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Let’s think about all of the common reasons why drivers get frustrated with pedestrians—they’re slow, they’re erratic and unpredictable, they’re distracted or inattentive, they don’t obey traffic signals, they don’t wear visible clothing and so on. (There are good pedestrians too, but we don’t complain about them.) Now let’s imagine those people driving the way…
I need to get this off my chest. Pizza shops in Halifax: Your pizza tastes great, it has potential, but…and there is a but! You neeeed to start cooking your pies for longer or at a higher temp. The bready parts are almost raw, it’s so squishy and floppy. Like, it can be sort…
So this week a couple of guys from St. FX were found not guilty of sexual assault. The judge found that the three-way they had with an unnamed woman was by all accounts consensual (seems there were partygoers and others wandering into the bedroom from time to time who became witnesses). My Bitch is why…
I’m generally not one to talk up strangers in grocery store check-out lines, but there was something about our exchange of smiles and gazes around the store that compelled me to check out with you. Watching you shudder, then laugh was the perfect reaction to me describing my art. I shouldn’t have let you leave…
It took four hours to get home from work the other night due to the storm, including 90 minutes outside waiting for the bus (any bus) to show up. Luckily I wasn’t alone. Shout out to my new bus stop friends. Red jacket guy, “I went all the way to Sackville” girl, lotsa cursing man,…
My very first job was delivering The Daily News as a teenager; sad to see Metro go. Have been reading The Coast since you first started. Hope you find the printer that is right for you so we can all continue reading your great Halifax paper. Cheers! —Sporty Forty
Hiring managers of the HRM, please run your job titles and descriptions through a spellchecker before publishing positions to job boards. It isn’t clear if the title “Escavator Operator” involves construction or maintaining automatic stairs. Your “Costumer Service” role involves no dressing up, and I am concerned if your restaurant needs a “Shit Manager” (I…
To the lady who was drinking a blueberry soda with 6% alchol in it heres a message straight to your face GO TO THE BARS AND DRINK YOUR ALCHOL THERE STOP DRINKING IN A “certin”store i work in i know your that same stupit lady who drinks wine i know you have a drinking problem…
Gambier Island is a heavily forested island to the west of Vancouver, British Columbia. Its green landscape and natural beauty are one of many such locations referenced in the music of Vancouver indie-rocker Said The Whale. The band’s newest album, Cascadia, is the sixth studio album it has created—but most importantly, this album has the…
It was an important day for Halifax’s Black community as it heard, for the very first time, the official apology from one of the institutions that has caused it harm and grief for generations. Halifax Regional Police chief Dan Kinsella addressed an audience of about 100 people Friday morning at the Halifax Central Library.…
In the early 1990s, the Crash Test Dummies strummed their way into the international stage with a string of smart, oddball hits—including “Afternoons and Coffeespoons”, “Swimming in your ocean”, “In the days of the caveman,” and, of course, the unforgettable ear worm “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.” The album on which those songs were featured, God…
Name: William Kim Spotted: Corner of Tower Road and South Street Wearing: Coat, Burberry; Sweater, H&M; Hat, Calvin Klein; Belt, Off White; Pants, Calvin Klein and Shoes, Raf Simons What inspires your wardrobe? Japanese street fashion. I started showing interest in Japanese fashion culture after going to Tokyo and seeing all these different types of…
Gabrielle Papillon w/Gianna Lauren Nov 30 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 7pm $25 Gabrielle Papillon will take you on a journey through social anxiety to a new kind of bravery with her art-pop album Shout. “If you start off at the beginning of the record,” Papillon says, “that song is like anxiety brain.” She’s…
Christina Martin & Dale Murray Nov 29 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street 7pm $17.50/$20 Sometimes Christina Martin doesn’t feel like talking about it. “And my husband’s amazing,” she says. “He’s like, ‘Why not? Yeah, we need to talk about this. We need to do this.'” It’s a difficult subject. “We lost our brother Stephane to…
The printing press is a strange, wonderful machine. You take a roll of blank paper called a web—which is sort like a toilet paper roll, only made of newsprint and so big it’s moved around by forklift—and feed the leading edge into the press to begin an elaborate journey. With the unspooling roll trailing along…
The album art for Ben Rogers’ latest LP, Wildfire, testifies to the record’s origin story as it depicts a piano engulfed in flame. The fire gulps air, spreading out of the frame, white hot against a cool blue background. “After the last record, I just felt a natural shift, just steered away from that genre,”…
Did you see the image of Donald Trump, hunched over the massive desk in the Oval Office, flanked by half a dozen other white men while he signed an executive order eliminating funds to international organizations that provide reproductive healthcare to women? The incongruity of the scene and its effects was so striking that the…
Tammie Beazley doesn’t like to be reminded that she’s living in a mold-infested, dilapidated three-bedroom apartment with her three children. “We just don’t think about it anymore. Where else can we go? We can’t afford anything else,” she says. Beazley lives in an urban Indigenous housing unit on the Halifax peninsula, managed by Tawaak Housing…
The happy ending of The Wizard of Oz happens when Dorothy Gale realizes that as many wonders as there are over the rainbow, you don’t actually have to look that far to find your joy. She famously says, “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAGITTARIUS (November 22- December 21) Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven was inclined to get deeply absorbed in his work. Even when he took time to attend to the details of daily necessity, he allowed himself to be spontaneously responsive to compelling musical inspirations that suddenly welled up in him. On more than a…
QI’m a heterosexual cis woman in a monogamous marriage. My husband and I have always struggled to connect sexually, mostly because he has extreme anxiety that makes doing anything new or different difficult. He’s been in therapy since before I met him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping much. His anxiety has caused him…
Environmental Impact Assessment and Mining in Nova Scotia: A Public Legal Education Session Saturday, November 30 1-5pm Room 150, Collaborative Health Education Building (Dalhousie) 5739 University Avenue SOLD OUT. To say that gold mining in Nova Scotia is controversial is to assume everyone knows the facts. On Saturday, November 30 the East Coast Environmental Law…
Halifax Regional Council’s budget committee kicked off its 2020/2021 budget process this week, diving into preliminary discussions on how and where to spend the municipality’s—and the bank’s—dollar bills. First up this week was capital spending—better understood alongside its partner in crime, operational spending, which includes year-to-year costs of running a city: AKA groceries. Capital spending…
Screening and reception: Penance and Reconcile Nov 28 The Khyber, 1880 Hollis Street 6:30-9:30pm free Francesca Omolara Ekwuyasi has been thinking a lot about the intersection of queerness and faith. “The faith I grew up in, the way that it’s practiced in my home country of Nigeria, is inherently homophobic and heavy on the shame,”…
Women are the fastest growing prison population worldwide. A documentary team went into the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth and the Nova Institution for Women in Truro with art supplies, a music therapist and film equipment to find out why. The result? A feature-length documentary—made in collaboration with inmates—called Conviction. Airing on Documentary…
Whoop-Szo w/Motherhood, Valerie Nov 28 The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street 9pm-midnight $10 Adam Sturgeon doesn’t know, exactly, what it means to be a warrior. His grungy band Whoop-Szo—which sounds as if a folky Dave Grohl decided to make shoegaze-streaked metal—wrestles with this question throughout the 10-track effort Warrior Down, but it’s still murky: “I…
