Saint Mary’s University frosh pushed into fake public sex
Saint Mary’s University orientation week, the backdrop for the infamous SMU rape chant, is home to even more sexual controversy. The university’s orientation week also introduced new students to their campus by having them act out sexual positions in front of their peers. Elizabeth MacKay, a third-year student studying psychology at the university, says one…
Kijidiots
Post your shit in the right f’ing place. If you’re looking for a job, post in “resumes”, not “jobs”. If you want to BUY something, put it in “want ads”. If you all of a sudden can’t take care of your pet because you didn’t plan for major life changes when you got them, (or…
Cafe Brea bows out
On the weekend Dartmouth fave Cafe Brea (530 Portland Street), announced via social media that after a-year-and-a-half in business it was closing up shop, permanently. Brea, a community-centric spot known for its quality espresso, fresh-baked treats and live music, also operated a coffee kiosk, the Lock Keeper Cafe, out of Shubie Park last summer. “I…
Local Car Dealership Lacking in Customer Service
I’m from Ontario. I recently bought a used car from a HRM dealership. Why? Because finding a 2013 car is a tough thing to do these days. The car was listed as having specific features. Turns out, it was falsely advertised. Did the sales person care to mention this during negotiations or delivery of the…
city people ?
Where to begin. Halifax, being a small city that is often quite easy going, has been filled with angry people this past week. To the bitchy woman at the parade of lights who got mad when my mother and i sat in front of her – other people exist in the world/I feel sorry for…
Old folks homes
I understand all of the problems associated with old folk homes. My question to all these loving families who obviously care so much is- Why don’t you keep them at home? To many diapers to change huh, not very pleasent. What about spoon feeding? Uhh Im much to busy for that. Get off your high…
The 2013 RANS award winners
Last night, the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia gathered the who’s who of foodies at Casino Nova Scotia to celebrate yet another year of greatness when it came to eating and drinking across the province. By the looks of the live tweets, it was a jolly good time. Check out 2013’s winners below, congrats to…
Stay gold, Big Pony
Emily Ross’ call to her longtime friend Lindsay Stewart for advice on getting involved with a co-op-style shop couldn’t have been timed more perfectly. As it turned out, Stewarts’ former co-op, Queen Street’s Second Storey, was closing, so instead of advice Ross got a likeminded business partner. Since then the pair’s had a whirlwind of…
Reading between the lonely
“…just take the perspective you get from being one person alone in one head and feel the effects of it./ Take silence and respect it.” The first incarnation of “How to Be Alone” was a collaborative video by two Haligonian artists: musician and former poet laureate Tanya Davis, and filmmaker/illustrator Andrea Dorfman. After the video…
Tunnel Vision
Before I met you all I did was work. I knew nothing else but what I had done my whole life, which was work. You could say that all I knew was work and had a bad case of tunnel vision. But then we met and that all changed, but alas it was for a…
Morning Love
Opening the slide door, taking a deep breathe, stepping onto the balcony … before me is Halifax harbour, i hear the morning traffic sounds. Unfolding my little mat, I feel a little chilly … I wait for the sensation to diminish, then pass away. Everything is just like this. Sitting in half-lotus position, I feel…
WHATEVER
SO, LIKE, WHEN WILL HALIFAX SHOW A WORTHWHILE EXHIBIT? WHERE IS THE INSTALLATION OPENING OF JESSICA STOCKHOLDER? OR A PERFORMANCE BY ADRIAN PIPER? I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN THE HALIFAX (HRM) GALLERIES…IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY. I EITHER FIND THE SHOWS LOW GRADE, OFFENSIVE, AFRAID AND JUST PLAIN DEAD ART. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. LOVELY AS…
To be a prick or not to be
Your waste basket at work is disgusting. I see banana peels that belong in the compost bin. I see grocery bags that belong in the recyclables. I even see empty pop cans that could go to charity. I feel like dumping it on your desk every time you turn your back until you get the…
Butt Out
Yep, I saw you throwing that cigarette butt out the window on the Macdonald bridge. It blew into my car and when I pulled over my baby’s blank – just milimeters away from my babies arm. I got your license plate. Say hello to Officer Getinyourface. He will be paying you a visit. I hope…
Joke’s on you
You think I stopped seeing you because I didn’t think I was good enough for you? People don’t dump people because they don’t think their good enough, it’s because they can do better then the person they dumped! Your too good for me? Bahaha I’m the one with a girlfriend while your still single. Ya…
Feelings, Oh the feelings
So what is real. Is it what we can taste, smell, touch and or feel? Is there honestly anyway for us to know or find out? Or is everything that we do predefined as some say as genetics, it is in our genes to be who we are and or what we do!. For me…
Juice Fuckers
You stupid mother fuckers I know and we all know you changed the size of a cartoon of fuckin juice. Fuck you! You already fuck my in the ass on milk my, now this shit! Fuck you all again. We can read and know that 1.75L was used to be 2L. Put that shit on…
goodness
To a supremely lovely lady who works front desk at a certain government services building..always so beautifully color-coordinated and shining from the inside out, I want to tell you, you are a beacon of Light in that place! My experience has not always been easy there, many times I’ve left in tears, I’ve had to…
Nursing home
I am currently doing a placement at a long term care facility andddd I can tell you its as bad as it looks on the outside….I hate it(Dave Chappelle’s Tupac voice) —JC
I hope it worked
I’m going to make the perhaps radical argument that the same sort of entitlement you feel toward my time, energy and self-esteem in catcalling me out of a car is on a spectrum with the same entitlement felt by rapists to the bodies of others. Anyway I figure if I subject such people to a…
Gingerbabies
Gingers are dang cute. Let’s be real. Check the fridge in your gingycrush’s family home for some adorable kid pics. Hi Cheeto Puff! Hi little dino! —nordnordend
The Maid’s Tragedy
MJ Photographics Tragic maids Holly Arsenault and Maggie Hammel The Maid’s Tragedy is both an interesting exploration of the social role of women in 17th century European society and a real potboiler of a Jacobean soap opera. It’s the story of Amintor (Ira Henderson), a man who jilts his betrothed Aspatia (Holly Arsenault) in favour…
gratitude
love you! —me
On the Joe Howe trail
To the guy that wanted to talk about ruffled grouse, vintage bicycles and programming apps for Android, thank you. You made my day. —WWSD
Etiquette for the common Juice Monkey
Well, welcome one and all to the newly-opened gym, sorry, “Personal Fitness Centre.” Looks great, but I’d like to take a leap of faith on the literacy front and ask a couple of q’s to the steroid-friendly crowd (a.k.a. Juice Monkeys) who have managed to find their way unassisted all the way down from that…
dear coffee joint lady with sniffles wiping her nose with her hands
I can’t believe you came to work like that and actually think it is OK to be making food for people. And you had the nerve to get your back up with me when I politely decided to forgo my sandwich because you were obviously ill, yet you told me it would be you who…
A love letter
To my grizzly bear: We have been married nearly half a year now and without a doubt we have gone through nearly hell and back to get where we are today, but if I had to do it all over I would not change a single thing, because the obstacles we faced together have gotten…
Not getting better
Five times is enough. The sex was lousy the first time, but four more times later it’s still not any better. Gonna cut ties with you now. —NSA Man
Be my friend
you all seem like the coolest people in Halifax- I wish I was friends with every single one of you. This goes out to everyone that works in my favourite yellow house coffee shop in the South End. I wish you all thought I was the coolest too so I could be a part of…
I miss you my beloved Darkside
I only got to live in you for 16 months, some of the hardest times in my life, but also the most amazing times in my life, I Thank You Dartmouth, you were an amazing place to live, the people who live within you are incredible for the most part, the bus drivers that ply…
Thinking of you all
I just wanted to drop a line to the staff of a downtown Store that I used to clean,I had to leave just shy of my Five Year Anniversary do to an Injury,You People are fantastic and I miss you all greatly,When I found out for sure that I couldn’t come back I realized that…
Pitbulls keep on biting
I sent in a complaint months ago about this very aggresive bred of dogs. Since I wrote that there have been more attacks from this beasts than I can recall. here’s the stats for those silly people that defend them. pit bulls are responsible for about 60 percent of dog attack fatalities each year, which…
To the girl with the amazing boots
I dropped my gloves and you ran behind me to give them back, the buckle of your tall Docs jangling. God you were so beautiful on Agricola and Young. I hope I see you again so I can give you my number —LDK
Why?
Why do you do that to yourself? Why do you continue to keep going back to someone who uses and abuses you? Plays with your heart and soul….makes you feel like you aren’t worthy of love…….Why can’t people just break-up and move on anymore? Why do you have to keep ripping open a wound and…
Black Sabbath at the Metro Centre April 3
Just like the headline says, the men of Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Tony and Geezer are going to be sniffing lines of ants all over this piece (the Halifax Metro Centre) April 3. This makes me feel very very like this: Here is your ticket info, get on it. Tickets for the Halifax show go on…
Council switches to biweekly meeting schedule
Halifax council voted 10-7 Tuesday to forgo its traditional weekly meeting schedule, and to instead to switch to meetings every other week. The change comes as a result of two processes that has reduced the number of items coming to regional council. The first is CAO Richard Butts’ determination to reduce the number of “politically…
Grey seals are scapegoated, says researcher
The grey seal is a political and social scapegoat, a convenient distraction from tackling the hard issues facing Canada’s fisheries, says award-winning journalist Linda Pannozzo. She details that argument in her new book, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Investigation into the Scapegoating of Canada’s Grey Seal. Pannozzo began studying the seal issue…
Community groups submit proposal for St. Pat’s-Alexandra
It’s round two for three non-profits given a second chance. Tuesday was the deadline for the groups to submit a proposal for the former St. Pat’s-Alexandra school property. About 30 people attended a meeting last week to hear about the bid. If council votes in favour of the proposal, the building would become a hub…
On the road
Winnipeg folk poet Jenny Berkel pulls no punches with her newest video for “Like a Rope.” She is trying to break your heart. Animated by Karsten Wall, the video features a beautiful and sad interpretation of Berkel’s heart-rending lyrics. Just try not to mist up. “When I wrote this song, a number of my dearest…
Clown town
Most people wear masks but not every veneer is for hiding behind. Fair of face and red of nose, a clown’s disguise is not to conceal emotion, but to uncover it–disarming our everyday masks. Clowns are surrounded by a stigma of fear and uneasiness. It only takes one unprofessional Santa Claus to instill a deep…
“We’re here to kill our friends”
The Viking buckles under the weight of his armour, stunted by a fast blow to the thigh; his opponent, the Roman, also drops to his knees. The fight is now fair. Shields crash together, swords slice the air and lords in waiting cheer the victor: the nobility of the Barony of Ruantallan battle one-on-one for…
Book smart
“Even now, I feel like I’m speaking in a bit of a hushed tone,” Veronica Simmonds murmurs from inside her wooden cubbyhole. Tucked away in the Spring Garden Road Memorial Public Library’s stacks, the booth is where Simmonds has been talking with patrons, recording their memories of the soon-to-be-vacated building. Despite all the chatter, so…
Cask and you shall recieve
If you haven’t purchased a ticket for the sold-out Ladies’ Beer League Cask Beer Fest, reading this is the closest you’re going to get. Open to all genders, the first annual festival of real ale is being held this Sunday, November 17, in two sessions at the Stubborn Goat Gastropub. But first things first: what’s…
Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Scorpio! (october 23-november 21) Sweetness is good. Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t flourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need…
Don’t slut-shame yourself
Q Why am I such a slut? –Girl, Corrupted A Are you a slut? Or are you a woman who loves sex, has a high libido and has consensual sex with a lot of willing and grateful partners? Those are all traits for which culture wouldn’t conspire to leave you feeling conflicted or compelled to…
Letters to the editor, November 14, 2013
Public art dismay I was dismayed by Jane Kansas’s op-ed rant about “North is Freedom,” a public sculpture created by Doug Bamford, and installed in Halifax (“The monument at the north end library is a mess,” Voice of the City, November 7). She chose to write a violent, unfocused, art-hating diatribe instead of making the…
City’s sidewalk shovelling sucks
If you walk in Halifax in winter, you’ve noticed the difference in sidewalk clearance on side streets compared to arteries. Until this winter, sidewalk snow-removal on side streets has been the responsibility of property owners. That’s why you’d find that the sidewalks in front of most houses were cleared reasonably well, and fairly quickly after…
The Best Man Holiday
It’s been 14 years since 1999’s The Best Man, but Christmas sequel The Best Man Holiday proves worth the wait. Original writer and director Malcolm D. Lee reunites his cast, featuring Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Sanaa Lathan and Terrence Howard, for a glitzy holiday weekend of secrets, surprises and sex. An…
Diana
Whether Diana was an angelic humanitarian, or an aristocratic celebutante, her memory deserves better than scattershot biopic, Diana. Focusing on the last two years of the Princess of Wales’ life, director Oliver Hirshbiegel looks at a Diana (Naomi Watts, caricaturing) preparing to divorce Prince Charles and emerge as a global figure in land mine eradication.…
Give thanks
Clockwise from top: When a simple thank you is not enough by The Hungry Workshop, Inkwell Boutique, inkwellboutique.ca | Sarah Phelps helps you slather on the honey, sarahphelpscreative.com | Tie it up with ribbon by Papillon Press, Duly Noted Stationery, dulynoted.ca Clockwise from top: Show how much you heart them with a postcard hand drawn…
Night Out to remember
Let’s just break it down for a minute: If you like hip-hop and/or rap music, you have no reason to miss Weirdo Click, Jay Mayne, Alfie and Cam Smith at The Company House on Tuesday. That’s what it is. Presented by the NSCC and Fresh Goods Apparel, Night Out showcases some of the best rap…
Geoff Berner’s Festival circuit
Any attempt to describe Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Geoff Berner invariably ends up sounding like it was composed using a fridge-magnet poetry set made up of discarded Canada Council grant applications. Political Klezmer-punk troubadour? Jewish-Canadian firebrand poet? Incendiary accordion-toting folkie? Oh dear. This October, the task became even more difficult, with the release of Festival Man, Berner’s…
Makeup: Kiss and makeup
Do you have any tips for keeping makeup sweat-proof, cry-proof and long-lasting on the big day? There are a variety of long-lasting lipsticks available. MAC has great colours—this is the brand I always go with. Applying a little bit of gloss over your long-lasting lipstick keeps it looking fresh all night. Having beautiful lips keeps…
Blue heaven
“I think it’s one of the traditions that people still follow,” says Remedy Spa’s Ashley Wittenberg, pointing out the recent trend of brides incorporating bold nails into their wedding look as “something blue.” She recommends getting your manicure as close as possible to the big day, to avoid chipping and scratching. And for those of…
