frequent flyer…
Arts and recreation
Point Pleasant Park has long been known as a great place to picnic, to go on dates, to break up with someone and to clear your head. This weekend, thanks to the Eyelevel Gallery’s Public Performance Series, it’s also a place to see performance art. The park is no stranger to artistic ventures, from Shakespeare…
Ecofeminism
In 1971 in Gopeshwar, India (part of the Himalayan region), in the wake of devastating floods caused by deforestation, the area’s women had had it. The Chipko (“to embrace”) movement was born. Women surrounded trees and held tight. It was Vandana Shiva’s first social-justice fight. She’s now one of the world’s most revered, and effective,…
Remove watch before fisting
Q I’m a single 24-year-old gay actor-singer-comedian who’s going to be a doctor in a few years and I think being in a porn flick would be really hot. I don’t know what the ramifications of ramming on cam could be with regard to my future career. The field I want to go into is…
Orchid’s Curse doesn’t walk alone
When it comes to making music videos, some bands like to keep things simple. But Orchid’s Curse wanted to put their funds towards a special type of vision. “Anyone can come and see us play,” says lead singer Josh Hogan. “But it’s not every day that you see a giant robot tearing apart a scientist.”…
Unleash the Archers bring a volley of metal
In the Canadian heavy metal world, sometimes west coast bands are overlooked, according to Brittney Hayes, leader of power-metal four-piece Unleash the Archers. “People just don’t really take notice if you’re from Vancouver. They think you’re just a bunch of west coast hippies chilling in the sunshine,” she says. But it’s hard to blame the…
The Killing and watching TV weekly versus on box set
This much is indisputable: The viewer is in control. Sure, we have to stay off Twitter on certain days or warn people not to spoil us or avoid the TV section of Entertainment Weekly. But in this ever-evolving age of box sets, PVRs and torrents, the way we consume television has changed so fundamentally that…
Success is in The Details
To go big, or go home was the question that faced Winnipeg indie-rockers The Details a couple of years ago. While playing South by Southwest in 2009 they impressed Kim Fowley, (remember the villain manager from The Runaways movie?) so much so that he wanted a piece of the pie. Luckily, they went with their…
Josh Martinez is Pissed
Josh Martinez’s new record Pissed Off Wild is like a parfait of music genres and surprisingly rap, rock, punk and a little funk make a pretty delicious combo. “My music, like my brain, is pretty ADD-driven. I figure I listen to a lot of different music, and I wanted that accurately reflected in the music…
