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“Mark is an inspiration, I’ve wanted to work with [him] ever since I was in culinary school,” says Janie Bogardus, about her current boss and owner of The Watch That Ends the Night, Mark Gray. The Dartmouth restaurant and bar opened in November 2017 and Gray, who was the opening chef, recently bought it from…
After six years as the city’s top cop, Halifax Regional Police chief Jean Michel Blais will retire next spring. The chief made the announcement Wednesday via press release, in which he thanked HRP employees and HRM citizens for the “incredible honour” it’s been to serve. “Leading the dedicated Halifax Regional Police team and serving our…
Update: Since this piece was published Shaw has deleted his tweets and web producer/social media manager Andrea Jerrett has apologized to Masuma Khan. Her emailed message is shared below with Khan’s permission. “While CTV Atlantic always strives to report accurate information, in this case, our reporter did issue a tweet with incorrect information,” Jerrett writes on…
A warm summer day, a cold drink and fish on the grill. It doesn’t get much better. But how do you know if your fish is sustainable? It can be a challenge—especially considering SeaChoice found just 11 percent of seafood available in Canada in 2016 was rated as a “best choice.” Many retailers have sustainable…
We are all of us shipmates on the surface of a vessel called Earth. All religions of the world expect acceptance, respect and the right to worship and conduct themselves within the laws and doctrines of their chosen beliefs; without prejudice or interference. Should not these concepts apply to sexuality as well? Certain clerics are…
It’s Canada Day, let’s celebrate! Oh wait…the liquor stores and weed dispensaries are all closed! Let’s put on a tacky red hat, twiddle our thumbs and be bored as fuck all day. PAAAR-TAAAY!!!—Holidays, Y U always suck?
There is a fucking sqauking crow that has literally been screeching outside my window all fucking morning. One squak every microsecond. If I had a BB gun, I would decapitate that bastard bird and have it for dinner.—I’m up, you son of a bitch!!!
Here’s a hypothetical demographic, see if you agree. Taggers: Male, young, no girlfriend, job, or car—because this suggests a certain level of responsibility and hence tagging would not seem as important or relevant—and, often, they still live at home. They have anger or resentment issues and this destructive act allows them an outlet. They obviously…
To the bus driver who not only denied letting me on but was incredibly rude about it: Was that really necessary? On Canada Day of all days, one question about whether I could get on before or after your break and you deny my ride altogether, telling me to catch the next bus after I’d…
We’ve shared friendly glances on several occasions. You, a guy with long-ish brown hair (usually in ballcap), very unique style and a nice energy about you. Me, short brown hair, either running or driving (hint: white car). Anyway, I would like to turn the shy glances into actual conversation. Hopefully you read The Coast—most millennials…
It’s cool you want to force me out of the bike lane into faster traffic for the convenience of stopping where ever you want, but while you’re telling me to f*** off: It’s hard to take you to take seriously when you nearly hit a pedestrian with your car.—Some cyclist on brunswick
Could it be because the people who have Music Business Degrees are only two steps from being the same type of douche who gets a regular business degree? Naw! Could it be because no one, save for Monday wheel spinners, ever gives underground music a chance? Naw! It must be because of the lack of…
Cool rant but: I know a lot of attached women in Halifax cheating on their guys, too. AKA POF! Not to mention single women banging married guys (with kids) and they know it. It’s a Halifax thing?—Tattoo bro
You can’t show up drunk anymore. I can’t take care of you all night once every few weeks. I can’t love you. I can’t watch you push and pull away. It leaves me feeling a sort of terrible. I don’t manage very well, and I’m trying so hard to live a good life. I know…
…that Cool Nick guy, from the anti-smoking P.S.A.? He really was kind of cool. Way cooler than the Glee Club bullies who were tobacco shaming him, at any rate. Y’know what else makes you “Smell-O”? Convoluted rhyme schemes, that’s what.—Randi Ponts
“The irony, a little bit, is there, for sure,” says Canadian School Boards Association president Floyd Martens. Over 200 CSBA trustees from across Canada will arrive in Halifax this week for the organization’s annual conference, only a few months after the provincial government dismantled Nova Scotia’s elected school boards. Martens says the event was planned…
The owner of the Smiling Goat chain of cafes is claiming his former workers and the Service Employees International Union conspired to harm his business and ruin his reputation. Jagpreet “Kit” Singh and his Hebron Hospitality Group filed two different lawsuits this past week against six former employees and the SEIU Local 2. According to…
If you haven’t heard prolific writer, former Pride co-chair and all-around lovely person Jane Kansas spin some yarns about the mid-’90s LGBTQ+ scene, you’re in for a treat. Then, film professor and local actor Glenn Walton is here to share stories from the set of Titanic—his special relationship with James Cameron, the film’s champagne budget and…
There’s been a pretty quick turnaround in the space that Theatre Nova Scotia’s The Living Room used to occupy at 2353 Agricola Street. That’s because former Isleville Street resident, Petite Urban Pooch—doggy daycare for the little pups—has moved in and given the space a new look. The 900 square foot dog playland (and its corresponding…
This is night before my last cycle to New York City tomorrow. I feel like this constant state of motion has become my new normal and when I become still again, I’ll be still spinning like some flipped bicycle wheel that inertia hasn’t caught up with yet; spinning without moving forward. I’ve gotten quite used to…
This weekend is the celebration of 151 years of the confederation, and the whole city seems ready to party (if not for Canada then at least for summer’s arrival). From Skratch Bastid’s dance parties to cheering on The Great Race to stuffing your face at Ribfest, here are all the spots to be this long…
That moment when you run for a bus and you make eye contact with the driver, hope surges—and then he drives away anyway.—Annoyed Bus User
Thank you to the wonderful person who plays the trumpet from their North Street apartment. I truly enjoy sitting out on my deck listening to you play about.—Deck Lover
To the cyclist who biked down Hollis Street this morning on the right side of the road, causing traffic to swerve dangerously to avoid him: Please use your designated bike lane on the left side. I know the Hollis Street bike lane is nicknamed “The Road Kill” because it shares the narrow road with 18…
Shame on you to the church group we shall call “buddies” of the “church symbol”” for forcing a loved and well respected member of the church to quit her job because she wanted to go to a former members’ same sex wedding—and for shaming other congregation members into not going either and threatening repercussions if…
First you yell at me across the parking lot before I finished closing my car door to ask if I had any spare change. After I said no, you continued to badger me and asked if I will have change when I’m done in the store. I ignored your second question and proceeded to do…
Just two months after being granted approval to commence deepwater exploratory drilling, the BP Canada oil platform sitting 300 kilometres offshore sprung a leak last Friday. Quickly, 136,000 litres of toxic “drilling mud” spewed into the ocean from a pipe 30 metres below sea level. For the time being, both the leak and the drilling…
No one’s speaking, but beneath the surface there’s disquiet. Over 60 supporters of the Ecology Action Centre rustle in their seats at the not-for-profit’s annual general meeting last week, inside the Halifax Forum’s Maritime Hall. For the first time ever, the media is in attendance. Reporters are placed off to the side by the cake…
X-Plycit & Mackie 902 Lit Tour w/Stack Loot Divide, Kam Speech, Scence, The UnderDogs, Connor Moore, J-Pimpin, CHELL, Devon Paul Muzik Thursday, June 28, 8pm Menz & Mollyz, 2182 Gottingen Street $10 Halifax is going to be lit when rappers X-Plycit and Mackie take to the stage at Menz and Mollyz tonight, giving the city…
Stand Back w/Second Line Parade, Roadside Scarecrow Thursday, June 28, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $7 For the three members of Stand Back, songwriting is a team effort. “Generally, if we write the song, we’ll sing the lead. I guess classic Halifax rock, kind of Sloan style,” says Ben Matthews, bassist and vocalist for…
Q When I started dating my husband, he told me he had a low libido. I said I could deal with that. We waited several months before having sex, and then after we started, it was infrequent and impersonal. There was some slow improvement over the three years we dated. Then we got married, and…
A sense of history Thank you Cheryl Thompson for your story “Being Black and a tourist in Halifax” (Voice of the City, June 21). It was a great read. Being an African Nova Scotian, it wasn’t until I lived away and then moved back that I realized how unique and different the Black experience was…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22) In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your Wimp Quotient. As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you. To ensure you remain in top shape for…
