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I never thought I’d meet anyone that I loved like I loved her. I thought that the days of butterflies were long behind me. Never did I expect for you to be the one I wanted to stay up with late at night. Wake up beside. And kiss every day for the rest of my…
Hey The Coast. Good job having two articles talking about addiction followed immediately by an article about a new drinking hole. Do you realize that alcohol is the biggest addiction issue in Nova Scotia? —Lame Game
To the older gentleman who decided to yell and beep at me, driving disturbingly close to me in your ill-timed attempt to turn left as I crossed the street at the Young/Robie intersection Sunday afternoon. I refuse to move through the world without publicly voicing that you are in fact the one who is lacking…
I want to shout out the driver of the 3 who always stops for people when they’re running to catch his bus. You’ve saved my roommate and I from being late for work numerous times, and I’m sure there are others who can say the same! In all my years of being a Halifax Transit…
2019 is almost over. Don’t you want to fulfill your resolution? Tell me bad jokes and I’ll kill your spiders. —Blueberry
Hey, neighbour (or visitor): The loud and annoying alarm on your precious vehicle, parked in downtown Dartmouth somewhere near the King’s Wharf area, started blasting at various intervals shortly after 6pm on Sunday and continued at least through 6am Monday. This is a district in which shift workers, health-care staffers, students, the elderly and people…
Hello person who made a Bitch about pedestrians and cyclists being slow or inconsiderate. It is I, a pedestrian and cyclist! I think you should know that any time a car is flying towards a crosswalk I do take my time. I do because my body is more vulnerable than your car. Stop coming to…
I’ve been seriously looking for a somewhat affordable apartment (an impossible task even going way out of my budget) and wanna say a BIG FUCK YOU to every landlord who puts up a December 1st apartment ONE OR TWOS WEEKS away from that date. You know people have to put a notice in, right? If…
Could the mustachioed fellow who has the morning shift at the Alderney Ferry booth be any more awesome? Always smiling, always kind—he is an amazing ambassador for Halifax Transit. Now, to take his amazingness over the top, he has constructed a festive, functional model of the ferries crossing the harbour. Your smiles and your costumes…
It’s official… The new bus routes make commuting less convenient and were obviously thought up by people who don’t depend on buses. —Bad Mood Every Morning
In 2014, John spent the Christmas holidays alone, curled up in a ball on his bed. He’d run through his monthly opioid prescription in the first 12 days of December—like he’d done every month for the last two years of his life—and had to wait until the new year before he could go back to…
Rage Room Halifax 2820 Isleville Street rageroomhalifax.ca WHAT HE DOES Terry LeBlanc has become desensitized to the sound of breaking glass. “I love seeing people genuinely happy!” he shouts over the sound of a computer monitor in the next room being obliterated by a golf club. Perhaps it’s odd to associate happiness with a place…
Q I’m a 40-something gay male professor at a small college. I try hard not to get attracted to students, and usually succeed. But it’s tough to resist when you’re surrounded by hot, smart, horny young guys in a rural area. Over the years, I’ve ended up having sex with several students. None of them…
Reporting the voiceless: Mainstreaming stories from the margins with Patricia Evangelista Friday, November 22, noon-1:30 KTS Lecture Hall, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Road Patricia Evangelista provides a platform for the stories and voices that aren’t typically heard in the media. The Manila-based multimedia journalist for the online news publication Rappler, has worked in…
A few dozen residents turned up for a Tuesday evening town hall discussion on accessibility in HRM at Cole Harbour Place. The Advisory Committee on Accessibility town hall panel included representatives from Halifax’s winter operations and recreation teams, 311 contact centres and more. Attendees made a point of discussing the state of Halifax’s accessible transit…
Working Women (2018) Hebrew w/English subtitles Nov 21, 7pm, Cineplex Park Lane In her first feature-length fiction film Invisible (2011), director Michal Aviad explored the longterm effects of stranger rape. In her most recent film, the feminist filmmaker tackles the immediate consequences of a kind of sexual violence that is less definite and more diffused.…
Chasin’ The Sun: A Tribute to Judee Sill Sat, Nov 23, 8pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street $20 O n the 40th anniversary of her death, Halifax musicians will gather at the Art Bar to celebrate the life and music of Judee Sill. Part of the class of long-haired 1970s singer-songwriters, Sill wrote…
Dinuk Wijeratne Trio Fri Nov 22, 7:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $15-$35 P ianist-conductor-composer-genre-obliterating Dinuk Wijeratne returns to Halifax this weekend for a trio concert at the Paul O’Regan Hall. Wijeratne will be joined by jazz drummer and world percussionist Nick Halley and jazz artist Tom Easley on bass.…
Sometimes, when you’re talking about addictions recovery, you hear of the need to do a 180 degree turn to change one’s life. In my case, it was a deeply-rooted 360 spin. I was born in Halifax and spent the majority of my childhood and teens there. I graduated from St. Patrick’s High School in 2001.…
Hell or high water “The scientific evidence that those properties are more at risk…is there, but the desire to be on the waterfront still exists,” says realty expert Baird Allen (in Nicoletta Dina’s “Harbour rising,” October 31, 2019). “That mindset hasn’t changed yet and it’s debatable when and whether it really will at some point…
The Stillwell Freehouse 2534 Agricola Street How do you build a new pub? That was the question that challenged Laura MacDonald, Chris Reynolds and Andrew Connell when they started planning what would be the third member of the Stillwell beer bar family over a year ago. With the same beer-forward philosophy they’ve pushed forward with…
Loud Luxury w/Neon Dreams, Fama, Karate Kactus Tue, Nov 26, 7pm Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road $41.50-$52.50 This has been more than just a coming out year for Halifax’s Neon Dreams. After 2019 witnessed the release of the band’s debut full-length album (that’d be the long-awaited Sweet Dreams Till Sundown) hits like “High School Dropout,”…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) Sagittarian performance artist Marina Abramovic observes that Muhammad, Buddha, Jesus and Moses “all went to the desert as nobodies and came back as somebodies.” She herself spent a year in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert near Lake Disappointment, leading her to exclaim that the desert is “the most incredible…
