Go local in Clayton Park
Bayers Lake If you start west of the peninsula and head towards downtown, it’s a little like travelling backwards in time from the 1990s to the 1960s, visiting the earlier developments of suburban rings as you go along. The BLIP was overrun in the 1990s with international retail chains and big boxes, but you can…
Five Bridge Lakes
I’ve been quite critical of the provincial government for failing to meet legal targets established in the much-lauded Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act. There is, however, one goal that seems to be on tract: the requirement that 12 percent of the province be given wilderness protection by 2015. Rodney MacDonald’s government has made tremendous…
A question…
Is calling someone “Chief” derogatory? —Geda
Why can’t I have someone?
I’m a 48 year old male who has never been in a long term relationship. I have always been too shy or awkward and lived with my parents until I was in my 30ies. Now I just feel old and lonely and wouldn’t know how to explain to a woman why I am still still…
More wins!
Why is this man smiling? Because his talents have made him $1,000US richer! (That’s $1,272.24CDN, at press time.) The winning week continues! First we’ll take you back to Canadian Music Week, where DJ Cosmo nabbed first place in the finals of a competition that crawled across 10 Canadian cities in a month. Judges included Kanye’s…
job Splitting = splitting headache
When I graduated I was offered temporary full-time work in my department on the condition that I spend 20 hours in one section and 20 on another project. Great, I think, at least I have a job. WOULD have been great if the two weren’t in complete competition for my time, all the time, and…
dude’s a prick or is his woman dumb
already 3rd apartment i moved to has a guy upstairs and downstairs always abusive with his girlfriend or wife. screaming all day and night. so what is it with women that stay with assholes? is it that she needs to be abused and he loves it? if not, why are there so many of these…
Love Pointer
Hello all you Halifax lovers! Thank you for your continuing random love bombs, they bring a sweet taste to The Coast, a little karmic balance to the Bitches. A couple of points to consider: We love that you love your honeys, but we really like to see the shout-out to the city, the beautiful stranger,…
Spring onto your Bikes (And Feet! Etc!)
The bicycle industry is seeing its prices rise, probably due to the economic crisis we all keep hearing about. You’d think that would mean prices would drop, but in fact, two local bicycle dealers say that by midsummer we can expect prices for bikes, most of which are manufactured elsewhere, to go up between 15…
Thanks Menz & Pride!
Just a little love out to Halifax Pride’s Irish Supper this past Sunday at Menz Bar. I had a great time! A great fundraiser for Pride and a great time at Menz. Glad to be back in Halifax
to the season
I got you this card for no particular reason; just for the coming of a brand new season. It reminds me of the trees outside on the street, whose colorful bloom is such pleasurable treat. Though the love is immeasurable, and these words too few, I write down what I observe in the garden of…
Cougar Flight 491
I’d like to give my most sincere condolences to all the family and friends of the poor souls lost Last Thursday of Cougar Helicopter Flight 491. While I did not know any of them personally, I know of friends who did know them, and this is a devistating time. As a fellow Newfoundlander living on…
The inferno in my kitchen
Fuck you, oven. When I set you to 325, I mean 325, not 450. You burn everything and set off my overly sensitive smoke detector. Its getting irritating having to mess around with cooking/baking times and temperatures because for you, its charcoal or bust. —hates cooking at home
Wrestlers?
Can the fucking WWE get some steroid testing already!? The juiced-up jackasses are dropping like flies! —Jimmy “supafly” Snuka
Stinky soap
What is with the smelly hand soap in washrooms everywhere? Not everyone obviously, but some of us really are bothered by the raunchy perfume in it… Not just in the nose either, my hands get all raw and cracked from that shit… Do people ever actually want their hands to smell like tutti-fruity or mutant…
Fuck English
10 points! Minus ten points off my essay because it was LATE? BAH! Twas not late! I take a mission trip ‘vacation’ if that’s what you want to call it, and have no time to work on it. Everyone else got a week. I came back, asked for an extention, was granted a ‘yes’, and…
bearded ladies!
i understand that a lot of old ladies have some sort of beard or what appears to be 5 clock shadow! why the fuck this epidemic gets to younger ladies too? this is insanely disgusting! dont you have a mirror in your fucking place? wrong with you people to my colleague: dont wear something showing…
lets move on, buses suck. we get it
please of please Coast, just like we have a seperate section for loves…can we get a seperate section dealing with metro transit whiners…i mean holy tube socks batman…5 out of nine (not counting this ones) of the most recent posts are metro whines. —john
Homophobia – alive and well in Halifax
We heard you behind us muttering under your breath about “fucking dykes”. When I turned around and asked what your problem was, you said, “What you do in private is your own business, but other people shouldn’t have to see it.” We were so shocked we couldn’t respond. We were HOLDING HANDS, you dipshit! My…
Oh guy at the Metro Transit call centre.
If a bus runs on a half hour schedule, and I call to see where the fuck it is… don’t tell me it’s 25 minutes late. I wish you guys would get a grip on how to run a bus on time. —Freezing her ass off at 11pm on a Sunday night
Freakin Litter around this place!!
Well I figure I will finally post my bitch! What the fuck is up with all the freakin litter? I noticed it a long time ago, but it really comes into perspective when the “roll up the rim” is on the go. Just take a look around and see how many Red TH cups you…
Local organic food will return
Let’s just remember that it is winter, and there are still plenty of vegetables left. However, there is not much diversity, as stated in Neal Ozano’s food story last week, “Organic basket case.” Tomato lust and cherry fever are brewing all around us as the maple sap flows and the sweet liquid that sustains life…
Conservation group loves “The catch”
I was very pleased to read Tim Bousquet’s feature “The Catch” (Feb. 26). It highlighted the problem of industrial fishing off Nova Scotia’s coast and the importance of supporting our local sustainable fisheries. Our seas have been devastated by bottom-trawling and other heavy industrial fishing practices. As we struggle toward a more sustainable fishery that…
Poor Brindi
I feel so sorry for Brindi. I feel sorry that she was adopted by someone as irresponsible as Francesca. I am a pit bull owner, and although my dog is very friendly, I still know to watch her like a hawk so she doesn’t end up like Brindi. The laws are in place for a…
Irresponsible Brindi owner
Advocates for Responsible Pet Ownership (arpolistens.ca) cannot condone the apparent inactions of Francesca Rogier. It is impossible for our organization to support or endorse Rogier, but Brindi gets our full support to save her life. Brindi does not deserve to die. Our stance would be the same whether it was Brindi or any other dog…
Brindi should die
I commend Lezlie Lowe for her piece on the plight of Brindi and her owner, Francesca Rogier. I’m an animal lover and the owner of two large mixed-breed dogs, both rescue animals, and I empathize with Rogier. That being said, I believe that Brindi should be euthanized. Rogier is tying up our legal system and throwing…
Judging Brindi
In last week’s feature, “Saving Brindi,” Francesca Rogier seems to see herself as some kind of martyr for animal rights, but really she is just, plain and simple, an irresponsible pet owner. Near the end of the article, she asks “what hope do I have of accomplishing anything if I can’t save a dog?” Instead,…
Santa says to decorate eggs
Dear Lezlie Lowe, The assumption behind your “Holiday dispirit” rant (Feb. 26, Lowedown) seems to be that the only legitimate mid-winter holiday is Christmas and its boundaries are clearly delineated within Christian tradition, to be followed by all citizens of HRM. Surely you don’t believe Jesus invented evergreen trees or wreaths, candles and gifts…or even…
Metro Transit idle on idling
In response to Jennifer Casey’s “Polluting buses” (Feb. 19, News), I echo concerns about emissions released by Metro Transit buses ignoring its anti-idling policy. Metro buses are to be shut off after three minutes of idling, which accounts for the time it takes to reinflate air brakes. While the article quotes DriveWiser co-ordinator Gina Patterson…
Free speech first
To Pam Stewart (and Saint Mary’s University Women’s Centre), regarding Stewart’s letter, “Abort anti-abortionists” (Feb. 19)—which is just a lovely sentiment, The shameful actions of SMU women’s centre in shutting down Jojo Ruba’s lecture, as well as follow-up comments by their peers and your letter, demonstrate an ignorance of Canadian law, democratic values and basic…
Fuck you bus driver – # 1 Spring Garden Road
To the Saturday driver of bus number1036 of the 1 Spring Garden Road route. This asshole driver stopped his bus, ran into the peaceful anti-seal hunt protest and attacked a mock seal with an club. I wish I was there to see that happen. Cause if I saw you coming towards me or my friends…
Bus driver Brutality?
You have to be kidding me. So who fucking cares. Some bus driver decides to get off his bus and beat some god damned toy seal with a stick. Boo-hoo-fucking-hoo. I don’t remember see him charging at one single person with that little stick. All I saw was him walking briskly towards a stuffed seal…
highfield terminal sucks
yesterday i walked my friend to the highfield terminal and was waiting for a bus with her, we wanted any bus going to the bridge, none came, 2 of the scheduled times the 53 just didnt show up, then the 52 whizzed by, it doesnt come into the terminal, what is the point of this,…
Ignorant Halifax
To the lady who stared at me the entire time we were waiting for the number 18 to show up in Clayton Park, and then proceeded to push me out of the way to get on the bus and only mumble “Sorry”, Learn some manners. It is people like you that I’m looking at leaving…
Paying for air
To all the gas station owners out there who now charge $1 for tire air, fuck off. Its not enough that you charge over $2 for a regular sized beverage, and $7 for a basic car wash you now have to charge for air. This is something that was always free and in my opinion…
Another Metro Transit Post
Metro Transit is far from perfect. Assy (racist?) drivers, unpredictable schedules, jerky braking… yeah, it’s awful. It was last Thursday and the snow and rain made it almost impossible to see, let alone walk. I jumped on the bus (better to be on the bus than under it, I always say) and couldn’t find my…
Garbage Fiends
To the asshole who was obviously too lazy to get up this morning and put his recycling out on time: keep it on your own fucking lawn! If you didn’t get your shit out on time, don’t put your recycling on my lawn instead. I got my shit out on time, but now I have…
Lazy Fuck
Excuse me, but why do you come to our house, piss and leave the toilet seat up? 2/3 of the people who live here are female, and as Lezlie Lowe pointed out in her column in this newspaper, 3/4 of toilet functions involve the seat being down. That means you’re leaving the seat up on…
Symphony NS’s new season
Owen Pallett stands by the water without a coat to get a feel for Halifax in October. Which is when he’ll be here to play with the Symphony. Here are some key shows from Symphony Nova Scotia’s freshly launched 2009-10 season. The blessing/curse with knowing a whole year in advance is you find yourself saying…
Photo of Garry Neill Kennedy’s Khyber windows
Photo: Chris Reardon
Matt Mays wins an indie
photo Scott MacIntyre Canadian Music Week wrapped up yesterday in Toronto, and we’re sure the Sonic Entertainment Group had a time at The Indies, the annual awards ceremony/schmooze fest we’ve never been able to get into. Matt Mays and El Torpedo picked up Favourite Rock Artist, and Sonic mates hey rosetta nabbed Favourite Album for…
How Rude!
Ok, so I have seen tons of bitches on here about how rude Halifax is. But, has anyone traveled to southwestern Nova Scotia. Holy fucking shit! I have never felt like a bigger piece of crap in my life. Everywhere I went, it was the same. Standing in line while waiting to check out, I…
Fuck Off.
I’d appreciate it if other girls didn’t openly hit on my boyfriend right if front of me. Sluts. —Just saying…
ex-Girlfriend is a bitchhhhhhh
Let me start off by saying that I’m a junior in college who moved in with his girlfriend of one year in an a apartment near campus. After living with her for six months and repeatedly confessing that we both wanted to be together forever and resigning our lease for another year, she mentioned that…
To every rude customer this past year.
I get paid to smile no matter how bitchy you are. But I just wanted to let you know that you are all horrible people. Just because I am behind the counter, just because it’s my job to help you does not mean I am your inferior, you do not have the right to treat…
March break boozers
FUCK YOU all of you irresponsible parents that leave me to baby sit your children while you drink yourself into a March break coma. PEOPLE do YOU let your children run and scream through YOUR house and play hockey in your halls, throw ice everywhere, and I bet your kids don’t fuck up your elevator…
roommates!
I’ve lived in a house with 3 roommates for 2 months now. We’ve always been civil to one another, never heard a complaint from any of them. Then the other day i find a note signed by all 3 of them stating that they want me to move out. I have no clue whatsoever why.…
simmerings
oh nova scotia……i had to leave….. i needed the job. now I think of you as I drive with the 6 lanes of lead footers, for hours just to see someone I know. Nova Scotia, you’re so beautiful with your secretive fog and tumultuous ocean. oh nova scotia
You’re Beautiful.
You sit in the same spot on the 20 every day. You have long blond hair, and black sony headphones. I love that expression you get while you draw in your sketchbook, a kind of beautiful concentration. Sometimes I catch you smile to yourself without lifting your eyes from the page. Somehow I think your…
Dear Pickle,
You should know how much I love spending my time together with you. You are a wonderful and sensitive person; beautiful inside and out. We have so much in common and I feel you closer every time we hang out. You make me smile and I love to make you laugh. Even when we’re as…
Bummer.
Anyone else have to work on the 18th? Anyone else can’t come into work hungover? Have fun on St. Patrick’s Day all you fancy-free-can-get-hammered-on-a-Tuesday-night people. Lucky bastards. —Sad and Sober tomorrow
Brought to You by the Letter E
You are one of the most beautiful girls I’ve ever known. Sweet and sassy with a wit like no other. It’s an honor to say that you’re my friend. The next girl that gets you had better hold on tight. Here’s to you buddy! Just Because
The Spring Shit Thaw
Dear dog owners, you have to pick up your ugly mutt’s shit in the fucking winter too! Just because there’s snow doesn’t mean the shit magically disappears, guess where it goes? Take a walk through the Commons now… recognize that smell? It’s fucking thawed out dog shit-sicles, you assholes! —shit
FACE THIS!
If you block a person on facebook at least have guts to tell the truth….fake bitch!!! —Get Real Gal
Hey idiots! #61 bus going to Halifax Mon-Fri mornings.
Could you knock off the fuckin colognes guys?I know you want people to like you and all,but stop being so insecure and be compfortable with yourselves.I can taste that shit in my mouth.Dont worry women will like you without it.Just say hi and take it from there.Once you build up your confidence and become more…
Patchwork Puppy
To my lovely mother who refuses to leave my poor Shihtzu alone and demolish its coat of fur with crayola scissors. I say goodnight to a fluffy, cuddly puppy and I wake up to a practically skinned, hairless chihwawa. Not only that, but said loses all his self confidence and can’t even stand up to…
Pick you shit up!!
Hey, wifey, ya rag at me when I leave my shit on the floor…..so here ya go….PICK YOUR SHIT UP FOR A CHANGE!! How ya like them apples huh? That’s what I thought! Told you didn’t I! —Me, Myself & I
Thank you for letting me down
You get fatter, and crueler, I sink deeper into self loathing. Id give the world to you, you will take it and turn your back on me. This will last for the rest of our lives, because I am too much of a weakling to leave your fucking ass. —Pathetic and Abused
Lift Up That Tiny Luggage Already
Yes, you already know who you are. You’re one of those people with a little 10 pound overnight case on two wheels with a towing handle, struggling through doors, up escalators and taking up extra space in elevators at rush hour. My laptop bag weighs twice as much as your puny accessory does, so pick…
Putting Your Trust In Doctors And Then They Lie And Ruein Lives
I had a pain in one of my legs for a few years. I went to this Doctor who said he could fix the pain, there was nothing to worry about. He told me that 90% nothing would happen to me and the other 10% their might be some bleeding or infection. That Bastered paralized…
To the parent who…..
spoke to their child like he was from another planet. Its really really annoying and SAD when you look at your 4 year old and say “Oh my wittle boy, wass a matter…are you a tie-ward wittle boy.” Or “tata the balli-walli to mommy-wommy” WOW..my poor daughter was drownding in the play balls because i…
A bitch for all barista’s
Dear Customers, Just because I am a) cute, and/or b) nice to you does not mean I want to jump you. I am paid to be nice to you, to deliver your delicious mocha’s to you. Im flattered by your crush however you are taking it too far by finding out my last name, and…
coin rejected
I did have enough quarters, but thanks for yelling at me anyway. Last night, crossing over to Dartmouth, you had to holler “you need more change”. You didn’t think I was doing something about it? It was only about 15 seconds before I was already rolling the window back down to throw another quarter out…
Shavers Woes
Why can’t I find any fucking proper shaving soaps in Halifax? I shave my head, face and fucking balls with a straight razor. Is it too much to ask that someone in the vicinity of Halifax make handcrafted shaving soaps? I try to buy local, but I can’t fucking buy local if there is nothing…
Mr. Timeline
I’m going to pretend this one’s for me. Because if it is, I will be fully content in the knowledge that we are on exactly the same page. Ms. Passive Aggressive
The Coast Rocks
Just wanted to pass the love along as The Coast is a great site for some pretty good discussions, keep up the good work guys !!! LoverBoy
Why doesn’t anyone believe in me!
Lately I feel like no one believes in me. Not my parents, my boyfriend….anyone. Fuck off parents…parents who can’t be there for me or any of my other siblings. FUCK! I really needed to vent! —thanks
Bouncers and officers in Hali
For starters, can I ask why bouncers feel so powerful?– you’re just on a damn power trip, you check ID’s, you don’t save lives. Can I remind you also that you cannot build a life time CAREER working the door? Then, to top things off, I am walking down Spring Garden and 2 young male…
irresponsible dog owners
people get dogs without learning all they can before hand. Then they do not get them properly trained esp if there is issues ( rescue , abused). Having a dog that gives paw IS NOT TRAINED. So don’t blame EVERYONE else when something happens. SMARTEN UP people who don’t see what is right in front…
Twitter?
Great! yet another way to stay up to date on every bit of addlebrained minutia of people you secretly hate. —Sam Je
Credit card companies can kiss my ASS!!
What the FUCK!!!! Okay here’s the deal I got one of those credit cards that has a yearly fee asscoiated with it. The fact that I don’t even remember seeing that little nugget in the T & C’s when I signed up for this motherfucker is another bitch altogether about fine print, but anyway, this…
Filter Coffee!!! Pfft!
Coffee. Ok, you got me started. I love coffee. No, I LOVE coffee. I will go out of my way to find good coffee. Then I come to North America. What is it with filtered coffee here? This is a number one coffee crime back home! Now, don’t get me wrong, there are some great…
Local Pub Bands…
There are some very good local bands who entertain in the city’s pubs at the weekend. When then week after week, month after month and year after year does every band play the same catalogue of songs?. I am sick to death of hearing “Brown Eyed Girl” Sweet Home Alabama” and I hate “Sweet Caroline”,…
Racist Bus Driver
Why is this racist bus driver still employed? If we knew who the fucker was, I think we should video tape 10 young black males with student bus passes and but no student ID get on the bus wearing a burka. When he freaks out and tells them they are not allowed on the bus…
Garry Neill Kennedy paints the Khyber
I received an email yesterday from Garry Neill Kennedy. He’s been commissioned by the Khyber Arts Society and the Halifax Regional Municipality to make an artwork of the 27 plywood inserts that are temporarily replacing the windows while they undergo restorative replacement and double glazing. For And Still Counting, Kennedy counted the plywood inserts and…
Priestess rocks the CoGro
Montreal rawk outfit Priestess—the press release calls them “Guitar Hero 3 rockers” which is probably not a band-sanctioned tag—will blow the coconuts out the grove on April 17. And on April 18, they’ll perform for the kids at The Pavilion (at 2pm!). Iron Giant opens. Tickets for both shows are on sale now here.
George-Michael Bluth vs. the World
This week’s New York mag has a Q&A with actor Mark Webber who is currently in Toronto filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which has two Halifax connections: “Scott Pilgrim” is a seminal Plumtree song (super-duper bonus fact: Singer-guitarist Carla Gillis once worked at The Coast. Collecting bills. Of course!) and the author of the…
Dirty Money
Why does it seem that the only money around me is dirty money? In my family, we work our asses off to just barely pay the bills in our household while we sit back and watch the people we know scam welfare, EI, hell even a couple of them have rich old men that cater…
Stop bitching about the HRM call centre
I’m so sick and tired of people complaining about the HRM call centre! “They gave me the wrong bus time!” “They were rude to me!” “They didn’t take my complaint seriously!” Oh, be quiet! These people work their behinds off and are required to know everything about everything to do with the HRM. Give them…
Farting Etiquette
To the guy who comes into my office and farts on a regular basis… Fuck off! Look, you’re what, 60, or 61 years old? If you can’t hold it in, go to the bathroom and release your foul stench. Why don’t you just retire already? At least I’ll be able to take your office then……
So wonderful
All of you people expressing such love. Some of the thank you’s here send a warm surge of energy up my spine. Thank you all so much, there is so much to be thankful for! Josh
If you only knew…Maybe you do?
I love that we share so much in common, and how we’re always on the same page. You’re brilliant and beautiful inside and out and I wish you could see it too. Your stories and ideas keep me entertained. When I spend the night, I love how you don’t let go of me, at all,…
I promise you this
I’m so busy in life right now, and got a lot going on but you need to know I care about you a lot and in so many different ways. I don’t show you like I want to but sometimes when I let it slip and do show you I know it gives you false…
To Some of the Fine People I knew in Halifax…
My parents and I have both served with the Canadian military and as such I have travelled and resided in many places in Canada. I must say that of all the places I have been in the course of my travels I felt most at home in Halifax. Aside from the sea and the scenery…
Thanks for sucking Symphony
I don’t understand why the symphony has to play such dirge-like music. Sure most of the crowd nowadays is of the blue-haired, frequent gas-passing age (jut because I can’t hear it doesn’t mean I can’t smell it) but really! I come to this because good classical music is like panty remover, and this shite that…
Hemorroids
Can’t shit in peace without these flaming gnomes giving me surprises. Someone get me some Aspercreme. —Unhappy bumhole.
Meaghan Smith’s constant touring
Hey remember last week’s chat with Meaghan Smith in which she mentioned a kd lang tour? Well here are the dates: April 11 — KitchenerApril 13 — BarrieApril 14 — KingstonApril 16 — HalifaxApril 17 — MonctonApril 18 — Glace BayApril 20 — St. John’s Also if you missed this week’s One Tree Hill ep,…
This week’s live gig snap
photo Scott Blackburn Ryan MacGrathFriday March 6, 9:45pm, Argyle Fine Art.
Here’s One For All You Regulars
If all the regular posters got together at, say, the Triangle for a brew, what do you think they would look like? — Just Askin’
Imperial Army
As I write this, I pine for the loss of our final sign in imperial measurements. It’s been gone now for a while, but I miss it so. For almost 40 years, it sat on the ramp to the MacKay Bridge from Windmill Rd, letting us know the tolls were 1500ft ahead. Sure, it wore…
Death Cab For Ticket Buyers
I was mildly interested in the Death Cab concert being put on at Dal. Even though the whole thing is some lame bullshit advertising ploy by a media conglomerate which could not care less about Nova Scotia. I went on Kijiji out of curiuosity to see ticket prices. 350$ for two tickets? To a band…
Sexism in Reverse 2…
I was walking down the street on my way to a function at a local hotel wearing a kilt. While stopped at a street corner awaiting the light to change two women approached me from behind. One lifted up my kilt and gave my now exposed posterior a good grope followed by a slap meanwhile…
A Message to the Mr. Perfects..
To all of the rude selfish vain metrosexual lads who frequent the gym where I train. I fail to understand why it is you simply refuse to share the equipment with myself and others when the gym is busy and why you need to take up so much space and time in the locker room…
To the local lads from 2 Platoon…
Halifax is truly one of the very best places to reside in all the world, it is beautiful, unspoiled, has a good climate and I have met and befriended some truly fine people there. If I may I would like to bitch about the group of vulgar selfish sexist racist homophobic cavemen I had the…
Last House on the Left Commercial
Ok so I understand some people like\love horror action films…but I take offense to the ads being shown for this movie…do they really need to show the poor girl shoved face down in the dirt while it is directly implied she is being raped?!!?!?! It is so goddamned upsetting and offensive I cannot believe they…
Bickering
I find it amazing that you Zombies are quick to continue the zealous bickering. One can only assume everyone is getting sick of it. If the coast had a filter button to not even display certain people’s comments would you use it? Who is the one AND ONLY ONE Id you would filter out if…
Stuff it.
I’m agnostic. Actually, I consider myself Christian-agnostic. That does not mean I am interested in joining your church. No, I don’t care if you think its the “only way”. No, I’m not really interested in following organized religion. Yes, I believe in Jesus Christ, but I think he would rather us chill, take it easy,…
Best Airport in the World?
Two Halifax Newspaper Daily’s recently congratulated Halifax for winning the banner of ‘Best Airport in the World’. Is this a joke? 3 first place finishes and a silver medal…? who exactly were these people surveying? First off, there is no convenient way for the public to access the airport. The company providing ‘frequent shuttle service’…
Hey University chick Fuck off u arent high and mighty
Hey university chick, we totally used to be really good friends i even thought of dating you at one point and time but then you peace out to university and give me some huge bullshit lecture about how i shouldn’t be drinking so much beer in one night cause im off the next day and…
bafuckinghumbug
OKOKOK enough is enough! It is MARCH.. take down your damn christmas decorations.. and pick up the random peices of your reindeer in your front yard! It wouldnt be so bad if the lights wernt hanging off of the house and you have scattered peices of decorations around your yard! —Cupid and the Easter Bunny…
Best airport?
I’ve got nothing against the folks at the Stanfield Airport, but this “we’re the best airport evar!” game is getting a bit old, doncha think? For the sixth year in a row, the airport is ranked the world’s best airport for overall passenger satisfaction in the under-five-million category. But the ranking isn’t objective; rather, it’s…
Watchmen
Most of what’s good about Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was already good about Alan Moore’s graphic novel. But give credit: For a generally faithful adaptation, Snyder commendably lets Watchmen feel like a movie. Comic book fans can be as bad as Harry Potter fans for flipping a lid whenever a film adaptation deviates from its source.…
Shing a shong
The bartender tells me Fridays and Saturdays are the busiest nights. People drink lots, ’cause they are doing the karaoke. Laurie the Guy hosts 300 karaoke shows a year; he’s done it for 18 years. His first time onstage, at Big Leagues, he was totally sober—a sure indication he was born to sing in front…
Constantines constant touring
For many rock singers, vocal lessons seem to herald the approach of impending wankerdom. Case in point: Raine Maida takes vocal lessons. Sebastian Bach does too, no doubt while tossing his blonde mane as his reality-TV bride stands astride the piano. So when someone like Bry Webb admits he’ll be starting his first-ever vocal lesson…
best goddamn cheese steak EVER
To the heroes at Willy’s on Pizza Corner…well effin done. The cheesesteak and poutine (only things I’ve tried) are amazing. I now sneer at late-night pizza. And the two guys running the joint are efficient and friendly as hell. Nothing but love, for you and your cheese/meat products. get it with the whiz
Another skill testing question
The second biggest beer drinking activity we imported from Britain, right after fighting and passing out, is the pub quiz. It’s more a civilized, cerebral form of combat performed in teams. Everyone knows teamwork increases your trivia response rates and collective IQ. Teams increase beer consumption, too. Basically, the pub quiz is a great way…
Crossing the law
Seemingly small changes in city policy and provincial law have combined to make a very large difference in how people walk about town. On the city side, when new crossing lights are installed at intersections, they are now programmed such that the pedestrian don’t-walk/walk signal only changes if first activated by the pedestrian pushing a…
Stopped another incident…
To the awesome security guard we now have at our work… thank you a thousand times for your great work! We love the stories you tell, how you actually check around the building, and how you scared that sketchy looking punk out of our store just by being there! We really think you saved our…
Snuggled in
T om’s Little Havana (5428 Doyle) is the coziest downtown pub and always wins a Coast award for Best Place to Drink Alone. It’s a welcoming, well-lit bar and there’s booths in back for a tete-a-tete. Then there’s Freeman’s (6092 Quinpool), open till late, with high, well-worn old Naugahyde booths. Sure, your butt might stick…
The need for public auto insurance
If the NDP wins the provincial election expected this spring, Nova Scotians may finally get something they badly need—public auto insurance. Let’s hope so because the present privately run system is the shits. Nova Scotians pay among the highest insurance rates in the country, but get the lowest accident benefits. And as car crash victims…
transit love
Thank you to the route 21 bus drivers who let me off early before you turn, it might not seem like it makes a huge difference but it does! girlandboy
Hop on up!
Since starting work at Pumphouse Brewery in Moncton last year, Greg Nash—the man who brewed Garrison’s first batch of Imperial India Pale Ale in a plastic vat—has waded even further into the deep end of extreme beer making. “My mouth is still in shock and awe,” he says, after tasting a batch of his triple…
Sperm shortage
qMy husband and I have been together for about four years and have been married for a little over a year. He’s 31; I’m 27. We started out as friends and soon began a long-distance relationship, until I got pregnant. We have a great friendship, and I wouldn’t want to be with anyone else. Here’s…
Little Old Lady
I highly doubt you go online on a regular basis 🙂 but thats okay. You really made my day yesterday as I was walking by the construction on South Park. Yes, I love to watch it too – although, as I said, its disgusting in its own interesting way. Keep watching lovely, and thanks for…
John Frusciante
Given the luxury of Chili Pepper fame and a successful battle with heroin, John Frusciante has developed his solo career in a direction that allows him to explore the far reaches of his creativity. Most of his 10 solo releases have been dark and seemingly borne from a stream-of-consciousness. While that sounds self-serving, the results…
Changing shirts
Is it rude or just cynical to say when I first heard about Haligonian David Nurse’s business idea to sell anti-bullying t-shirts to raise cash for Kids Help Phone I thought it was a bad idea? In any case, I did. Of course I’m no fan of bullying. And I’m all for the good work…
How I Learned to Run
It’s been almost a decade since I first saw Kinnie Starr perform. Her resume now includes five albums, a Juno nomination, acting, Cirque du Soleil and The L Word soundtrack. Her latest creative endeavour, How I Learned to Run, is a patchwork of photography, illustration and poetry. To encounter Starr on the page is polarizing.…
Stinky Common
What’s wrong? Stinky Common. Who’s responsible? Peter Bigelow, HRM manager of real property, 490-6047. Remarks: After Nick, a Citadel High student, called to complain about the stinky Common, we dispatched patrol superintendent Laportno to investigate. “Smells like crap,” he confirms. “Blame spring,” says Bigelow. “When snow and ice are on top of rotting organic material…
Gut reaction
From afar, Mary-Anne Wensley’s installation, inescapable shelter glows peacefully and appears to be constructed of a thin parchment-like material. But, on further inspection, there’s a sense of the grotesque—the translucent material is actually dried pig intestine. “I struggle with the definitive ‘why’ that I work with this material,” Wensley says. “It’s almost like the material…
The Bird and the Bee
Greg Kurstin produces, arranges and plays multiple instruments for this jazz-pop-dance duo’s second album, with Inara George on vocals. But the pair became victims to Kurstin’s success as an early producer of Lily Allen, the British singer who’s big once again with her single, “The Fear.” The Bird and the Bee basically sound like an…
Hey, Porter!
Daniel Girard darts about the Garrison Brewery plant, sliding down the rails from the top of his kettle, a large steel vat nearing the end of a long boil. He then bounds over to a hose that has a tiny window through which he observes the rushing liquid, making sure it’s darkening in colour. His…
Bibio
If you consider other electro-folk bands like Caribou or Looper, live instruments (drums, acoustic guitars) might give the music a more organic feel, but the balance teeters heavily toward electronica. With Bibio (AKA Stephen Wilkinson, a British sound-art student and music producer), the opposite is true. Pure digital sounds are mostly absent. Instead it’s the…
Big Taps
“We sell more Keith’s at the Lower Deck than on the island of Cape Breton,” Mike Condy, the Lower Deck’s general manager, says proudly. Who wouldn’t brag? At 35, it’s one of the oldest beer halls in town. A lot of that is Keith’s, he says, because he is hands-down Labatt’s best customer in Halifax.…
Anything but donairs
Here’s the science: beer is mostly empty carbohydrates. Carbs raise blood sugar. A quick rise in blood sugar (when you’ve finished your keg-stands) shoots insulin through your body. Insulin lowers blood sugar. You are hungry. On medical advice, we concluded it would be irresponsible to do a beer guide without mentioning what goes hand-in-hand with…
Mo’ selecta
“Last year, during the Latvian Festival,” Dave Page, bar manager of the Economy Shoe Shop, told me, “we brought in Zelta, and we pretty much had to buy a pallet in two shipments.” One pallet of beer holds 72 two-fours. He just sold off his second shipment of Zelta last week. Importing beer is a…
Jon-Rae Fletcher
Toronto-based Fletcher has a smaller combo behind him than when he was Jon-Rae & The River. The spiritual foundation still resonates, with an angel and a demon whispering in each ear in the face of dark impulses. The BC preacher’s son has a reputation for rocking like an evangelist while straddling this divide. “The Story”…
Ultimate beer mash ups
At home: The best way to improve the taste of a cheap beer is to mix it with a quality beer. Take Fruli, the Belgian strawberry beer, and put a shot in a king can of Alpine Max. It becomes alcopop. Likewise, add strong ginger beer or a dash of lime cordial into some Wildcat,…
Choke
Dark comedy Choke (based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel) opens with self-satisfied narration from protagonist Victor (Sam Rockwell). The phrase “Even the worst blow job is better than…sniffing the greatest rose” is sandwiched between equally detached, oh-so-shocking observations. Victor skips out on his Sex Addicts’ Anonymous meeting to have bathroom sex and supplements his income by…
Dark Matters
Guinness The most famous. A dry, bitter, opaque stout from Ireland that is also low in alcohol. Murphy’s is very similar. It’s a Cork-Dublin thing. Dry Irish stouts are old-school beers, full bodied and far from wimpy. Where: every Irish bar in town. Rogue’s Roost Imperial Stout Big, powerful, stick to your tongue, gums &…
Shotgun Jimmie
Last time we heard from Jim Kilpatrick, AKA Shotgun Jimmie, was in 2007 for The Onlys, an endearing collection of indie gems recorded with friends at Marshwinds Farm, outside of Sackville, New Brunswick. Warm in sound like sun-steeped tea, the album spawned the lovely lo-fi duet “Bedhead” with Ilse Kramer. It’s appropriate that Jimmie’s follow-up…
Brewing from field to glass
In England, they refer to a pub that has an exclusivity agreement with a brewery as a tied house. Although many breweries would dream of deals like this, it’s illegal in Nova Scotia to tie a bar to a brand of taps. The Port, a gastropub—a pub that serves high-quality food—on the red banks of…
Waltz with Bashir
Documentarian/animator Ari Floman is being applauded simply for marrying the mercurial genre of animation with the fact-driven impulses of documentary, and deservedly so. In the film Floman interviews old friends about their shared experiences as part of the Israeli incursion into Lebanon in 1982. Floman can’t remember whole days of the operation, while others are…
House beers
For the diehard beer hunter always looking for a new taste, there is a decent selection of blended house beers poured out in bars and restaurants across the city. Propeller currently has the most specialty blends on tap in and out of the city. “It’s not practical to do a single batch of beer for…
Locked into the body’s language
Early in the first year of his own rehabilitation following a brainstem stroke, Shawn Jennings read Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. “A well-meaning relative gave it to me,” Jennings, a doctor, medical and political activist for the disabled in Saint John, New Brunswick, says on the phone. He comes to Halifax…
To the guy in the scary glass elevator today.
You are adorable. Girl who hates heights.
