Women Making Waves’ big splash
Sometimes your career can be defined by a single moment. Adrienne Mitchell and Janis Lundman were in negotiations with Alliance Communications to distribute their 1992 documentary Talk 16, a film following the lives of young teenage girls. Mitchell and Lundman wanted to hang on to their copyright in hopes of creating a dramatic series in…
March Madness Day 2: Buzzfeed vs allNS & The Herald vs. Maclean’s
I’m already as excited as a human can possibly be about an online bracket about news, and it’s only day two. If you are confused and irritable at the sight of this a) how did you get into my body? and b) maybe go here to read up and figure out what’s happening? And, behold!…
Theatre Nova Scotia’s Merritt Award Nominations 2014
If you haven’t already taken a browse of the 2014 Merritt Award Nominations, have a click right here and see which talented theatre affiliate from your neighbourhood you should be high fiving this week. Watch this space for The Coast’s theatre reviewer Kate Watson’s breakdown of the awards ceremony next week and buy your Merritt…
Women told to leave Old Triangle after “make out session”
A woman says she was kicked out of a downtown pub Monday night after kissing another woman. Tansy Rudnicki was celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at The Old Triangle at around 9pm Monday when she and her female friend kissed. Following the kiss, a bouncer came over and told Rudnicki and her friend they had to…
March Madness: New Media vs Old Media starts TODAY
Good morning sports fans, the blog post you’ve been waiting for all year has arrived. March Madness is back, but we won’t be reporting on college basketball here. In the spirit of the NCAA tourney, its brackets and fine folks at Jezebel we’re bringing back our whacked tournament for another year of shit-talking and poll-clicking.…
You are amazing!
You are kind, considerate, intelligent, and so insanely sexy! You make me laugh, more than I have in years. When I look in those beautiful eyes, or see your gorgous smile, I melt. Walls I have spent years building, come crashing down at that very second. When we talk, I never want it end. I…
Shifty not thrifty
Hey, person who took the tiny but vital amount of cash and my bus tickets out of my purse while I was shopping at the Sally Ann on Main St last Wednesday: the fact that we were in a THRIFT STORE might have clued you to the fact that I am like, you know POOR,…
In Turmoil
I am a single woman who has met a man and the chemistry is insane! Unfortunatly he is unavailable as he is attached to another. I was attracted to him from the first moment I met him but as I get to know him, I am drawn to him more and more. How do I…
fact:
war is the worst —peaceful human beinga everywhere
fact:
war is the worst —peaceful human beinga everywhere
kind-Hearted Snowplow Driver
YOU ARE SO HANDSOME —p
Backstreet Boys in Halifax May 4
All you need to know about this development: Backstreet Boys will continue their always boppin’ never stoppin’ In A World Like This tour (supporting the album of the same name) with a Halifax concert at the Metro Centre on Sunday, May 4 at 7:30pm. Tickets for the Halifax show go on sale this Friday, March…
The Best “Meet-Cutes” Are Not In the Movies, But In a Movie Store
To The Cute Video Store Guy, My favorite part about going to a certain video store is not which movie that I will walk out with, it is seeing you smiling at me from behind the counter. The fact that you’re so nice and great to talk to only makes you more ridiculously good-looking. You…
dear human beings
start being kind or we will revolt… —Cats, dogs, and other beings everywhere
To the guy that looks like Lenoard (Hofstadter)
at the best cafe in Dartmouth. Nice butt. — XXX
not a haiku
break up with me while you think you’re too smart to do better —Lkp
Bitch in Yellow rain coat.
I have been in a few dog pounds, and there where Bitches there that had more class then you had during our short interchange. I can and will not allow a Bitch, no matter the pedigree be so judgmental and heartless, without the expression of my gratitude. Bitches be like Bitches. —Cape Breton Islander
hey boss!
Please get your shit together. I would personally LOVE to have the work schedule up, at minimum, a week in advance. But instead, week after week, we continue to get the schedule one DAY before the new work week. WIth most of us working the same shifts (except for the occassion when you decide, just…
Hazardous material incident at Halifax’s Ceres Terminal
Thursday night, at about 10pm, a “flat” holding four flasks of uranium hexafluoride was accidentally dropped about 20 feet while being off-loaded from a ship at the Ceres Terminal in the north end. A flat becomes the trailer part of a flat-bed truck when it is attached to a rig. The casks are about eight-foot…
Ten things for you to do this weekend
If I had to pick a theme for this weekend I guess I’d pick the internet? Mint milkshakes? There may be no common thread. You might be careening through this weekend like a meteor shard through cold, dark space. FRIDAY, MARCH 14 First, it’s FRIDAY. Watch this video before you do anything else. Then ask…
Friday’s food for thought
Has this week been so long that even internet searching is too much effort? (Yes.) Lucky for you I’ve whipped up a blog buffet of great food-related things that have graced my browser this week. Sharing is caring, right? 1) First and foremost, apparently the Five Second Rule is a legitimate rule that I’ve been…
Fabio aint got nothin on you :)
Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more attracted to you, you just HAD to go and take out your ponytail and let that gorgeous long hair of yours down.Work was pretty much done for me at that point..I was too distracted to even form a cohesive thought.God you’re gorgeous.. —Smitten cougar
I might be in trouble
I’ve never been frozen in place before, daily tasks far more difficult, feeling a heavy heart…all the while aware of the positive potential. Is she aware of her effect-I don’t know. I want to her to see my vulnerability, and I in turn want to see hers…how open I am to everything about her… I…
Quinpool hicks
Why do you drive down Quinpool screaming gibberish to random people? I saw you throw shit out of your truck. Don’t you have anything better to do? I hope you get pulled over some day and have to pay a hefty littering fine. Disgusted —go somewhere else
mr. secret-agent postman
It looked like it was gonna be a rough day, but you made it so much nicer for me (and the fuzz-bots) 🙂 Thank you for being so thoughtful–it really made a difference in my day and it made me feel like really smiling. i hope the world is treating you like the sweetheart that…
Player?
I love the party scene, and love sex. But don’t bitch me out because of it. If you’re having sex with me because you enjoy it, GREAT. But if it’s because of your insecurities – which too many of you fall into this category – maybe spend more time dealing with your shit and less…
Provincial power grab
Only in Nova Scotia would the “democratic” process lead to a town dissolving, before residents even know what state their town finances are in. Those residents of Pictou, Stellarton, have no say in what happens going forward, such as reducing town services or employees and other options that exist – instead they are moving in…
good shoulders
to all the lovely ladies and gents that have been there for me the past ridiculous year of my life – thank you. we’re all going through shit (our 20’s) and i hope i am as good of a person to lean on as you all are. i’ve never had such an amazing array of…
You are a wonderful person!
To the younger (than me) woman who stopped to see if I was alright after I fell down outside the Public Gardens this past Sunday – due to an uneven sidewalk – I would love to say a big “THANK YOU”! I was hurt – both my pride and my knee and ankle – and…
Mama Mia!
To the beautiful girl at a popular downtown sandwich shop. On Monday morning, I came in to buy myself a wrap and some pudding for lunch. You were just putting out the latest batch. When I reached for one, I thought I heard you say: “You’re so cute!” At the time, I was too taken…
Dumb Vibrator Chick
This is to the stupid twat who took out her vibrator out of her purse to show us COWORKERS what she uses to get off. We didn’t need to see that. As for the bragging about how great it is…um, I used to own that exact model and replaced it a week later with something…
Why is there no help here?
There is no access to mental health services in Nova Scotia. None. You can go to “community mental health” for a peptalk and an invitation to circle time and that’s it. You’re lucky if you even see anything more than a social worker. Is there GP Psychotherapists? Hell no – that would make sense. And…
wasted
Wasted talent, wasted charisma, wasted intelligence, wasted beauty. You drink too much, party too much, sit at the bar too much, fuck too many losers. You’ve given up, and lost all your friends that gave a shit. Now you pretend that drinking your problems away with other drunks is making you happy. But you’re full…
Litter Bug
To the guy who left the bank on Quinpool, ripped his ATM receipt into little pieces then threw it all over the sidewalk: there are garbage bins inside the bank for your waste and multiple bins outside. Sometimes it’s the little things that make people look like assholes.. That was one of them. —MyParentsTaughtMeNotToLitter
No, I think “You need to calm down.”
To the guy with the beard at the phone store where I was contemplating taking my business until he told me to “Calm down”. The fact that I was calm already and that that is an outdated, negative, patriarchal , stereotypical way of keeping down us “little ladies” clinched the decision for me to take…
My favourite night of the week is now Tuesday
I hope Tuesday night craft folks will see this, because it’s about all of you. Every single time I’ve gone I have encountered genuine, authentic, and beautiful people. Every night I have left, I walk away wishing work weren’t so early in the morning and that I could embrace all of you for a whole…
Bad driver
You cut me off in your Range Rover that you could barely keep in one lane. You were a under 22 year old SMU foriegn student… I wish I had let you hit me. I hate those uncontrolable reflexes that automatically avoid douchbag collisions like the one you almost caused this morning. Anyone have any…
Drink Drink Drink, MOVE ON.
Hey, drunk waitress. yeah, you. Are you so boring that you can’t do anything else but drink and party? It’s your night off, and you’re at the fuckin bar? Your shift is over and you’re at the fuckin bar? You’re so desperate you need to sit your drunk ass and get attention from all the…
J…jump..joy
You have brought light and hope into my life, J. I love you. —Your little bird
Riding in Style
To the wonderful cops who drove my sorry, drunken butt home on Saturday night, rather than to the drunktank, where I clearly belonged; THANK YOU! You found me in a not so good location taking what I can only imagine was some type of ‘nap’ before I attempted to continue my ‘walk’ home. You truly…
Hockey Mom
Your precious little turd at the tournament was a little shit head, he spent the past three games slashing and crosschecking… you spent the past three games laughing at his douche bag antics….. my kid was hurt by his crap so before the last game I told him if your little shit tries anything with…
Power Suit
So sick of the patriarchy slut shaming my gender-neutral, sex positive attitude. —Queen Elizabeth II
Selfish and Self-Serving
You are the most selfish individual I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. You say you’ve changed but your actions belie your words. I am tired of the continued bullshit so the next time you ask for anything, don’t be surprised when all you get from me is silence. —Not surprised
Mommy beerest
I used to love beer, like really love beer. Then 14 months ago something devastating happened to my relationship with this most coveted of beverages: I got pregnant. After nine months of abstaining from drinking, I was excited to have a taste of my precious Garrison but something had changed, I had decided to exclusively…
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
You might be getting sick of Assassin’s Creed, and I don’t blame you. Another guy in a white hood stalking and killing Templars—who cares? Luckily, Black Flag mixes up the formula enough to really invigourate the series. Set during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean, you play as Edward Kenway, who grapples with…
Stillwell’s raising the bar
If someone had told me this time last year that a beer bar would open where I’d want to spend nearly every waking moment, I would have cry-laughed into my tiny bottle of Duchesse De Bourgogne, daydreaming of a place where Lambics and Saisons, smoked porters and cask ales all lived in perfect harmony. Last…
Fuck Montreal
Two years after its entire online discography disappeared, Halifax ex-pats turned pug farmers Fuck Montreal are back with Saturn Return, a 31-track super compilation. Lurching from freaked-out pseudo pop to near dirges, this is the best of the best of Alex Currie and Jenna Empey’s basement-born lovechild. There’s lots to get excited about on this…
Here’s why the Irish are so important, and what Saint Patrick’s Day is all about
Just to be clear, it’s Paddy, not Patty. In the nine years I have lived in Halifax, I have tried–and failed–to vanquish St. Patty. I telephone grocery stores about clover masquerading as shamrock. I stalk Twitter like a banshee, howling at hapless Haligonians. I explain to everyone in a leprechaun hat that they actually wore…
Each Other
The most remarkable achievement of Being Elastic is not that a Halifax-bred band scored an American record deal. The big win here is that Each Other has mastered turbulent pop as an art form. These guys have been at it for years, and they have grown from 100-riffs-per-song to a place where they have total…
JRDN’s living the dream
“The fans might not be there to see me, but every chance I get, I’m gonna’ show them what kind of R&B I’m bringing to the table,” says JRDN (AKA Jordan Croucher). The silky-voiced singer is opening a Canadian tour with pop-rockers Hedley, his biggest gig so far. But this smooth operator is just getting…
Each Other
The most remarkable achievement of Being Elastic is not that a Halifax-bred band scored an American record deal. The big win here is that Each Other has mastered turbulent pop as an art form. These guys have been at it for years, and they have grown from 100-riffs-per-song to a place where they have total…
Halifax’s art problem
“Now that the Khyber’s closed I don’t know where my next show will be. I had a show scheduled there but now I have to find another space. I’m having trouble with that,” said multimedia artist Jesse Mitchell. When The Coast interviewed Mitchell earlier this year, he was struggling after the sudden closure of what…
Veronica Mars
It’s first-term Obama all over again in the hotly anticipated fan-funded follow up to prematurely cancelled sleuth series Veronica Mars. When director Rob Thomas decided to take to Kickstarter to make the movie finally happen he swapped one problem for another, because how else can you explain the complete pandering to its backers—it’s their hard…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pisces (February 19-March 20) Do you remember being in your mother’s womb? Probably not. But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that…
Letters to the editor, March 13,2014
Office place As someone who was interviewed by Tim Bosquet for the “Halifax’s Xanadu” article (March 6), I wanted to provide your readers with another perspective on the Nova Centre that might have been inadvertently left on the editing room floor. For the record, I have never worked for Mr. Ramia or his companies. It’s…
Her cheating (on my dying) heart
Q I have a slowly terminal disease and don’t have more than five or six years left. I haven’t told my wife, which brings me to my problem. We had lived together for seven years when she cheated on me the first time. We worked things out, we got back together, but we continued to…
Need for Speed
Aaron Paul, who we all saw win two Emmys for Breaking Bad, does a student film-level Ryan Gosling impression in the relentlessly stupid Need for Speed, which is based on a video game series, because we’ve learned valuable lessons from Super Mario Bros. and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Paul plays Tobey Marshall, a hardscrabble street…
All Our Names
This is the kind of book that makes me wonder if March is too soon to start a Best of 2014 list—it’s that good. Taking place around the early 1970s, the novel alternates between an African man and an American woman, both changed by meeting a man called Isaac. The man travels from his home…
Bad Milo!
Bad Milo! is a perfect example of the self-conscious comedy-horror genre—this hybrid puts comedy first and lets its camp flag fly. Hyper-stressed office worker Duncan (Ken Marino) gives sphincter-splitting man-birth to a fleshy manifestation of repressed anger. Milo is an big-eyed ass-baby with anger issues who acts on the homicidal tendencies Duncan suppresses. A consummate cast of character actors…
Label appeal
“Do I ever buy beer based on the label? Oh yeah I do,” says Ron Bishop, beer merchant at Premier Wine and Spirits. Shelf after shelf, we are given overwhelming choices. Want a simple stout? There are 15 that range from a mass-produced import to a secret recipe from the nearby craft brewery. When it…
Diana
When Diana premiered to a dismal response from critics and audiences alike, rogerebert.com contributor Ali Arikan admitted one saving grace, writing: “to her credit, Naomi Watts does a more-than-passable job of playing Diana.” I can’t say the same. Poorly cast and labouring with less-than-passable dialogue, there aren’t enough acting chops in the celebrity butcher shop for Watts to convincingly portray the legendary Spencer stunner.…
Brew looks like a lady
“For most of recorded human history, women have been responsible for supplying the world’s beer.” That’s the Oxford Companion to Beer talking, so you know it’s legit. Known as brewsters, female brewers of the English Anglo-Saxon period often brewed beer between baking bread and servicing their husbands, while women who brewed in commercial breweries were…
Banshee Chapter
James Hirsch (Michael McMillian) takes an enhanced form of DMT and disappears without a trace. James’ college buddy, Anne Roland (Katia Winter), starts investigating her friend’s disappearance and follows a trail that twists through covert government drug testing, shortwave radio signals and an infamous writer named Thomas Blackburn (Ted Levine). With the exception of the…
Beginners’ drunk
I have a confession to make: I, Simon Thibault, a 37-year-old maritimer, did not drink beer until last year. Ever since I was legally old enough to buy the stuff, I always passed by it in the liquor store. I didn’t get the appeal of drinking something that tasted bitter, yeasty and questionably palatable. But…
Magic: The Gathering—Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014
The latest installment continues the tradition of bringing the beloved trading card game to the virtual space. For 2014, the game is smoother and easier to use with exciting new decks and creatures to play with. The brutally long loading times of previous versions aren’t as taxing, and everything flows with a little more ease,…
