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I saw you standing in the back at the Punk Rock Tribute night at the pub. You are gorgeous, and I love your long brown hair. I tried several times to get to you to talk, but couldn’t get away from my friends. I’m the girl who got stuck in the mosh pit. I’m the…
While this problem isn’t unique to any one part of HRM, there are a few places that are particularly bad. Cunard and Maynard (specifically, the area around the fenced-in park) are absolutely littered with dog shit. It’s disgusting. Most people don’t enjoy picking up poop, but it’s part of pet ownership. If you don’t want…
No player from the Maritimes has ever made it to the NBA. Lindell Wigginton is looking to change that. Born into a basketball family, the 19-year-old who grew up in Uniacke Square and North Preston just finished three years of high school ball at Oak Hill Academy prep school in Mouth of Wilson, Virgina. Wigginton…
By virtually any measure the Nova Centre in downtown Halifax has already been a bad deal for the public. You can debate how bad it’s been, and you can wonder how we ended up in this mess, but we can all agree that it’s been bad. It’s also the latest in a long line of…
So much has been written of Kristen Stewart since her Twilight era began in 2008: She slumps! She’s sullen! She looks like she hates the red carpet! Fuck her, Edward is mine! Even though she starred alongside a similarly dour, similarly slumpy man clearly just as unhappily stuck in a Hollywood-engineered romance. Even though she…
Heist launch party w/Stewart Legere, Manny Dingo, Princess Edward and DJ Almond Breeze Saturday, April 8 at 9pm Mother’s Halifax, 5710 Young Street Free A new live art company is taking over Mother’s Pizza on Saturday night. “Let art take over” is the motto of Heist, the rebranded group formerly known as Angels & Heroes.…
To the woman in the maroon SUV, who almost ran me over on Saturday afternoon just before one o’clock. I was crossing on a legal pedestrian light. You were southbound, turning left from Robie onto Cunard, and you would have hit me at full speed if I had not yelled “HEYYYY!” at the top of…
The federal government recently created two marine protected areas in the Pacific region and has committed to increase ocean protection from one percent to 10 by 2020. But will this be enough? Canada has the longest coastline of any nation, but our country doesn’t end at its ocean shores. With a 200-nautical-mile economic zone and…
Eating and buying local has never been easier thanks to the crop of farmers’ markets around town. Here are 10 places to start.
The Coast’s comment section is a place intended for civil debate, constructive discussion and for folks to share their own experiences. But it hasn’t been meeting those goals. The vast majority of comments on our website fall under personal attacks and intense arguments between commenters. Given the potential of comments to be a force for…
I am from NS and moved to Ottawa only to realise my class 5D (regular + moped) NS license is not a class G ML (regular + moped) Ontario license. In NS you can get a D endorsement on your class 5 licence that allows you to drive a motorcycle with an engine of 100cc…
To the cute girl in the white rock band t-shirt—pretty sure it was AC/DC or Def Leppard—who I shot tequila with at the bar last week. I’m sorry I was an asshole at the end of the night. No wonder you stormed off! I’d like to make it up to you. yesiwouldlikeyournumber@gmail.com —That guy
The longer I live in Halifax, the more I disagree with the goings on at City Hall! This will be the busiest year ever for tourism in Halifax, so what is the city going to do for the event? They will tear up one of the busiest tourist areas in the city. They are telling…
To the people who routinely show up unfashionably late, or cancel last minute, or repeatedly don’t show up at all I’m sorry that you either believe or behave like your time has more value then everybody else’s. The appropriate circle of hell for you folks is one where you are constantly hungry because your dinner…
Halifax is a very interesting place. It seems that recently many so called restaurateurs have taken it upon themselves to travel to the thriving metropolis that is Toronto, experience all of the wonderful restaurants and then come back and open cut-rate versions of those same restaurants here. Imitation may be the highest form of flattery…
You: Elegantly dressed gentleman with flowing hair and beard, patiently waiting for something…perhaps the bus, perhaps me. Me: Siberian snow princess in the passenger side of an electric blue car, gazing at you with deep desire, getting all hot and bothered in my furs. I mustered the courage to wave, and you gratified my efforts…
WTF is wrong with you? Photoless profiles: The stigma surrounding gay men cruising for sex in Halifax is the reason for this. God forbid that that gay men have sex, let alone anonymous sex, let alone sex with multiple partners. You may only do that in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Headless profiles: These brave souls…
Dartmouth Centre councillor Sam Austin sent a letter to The Coast earlier this week in response to writer Melissa Buote’s review of Picnic on March 9. Austin took issue with Buote’s comparison of downtown Dartmouth at night to the old horror movie The Haunting, saying it was an “attempt at a clever analogy taken too…
Body shaming, mocking and talking smack about the new GF? Sounds more like bullying than gender solidarity. —Cancel my subscription
10 Write For Your Life IV Sunday Cheer for Halifax’s deadliest writer! 9 Dazor EP Release Show Saturday Heavy sounds from hard rockers. 8 Elephant’s Graveyard Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday The Dartmouth Players share the tragic story of a small town’s struggling circus in 1918 Tennessee. 7 Shokran Canada Thursday A traditional…
Glen Bagnell has been a member of the Austenville Owl’s Club for 47 years. Its current president, Kim Conrad, has been a member for 15, having spent a lot of time there in his childhood with his father. The club started in the 1930s, when it was mostly an evening club for businessmen. These days,…
The city’s plans for the Cogswell Interchange redevelopment are centered on creating a source of renewable energy out of the wastewater coming from the nearby sewage treatment plant, though it remains unclear whether this will attract or deter potential buyers. The energy in the wastewater would be converted into thermal energy at a transfer station…
The co-owners of a Grape Escapes wine tours are crushing another kind of fruit and “taking advantage of the cider boom:” Mike Lim and Susan Downey Lim announced last summer they’d be teaming up with Brian Kelly to open Chain-Yard Urban Cidery at 2606 Agricola Street (the former FRED. location). And now they’re just about…
Roll on Two 1810 Granville Street Mon-Fri 7am-3pm “It’s a very eye-catching process,” Andrei Paunescu says, explaining what exactly a chimney cake is and how it’s created. He’s not lying. Taking in the making of the sweet Hungarian pastries—also known kürtőskalács—is just as fulfilling as eating one of the hand-spun, spit-roasted, golden tube cakes. Andrei…
Dazor w/Co-Pilot, Stonehouse Saturday, April 1, 10pm The Oasis Pub & Eatery 5661 Spring Garden Road, $6 Bumming cigarettes and video games were the catalysts that started Halifax alt-rock trio Dazor. “When we first started playing, we were playing in the basement of a frat house,” says drummer and vocalist Lewis Belcher. Belcher started chatting…
Aparna Nancherla w/Cher Hann and Sandi Rankaduwa Wednesday, April 5, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 “As comedians, it is up to us to overturn and shake and deconstruct and weigh every system that governs life,” wrote Aparna Nancherla in the Village Voice last December, after Donald Trump had been elected but before…
Sound Etiquette Khyber Centre for the Arts 1880 Hollis Street To April 24 From drawings incorporating America Sign Language to unconventional choirs, Christine Sun-Kim is not shy when it comes to working with sound. But being born deaf, the Berlin-based artist believed for a long time that sound wasn’t a part of her life. “I realize…
Behind the fray This is a personal rebuttal to the article in last week’s Coast on the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, which included me as a subject (“Fraying at the edges,” cover story by Jacob Boon). I should confirm that the ACNS does have a drop-in area, as the story mentions, and we are…
Q Gay guy here. Met a guy online. We had incredible sex and then a great conversation lasting several hours. Then he told me that he lied about his HIV status. (I asked him before meeting him, like I do with anyone.) He is undetectable, but he told me initially he was “HIV/STD negative.” I…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19) The dragon that stole your treasure will return it. Tulips and snapdragons will blossom in a field you thought was a wasteland. Gargoyles from the abyss will crawl into view, but then meekly lick your hand and reveal secrets you can really use. The dour troll that guards the…
Staying Underground residency Friday April 13 & 20, 9pm Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street RHONDA, Pleasure Forever, All Black Everything with Alfalfa Brown Friday April 7, 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street Pop-up shop with Alfalfa Brown Tuesday April 11, 6-8pm Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street “The best comment I heard was that…
If you’re sweating the small stuff—and the big stuff—surrounding your wedding day, Make Merry has your back. Krista Comeau and Jillian Demmons are the detail-oriented pair behind vintage and speciality event rental company, and since moving into their Dartmouth showroom (47 Wentworth Street) they’ve been plotting a pop-up shop, to bring in brides and grooms…
