Best Female Solo Artist
Last year belonged to Jenn Grant. Fans love her, critics adore her—one Sun Media writer even pondered, “one can’t help but wonder where the 26-year-old art school grad has been all our lives.” In fact, there’s so much love under the moon, music critics awarded Grant the CBC Galaxie’s Rising Star, beating out The New…
Dal’s Dreamy Production
Despite a discordant mishmash of costumes, DalTheatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pretty near note-perfect. The set is ingenious. A stately manor house becomes a multi-level wilderness hung with vines that are whisked open and closed as easily as drapes. The choreography is exciting and flat- out fun. The physical battles between the…
brown water
Why is it whenever there’s construction anywhere in the north end — which is ALL THE TIME — my water turns brown? I drink tap water all day, and lazy/incompetent construction workers are fucking up my hydration schedule on a weekly basis. Time to take that backhoe training again! Time for Gatorade
Black and White: Two Colors?
To whom it may concern: For all those involved in the school brawls yesterday, take a good, hard look in the mirror today and say to yourself, ‘What the fuck is wrong with me?” and get some help. Last time I checked, black and white are two types of colors. Oh, wait, what’s this, oh…
Not gonna do it
You can try to bitch about each other in new posts all day long, but I’m not going to post them, k? Keep it to the comment threads. It’s tiresome. Web site nazi
Thanks “Mom”
I had been a victim of a crime recently & i went to my parents for comfort but all my “Mother” could say is that its my fault that it happened. All i asked for was someone to talk to not someone to make me feel like shit. Thanks “Mom” if I wind up dead…
1-800-PISS-OFF
Dear Connor, who apparently has a Nubody’s membership, please stop giving out my home number as your home number. Did you think these people would never have to contact you? The next time they call, I’m telling them they’ve hired a liar. 423-Get Your Own Number
no one gives a shit about your problems
you sit there all day. you know who you are. the girl who walks with me every morning. Im getting annoyed about you. you sit there and go on about how your dads a prick. well youre an annoying anti social mother fucker, who seriously needs to stop bitching. your not the only one with…
My heart just stopped this morning, it’s dead.
You guys can have your George Thorogood, your Leonard Cohen, your Bob Dylan and your Air Supply. Just last weekend I was talking with a friend (over a steak that was as thin as it was tasty) about how awesome it would be if Nas came to town. Lo and behold, this fucking wonderful announcement…
Minor Hockey
I am sick and tired of minor hockey “clicks” and all the crap that goes with it…kids are put in the best positions because of who the coach likes and/or whose parents the coach owes. My child is fantastic but is left behind because we are not in the click nor do we kiss ass…
The Big Giant Nut is Having An Affair
The big giant nut who sits beside me is having an affair. It is one thing after another with her, last summer a bunch of us at work complained because of her racist rants and now this! Why do I know my coworker is having an affair, she talks on the phone with him for…
Rent a DVD Next Time
The gaggle of annoying girls near the back at the late showing of Vantage Point on Friday at Park Lane: you insisted on talking at full volume throughout the entire movie, and I then overheard you on the escalator afterwards laughing at how everyone was telling you to be quiet and how several people had…
Facebook Rant
This is for all that know & those that do not….I have several times changed my message on facebook to reflect that I do *** NOT *** want any extra applications, but for some reason many people (and mostly the same ones) continue to send me these rather annoying and (to me) useless Zombies, Vampires,…
Marquee with a small m
So if there was an entertainment establishment downtown called, say, The Patio and it had a busted-ass dirty old patio out front, it’d be pretty silly, right? So why does another establishment get away with having a dingy, semi-illuminated marquee on its exterior? Dale
Ring around the Rosie
I get off the bus at Mumford terminal to wait for my ride. I see an older lady about 2-74 yrs going around a lamp post with her walker. I said what the fuck!! I mean what do you do a) try to help her and figure out if she needs medical help b) do…
Cohen at Cohn
Mothers, lock up your daughters—or outfit them in monastic robes. Following his March 10 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Leonard Cohen announced a return to the stage after 15 years. He’ll appear at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on May 12 and 13. People are going to lose…
You Smell
To the people that smoke disgusting cigarettes and decide to sit next to me on the bus: You stink like gross — so sit your ass as far away from me as possible. PS: This goes for all you people who don’t shower/use deodorant. You smell too. And why the fuck is it so hard…
Dear EI
Up until a year ago, I had never been unemployed in my life since I was old enough to work. I paid into UI and then EI continuously for 26 years. I think that’s quite an accomplishment considering I have never lived outside Nova Scotia. But last year, when I did become unemployed, and I…
thrown down the rim to pollute!
Oh so how lovely it is to be in the season of “roll up the rim to win” the streets,bus shelters, benches and really anything else that can be lucky enough to be in the path of those infamous tims cups are littered with them! I’m not sure how long the contest has been running,…
The “cycle” of justice
snip. “…A cyclist has received two tickets after hitting a pedestrian in Halifax…” Well it’s about god damn time! jlk
Fied while on Vacation
It is not me the person that posted that wants to get back at her co-workers. I am not that low (lame), i just got upset that they did not tell me in my face , but sent a letter to my house. so cut the crap, and stop speculating shit. fired while on vac…
Get your hands out of my pockets!
All I ask for is to be able to walk up Spring Garden Road on my way to work without being accosted by people who want my money. I see you there on the street, and if I wanted to give you my money, I would. But I don’t, so stop asking for it. Is…
Bullshit foisting must end
I am soooo Fucking Sick of people foisting their bullshit this way! Take fucking responsibility for your actions Don’t blame anyone else but yourself. Stop lying and acting like children, don’t blame me for your actions! You are all fucking adults. I don’t force people into making decisions they don’t want to make..I hold no…
YOU’RE NOT ON A RACE TRACK!
To the two cars who were racing near a pizzatime in woodside.. you assholes almost killed a woman!! I saw her and stopped at the CROSSWALK she was at.. she got to infront of my vehicle (i was in the left lane)when i notice headlights zooming all over the road ahead.. i honk my horn…
Accurate Reporting
I am truly saddened by your March 13 issue and the story regarding the Commonwealth Games bid. While I appreciate Tim’s desire to dig into the specifics of the bid, he did an incredibly bad and unprofessional job of reporting the full and accurate story. As someone that was closely involved with the bid, I…
Walk to shame
HOTEL EMPLOYEES: Judge not yet ye be judged – while walking the walk of shame through the lobby. You wish you were me. Pink panthered outta there while the dude was showering
Don’t think no one noticed
To the woman in the horn rimmed glasses, yellow rainboots and stupid blue hat who cut in line for Leonard Cohen tickets with no regard for those who’d been standing in line for hours: Perhaps you were born terminally self-important and obnoxious and those are things you simply cannot change. You can however take off…
Reminder
You can bitch at each other all you want in the comment threads, but we’re not going to put up fresh bitches with your back-and-forth. It scares off new people. Also, no names in bitches. Website Nazi
WTF?
Can someone please tell me why school was cancelled today? Is the rain outside acidic? Have we lost our fucking minds? There was barely any ice on the ground this morning, and by the time they’d have been let out this afternoon, there’d be nothing but rain, yet at the first little sign of anything…
Bob and Lori’s
Starting May 1, Gottingen mainstay Bob and Loris Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen) will be in new hands—sort of. Im going to just be a landlord and collect the rent, says owner Bob Trenaman who, after 15 years running the restaurant, is ready to take a break. Im 57 and…running a little low on energy, he…
Vegan to Go
Do you find yourself getting sad and hungry during the week-long wait for Burrito Bike Saturdays? Stop pouting and get online. New business Vegan to Go is fixing to fill your belly with homemade vegan eats every weekday evening except Friday, from 6-8pm. (On Fridays, youll have to forage for yourself. Might I suggest toast…
Remedy Facial Bar
After seven-and-a-half years in one spot, The Remedy Facial Bar & Spa (formerly of 1701 Barrington) has moved to bigger and better environs. The spa closed up shop in its old digs on Saturday and re-opened in its new home, at 1546 Granville (above Curiosities Antiques & Collectibles), on Tuesday morning. “We need to better…
Foggy Goggle
Looking for more info about the intriguingly named pub Foggy Goggle, the new tenant at the former Soho Bar & Grill stomping grounds (1667 Argyle)? Well, for starters, the new pub is in no way affiliated with the similarly named Foggy Goggle bar in Boston (which means the smiling scantily clad ladies and fishbowl drinks…
Cohen at Cohn
Mothers, lock up your daughters—or outfit them in monastic robes. Following his March 10 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Leonard Cohen announced a return to the stage after 15 years. He’ll appear at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on May 12 and 13. People are going to lose…
Crowd Control
Officially available Tuesday, March 25 (or pre-order at divorcerecords.com or Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola, as only 98 copies were made) Crowd Control is a new zine/CD-R series from Divorce Records that matches up sound and visual artists from around the world. Each hand-numbered release consists of an 8.5 by 6.5 zine and a pro-pressed…
Commonwealth scandal sickening
Thank you, Tim Bousquet, for exposing the sickening details of how the insiders profit from taxpayers and consumers who, one way or another, pay the bills. I survived the horrors of the John Buchanan years, when playing fast and loose with the public purse was accepted as the colourful folklore of a backward province. Nothing…
Commonwealth Games scandal
Congratulations and thanks again to Tim Bousquet and The Coast, for an amazingly thorough job on the reporting of the Commonwealth Games story. The missing pieces of the original accounting are now clear. The level of detailed storytelling provided, linked to sagacious supporting material and ample indication that all sides and people directly involved were…
Navy movements
To the editor, On April 19th, 2008, four to six Canadian Navy ships will be leaving the Port of Halifax bound for Dubai in the Straits of Hormuz. The ships and crew will be stopping in Costa Rica, Spain, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, and most notably the Czech Republic, before being stationed in Dubai. This deployment…
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Missed Metro Transit
When it comes to transit, Haligonians overwhelmingly support it—for somebody else. A GPI Atlantic transportation study released Wednesday shows that 90 percent of Halifax urbanites and suburbanites live within 500 metres of a bus stop, but only 12 percent actually ride the bus. Private vehicles travel three billion kilometres a year in Halifax—8,000 km per…
Chronicle Herald moving
In the next few months—probably in June—the wrecking balls will take aim at the Chronicle Herald building on Argyle Street. The permits have been issued, and all thats standing in the way of demolition of the hulking, brutal, city-killing monolith is the papers move to new digs. So, whats to become of Argyle Street? No…
AGNeS hugs volunteers
Hug the next gallery volunteer you see. Well, ask them first, but you get the point. They help run galleries and so many other arts institutions, organizations, events and programs—big and small—in this city. The AGNS gives out proverbial hugs to its veteran volunteers at the AGNeS party as well. These aren’t just any volunteers.…
Autism Arts Program
The Autism Arts Program was piloted last February and officially launched this past October, says Michael Price, program director at the non-profit Provincial Autism Centre (autismcentre.ns.ca). Price and Dale Sheppard, AGNS curator of education and public programs, together run the AAP. A winter class is just wrapping up its eight-week run and a spring group…
Craigs donate to AGNS
If you want to hang with—and eat the fine cheeses worthy of—the big backers of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, you’ll have to call gallery events coordinator Sue Melvin at 424-8935. At the time of writing, there were only 15 or 20 tickets left for the 2008 AGNeS Award party, she says, but by…
huh?
is it just me, or does it seem like people are getting stupider, more self-centered, and more thoughtless lately? Mortimer
dangerous game
about a week ago, when coming home after a dinner party, i got out of my cab to find a strange orange glow coming from my apartment entrance. it was FIRE. some asshole opened my front door and thew fireworks in and caused a fire. No one heard it or smelt it, and if i…
another gas bitch
a dull dy at work led me to do a little informal research. are you aware that at the crude price of $65/barrel, gas in metro halifax was over 1.10/L. Wait a minute – thats the price we are paying now, with crude at over $100/barrel. Hmmmm, why is it that we are paying the…
My Lazy Co-Worker
I’d like to vent about my incredibly lazy co-worker. While the rest of us work hard all day, she surfs the internet reading gossip sites and shopping online. I’d say she does about 2.5 hours of actual work a day, and she makes waaaaaaaaaaaay more money than I do. She also takes a million frivolous…
Cheap Haligonians
To those two lovely customers who bought difficult to make lattes and cappuccinos at 6:30am on Saturday. I hope that I made your drink too hot and you burnt your pretty little mouths and you choke on your cinnamon buns. You think that i enjoy waking up on my Saturday morning just to give you…
Democracy 180
Joe Howe must be spinning in his dark Camp Hill grave. As a champion of liberty, Howe would surely be appalled that our main political parties are celebrating democracy in Nova Scotia by handing out thousands of toques imported from China, a Communist dictatorship, and long-sleeved t-shirts from Haiti, where Canada, the US and France…
Horton Hears a Who!
The previous movie adaptations of Dr. Seuss, Ron Howards live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and Bo Welchs The Cat in the Hat (2003), did away with the wit of the celebrated books, leading to films that felt cluttered and creepy. Co-directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, Horton Hears a Who! doesnt quite…
Doomsday
The quarantine/virus action-pic Doomsday unfolds with no serious political message or intent. The anti-government stance of this oppressed civilization is now so familiar from myriad genre movies—Land of the Dead (2005), 28 Weeks Later (2007)— that writer and director Neil Marshall—The Descent (2005)—would rather just get down to business. For him, this means pillaging his…
Toca Loca and the P*P Project
Imagine minimalist composer Steve Reich with his hand in a blender. If you don’t know what Steve Reich looks like, just picture pretty much any composer with their hand in a blender. Now imagine that as music. That’s how Toca Loca pianist and conductor Gregory Oh describes a particularly challenging piece he and bandmates Simon…
Dan Savage doesn’t know what to do about boobs.
I watched a video of your recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher and you appeared to be wearing a Queens University engineering jacket. I was a Queens med school student and am now an emergency doctor at the same university and have seen those jackets around for the past decade—where did you get…
Dammien Alexander
Dammien AlexanderWe Are Who We Have Been Waiting For(Live Village Records)Philadelphia-born Halifax resident Dammien Alexander mashes R&B, gospel, hip-hop and funk to support his vocals, which fall between Lenny Kravitz’s and Ben Harper’s. For standout tracks, go to the harmonies and mesmerizing piano of track sixth, “Satellite,” which sounds similar to Coldplay. “Love Jones” tells…
Carlene Carter
Carlene CarterStronger(YepRoc)Best known as June Carter’s daughter, Nick Lowe’s ex and for a few motoring mishaps, Carlene emerges with her first album in 12 years. She’s lost nothing as a writer or performer. Though it reveals too few reservations about snazzy keyboard sounds or strange vocal effects, Stronger is a heartening glimpse at the resilience…
Falling special guest star
For better or worse, and for more than 10 years, the creators of TV-obsessed website jumptheshark.com have devoted themselves to cataloguing the moments when previously decent television shows go south. The site lists common ways a show can lose its way. Among the categories discussed is a practice that most shows use at some point…
Sarah Slean
Sarah SleanThe Baroness(Warner)“And I don’t play the game with liars and cowards…like you,” sings Slean on her first single from The Baroness, called “Get Home”—a gorgeous expression of resignation in an album spiked with heartsickness. Slean’s played the part of “the other woman” before, in songs like “California” from her 2004 release Day One, but…
Operation Filmmaker
Operation FilmmakerDirected by: Nina DavenportMongrel MediaAfter seeing an MTV special about youth in Iraq, actor Liev Schreiber invites Muthana, a film student whose school was bombed, to intern on the set of his mediocre 2005 film Everything is Illuminated. But once he gets Muthana on location in Prague, Schreiber who, to be fair, is directing…
Rosa Laborde’s Léo
The themes in Léo—Ottawa native and Toronto-based playwright Rosa Laborde’s production about a more-bitter-than-sweet coming of age—are in some ways universal. Anyone who can remember being a teenager will find themselves identifying—to differing degrees—with the play’s three characters, Léo (the poetic hedonist), Rodrigo (the political revolutionary) and Isolda (the wanderer). All three are experiencing the…
Stage Shortage
The Attic, the Idiot, the Khyber, the Speakeasy, the One World Cafe, the Ceilidh Connection, Peel Pub, TKO, Stage Nine, Cafe Mokka, and Planet Pool. These are 11 music venues that have permanently closed their doors in Halifax over the past five years. Together, they represent the loss of about half of the city’s venues…
L8er, h8ers
Online anonymity: giver of voice topolitical dissidents, community-maker for lovers of quirky sex, forum for corporate whistle-blowers. Also? Licence to be angry. Angrier than angry. Seething mad withrage, motherfucker. Republican Tim Couch, a state representative in Kentucky, recently proposed a legislated ban on anonymous online message boards or comment sections. “Some nasty things have been…
The Mooseheads’ homegrown hope
Will this be the year the Halifax Mooseheads win it all? There are those who will tell you it’s about damn time. Halifax has had a franchise in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League—one of Canada’s three elite professional-hockey-player factories—since 1994. The team has produced close to two dozen players who’ve played in the NHL,…
Hail halal!
The new halal persian menu at China Town – now co-named Zafaran’s Place – is absolutely enjoyable.
