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[Image-1] Friday, November 14 was icy, snowy and miserable. Outside Shubenacadie I went into a spin and landed in the median with my car un-drivable. You came over and lead me across the highway to wait in your warm company and vehicle. Then you drove me to Dartmouth Crossing, where family met me. Generous, lovely people…
I was the clumsy lady with her son, in front of a hair salon downtown, and I smashed my knee pretty hard. Two men were very helpful and kind. One was an employee or the owner of said salon, the other just a random guy. I had the chance to thank the salon guy profusely,…
[Image-1] Buy Local? LOL. I make $60K a year and can barely afford to buy electricity and water for my 2 BR. Fuck off with buy local – maybe concentrate your efforts on raising the standard of living around here so that people can actually affford to support you as opposed to asking them to…
To the health care provider with the piercing on you nape; you are a gorgeous human being. —Hoping our paths cross again
[Image-1] Thanks for always being an awesome… 🙂 Its been almost two years and I still give you goosebumps. And you are also there to support me through rough times. I need you always. Love you forever. —Love Bo
[Image-1] I get so tired of people bitching about rent hikes! I am a landlord who has to pay utilities and taxes on my property. If they go up, I have to download costs to my tenants. I know there are unethical landlords, but there are a lot of good ones as well. I suppose…
I am assuming “Tinder” is not your last name; meaning, my husband met you on Tinder and wasn’t smart enough to save you under a different name. I just wanted to let you know, you’re talking to a married man (I am not confident if you met him in person or not). PS; your new…
[Image-1] I am tired of intolerant and ignorant white people in this city who constantly ask me where I am from because I am a visible minority. God dammit, I’m from Halifax! My name may not be Jeff, Shane or some other WASP name, but I am as “Canadian” as you are (whatever that means).…
I just got engaged. Excited, I showed people my beautiful ring. Everyone else was so happy for me. But when I showed it to you, you say in a snotty tone “Oh, look! Now you’re a whole person!” and walked away. Um, how rude?! That is not something you say to someone who is just…
To the girl that loves the bass player in the Love section: It must seem wonderful right now but please be careful. If you already feel like someone is playing you, it is because it is the start of a vicious cycle that will end with you being screamed at and emotionally and verbally abused…
[Image-1 Four am, “Sunday morning” (we all know it was still Saturday night), you (guy) were walking down Preston Street and I (girl) had just pulled up to my house. I got out of my car despite the looming possibility of rape since I was tired and had my keys in hand to defend myself…
‘Tis the season to go shopping, listen to crappy music, navigate an endless list of frosty fun times, over-do it on the egg nog lattes, wish for snow to fall and then curse it as soon as it arrives. We’ve got the answers to all of these seasonal struggles—plus a special look at the local…
[Image-1] “It’s amazing the number of tree lightings, parades, Christmas events happening.” —mayor Mike Savage “I had a voicemail, Mr. Mayor, that could be perceived as from the ’40s or ’50s in terms of lack of respect for immigration.” —Councillor Bill Karsten “Have we heard from anybody on the right side? Only the left part…
Brandt Eisner, owner of Swoon—Fine Art & Antiques, recently made the tough decision to leave the charming Victorian farmhouse at 1410 Hammonds Plains Road. Eisner says sales have been down, his lease was ending and the owners were not properly maintaining the building. “I spent at least a year and a half looking for a…
[Image-1] Eastern Canada’s first on-campus Bitcoin ATM will power-on this evening in Dalhousie’s Student Union buiilding. The student union is partnering with Canadian virtual currency exchange CAVIRTEX to present the new machine in a ribbon-cutting event and documentary screening. It will be the first two-way Bitcoin ATM on a Canadian campus. Bitcoin is the crypto-currency…
To the girl who sat two seats away from me, during training last month. I cannot get you out of my mind. You may or may not have noticed how drawn to you I was, but I hope you did because my mind is dwelling on your face. —From the girl two seats away
I hate it when it gets warm when I’m at work. Just doesn’t taste as good as when its cold. —dartmouthy
This is to the asshole who pulled my clothes out of the dryer just 10 minutes after it finished drying. I was about to go in there the minute it finished to put it on for another 20 minutes because the dryers in this building suck, but I got distracted and needed to take an…
[Image-1] Ok, your art project is done, the swings are not being used anymore. Please take them down. They didn’t even work all that well as swings, with the ropes being of uneven length, the swinging was all wobbly, and I did not enjoy them. —Babette
[Image-1] Terrible song with apt lyrics: ‘I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams.’ There’s a different song about a delivery on a street. No, not pizza, and no utensils required. A great song, and also quite apt. Another question: what rhymes with boulevard? Something apt. I’m not shy, but I may…
It has become quite difficult to have to be around you all the time. Everyone treads on eggshells so as to not throw you into a fit. You have been allotted time off when no one was supposed to have time off. You have been given special treatment on many occasions that those with seniority…
[Image-1] Hey Pizza lovers. It’s really hard to find your house at night when you use black numbers on dark colored siding or paint. I really really want to get your pie there hot and on time, but it’s so hard to do when I can’t easily see your house number. Oh and tell your…
Thanks bitch for wasting my time sending you various emails regarding your Christmas ornaments you have for sale. I wanted the vintage ones which you were planning to sell me only. Which was what your ad showed. I don’t care about your tacky beaded crap that you tried to pawn off on to me. That…
Constable Blair Hickey, himself pulled over last week for drunk driving, once charged a suspected impaired driver for refusing a breathalyzer test even though the man asked for another chance. Blair William Hickey, a 22-year veteran with the HRP, was arrested last week by the New Minas RCMP. The off-duty constable was pulled over on…
It’s fitting that when I catch Stephanie Bertossi on the phone she’s at The Bicycle Thief with her husband and business partner of 30 years, Maurizio Bertossi, putting the finishing touches on the restaurant’s Fire & Ice bar, which will launch this Friday. Even today, after announcing that they’re selling all four of their successful…
[Image-1] It’s maybe less newsworthy than their other efforts this month to name names, but reporter bylines are back at The Chronicle Herald. For all of November, journalists had pulled their names from the Herald’s stories in protest of sweeping newsroom layoffs announced on Halloween. [Image-2] Originally, 20 reporters, editors and photographers were set to…
What a nightmare trying to find out what is going on in Halifax now. Scrolling online just doesn’t have the quick accessibility when you want to decide on a day what you want to do in the evening. If it’s good enough for “The New Yorker” why not for “The Coast?” Being told what is…
[Image-1] Get off the phone while driving I see you daily in the white Lexus SUV Holding up your phone for all to see. You tap and text like no one’s around Oblivious to the all that surrounds Your truck, it swerves when you answer a call I saw it just now, in front of…
[Image-1] I used to love it. then I just liked it. Now that there are stupid pictures randomly strewn about I hate it. —just coasting along being a bitch
Thank you for the Love submission:) It put a smile on my face:) It was great talking with you after the concert, my mom and I had a great time! You are hilarious. Thank you for sharing your stories and being so kind. I know Halifax will treat you well. Good luck with your work…
[Image-1] Hey bro – I guess you didn’t like the fact that I switched from the left lane to the right lane in front of you Sunday night on Joe Howe Dr., so you honked your horn at me and made the veins in your neck stick out. But you were doing about 65 km/h…
Theresa Lee Capell’s line of nature-inspired jewellery and accessories, Foxine, could have been plucked from a fairytale—her pieces are romantic and woodsy with just the right amount of grandeur, using repurposed materials like bark, leather and pinecones. Last weekend she was plunked into her own fairytale, showing off her line in the gift lounge at…
[Image-1] Staffing troubles have fired up at the Nova Scotia Community College’s IT campus, and it’s the students who may end up burned. According to students, instructor David Jellicoe, faculty at the Leeds Street Institute of Technology, has been let go by administrators for copying his lessons wholesale from online sources. Jellicoe was up until…
[Image-1] “Have you hugged a straight person today?” That was the announcement students heard at Millwood High as the school kicked off its first ever “straight pride month.” The first of its kind event at the school is the creation of the Millwood High gay straight alliance. The 20-person group is trying to encourage other…
[Image-1] It snuck up on me this year. Normally I get warnings before it begins, but it was over a week into it before it struck me. It was during Remembrance Day; a solemn, dignified day that was ruined once I scanned the crowd at Grand Parade. A lot of the male-identified patrons of the…
[Image-1] Nova Scotia has the highest provincial child poverty rates in Atlantic Canada. In Cape Breton, one in three kids are living below the poverty line. Those are some of the findings in this year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Acadia University professor…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician who is sometimes called “the father of modern science.” He expressed his innovative ideas so vigourously that he offended the Catholic church, which convicted him of heresy. For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought. And yet Galileo…
To celebrate the first night of the magical, sci-fi, horror, experimental and straight up strange film festival in Halifax, Outlier Film Festival, (Nov 27 to 29) we decided to go micro and put together all the info you’d care to know about the shorts—those tiny gems that’ll screen before select Outlier features—straight from the mouths…
Jenn Grant December 2-4, 8pm The Carleton Music Bar & Grill, 1685 Argyle Street $20/$15 “I wanted to make an album that had some subtleties and groove, and I also wanted it to be a really enjoyable listening experience for people, so it’s been really enjoyable to play it,” says Jenn Grant, one of Halifax’s…
Buck 65 Saturday, November 29 Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $27/$32 Buck 65’s new album, Neverlove, features raspy shrieked choruses and raw rhymes about divorce—and that’s only on the opening track. Beginning with “Gates of Hell,” the Mount Uniacke-bred MC, AKA Rich Terfry, howls his lyrics, thanks to a friend who recommended scream therapy for…
Kung Fu Elliot November 29, 6:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street outlierfilmfestival.com A 30-something man in a karate gi stands outside of CD Heaven in the Dartmouth plaza. He’s selling DVDs of his indie action film, They Killed My Cat, and he calls himself Canada’s only martial arts hero. Later, his girlfriend Linda…
Wetlands November 28, 10:50pm Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street If you can imagine Amelie with an anti-hygiene fixation, or Trainspotting where Renton is more inclined toward bodily functions than heroin, you may have a sense of Wetlands. Helen (Carla Juri) is a skateboarder with a healthy sex drive suffering from an anal…
Kirk McKenna swings open the door to his Fairview apartment. Water trickles in the background. The sound is coming from a windowsill where several electric fountains with spinning, flashing lights circulate. In his 15 years of living here, McKenna has accumulated quite a few possessions—paintings, stacks of paper, boxes and bins, a six-foot-long fish tank…
Now in on Young Street, in the Hydrostone Market area—this quaint strip of shops and restaurants, all architecturally similar with this splendid example of English-style garden suburb sort of vibe to it all—Sarah and Gertraud arrive at the first spot that doesn’t seem crowded. The cart comes to the most awkward and anticlimactic slowing-down-to-a-halt sort of…
Q I am a bi male in my early 20s who until recently was in the closet. I didn’t want to label myself and open a Pandora’s box of oppression in the American South before I knew who I was for sure. I learned through my exploration that I have a few kinks and I…
You know her name So great to hear Rehtaeh’s voice (“How I got my name,” Voice of the City by Rehtaeh Parsons, November 20). Bittersweet to read her hopes and wishes knowing how she was senselessly robbed of them by three boys who don’t know the difference between “fun” and “assault.” —posted by dalspot at…
The lap of luxury that Garrison Brewery Company now calls home, or part of its home, wasn’t always as pristine as it is these days. The massive space at 1096 Marginal Road, with its 40-foot ceilings, was once used to repair trains, and hadn’t been touched (or tidied) in decades. Like, there was a five-foot-deep…
