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To the lady with red hair in Lower Sackville. Thank you for your nice words and I’m sorry I almost made you miss your stop, but I must admit I am a smidge confused. You came up and touched my arm and told me that “it takes great courage.” Thank you again, but I didn’t…
Every day, I fall a little more in love with you. I never expected to, but once I noticed the feeling creeping in, I was powerless to stop it. I don’t think you feel the same, nor are either of us in the place to begin a new relationship, even if you did. Maybe, one…
To the beautiful soul I shared a drink with at the airport, a seat in the rocking chairs and all those beautiful moments in between. I may never see you again, but the imprint you had on me will stay with me always. I want to stay with you in that other world. —Rock Girl
Fuck you all inconsiderate asshole pedestrians who take their time traipsing the crosswalks. Your lazy asses may not be in any hurry to get to anywhere, but the people in the 10-deep lineup of cars waiting for you to cross the road certainly have somewhere to go. Also fuck you all inconsiderate and stupid bicyclists…
I was just walking across the street when a short little dweeb of a guy also crossing in the opposite direction passed me and said this rude comment: “You know it, Fatty!” I know what? Next time you try to disparage a girl, can you at least try to make sense? WTF, dude. You look…
Whether it is somebody saying “you people” in a context that appears discriminatory, or somebody seemingly making a broad generalization about hockey players being “bullies,” why is the immediate reaction of so many people in either of the instances to demand that offender to be removed from their chosen career or livelihood? I don’t agree…
Dancing to Fleetwood Mac, we chatted about your cool world tattoo and our love of the band and our mutual friend. Bass player is your cousin and I was rockin’ a moustache. Our moment was ruined by a drunk guy, and you had to leave. We should talk again. —Dancefloor Smitten
To the guy jay-walking in Spryfield with his dog on a cold and rainy night: That’s how you get hit, bro. I didn’t see you until the last second. Count your lucky stars that I did. And here’s a fun fact—you’re the one who’ll get the ticket, not me. A nice little added bit of…
The four-piece ambient, improvised music group New Hermitage has been melting brains and building mazes of sound since 2017. The basis of what unfolds before your ears and eyes onstage is a Ray Bradbury-sounding experiment, described in the band’s press release as follows: “New Hermitage imagines a future in which pollution has decimated the population of…
What if there have always been superheroes living among us? This is the proposal of Eastern Front Theatre and Zuppa Theatre’s latest show, Tiny. In an alternate, counterfactual reality, superheroes are very much real and have been ostracized and condemned throughout history. Tiny is set up as a museum exhibit, dedicated to telling the story…
The next-best-thing to a picture window on a big, blank wall in your bedroom might just be a woven tapestry from Allison Pinsent Baker. A multi-disciplinary artist based out of rugged Shad Bay, her one-of-a-kind works capture the coastlines, colour schemes and visceral vibes behind the landscapes people love to lose themselves in. Selling her…
Hannah Thomson shot her first Coast cover in 1995. She was fresh out of art school at Mount Allison University, back in her Halifax hometown and wondering what to do, exactly, with her photography education. But it was The Coast’s lucky break. Thomson brought a rare combination of talent, work ethic, artist’s eye and captivating…
The idea behind the taco is simple—protein, vegetables and condiments in a starch wrapper—but the results are spectacular. We hope the same will be said of Halifax Taco Week. In this event put on by The Coast, restaurants across the city are offerng a taco special from Thursday, November 14 to Wednesday, November 20, giving…
There are some nice moments in Martha Wilson’s collection of 16 short stories. She describes a child’s grandfather as “the silent presence” who communicated through his wife. She recounts how an elderly woman accessed a neglected memory of a family friend when a “pocket door in her mind slid back.” And she explains how, to…
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story to Nov 23, 7:30pm with matinees Sat-Sun at 2pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$60 If you suggest that Hannah Moscovitch is a genius within her earshot, she reacts like a cardiologist being told they’re a hero might: a short laugh, a humble gaze cast downward and a tidy,…
As we enter the colder seasons, creating a home that will weather the winter blues is on our minds. Luckily for us, the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark recently released a study all about home happiness. They asked their respondents to weigh in on two main questions: What makes a happy home, and how…
Up-and-coming interior decorator Maia LaPierre loves spending cozy evenings in front of the fireplace with her husband in their dusty pink living room. Filled with art, books and their record player, the room is missing an essential staple of typical living rooms: There’s no television. With the TV squared away in their small den, the…
Cameron sits in the warm restaurant, staring at their empty coffee cup. They fumble their hands in their pockets and leave a small pile of change next to the cold mug, then head out the door. Cameron pulls their jacket tight and makes the trek down snow-covered Spring Garden Road, looking for a refuge from…
Inefficient systems are everywhere. From crosswalks that switch sides of the street at each intersection, to third-floor apartments with heat so high the windows spend the entire winter wide open—while across the street a renter who pays for heat themselves puts on an extra sweater to save a buck. Providing the same, or better, services…
Just days after the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission delivered its landmark report on street checks last March, DeRico Symonds took to the streets. Despite the report’s finding that Black people in Halifax were six times more likely to be stopped by police than their representation in the population would suggest, and the Black community’s…
Exposing the truth I couldn’t help but notice a few letters to the editor that were well-laced with the usual Hasbara-peddled propaganda and the negative portrayal of the victimized Palestinians (letters collected under the headline “Good call, NDP,” Reply all, October 31). Allow me to respond with some factual information on the colonial cruelty committed…
Last month, 15 kids and teenagers filed a lawsuit against the federal government for putting their lives at risk through dangerous climate change. One of them was 15-year- old Ira Reinhart-Smith from Caledonia—almost two hours outside of Halifax, on the way to Kejimkujik National Park. “This is the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced,” says…
Q My boyfriend and I met online to explore our kinks. We’d both been in relationships with kink-shaming people who screwed with our heads. Since we weren’t thinking it was more than a hookup, we put all our baggage on the table early and wound up becoming friends. Eventually we realized we had a real…
Moonwake w/Elise Besler at Inventions 2019 Nov 15-17, 7pm Christ Church, 61 Dundas St, Dartmouth $15 Moonwake will make your spirit rise and fall like the tide when it performs with an orchestra and a choir. The band is slated to play November 15, 16 and 17 for Inventions, the annual musician-combining event put on…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO (October 23- November 21) Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbours the precise treasure you need…
