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[Image-1] We waited for what seemed like an eternity in the Boomers line last night and I had every opportunity to try and charm you, but I failed. It’s not every night that you find yourself standing next to the perfect mix of sexy-cute. I should have said more, should have tried harder and been…
[Image-1] Do you think I can’t see you? If it was just once or twice I would block it out and move on. But no, you do it many times throughout the day. Do you think I can’t see you pick your nose and eat it? STEADY. ALL DAY. And you dig in your ears…
Instead of behaving like teenage girls how about you get a clue and pay attention to what he’s doing? If only one of you is capable of plating good-looking food and he is the problem – Well, maybe it isn’t a problem and the rest of you are. —Tired of New York-styled Bullshit
[Image-1] On the day the new Go Time system gets launched, I use it to find out why, for 30 minutes, none of the four buses that are supposed to drive by don’t show up at all. It was a sunny day, with no accidents reported, but yet four buses that were scheduled to pick…
[Image-1] I want to thank the person who turned in the purple folder left on the number 7 bus on May 19. The folder contained very important and personal information. I was so happy that someone out there was as thoughtful and honest as you were. I hope something really fantastic happens to you very…
If you walk down Agricola, day or night, you’ve probably smelled the putrid stench of fresh, hot piss directly across from Obsolete Records. I don’t know if someone is marking their territory daily or if I’m just going crazy but GOD, MAKE IT STOP!! If it’s brown flush it down; if it’s yellow let it…
Choosing to recline your seat on air planes these days is ass-hattery at its finest. There is not enough room even without someone’s seat in your lap. Only self-entitled ignoramuses (ignorami?) and narcissists deprive others of their small degree of space and comfort to gain a little more for themselves. Doing so for the duration…
[Image-1] Over Mother’s Day weekend my bf and I were dealing with some relationship issues. Saturday was tough and I was pretty depressed so I went to get some food alone in Clayton Park. A lady said she loved my tattoos as she walked by. Just to have someone smile at me and say something nice…
Last month, Halifax psych-rock-weirdos The Everywheres released the full-length Dignity Fever, recorded around Halifax and the South Shore, to much praise and surprise. Production-wise, it’s sharp as hell; thematically, the eight tracks roam around what it’s like to live in Halifax. Sometimes, spending time in Halifax means making music with your friends. Filmed and edited by video…
Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difficult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of global emissions from farms range widely. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts them at 24 percent, including deforestation, making agriculture the second-largest emitter after heat and electricity. Agriculture contributes to…
[Image-1] Uggh, the most nauseating people are the newly working-middle class, Always have to show off and prove they are a step above the poor with their brand new 20k cars, or 40k Luxo-Trucks and wall to wall particle board furniture and tacky vacations they never shut up about…. Meanwhile the 100k a year people…
I agree with the bitcher who said men who shave their pubes should stop. It looks so girly and not manly at all. Women should stop shaving their pubes too. Those ingrown hairs are unsightly and bald eagles allow infection in. Hair is there for a reason. I’m a reformed shaver and now a full-bush…
There were all kinds of booths and promotions at the bluenose marathon. some better than others. What you had on offer is really great and entering the draw makes sense, but please dont sign me up for emails right in front of me without my consent.it happened so quickly i couldnt really respond in time.…
[Image-1] 6 months ago I wanted to tell you that we should give it all up and just be together. But now, you’ve got someone amazing, and I do too. You and I together wasn’t the answer. And that took us a long time to figure out. But I’m so proud of you, and of…
[Image-1] At Tuesday’s meeting of Halifax Regional Council, Jennifer Watts will be putting forward three motions relating to Colonial Honda’s plans to tear down close to two dozen north end houses for an expanded parking lot. Watts is asking council to request the province amend its Charter so that HRM can implement interim development controls…
Metro Transit you need a presentation on customer service and how to run a business. I was out of the city for three weeks and needed a bus pass for May. Metro policy recalls passes and I could not buy one on May 13. Common sense would never allow me to think this would happen!!…
Ok, I get it. A big house burned and it was all over the news. Guess what else was on the news? Pictures. There is really no need for the (at least) 50 or so drivers who insisted in parading through Vicky Crescent yesterday for hours to get a good look at other people’s personal…
[Image-1] What is Canada coming to nowadays? Fuck all our new PM cares about is taking selfies, going on vacations, using our tax dollars for his childcare, and getting into physical fights! Not too mention putting our country further into debt. Geez, the only reason he was elected was to keep Harper out. He’s a…
[Image-1] I want to send my plea of remorse to those who I’d been a bully to in Jr. High, 10 years ago. I was a meanie meanie bo beanie and I am more sorry for this than anything else in my life. I wish I could take back every nasty word I’d spoken, every…
[Image-1] Would fewer parking spaces on Gottingen Street help or hinder local businesses? Ross Cantwell feels it’s the latter. An email from the property developer to Halifax Transit and peninsula councillors Jennifer Watts and Waye Mason (CC’d to The Coast) voices concerns about potential plans to remove on-street parking in order to ease transit congestion.…
[Image-1] To the guy in Tim Horton’s who but in on my conversation with my friend: Spare me your delicate sensibilities and complaints about profanity. How do you walk around in public 24/7 without being constantly offended is beyond me. Also lets be truthful here, your opposition was not to my choice of words but…
Nobody knows an area better than its residents, so when it comes to looking for a new home in the Hydrostone area, Edie Hancock is as knowledgeable as it gets. Edie represents the Sutton Group Professional Realty, has lived in the Hydrostone since 1991 and specializes in finding new neighbours. The Sutton Group is 100…
[Image-1] Say goodbye to the Elmwood. The yellow Victorian-era home on the corner of South and Barrington is being torn down and replaced with a six-storey mixed-use development. Principal Developments, owned by Paul, Renée and Peter Metlej, wants to build 42 residential units with 8,000 square feet of commercial space at 5185-5189 South Street. It’s…
[Image-1] After a quarter of a century as a Halifax councillor, Reg Rankin is calling it quits. The Timberlea-Beechville-Clayton Park-Wedgewood councillor confirms to The Coast that he won’t be running in this fall’s municipal election. “It’s been rewarding,” Rankin says. “I always viewed it as a challenge…but there’s other people in waiting.” “A number of…
Whether you’re after a new tattoo, chamber music or a parrot’s birthday party this Victoria Day weekend, The Coast has got you covered. This handy guide includes a dozen things to get out to see and do. 12. Sports › Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon. May 20-22 Huff and puff, but cross the finish line! This…
[Image-1] The provincial government will no longer play a part in developing the Bloomfield property in Halifax’s north end. After years without progress and months of speculation about the site’s future, Housing Nova Scotia made the announcement on Thursday that it won’t be moving forward with the project. No official reason was given for the…
After a long winter in Brandon, Manitoba, Polaris Prize-nominated rock ‘n’ roller Shotgun Jimmie (Jim Kilpatrick) is back on tour with his new album Field of Trampolines. Produced by Joel Plaskett at his Dartmouth studio New Scotland Yard over four jam-packed days last August, it’s Jimmie’s most fun and upbeat record to date, and the positive vibes are…
[Image-1] While it will be built and owned by the Armour group, it’s the province (through the Waterfront Development Corporation) that will have to look after all of the wacky playground elements planned for the Queen’s Marque. That’s because the five-acre piece of property which will house the $200-million downtown development is public land. Armour will…
[Image-1] Two-and-a-half years ago I was sexually assaulted, and it is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through. In many aspects of my life, I am changed. There were times when I didn’t think I could ever be happy again. There were times when I doubted myself so much that I…
[Image-1] “We can all pretend that pooping isn’t a thing we all do, but everyone knows that’s a lie,” says Nicole Marcoux. “They literally wrote a book called Everybody Poops, for children. It’s still applicable to adults.” Marcoux is facilitating Inside//out: explorations between emotions, guts and poop—a workshop happening this Thursday, May 19 for Our…
[Image-1] Say hello to Jason MacLean, the new president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union. The 42-year-old corrections officer was acclaimed last weekend at a Halifax convention, and takes over from former leader Joan Jessome. MacLean is the second black NSGEU president, after Noel Johnson, who served in the 1970s. His inaugural…
With colleague Carmin A, tattoo artist Bronwin Ironside from Deuce Tattoos in Bancroft, Ontario, is one of over 70 artists who’ll be at this weekend’s 10th anniversary edition of the Maritime Tattoo Festival. With 11 years of experience as a tattoo designer and artist around Ontario, she explains the elements of one client’s scenic and colourful Looney…
Just before the glut of summer moviedom comes a movie for grown-ups. Neither franchise entry nor reboot nor app-turned-feature, Money Monster is an old-fashioned Hollywood thriller starring a pair of vets—Julia Roberts and George Clooney—directed by another, Jodie Foster. Clooney is Lee Gates, a roguish asshole who hosts a gimmicky show called Money Monster, in which he fast talks and…
In The Boy and the Beast, a young runaway, Ren, stumbles from regular old humanity into a beast world, where he becomes the apprentice to a cranky bear-like master named Kumatetsu. They are, suffice to say, an odd couple. Many physical and emotional battles to be waged across two hours. Director Mamoru Hosoda is the heir apparent to Miyazaki, perhaps…
Nobody tries very hard in the sequel to 2014’s best comedy—it’s the same movie except Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen battle a sorority instead of a frat—which detracts some humour points. But with a cast this great—especially Zac Efron; Byrne, 2014’s standout, sadly gets less to do and a rehash of insane/grossout scenarios, plus a curious and enduring feminist streak—you’ll…
Carmin A knows what makes a tattoo work. The artist from Deuce Tattoos in Bancroft, Ontario, is one of over 70 artists who’ll be at this weekend’s 10th anniversary edition of the Maritime Tattoo Festival. Because a little pre-planning can save you from a rash ink decision, we asked Carmin to walk us through the…
When Henry Purcell wrote his semi-opera King Arthur in the 17th century, there’s no way he could’ve imagined a production like Opera Nova Scotia’s. “Modern technology is sharing the stage with this operatic entertainment,” explains Walter Kemp, Opera NS’s artistic director. “We chose to do this great piece filled with lovely music, but we wanted…
“We had 2,000 people, I think,” says Marian Munro, the Spryfield & District Community Market’s volunteer market manager. “Although I might be missing four, more or less,” she adds, laughing. A sheet of scratched-up looseleaf paper sits on top of Munro’s stack of notes, line after line of tiny tally marks covering both sides, a…
Let’s start with a question: Is Joan Jessome the most hated woman in Nova Scotia? Google “Joan Jessome” and “hated,” and you’ll get 5,630 hits in less than a Google second. The top three results are news stories following the December 11, 2015, announcement she would be retiring as president of the Nova Scotia Government…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Taurus (Apr 20-May 20) The short attention span is now enshrined as the default mode of awareness. “We skim rather than absorb,” says author James Lough. “We read Sappho or Shakespeare the same way we glance over a tweet or a text message, scanning for the gist, impatient to move on.” There’s a…
Q Over the years, I have consumed what I believe to be an average amount of porn for a 44-year-old hetero guy. I have never paid for it, and I am now facing a troubled conscience for that fact. I could obviously just subscribe to some site or other now, but that would benefit only…
Re-considering Cornwallis We are writing to express our disappointment in city council’s decision to quash further discussions about the commemoration of Edward Cornwallis in various city landmarks and on roads and buildings bearing his name (“Halifax votes to keep honouring Edward Cornwallis,” Reality Bites post at thecoast.ca by Jacob Boon, May 11). As professional historians…
