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[Image-1] To the bus driver on Barrington st. Thursday morning… You know who you are. You know who I am and yes, I flipped you off. Don’t look so shocked. Hell, I’d have done it twice if my other hand wasn’t full. You saw me running to catch you. I saw you. If we looked…
I am so disgusted with pretty much everybody’s response to this recent tragedy in Paris. The ONLY appropriate sentiment or statement to make at this time is one of condolence and solidarity with the victims and their loved ones. I don’t want to hear you spin this to push your political or personal narrative, WHETHER…
[Image-1] Stop asking for a “different pack without the tongue on it.” It’s annoying as fuck. Get over it. You don’t need to sit and stare at the package, so who cares what’s on it? Plus—you smoke! Welcome to the potential reality of smoking. Don’t like it, don’t wanna see it? Stop smoking or just…
It has been a year and a half since our break-up. You; overweight, pale, sullen looking and still working the same lame job you wanted to leave so badly so you could make all these “positive changes.” You still chronically smoke weed and have stayed in the same dead-end job. This is a bitch, but…
Sick and tired of all the hate and fear towards the poor Syrian refugees. What the heck is wrong with our citizens? Are you that devoid of compassion that you can turn your back on the suffering of people who have lost everything? I’m sickened and disheartened by the ignorance and fear demonstrated by people…
[Image-1] It’s coming up on a year since I found out I was going to be making a decision I couldn’t undo. It’s really only been in the past few months that I’ve recovered from it. And a little love to self feels appropriate. Sometimes I imagine what my life would be like had I…
Last week at the reachAbility Association, the BluenoseAbility Film Festival announced the winners and finalists of the BAFF awards and shortlists in the region’s first disability film festival. From December 3 to 5, BAFF will show films that encourage participation of persons with disabilities, celebrating the unique contributions of the disability arts and culture movement. The…
I want to thank you for finally quitting. You never worked a full day from the day you started on the floor after training. The way you spoke to Customers was Disgusting. Stay out of the Customer Service industry. You need to become a real man act your age (49) Better yet GROW some. The…
[Image-1] Here’s some love for the girl waltzing gracefully down Young Avenue tonight! I was having a stressful evening, and you reminded me that sometimes dancing makes it all better. —Girl on the bicycle
[Image-1] I would like to remind all drivers to watch out for pedestrians. Do your shoulder checks, make sure that you are not blocking the entire sidewalk. In your car you are BIG, and you have a shell of protection around your body. As a walker I am SMALL, and if you so much as…
What do you get for the special raver in your life that has everything? Just in time for the holidays, Halifax photographer Chris Smith has put together seven years of his favourite Evolve photos. The beautiful photobook is available for pre-order in both hardcover and softcover editions, and you can look through a glorious full preview on the sale site. …
[Image-1] Please stop playing Sonny’s Dream. Ron Hynes Rip. —treacle downer
You know what pisses me off? These stupid people that fear and want to stop bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees into Canada, do you honestly think they are not going to be closely watched? Do you think they are coming with belt bombs and AK47’s? Why do you even fear terrorists? Is that not giving…
[Image-1] Yo, FG. Fuck you and your coffee whore. Guess I should start saving my money. —Why wait? Just go.
“Weed is way more than just weed,” says Tristan Williams, the subject of a new short doc on the ‘undeniable benefits’ of medicinal marijuana by Abandoned Spirt House Films, founded in Halifax a few years ago by King’s College grads Roland Eksteins and Nicolas Bergeron. Both Eksteins and Bergeron are currently videographers in residence at The Banff…
“My drink? It’s Redbull, vodka, topped with a bit of orange juice and a bunch of limes,” says Tommy Kruise. I ask him what he calls it. He looks at his whiskey glass: “I call it … the piss.” For the next 20 minutes in the ‘green room’ of The Seahorse (mostly a storage closet…
[Image-1] Because people are the worst, ignorance and intolerance remain dangerous realities for many Canadian Muslims. The recent attacks in Paris have ignited new outbursts of islamophobia in Canada and on your friends’ Facebook timelines. Since this is all unfortunately still a thing, members of the Halifax Muslim community are taking it upon themselves to…
In case you missed it (#ICYMI), here are some pretty great recently released tracks from local musicians and bands for your listening pleasure on this goddamn beautiful day. Have a listen! ♥ * Loveland – “Aloe Hotel” Soft funk Halifax five-piece Loveland is killing the love-making music. Robert Loveless is a soul-singer incarnate. This one is for…
[Image-1] For Danica, childhood wasn’t a happy time—not even during the holidays. “I had a mother that was very physical with me,” recalls Danica. “She would throw me down the stairs.” For just over six months, Danica (not her real name) has been staying at The Marguerite Centre in Timberlea. The centre is a shelter…
[Image-1] The news that Pete’s Fine Foods has been purchased by Sobeys is a good reminder that the state of food sovereignty in Halifax—and beyond—is rather troubling. [IMage-2] Food sovereignty is not only about one’s direct access to food. Whether people have adequate amounts of food at any one time is better described by the…
[Image-1] “It was fucking brutal.” Justine MacPhee doesn’t hold back when talking about her past bedbug infestation. The 24-year-old Haligonian is still trying to climb back up from the financial and psychological damage. “How shitty it was having to wash and dry on high heat, which destroyed a lot of my clothing,” she says. “I…
Caitlin Coo for KaidaIn Ivy “Last year I just had my unicorn horns showcased, and now just the single accessory has evolved into outfits,” says Caitlin Coo, otherwise known as Kaidain Ivy, who’ll debut her solo collection “Behind the Ivy and Barbed Wired” at AFW’s Glitz, Glam & Fashion (Saturday, 9pm). Coo’s latest projects are…
This month has brought two journalism movies, one a thudding misfire and the other a thrill. The former is Truth, a ham-fisted telling of the chain of events at CBS News that got Dan Rather fired. (Rather unfortunately, it contains a top-notch Cate Blanchett performance very much worth seeing.) The latter is this week’s entry, Spotlight, about the Boston Globe’s…
Catherine Hardwicke announced herself as a production designer-turned-director with 2003’s thirteen, starring Evan Rachel Wood as a teen out of control and Holly Hunter, in an Academy Award-nominated performance, as her alcoholic mom. It was scrappy, authentic and a tough watch. A few films down the line found her at the helm of Twilight, a…
A darling of the fall festival circuit, the Irish-Canadian co-pro Room is worthy of every accolade piled atop its scrappy, sensitive shoulders. Based on Emma Donoghue’s novel, it stars Brie Larson as a woman who was abducted as a teenager and kept in a 10-by-10 shed as a sex slave. This situation has produced a…
WHO HE IS Halifax singer-songwriter Ben Caplan is back for two 10-song concerts with Symphony Nova Scotia this weekend. He performed three songs with the symphony in 2012, “and it just whet my appetite,” he says. “This feels way more substantial.” It’s a rare occasion to see Caplan in town, so we caught up with…
“This festival is a cool thing to be part of because everything to do with it is local,” says Mike Ryan, vocalist/guitarist of The Town Heroes. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the band’s label, Groundswell Music, is putting on one heck of a festival. “The music, the food, the beer, wine and cider, it’s all…
Thanks to a play that has never been seen, Halifax’s theatre community has been called upon to take a hard look at how it can move towards cultural sensitivity and inclusivity in its theatres. Roy Ellis’ Black Dragon Mountain incited an impassioned discussion on social media when promotional materials went out showing non-Chinese actors in…
Of the 140 characters you’ll find on King Street at any given time, Fran Hiscock is the queen, the living jewel in the crown of downtown Dartmouth’s food community. Fran Hiscock is Fran’s Fish and Chips. For nine years, Fran’s has been parked in downtown Dartmouth, between Portland and Queen, fragrant steam puffing out of…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21) Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women.…
The rights stuff Although diversity in racial/ethnic composition seems to be the mantra of the day, at least in Canada, an article title like “Nova Scotia is still far too white” by Michael Lightstone seems racist to me (The City story, November 12). Apparently it is OK to say that ethnic majority numbers should be reduced…
Q I’ve always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive. Early in our relationship, we…
