PC means wasteful
I don’t mind being politically correct but when we allocate our finite resources to a demographic that doesn’t use it I am offended. Every day, every where, I see wasted unused real estate with big blue painted squares on it. Wtf? 1 empty space is a good thing, but 5 or 6 empty spots is…
Local arts college letting students down? For shame!
You set my kid up with all the hype, thinking she’s going to have the best education and artistic experience ever! She is accepted, enrolls, chooses her courses and of course these have prerequisites! No problem! She’s very excited she has all the courses she wanted and is happy to start this next journey in…
Getting a doctor in this province
I just moved to NS from BC.I’m a mom/RN who just this week went to a fairly large clinic/with MDs with several offices. I approached 2 of the secretaries for 2 MDs and asked about getting a doctor. This what the their response: “No, this MD is not accepting anymore but you can ask the…
Potholes
True Nova Scotians aren’t allowed to complain about potholes because “there are too many for the gov to fix” Really? –I Know Who I Am Not Voting For
4L of milk for $3.99
Sorry folks! Never in NS. We have laws against low prices on milk. –Feeding My Child Kool-Aid In A Bottle
HRM Transit sucks
I don’t mind the bus at 7am, I always get a seat. But, at 4:30 it is standing room only. Some of you don’t mind, but the words ‘ cattle car’ come to mind. –2nd Class Citizen
Sad
This is more of a cry for help than a bitch; I am sick of feeling like an insignificant nobody. I am friendly, nice looking, funny and genuine. So how come every time I fall in love with someone, I get rejected? I haven’t had a meaningful relationship in my whole adult life. I don’t…
Tired of cliches
Recently I went to a store having a BOGO on footwear. I didn’t realize it was buy one get one, so when my boyfriend brought his shoes to the counter, the clerk informed us of the sale, and I grabbed a pair that were $4 more than his. I told the clerk mine were more…
Closet bitch
You will never read this but hey, it’s gotta be said. I like you and you like me, it seems a lot. I’ve been holding on to the hope that your feelings for me would trump your fear of being “out” someday. It’s been a long long time now and I can only conclude that…
AWOL Bus driver
I can’t believe you did that, #80 bus driver. You were 16 minutes late starting another route round so what do you do? You skip 40 blocks and just say fuck all those people waiting from downtown to Bayers Rd. And to the service woman on the phone who insisted that bus was present and…
FFS, move over!
The law says you have to give me 3 feet, not 3inches. Move over, azzhole! You may not like me but deserve as much courtesy as any other slow moving traffic. –Cyclist
Spiderman roads
I’m driving through the Common this morning and I realized just how focked up the roads are. In order to traffic what is basically 1 or 2 blocks, I had to cross 6 intersections. –Face Palm
Turn around hurts doesn’t it
I am tired of people saying “You have a pretty face, if only you could do something with you ass”. It is like they don’t realize how rude that is. I think – for just one day – I will go around saying “You have a nice ass, if only you could lose some of…
Flipburger hits Argyle
The burger mania continues! If you didn’t think there were enough burger places in Halifax, then you’ll be happy to know Flipburger is opening a new location downtown. Owner Chris Tzaneteas says it is set to open some time between the middle and end of June. Fans of the Clayton Park burger haven will be…
All’s fair at the Fair Trade Bazaar
Look for the yurt this weekend when the Fair Trade Bazaar (May 11 and 12, 10am-5pm) takes over Victoria Park, focussing on globally-conscious shopping and adding yet another awesome element to your Open-City-inspired downtown adventures. Celebrate World Fair Trade Day, and Mother’s Day, by shopping in this open air market, that’ll feature loads of jewellery,…
Psycho druggie mom
You should be ashamed of yourself. You clearly were not taught what that is though. What kind of parent, human being even, tells the father of their child that the child passed away, when really you couldn’t get your party on so you adopted up! Drugs… kid… drugs… kid, hmmm. He could have stepped up.…
One more compliment
It’s hard to discribe how amazing you are, since you don’t see yourself the way I do. Beautiful, smart, kind, active, sincere, helpful, thoughtful, laid back yet driven and so much more. Your confidence and “poses” always leave me amazed and your emotionally softer side is so heart warming. You deserve everything you want in…
New Just Us! complaint filed
“I don’t really understand this whole thing,” Debra Moore says when asked about ongoing negotiations between Just Us! Coffee and the Service Employees International Union. “The unions would know the process better than I do.” After two baristas were allegedly dismissed from the roastery and cafe chain for unionizing, labour activists continue pressuring the company…
The usual suspects
At a secret portion of their meeting last week, Halifax councillors appointed Fred Honsberger to the Board of Police Commissioners. There was nothing unusual about the secrecy: All appointments to boards and commissions are made in secret, over the repeated objections of both The Coast and councillor Gloria McCluskey. Neither is the appointment of Honsberger…
Scribbler live at The Coast
The ever-prolific Scribbler stopped by, grabbed a coffee and eased us all into a lazy Sunday. Thanks, gang!
Hilarity in Halifax
Steve Patterson is probably best known for his role as the host of the CBC show The Debaters. Or possibly as Canada’s best male stand-up comedian (as chosen in the Canadian Comedy Awards in 2011). “On The Debaters I’m essentially a referee for the other comics. I don’t want to step on their material so…
Halfway to Hal-Con
Hal-Con, Halifax’s sci-fi, fantasy and gaming convention, may not be until November (Nov 8-10 see hal-con.com for more info, but it’s not too early to get excited about the impressive line-up for this fall. The announcements have already started streaming in and will have fans of Doctor Who, Star Wars and Star Trek alike pining…
Nice parking, dickhead
This goes out to the asshole who parked at Walmart Sunday morning facing the liquor store. If you are anal enough that you don’t want someone to scratch the shitty silver paint job on your “wicked cool” $12,000 Hyundai, fine. Park away from the store. But blatantly taking up 2 parking spots so nobody comes…
A vortex of nonsense
It’s easy to be your friend, but it’s hard not to kiss you when we part ways on corner. I like to pretend I only want to hang out with you because you’re such an awesome friend, but I think we both know that isn’t the only reason. Keep it radical and impulsive, it’s such…
Where is oil coming from
Since they have been extracting oil from the ground they have extracted one trillion barrels of oil from the ground (low number) and there is more than a trillion left in the ground today. I think that oil is abiogenic and will continue to be produced at the earth’s core as long as the earth…
Emergency response
To the Halifax police, fire, and ambulance teams that responded so quickly and professionally to the accident at Connaught and Chebucto Friday morning, a huge thank for making a bad experience a little bit better. —VW
I live for you
I love and miss you endlessly. My eyes ache when having to be cast away from your grace. To quote a lunatic, you complete me. Always, Your sexy pirate non-snoring beaut of a woman. <3 I love you. —Maarrrry Me! (Dartmouth)
Purrr-kins
Tonight as I was walking my dog I noticed a cat meowing for help from the roof of my house. You were a kind stranger who stopped to help me get her down. We tried everything we could think of for a good 30-45 minutes, including calling the police, the neighbors, and you boosting me…
Don’t honk, I hear you!
To those misguided folks who think it’s helpful to honk your car horn when you’re about to pass my bike, it’s not. It is, however, irritating and disconcerting. If you want to help, give me lots of space as you go by. —Cyclist With Ears
You’re unforgettable…
I can’t forget you as much as I know I should for my own good. I just can’t forget you, Lord knows I’ve tried… Do you remember me? —Please Let Me In
Meeting was such sweet sorrow
I went out on a limb to catch up with you. You gave me the once over as I walked in and I immediately disliked your negativity. I kept trying to change it so it would be positive, but by the third- I needed a break. Thanks for 180 minutes of smack talking others from…
There’s something money can’t buy
And that’s class! You called your mother a Camel-toe — despite our differences she is a smart lady, not sure why she stuck around but it must be something about the cars she likes to drive. You can take the hillbilly out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the hillbilly!…
Crush from afar
You are gorgeous. The most beautiful eyes and smile ever one has ever seen on a man. Amazing laugh. We were just friendly aquaintances at our work, and you were always so sweet to me. You never knew how much I adored you, or how I couldn’t breathe while around you. You hugged me twice,…
Aggresive dog OWNER
If you have a problem with the way I train my dog, fine voice your opinion. I will listen until you turn blue. But bio-tch when you start personally attacking me, and making comments about how I should never have children you’re taking it too far. I am one of the lucky ones that have…
Am I missing something here?
So what happened?! One night we had a good conversation you said you were thinking about me and missed seeing me. We made plans for the next night and you didn’t show up, no call no text zero explanation. Now you’re ignoring me for no reason? What gives? —Left Confused
One love
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Livingstoned in the Hydrostone!
I hope you choke on a chicken bone, so to date let’s reiterate you sent your cousin to my door and I have him on video surveillance strike one, dirty and dark little one, Karma was a tree. Now what will it be, no reaction you will see you must be so dissapointed! Hear that…
Isn’t that something!
Don’t worry fairweather friends. I don’t need you in the end. Everyone knows what sneaky little liars you are. Yes he taught you well! Do you know? You’re damn right I knew for years! I listened to every conversation you had and while you conspired you helped me retire. I know you have no soul…
Small acts of great kindness
You lifted me figuratively and literally at the corner of London and Dublin on May 2nd at about 11:30 am, when I needed it most. Rest assured it will be passed along. —Sail On, Silver Girl
Does this closet tweaker sound like you?
You viciously insincere woman… You lead him on with this sad idea of a friendship for your ego’s sake. I guess it’s getting harder to convince yourself you’re the baddest bitch in high school the closer you get to forty. —Vomiting From Afar
May 2, 2011
Seal Team 6 for the great job they did 3 years ago today. —Samael
Pick it up!
I realize that some of you must enjoy living in your own filth, (and that the city provides virtually no trash cans apart from the fancy schmancy solar compactor ones on the waterfront), but I and all the civilized people of this city don’t. All you people who drop your fucking coffee cups, cigarette butts,…
You may not have been looking but I was
To the daydreaming, inattentive or cellphone using lady driver of the Prius in Dartmouth last week. Smarten up before you kill someone. You may not have been looking when the light over the crosswalk went on ,you may not have been looking when you gunned the throttle as I was in the middle of the…
In a hurry to crush my phone
Hey drive rushing home from work: If I’m biking in front of you down South, and a phone-shaped device falls out of my pocket, and I get off my bike and wave my arms and yell “STOP!” it doesn’t mean you should swerve arbitrarily and actually come closer to running my phone over. You’ll get…
Breaking all the rules
I recently met a stunning lady online. We have so much in common and she has helped me through a very difficult time. We chat everyday and late into the night. We currently have some rules in place regarding a possible relationship. We have not met in person although we travelled in the same circles…
Sloooow
I crave your croissants, but everytime I wander down to historic properties my disappointment is reinforced. With two people behind the counter, things should run efficiently and provide great service, yet service is lax and sporadic. I am often left waiting after I have paid for my delicious treats while I watch your employees fumble…
Believe in yourself
When we were together every once in a while you would ask me why I loved you. I would look at you and laugh, I thought it was a ridiculous question. We were in different places in our lives yes but I loved everything about you, good and bad. Months since (and during a sad…
Good things come to those who wait…
You’re a 24 year old SMU grad that works at a chocolate shop. You totally stole my heart the first time I met you. It’s weird how things seemed to click between us so suddenly, it was immediate and electrifying. After a month of seeing each other, it seemed as though your mum didn’t want…
A bit more faith restored in humanity
During one of our storms this winter, I was taking the bus to my friends place. As I was leaving, I realized I didn’t have my SMU student ID. I knew I must have dropped it in the snow on the way there. I figured it was gone for good, buried in the snow. Now,…
Get graphic on Free Comic Book Day
We likely don’t have to remind you that Saturday is Christmas for comic lovers, Free Comic Book Day. It’s really hard for this day to get any better than it is naturally, but local comic shops have teamed up to create the ultimate Free Comic Book Day adventure. Strange Adventures (5262 Sackville Street and 101…
It’s a school zone, damnit!
You were following my Civic in your fancy new silver Jeep Grand Cherokee (loaded, I’m sure). You were a “man” in your late 50’s I expect; the colour of your hair matched your paint job. I was in the left lane, doing the speed limit; a car in the right lane beside me doing the…
Que Tal Restaurante Mexicano arrives
When David Fillmore and Elizabeth Acosta started selling traditional Mexican food at the Historic Farmers’ Market two years ago, it was a bit of a test. The pair knew they wanted to open a restaurant, but were the bellies of the HRM grumbling for authentic Mexican eats? The answer was a resounding yes. The next…
The bank steals your money
The last budget on pages 144-145 gives the banks the power to change their liabilities to assets at the stroke of a pen when the next crisis comes. The term bail-in will become common which means your RRSP and bank accounts will be taken and you will have no recourse. For those of who don’t…
Turn me on
After being married for almost 6 years you turn me on and drive me wild for you like the first day we met. You are the sexiest woman on the planet. I love that you can get me going by just walking by me! —J
Koo-E Nami closes
If you find yourself yearning for an extended dinner of Korean eats, cooked over a table-top grill—you’ve got one less option as of today. Last night via Twitter and Facebook, Koo-E Nami Royale Grill (1536 Dresden Row, 425-4411)—known not just for its BBQ but its noodle dishes, salad bar, traditional and contemporary Korean cuisine—announced it…
Free beer!
I don’t want to say what you look like or what LC you work at because I don’t want to get you in trouble, but you hooked me up with 4 free tallboys friday night! I was even like “is that all?” because I knew the price looked low. You assured me, I wasn’t about…
Love not an obsession
I think there’s nothing I can do right or wrong that’s going to bring you to me. I believe you’ve been shooting me with some serious shit. You make me high with talk of a you and I; then you make me fall like a ton of bricks when you change your mind, because of…
Kind stranger
To the total sweetheart who works at Tim’s on Quinpool.. Thank you so much for asking my mother if she needed the store phone to check bus schedules. Both our cells were dead, we had just missed our bus, and had no idea when the next one was coming. Giving her the phone was very…
Fairly grounded folk
“I love Halifax,” says Lauren Mann. “I grew up near Vancouver, so Halifax, as soon as we got there, it feels like Vancouver but with an east coast vibe, this cool architecture. I love it!” Mann’s played at The Company House, Cameron House and was filmed on the Tall Ship Silva —maybe the perfect venue…
Iron Man 3
Tony Stark squares off against his greatest foe to date—panic attacks—in the inevitable Iron Man 3. After saving the planet from cyborg zombie aliens in The Avengers, Stark (the getting-a-little-old-for-this Robert Downey Jr.) retreats to his workshop to tinker with his fantastical toys. When a paralyzing attack by hipster terrorist kingpin The Mandarin (Sir Ben…
Panic Room
I’m considering out-of-town venues, how far is too far to expect guests to travel? Should I be responsible for finding accomodations? It’s best to look within your guest list to find out how many guests will be required to travel. In most cases it’s best to have a room block available at the wedding venue…
Bigger love: polyamory in Halifax
Amy sits with a styrofoam box of potato skins, legs crossed in front of her. “I’m mopey,” she explains in between nibbles. She has recently been dumped. Fortunately, she’s got a pretty amazing boyfriend to help her get through it. Robert is “a peculiar animal,” she says happily. “He rubs my back when I’m sad.”…
A classic case of murder
If I told you whodunit, you’d have to kill me, so let’s just say that Agatha Christie’s iconic murder mystery will keep you guessing till the very end. Bedford Players has chosen to stage The Mousetrap in its 30th anniversary year as a tip of the hat to the 60 years the play has been…
Camera conduct
Smiling for the camera is an ingrained response. But the performance doesn’t stop there, according to Vancouver-based video artist Karilynn Ming Ho. In her second solo exhibit, Versions 1,2,3, Ming Ho explores the way in which people (re)act when the camera’s turned on. Ming Ho only graduated from Simon Fraser University in 2010, and she has…
The Sapphires
A somewhat true story is hacked up and spit out as superficial feel-good ’60s melodrama in the disappointing Australian movie, The Sapphires. Three Aboriginal sisters (and their light-skinned cousin) with some golden pipes get the chance of a lifetime when a washed up producer (Chris O’Dowd) helps them tour USO shows during the Vietnam War.…
Homemade homage
While enjoying their anniversary at Clay Cafe, Jennifer Parsons had no idea the Christmas ornament she and Derrick Cottreau were making would end up holding her ring a couple of weeks later. But that was the holiday surprise, and only the first of the DIY touches that would celebrate their love. The bride opted to…
The slow down
The say that slow and steady wins the race. Over the next two weekends, Nova Scotia’s top culinary minds hope to prove it. First up is the Slow Food Spring Supper on May 4 at Christ Church in Dartmouth. Chefs Mark Gray, David Smart and Andrew Aitken are three of the nine chefs teaming up…
See the Light
Right now there’s a six-month wait list for the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s counselling program. “We’ve received a significant increase in the number of requests…as well as other service providers looking for educational resources,” says executive director Irene Smith, who attributes that mostly to the high profile Rehtaeh Parsons case. “Unfortunately, we don’t have the…
Tonic for a toxic affiliation
Q I am a 23-year-old straight male. My ex-girlfriend and I started dating in high school, when we were both 17, and continued dating until I broke up with her the summer after our freshman year in college because things felt too serious. We continued to have sex, but I blocked out all my feelings…
AA Wallace’s new nostalgia
After spending a day at work in front of the computer, AA Wallace comes home to his bedroom studio in the north end and, surrounded by a medley of machines, starts to play. Like any good armchair voyager into the deep space of the internet, Wallace realizes the escapist pastoral dream of weary office workers and…
Blackbird
Jason Buxton’s locally-made, festival darling finally comes to theatres in the earnest depiction of youth justice, Blackbird. Teenager Sean Randall is your typical outsider goth. When his friendship with local “puck bunny” Deanna (Alexia Fast) angers her jock boyfriend, Sean becomes the target of some vicious bullying. Pushed to his breaking point, he crafts an…
The look of love
The last thing Cindy Dean thought she’d find at a work event was her soulmate. But after an incredibly long day, through a sea of networking strangers, there was Graham Mann—looking right back at her. After falling fast and hard, the pair became an item, roommates and then—as they excitedly peeked into the windows of…
Phosphorescent
Phosphorescent, AKA Matthew Houck, has been releasing solid records of sun-soaked country-rock and ethereal folk hymns for the past ten years. With Muchacho, Houck touches on all of his greatest strengths—riffs, harmonies, sing-alongs, dirges—and the end result is his first front-to-back great album. From the heartbroken piano that graces “Terror in the Canyons (The Wounded…
Great vintage
It seems the vintage theme is everywhere lately. Why do you think it’s so popular now? This demographic is into green living—reuse, re-purpose, recycle. Undeniably it also has something to do with what they are watching—trailers for the Great Gatsby and Mad Men, Bomb Girls, Boardwalk Empire and Downton Abbey on TV are exposing more…
Shotgun Jimmie
Sackville, NB’s favourite adopted son travelled to Brandon, Manitoba to record these 16 tracks, average length two minutes 25 seconds, which entertain an admirable variety of notions. Some of the shorter tunes feel like demos that will likely be expanded upon later. “Growing Like a Garden” packs rhymes such as “alarming” and “farming” into a…
Season’s eatings
I’m having my wedding over the holidays. How can my food play off of traditional holiday food, but not be predictable or cheesy? The winter months are an exciting time to celebrate a wedding. Flavours should be warm and comforting and styled to the clients needs. In order to work the holidays into your wedding…
Low
The veteran trio from Minnesota enlisted Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to produce this new album of understated intensity. Where Low’s favored tempo is languid, a little uptick like “So Blue” maintains the glow over Steve Garrington’s staccato piano. Mimi Sparrow’s singing on “Holy Ghost” holds some enthralling notes, then eases into mimicking the ghost itself. Her…
Letters to the editor, May 2, 2013
Portland’s place There are so many good small businesses in Dartmouth, it must have been tough to choose the ones to include in Allison Saunders’ ShopTalk Guided Tour last week. My new favourite place was passed over: Cafe Brea on Portland Street, across from the Penhorn Terminal (i.e. lots of public transit service!). The owner…
Colin Stetson
What fun to have music to play for guests, guaranteed to evoke the response “What the hell is that?” followed by “shit!” or “It’s amazing!” Actually, New History Warfare Vol. 3 is at least as jolting as Vol. 2 and too frightening to be played in a restaurant. Pop fans’ only reference might be to…
My neighbours and I planted over 10,000 tulips
For the 20 years we have lived in our house on Tulip Street, we have only thought of that strip between the road and the sidewalk as a place to put our garbage for collection. It is a bit of hard sod that gets trampled down in the summer and torn up by the sidewalk snowplow in the winter. When the…
Building Stories
Building Stories is not a book. It’s an immense box filled with hardcover graphic novels, mini-comics and oversized newspaper comics that together tell the story of an apartment building and its inhabitants. I’m not an anarcho-primitivist, but I love that Building Stories is a physical art piece that can’t be read on an e-reader. Chris…
Young ones
It’s not every day you see hundreds of people dancing their hearts out to crazy electronic dance music in the middle of the afternoon. But on Sunday May 5, that’s exactly what will be happening at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth. For the second year in a row, Halifax’s biggest dance music record label,…
The Land of Decoration
“Faith is like imagination. It sees something where there is nothing.” Grace McCleen is an exquisite new author who comes from a fundamentalist religious background. This, combined with an English degree from Oxford, a keen eye for the childhood experience and a mastery of description—turning trash into one little girl’s paper-and-glue paradise—makes The Land of…
Maid with Love
LOVE ME KNOT Caitlyn Rose Jewellery’s pretty, sterling silver Infinity Knot ring makes a perfect friendship ring. It’s kind of like saying, “Ladies, you’ve got me wrapped around your finger.” $30 Seeds Gallery | 1099 Marginal Road, Suite 116, 429-8301 | caitlynrosejewellery.com LOVE NEST Vive Jewelery hand-makes this charming Robyn’s Bridal Bird’s Nest pendant using…
She bop
Venus Envy, Halifax’s favourite sex positive shop, is celebrating 15 years of business. To celebrate, on May 3, Venus Envy is throwing a party worthy of Bacchus himself. It’s hard to imagine a time before our beloved Venus Envy rose up from the seafoam on a half shell and took its familiar place on the…
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, etc.
DISCLAIMER: Do not read this book in public because you’ll look insane. Not just because you’re reading a book with the weirdest title ever, but you’ll be laughing so hard people will stare at you and clear their throats passive aggressively. The master storyteller and humourist returns with a new collection that never disappoints. From…
Feature presentation
Make that big kiss memorable with a flawless red lip. Meg Ryan (Bowtique Hair & Makeup, bowtiquehairandmakeup.com) kept model Melanie Klussmann’s peepers subtle so all eyes will be on her smile. When hunting for the perfect red, you’ll need to try a few different shades before you find your perfect match—the right one will make…
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! Taurus (APRIL 20 – MAY 20) Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area where a theatre troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on…
Roll Up the Rim A Novel
Roll Up the Rim tells the story of the good-hearted but down on his luck Owen and the misadventures that come into play while living a life below his capacity. Owen doesn’t know he’s the town genius, so he spends his time content working at Tim Hortons, obsessing over Roll Up the Rim and living…
Run for cover
There’s something really runway about a wedding gown with sleeves. Whether they’re elegantly long and lacy, dainty cap sleeves or somewhere in between, this wedding trend has made the switch from a modest choice to incredibly fashion forward. We’ve selected an array of options—from bohemian-esque three-quarter-length, to romantic, barely there short sleeves—for you to feast…
Solargraphs powered
Where is the sunlight in these gloomy days of spring? Lucas Dambergs manages to capture the rays of light in Solargraphs, a unique and mesmerizing exhibit. Dambergs documents one year of sunrises and sunsets through long exposure photographs. Using handmade pinhole cameras, a line appeared on the photo paper in the camera for each sunrise…
Here comes the sun
When it comes to true love, sometimes you just need a little patience. At least that was the case when Trimel Fidely followed good friend Liesel Castillo all the way here from Trinidad and Tobago for university. “By the end of our program, Trimel’s persistence and charm paid off and we were a couple,” says…
With a little help from their friends
When Jason Currie and Kyle Levesque met online in 2006, Kyle was the first guy Jason had ever spoken with online. When they finally met in person, it sealed the deal and five years later St. Pete Beach, Florida was the perfect place for a surprise proposal. In the heat of the moment, Jason’s excitement…
A classic case of murder
If I told you whodunit, you’d have to kill me, so let’s just say that Agatha Christie’s iconic murder mystery will keep you guessing till the very end. Bedford Players has chosen to stage The Mousetrap in its 30th anniversary year as a tip of the hat to the 60 years the play has been…
Weather or not
My wedding’s booked during the dead of winter. How concerned should I be about treacherous weather ruining the backdrop for my photos? Whenever we shoot winter weddings, I have to be honest, we hope and beg for snow to fall from the sky. We want snow. What better way to compliment the bare trees and…
See the Light
Right now there’s a six-month wait list for the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s counselling program. “We’ve received a significant increase in the number of requests…as well as other service providers looking for educational resources,” says executive director Irene Smith, who attributes that mostly to the high profile Rehtaeh Parsons case. “Unfortunately, we don’t have the…
Still Mine
It’s man versus bureaucracy in a stunning true tale from New Brunswick, Still Mine. Elderly farmer Craig Morrison (a dressed-down James Cromwell) just wants to build a small house for his Alzheimer’s stricken wife, the project offering a welcome usefulness in his autumn years. But building inspection officers begin to get in the way. First…
Let them Howl
Take in an interactive opera experience and check out Howl at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. Howl is definitely unlike any opera you’ve experienced before, with three 20-minute mini-operas all loosely based on the Allen Ginsberg poem of the same name. Soprano Janice Jackson sings the part of three worlds, which were individually written by three…
Roll Up the Rim A Novel
Roll Up the Rim tells the story of the good-hearted but down on his luck Owen and the misadventures that come into play while living a life below his capacity. Owen doesn’t know he’s the town genius, so he spends his time content working at Tim Hortons, obsessing over Roll Up the Rim and living…
Support
Name your price. ALWAYS keep your cards close to your chest-even with “friends”. Your price is your price. Try not to think out loud and give out too much information about how many people you are bringing with you, etc. That’s your business and the client will find out when you get there. Extra info…
Video of the day: COUSINS, “WHAT’S YOUR NAME?”
The video “WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” (from COUSINS’ upcoming LP The Halls Of Wickwire) evokes a lot of nostalgia, sweet summertime feelings of goofing off, causing a ruckus and getting a buzz on. Should you be shooting off fireworks willy-nilly in a bunker somewhere? Likely not, but you don’t own me, you’re not my real dad,…
Last chance for Fid
Those of you craving a tasty morsel or two from Fid Resto (1569 Dresden Row)—your days are officially numbered. The late hours of May 19 will mark the end of the locavore veteran that dazzled hungry Haligonians for 13 years, but until then hold back the tears in favour of eating great food. Here’s what…
Sustaining a crush
To a professor who stands above the rest: You are so handsome and sexy, and I love your devilish smile. Although I’d never say any of this to your face, or act on anything (as you’re not single!), it’d be nice to let you know that you’re very handsome and certainly capable of inspiring lingering…
HRM land transfer tax
I just paid over $3500 so a clerk at city hall could file a bill of sale into their computer system. The lawyer only charged me $600. A friend of mine, turned tail, and abandoned this province for brighter horizons. He paid $1200 to the lawyer, and a nomimal fee of $80 to transfer the…
Don’t honk at me
I am driving down Robie. It is a 2 lane road, I’m cruising down the right lane while the left lane is backed up due to uncontrol left turning traffic. All of a sudden, there is a painted arrow on the road that tells me that I have to turn and I only have about…
A rose
A few years ago there was a PSST referencing a lady who rode the ferry and read crime/suspense novels and wore, if I remember correctly, a red sweater or coat that the poster referred to as rose colored. I’ve always wondered if that was for me since I rode the ferry quite frequently at that…
All that Taz
Lucky you, Bedford, Taz Records is opening a second shop in your ‘hood. The pride and joy of Halifax’s music lovers and the local retail scene, representing tunes local and otherwise for over 25 years, Taz’s new location will boast the same reliable selection of vinyl, CDs and even more turntables than the downtown location,…
Halifax Jazz Festival 2013 line-up
Oh yes, it’s back. The Halifax Jazz Festival line-up has been announced for this summer and we can promise you, it’s absolutely incredible. With more than 90 acts for just over a week of shows, this is as good as it gets. Never an event to hold back, opening night starts out with the world…
Down the drain
Two grey haired wannabe’s out biking in the park…after you abandoned your famililies in search of your mid-life melt down lifestyle. I hope you know you have made a fool of yourself and the little dark one you think you are hangin with is walking you down the garden path. While you snicker thinking you…
