Best Canadian Video
When Leslie Feist walked the Halifax Junos red carpet in 2006, she accessorized her cute vintage dress with a handbag held together with crayon-coloured duct tape. It’s that combo of effortless elegance and gawky dorkiness that made the video for “1234” irresistible to iPod marketing execs and made her third solo album The Reminder a…
Please spell right
Have you ever read Kijiji? People spell Couch with Coach. Coach is a person who is a head of a team. A couch is something you sit on. I know I am not the greatest grammarian, but at least if you are going to post an ad please spell the item right! Pissed off with…
Truly Madly Deeply
The sudden passing of British filmmaker Anthony Minghella in the early hours of Tuesday morning made me think back on his body of work. Everyone remembers his Oscar-winning adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel The English Patient, the tragic love story starring the very chilly Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas and the wonderfully warm…
girls these days
in response to ‘shut up and dress up’, i totally agree. girls are so obsessed with being paris hilton or the girls from the hills, they forget that there is more to life than boys and shopping. SOME of us have more depth and that doesnt make us ugly. im so sick of having guys…
Seriously
You really think we’re going to publish death threats? Er, think again. Web site Nazi
Spare Change Arsehole
My wife and I are sitting down eating breakfast when some “Dude” walks up to us and has the gonads to ask us for spare change. I say Sorry. He leaves only to return one minute later to come in to the establishment and order food. I’ve had it! Panhandling should be made illegal. Senor…
Fired while on vacation
BOOOOOHHH BOOOH F#&* you losers. I know you believe in Karma, sooo good luck hahahhahaa. not so pissed, loving the extra VAC
Stupid Hick
To the old fart down in Liverpool: go fuck yourself, If you can still get it up.I am oh so sorry that you felt your ass was too wide to walk between my car and yours.But, shutting my car door on me? Nice. You are so very lucky you didn’t manage to shut it on…
Parking Enforcers
To all of the goddamn useless piece of shit people that become parking enforces – go fuck yourself and get a real job that has a real purpose. You are pathetic. And yes, I am just mad because I got a ticket (in front of my own fucking house where I should be able to…
Where The FUCK is my Bitch!?!
What is the process for my bitch appearing online? I WANT FEEEDBACK from the great readers of the Coast ONLINE!!!! I’ve inserted my quarter! Where are the people who care?
Making it impossible to live without a car
It is unbelievable that if I want to leave my car parked somewhere and take a bus or train in to Halifax from New Glasgow or Truro, that there are no “park and rides” anywhere in those areas. In fact, upon phoning Acadian Lines, I was told in no uncertain terms that there was long…
Why Do PeTA Think They Have The Right to Euthanize (Healthy) Animals?
All beings tremble before violence All fear death All love life See yourself in others Then whom can you hurt What harm can you do? Buddha Poser
News Numpty
To the “announcer” on a certain news/talk/sports station this morning…LEARN TO TALK! People can only take so much gibberish before changing the station. If I wanted to hear stuttering, I’d listen to Peter Kelly. What’s next, blind bus drivers?
Some Rules of the ROAD
ok.. you’d think this stuff would be simple… but apparently not… That little switch on the left side of your wheel, it moves up and down… thats for when you decide to make a turn!! Turn the Lever UP to go right, DOWN to go Left! Soooooo tired of having to SLAM on my breaks…
People who live on Agricola Street
You know who you are! You may also live in the area and not directly on Agricola St, but you’re all the exact fucking God damn same! In no particular order of importance: You all either currently attend NSCAD or have in the past, or did several years in a worthless Dal Arts degree. You…
Timmy’s aahh…. Idle-thru’s?
To the morning coffee drinker/commuters: Man, do I feel your pain. In the morning, there is nothing better than a nice, hot coffee and it sure is convenient that you can drive through to get one. But really, when I’m on my way to school it’s really frustrating to have to wait behind you because…
Bitchen@ the bitchers
Bitchers,Why you bitchen all the time?.At5:30Am in the morning when i get up for work i thank the fuck I am alive.Fuck you all.Live life please.Who gives a fuck.the less bitchen you do, the longer you live. Relaxed.
Nip it in the Bud!
This is terrible! Please, Coast, change the new layout of LTWWB back to how it was! Please… I keep starting to read the comments on a bitch and then get confused… “why is this not making sense?” “oh ya, the last comment made is posted at the top instead of the bottom! Urgghhh!” This is…
Wicked Witch of the
Why is my boyfriends best friend (female) writing on her (blog at that) nasty nasty things about me? I can’t help that you are jelous. Tell me dear readers, what do I do? I’ve confronted her, she all out attacked me and well pinned me against MY boyfriend. Making me out to look terrible. I’ve…
Food not fuel
Is anyone else really upset about the price of bread/flower which has shot through the roof as of late? They tell us that it has to do with increased demand by developing countries and that farmers are growing less wheat in order to grow more corn to make bio-fuels. Now can anyone tell me what…
Incompetent Transit Drivers and some who ride the bus
Yeah yeah yeah. Same old rant about transit drivers. Some are good. Some are plain shitty! I can’t believe someone who drives a bus can power trip on their job but telling me a transfer I got no more than 20 minutes ago isn’t valid when it clearly is….. it’s just plain STUPID! Then telling…
we need welfare restrictions!!!!
so i have this friend who had a child at the age of 19 (she was no naive teenager, she was an ADULT), who went on welfare. thats cool, no problem, everybody needs a hand from time to time, but now shes 25, and her kid hasnt lived with her in 3 years!!!!!!! because he…
Must be nice to have a MLA for a father!
It is 3:30 in the morning and I am listening to crappy Fucking music and hooting and hollering but since daddy is an MLA nothing ever seems to be done about it. NDP MLA
25 going on 13.
To the jackass in by Dairyqueen on southpark. Bet you think you’re a laugh a minute. You’re what? 25? Isn’t that a bit old to be making a jackass of yourself by leaping out in front of strangers and screaming in their faces? Grow up. I hope the next person you do this to punches…
Clothing and sizes
Clothes are generally cut for the ultra-skinny, which is an “ideal” but it really, really doesn’t fit many people. So if you’ve got another “ideal” like height or a rack D and above, shouldn’t it be EASY to find clothes? Why do I gotta cram my tits into a shirt that fits my waist but…
$73.50/ hr is Rodney MacDonald’s wage?
$73.50/ hr is Rodney MacDonald’s wage? Does he pay taxes? How much? (I know, I could search for the answer by googling). I think the highest hourly rates should have been gone to Metro/LINK bus drivers/mechanics and garbage-related works. What do you people think? Hopefully, groups are protesting Rodney’s way-too-high rate. Hopefully, next term someone…
To the dirty old fuck in the dirtly old pawn shop
I would think that some people that would read this would know who I refer to. That stupid old fuck and his son that run a certain Dartmouth pawn shop. That miserable old bastard is a sorry excuse for a human being. Rude to customers and can’t even keep his place organized. I swear there…
Leave the trees out of it
To the dumb fuck who spray painted a Circle-A on the tree in the Old Burial Grounds. What the fuck was the point of that? Is that tree apart of the capitalist system you oppose? I don’t give a shit what your political views are, just don’t plaster them on our fucking trees you fucking…
You Cheap Bastards
To a certain downtown restaurant – a friend of mine was eating lunch at your establishment when he came across a small metal ball in his food – you cheap, rotten cunts charged him half price for a meal that he wouldn’t touch – if I had of been there, there would have been NO…
cut out the arrogance
This bitch is for two groups, to which ironically, I belong to. some, (not all mind you), ultimate players and cyclists seem to think participating in these activities gives them a bumptious superiority to those not involved. Cyclists are loathed by most motorists and ulitmate players are the punch lines for other sports, so we…
Until we meet again
I can only hope this gets published and you read it next thursday, you fucking loser. When we agreed that I would pay your FULL ASKING price for the turntable and that I would be back at 1 O’clock the next day, I assumed ( oh silly me) that we had a deal. I knew…
Close your mouth while I’m talking to you!
I work in a call centre and nothing is more disgusting as someone who smacks food in your ear while your working. Here is a novel idea, FINISH EATING BEFORE YOU FUCKING CALL. I don’t need to hear your molars pulpify the swill your eating. FUCK! Pissed of phone lackey!
gimme some space
i’m so sick and tired of sitting on the bus beside some fat fuck who insists on holding her purse, and her knapsack, AND her nylon lunchbag in her lap — causing her arms to stick out at right angles, either jabbing into my ribs or hanging there in front of me. put your shit…
Abolish Abandonment
To the ASSHOLES who left 6 puppies in a sealed cardboard box on the highway to DIE – you should go to hell!! If you’d pay the two-hundred dollars to have your animal fixed, this wouldn’t happen and don’t give me the excuse that you can’t afford it and if you can’t, then you shouldn’t…
Protesting the seal protest
Seal hunting time once again. Probably my least favorite time of year as every single day I have to read about and hear about more misguided, ignorant, anti-sealing protestors in the news. Unless you have a legitimate reason to protest, such as being a vegetarian, I don’t want to hear it. And even then, if…
Silver Car – HSC Parking Lot
To the spineless prick who backed/front into the side of my new silver car in the parkade at Halifax Shopping Centre – Karmas a bitch. I got my car out of the shop in August for the same damage (another spineless prick like yourself didnt leave a note) to the tune of $1000. Now I…
Wallet Woes
To the person who stole my wallet from my book bag on Wednesday morning at the a certain restaurant in Purdy’s wharf, thanks a lot asshole! I hope you enjoy the eight fucking dollars, the only money I had to last me until pay day. I’m a poor student working part time and I can’t…
Fun for a cold winter day
Are you looking for fun on this cold winter day?A book or a movie, a show or a play?I have just the thing. It is swell. It has jive.Take in Seussical The Musical by the group Saints Alive!The costumes are flashy, the sets are just grand.The music is lively and it sports a great band.The…
re t’isn’t the season
(couldn’t find it in the archive to comment there): Who says all wreaths are CHRISTMAS wreaths? Do you think Jesus invented evergreens or something? Please try thinking just a little bit outside the box. “There’s a whole world out there that isn’t what you THINK!” marguerite sands
Money is all you need to stay Health in Nova Scotia
Published March 13, 2008. Money is all you need to stay Health in Nova Scotia Cant believe Ive beem calling around this morning trying to find $750 to GET AN OPERATION AT THE FUCKING HOSPITAL!!!! Ive had pain on the side of my face for months, so I decided to go to the dentist, sure…
Cops on Cell phones
Okay I am slow but I get it… holding a mobile phone, and driving is dangerous. The stats suggest this behaviour causes as many accidents as drinking while driving. So why the fuck do I keep seeing HRM police officers driving around talking on cell phones? Are you fuckers that fucking stupid that you think…
Gym Etiquette for Dummies
Dear guy in the white muscle shirt at the MSVU gym; Some grunting while lifting heavy weights is unavoidable, but you are completely over the top. Also, smashing weights around, dropping them onto the rack, and generally making as much noise and drawing as much attention to yourself as possible does not make you a…
Coast
Why does the Coast’s online edition suck so much? Nothing ever works, it looks like shit, new issues are not even up until late on Thursday and regular sections like Cinema Palermo and ShopTalk are all weirdly split up and hard to read. Why should those of us who are trying to save a couple…
Shut up and dress up
To the girls who dress like skanks – you are skanks. Don’t give me this empowerment bullshit. Empowerment is education not skin. Empowerment is equal rights, not sex. Fuck off with your “If he can sleep with 20 girls why can’t I sleep with 20 guys?” You should have more self respect than that jackass.…
Would You Shut Up Already!!
This is to the egotistical little turd who sits to my right. Do you have Turrette’s Syndrome? No? Well stop your goddamn humming!!! I have never in my life met anyone more desperate for attention than you!! Whatever you’re feeling, whether it’s discomfort with your chair, exasperation with your computer, sleepiness, or the need to…
Drinks in Glass Bottles
There are several dispensers with pictures of drinks, small pictures only, but no direct views. Some of those drinks (the LIPTON ones) are actually in glass bottles. They did not seem to break though. I am wondering if it is actually safe to bump glass bottles against the bottom of the vending machine outlets. Puzzled
profound
He whose tongue would not know wine, Who would sloth in a hotel chamber With wife and television, Whilst fellow men made merry, Toasting to good life and hard rugby. He who would prey others to bed, Tearing the entrails of our celebration For the sake of his own precious slumber. Whilst humble kyle, drunk…
Beer Class: week five
(Yes, I’ve been delinquent on the beer-blogging front. There are excuses: a broken wrist impeding typing, overwhelming amounts of real work, a prolonged winter-induced bout of SAD, a… well, there are no forgivable excuses. But I’ve been regularly attending class, and keeping copious notes, so not too much will be lost here. I’ll just apologize…
Beer Class: week five
(Yes, I’ve been delinquent on the beer-blogging front. There are excuses: a broken wrist impeding typing, overwhelming amounts of real work, a prolonged winter-induced bout of SAD, a… well, there are no excuses. But I’ve been regularly attending class, and keeping copious notes, so not too much will be lost here. I’ll just apologize and…
Fishy situation
Thanks so much for giving me that goldfish and fishbowl. Goldfish are not meant to be kept in bowls, but you didn’t bother to find that out before you bought it, did you? Now I have to deal with the B.S. of keeping a large tank for this boring ass fish. Please people, don’t buy…
Soho Bar & Grill
A sad sign at the Soho Bar & Grill (1667 Argyle) tells us that after a “warm & cozy 23 years,” the venue has closed up shop. Soon to take its place is the intriguingly named Foggy Goggle. That’s particularly exciting news for lovers of the letter “G.”
Ardmore Tea Room’s 50th
HRM businesses come and go—thats why this column exists. Its also why the Ardmore Tea Room (6499 Quinpool) is so remarkable: Its been serving up reasonably priced diner eats in the same location for 50 years. The Ardmores also been owned by the same family, the Cormiers, the whole time (Cormier son Darrell is the…
Mollyz/Menz makeover
Mizzing Menz Bar and Mollyz Diner (both formerly of 2104 Gottingen)? Theyll be re-opening in their new home at 2182 Gottingen during the early part of April, says Doug Melanson, who co-owns both businesses. Our opening date slid by about four weeks…due to construction and working with the city and getting the right permits, he…
Bubba Ray’s
If youre like me, youve spent the last three months bemoaning the loss of the Peel Pubs tasty, cheap wings. But the Peel Pub (formerly of 5650 Spring Garden) dumped us—and its high time for us to stop drunk-dialing their old phone number, move on and find a new wing-provider. Luckily, Bubba Rays Sports Bar,…
Nova Scotia doctors need checkup
As many as 24,000 Canadian patients die each year due to “adverse events” (medical code words for medical malpractice). This makes it Canada’s third leading cause of death. A report published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal confirmed the findings of similar studies done around the world. You can read more about these horrendous…
Dog Day
Wowee! Aquarian band Dog Day is back from CMW and an Ontario/Quebec tour. The bands playing March 14 at the Seahorse with Immaculate Machine and the Superfantastics. Its a snowy tour and our van is always wet inside, says Seth Smith (vocals and guitar). Its a marsh. I just keep forgetting that winter touring is…
Independent Music Awards
The 8th annual Independent Music Awards were handed out March 8 in Toronto at Canadian Music Week. Jenn Grant won the Galaxie Rising Stars Award from the CBC for her lovely Orchestra for the Moon and Classified won Favourite Urban Artist or Group of the Year. That’s exciting and I certainly don’t mean to play…
Cancer Bats
Cancer Bats return to Halifax to play The Pavilion on Saturday, May 3, at 6:30pm. The Toronto band comes back to play with friends Black Lungs, A Textbook Tragedy and Iron Giant. Watch whose head you step on, OK? Related Stories
Atlantic Jazz Festival, Evolve
July looks to be action-packed as two heavily promoted dove-tailing and very popular festivals, The Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 11-19) and Evolve (July 18-20) now overlap. Fans of both face a decision. (If I was a fan Id be pissed.)
Brent Randall & His Pinecones
Brent Randall & His Pinecones are taking off for a little while. The gang leaves this Thursday on a cross-country tour with BA Johnston to promote upcoming EP, Strange Love. The EP will precede the May release of Randall’s much-anticipated full-length, We Were Strangers in Paddington Green (Just Friends, doy). And, We Were Strangers will…
Four Question Marks
Parisian metalin is like no other kind of metalin. See for yourself Saturday, March 29, at the Pavilion where Four Question Marks, from the City of Lights, join Hands of Death and Trigger Effect— both from Montreal—and locals Fistfight and Vulgus. Sunday, March 30, Four Question Marks play a bar show in Hell with Hands of…
Bottomwriting!
We’re still planning our next bottomwriting instalments, but invite you one last time to let us know what you’d like to read along the bottom of our pages. Send suggestions to arts@thecoast.ca.
School Segregation
Not so much of a bitch and more of a question; With all the recent talk about having Afrocentric schools so that the culture is passed on, my question is what common culture is there? There are dozens of seperate cultures in Africa which are all different, then all the different cultures from the western…
Mic Boyd
Mic BoydLost in the Woods(Half-Life)Mic Boyd didn’t initially set out to be a hip-hop artist. He was a victim of circumstance (apparently, partly thanks to being schooled by his older brother Luke). On the track “Moving Out,” Boyd sings about the reality of hip-hop not being able to pay the bills. Luckily, Lost in the…
Bigger films need bigger spaces
Steve Gilmour keeps largely positive about the future prospects for the Nova Scotia film industry. For one, his Atlantic Film Studios is developing feature film scripts with European financers backing them. Those projects will be shot in Nova Scotia, taking advantage of what Gilmour calls “the best tax credit in the world.” But one problem…
Damhnait Doyle
Damhnait DoyleLights Down Low(Turtlemusik)While never especially groundbreaking, Newfoundland singer (and member of Shaye) Damhnait Doyle’s late ’90s hits at least lacked the painful destruction of pop songs heard on this collection of covers. Doyle has a nice enough voice, but her renditions land firmly in the middle ground between faithful covers and wild diversions (with…
Erykah Badu
Erykah BaduNew Amerykah, Part One (4th World War)(Universal/Motown)Erykah Badu’s latest musical escapade isn’t as head-nodding-inspiring as the Badu beats of the past but more horn-heavy-retro, especially on the album’s first track, “Amerykahn Promise,” given the way the song starts off resembling a promo for a ’70s-crime-fighter flick. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the…
Commonwealth Games investigation part two: where the money went
A year ago last Saturday, Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed in acrimony. Politicians pointed fingers at each other and the public demanded answers. But everyone involved in the bid—provincial, federal and municipal officials, and the executives they placed in charge—kept mum, and refused to say what happened to the $8.5 million in public money that…
Coming out or staying in, readers ask Dan Savage
Im in my final year of high school and I decided to come out as a lesbian—a very foolish move, as I live in a small town thats not exactly brimming with tolerant people. But I know there are other closeted people at my school and I figured if none of us ever took the…
Bon Iver
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago(Jagjaguwar)For those of us lucky enough to catch the recent Bon Iver set (opening for Black Mountain) we likely witnessed one of the finest displays of music-writing this town will see this year. Using a near-falsetto delivery (not unlike Chad Van Gaalen’s), lead singer Justin Vernon took us on his…
Gateway fantasies
From the bridge on Young Avenue, the Port of Halifax looks impressive. It has plenty of docks jutting into the world’s deepest natural harbour, ready to welcome even the most gigantic container ships. There are tall red and white cranes to unload the colourful stacks of containers like Lego blocks, and trucks and trains to…
Cadence Weapon
Cadence WeaponAfterparty Babies(Big Dada)At first listen Afterparty Babies plays like a vanity release, an insider-memoir thats relevant only to specific cliques hanging in the cool sections of Edmonton. As the album progresses, though, Cadence Weapons intelligent lyrics begin to paint a picture of broader human experience, his observations and anecdotes rising to analogize universal truths. …
Call and response
In the summer of 1861, British-Canadian painter William Hind accompanied his explorer-brother Henry on an expedition, led by Innu guides, to the Labrador peninsula and produced a large body of work. More than 150 sketches, watercolours and paintings make up a current exhibition at Dalhousie Art Gallery, part of a citywide series of exhibitions, Creative…
My Kid Could Paint That
My Kid Could Paint ThatDirected by: Amir Bar-Lev(Sony Pictures)Marla Omsteads abstract paintings are compared to Jackson Pollocks. Her exhibition is covered by the New York Times, but she doesnt like interviews. At her opening, she sticks close to her mom. Marla is four years old. Amir Bar-Lev begins his doc thinking hes presenting a shy…
Brass Rail service fails
The Brass Rail maintains food quality but flubs on service.
Nothing is free, says Lezlie Lowe
Freedom may be just another word for nothing left to lose, but free? That’s just another word for having to pay somehow. Yes, this is about the North American Free Trade Agreement. And yes, NAFTA is so boring it makes me want to scratch off my own eyebrows. But here we are, 14 years later:…
The Bank Job
The Bank Job refreshes the well-worn formula followed in heist films. One forgets the joy of seeing the form done well. Director Roger Donaldson fashions a piece of genre fiction from a real-life break-in of a London bank’s safe-deposit room in 1971. Donaldson throws his silver-gleam lighting against faces worn by guilt and desperation—Jason Statham,…
Never Back Down
A movie can take the hormonal amplification of high school years to funny and strange extremes. Never Back Down instead does this by dehumanizing its characters and assuming all teenagers are mouth-breathing sheep. Its completely offensive teen-sploitation garbage. The hook of being a mixed- martial-arts Karate Kid isnt enough when the movie lacks what made…
10,000 B.C.
Nobody demands 10,000 B.C. be good, but that doesn’t excuse that it’s free of pleasure. You could cut director Roland Emmerich slack if Godzilla, Independence Day and The Patriot were at least fun. In 10,000 B.C., he continues making genre movies a drag. The storytelling is incomprehensible. The racism is so overt in a prehistoric…
Boys and men
At their heart The Darcys manifest dualism. They are one thing; theyre another. Theyre both at the same time. The fellows in the group, who just released their debut full-length Endless Water, might appreciate such an analysis of human nature, since theyre made up of mostly Kings College graduates and soon-to-be grads of the Contemporary…
