School girl crush
Oh professor, I’m sorry, but you’ve been starring in my dreams! Now I can’t even look at you! Though I did catch a glimpse of your biceps last week. Oh, man. Hurry up semester and end already… I can’t be around you without giggling. —Please, Please, Just Marry Your Girlfriend Already
It’s Frye-day, Frye-day
The ladies of Crimson & Clover Consignment Boutique are having one hell of a Christmas soiree. As a thank you to dedicated C&C shoppers, this Friday will actually be Black Frye-day, a celebration of both the season and the beloved brand of boots. Sip on wine and enjoy seasonal songs as you check out the…
Friday night lights on Spring Garden
The second round Shopping Under the Stars is upon us. Friday’s the night for bundling yourself in scarves, sipping on cider and perusing the holiday sales and tax free deals that the Spring Garden area shops have to offer, to the tune of live music (I love carolers so much!) no less. Also, restos in…
Ten Halifax councillors wanted to be on Trade Centre Limited board of directors
As we go to press Wednesday, final architectural plans for the convention centre complex to be built in downtown Halifax will be made public. But all other details around the convention centre are still unknown. Particularly vexing is the absolute silence from both the provincial and city governments about the management structure of the new…
Let’s be clear, shall we?
I think I do pretty well for garbage. I get up every day with a fulfilling career, a home, friends, family and a great future. In addition, I have someone in my life who is very caring and fun. He has a career, home, a wonderful daughter he takes care of, friends and a fantastic…
Who are you, the comment police?
Friday afternoon at a gas station. You were buying cigarettes. Guy in front of you had trouble paying by debit, the clerk said “debit is down” and directed him to the ATM. I, behind you, commented to her “Are you going to pay that for us, because that machine costs us $3 to use?” (‘You’…
Why does no one give a fuck?
That this place is shit ass backwards? That you do the same work that people in the rest of the country do but they make 20K more a year—and pay less taxes. That everything here costs more, yet people insist the salary differences are because of the lower cost of living? Have you looked at…
Zero plus one
I miss you. Please don’t stay away. I’m a big person I can handle being hurt. You are worth the risk. —Anon
Padiddle with summer tires
I know you’re all broke, but if you want to drive a car, you should have enough money on hand to keep BOTH your headlights running. I must see 10-12 cars a night with burnt out headlights or taillights. Also, while I’m on the topic of car safety, I’d like to remind you to PUT…
Stereophonic Music Festival sets the bar high for lineup announcement videos
Taking a weekend trip to Sackville, NB in the middle of January has never been so appealing. Don’t worry, you won’t be slip sliding your ass across that damned duck pond, you’ll be safely housed in sweaty venues with a bunch of attractive people celebrating campus and community radio station CHMA’s tenth anniversary of the…
Cute Route 1 Driver
You were driving the route 1 on Saturday night. I must say I’ve never saw a more adorably cute bus driver in my life. Those blue eyes and red hair. Wish I could totally cuddle you. —Rider
No matter what
Letting you go has been one of the hardest things I’ve had to do, and I’ve only been able to withstand it because I love you. I know in my heart it’s what’s best for you right now. You have to find peace within yourself and trust your own heart before you can trust it…
Generous of yourself
I met you in the most awkward situation. I thought I was helping a friend but I ended up being an ass. You listened when I tried to explain even though what I did hurt you too. Thank you for not judging me and writing me off as a person. I know that we will…
And the ECMW showcasing artists are…
Until this morning, March seemed like a really long time from now. That’s when we (as in, we the people of Halifax) will play host to the 25th annual East Coast Music Week, and the corresponding East Coast Music Awards. Next March will come in like a lion, with five days of live shows, mega-mingling,…
No mystery as to why YOU are single!
This is to the asshole I met on a certain online dating site. We met in person at a pub. You looked me over and told me “Uhh…You should have listed your body type under the extra-pounds option!” then muttered a sorry and took off. I AM A SIZE 8, NOT 14 PLUS!!! Which is…
It’s turkey time
Oh come all ye hungry—Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub is celebrating the few pre-Christmas weeks we have left by offering up a massive holiday buffet every Thursday and Friday. Fifteen dollars get you heaps of every frigging dish you could picture alongside your traditional (free range) turkey and honey-baked ham. Salad, potato salad, cucumber salad…
To the selfish cyclist
I watched a cyclist zoom through a red light on Spring Garden Road during suppertime traffic. To that person: Not only did you ignore a stop light, the rules of the road that everyone else has to follow in order not to hurt others or get hurt, you barely weaved through a group of four…
Paper girl
I never take one of your papers, but you’re still super friendly; it’s a great part of my day to see you smiling and greeting people first thing in the morning. Maybe someday you’ll be handing out the Coast and I’ll have an excuse to stop and chat! —Reads the News Online
Punishment must fit the crime
If I refuse to pay a tax bill, the government will garnish my wages long before they consider throwing me into jail. Why is a democratically elected mayor getting booted from office for voting to not repay $3,100 in charitable donations that went to football youth? Garnish his wages, and let’s all get back to…
Paying for my bus pass AND my bus taxes
Sick buses or is it just the drivers? Once again, it’s the ‘BACK DOOR’ issue. Do bus drivers enjoy seeing a rider standing at the back door, waiting for it to open, standing there like a dummy? The back door should open at all stops, but no, this driver watched the rider standing there, and…
LoLo smiles
I know you took a chance to let your heart be open again. Even when I am almost 4000kms from you I can hear your laugh and I smile. You are the most caring and beautiful woman I have ever met, I hope you know that. The reunions are pretty awesome too huh? —Oil Keeps…
“Whoa Whoa Whoa”
To the two lads who thought it was funny to holler at a cute young woman on Blowers Street the other night: grow up. Women should be able to walk past Pizza Corner or anywhere else in this city without having to deal with taunts and your immaturity. In the mean time, enjoy your man-to-hand…
To the Lady of Desire
Sometimes wishes do come true. So here’s your Love, Nurse. You’re beautiful! Much more on the inside than outside, which is a considerable amount! Stay optimistic. Stay cool. Stay Classy. —Hezz
Bargain
To an awesome employee who bought my doggy friend a bone—you rock! It made his day and mine! You should have seen how stoked he was to carry that bone all the way home and show it off to everyone we passed! It’s people like you that make Halifax such an amazing place to call…
Luscious in line
I first saw you, evaluating the line-ups at the grocery store, silently debating which to enter. I kept repeating in my head, “this one, you want this one!” and sure ‘nough, you waited patiently behind me while I talked small with the cashier. Wicked high-tops, blazing hot red tights and a ball hat avec bent…
Not exactly strangers
I spoke with a coworker of yours, I couldn’t believe her actions and the things she accused me of. I walked away and yes I was very upset, her words were uncalled for and very hurtful. I am gullible but, I assure you I am not what your coworker accused me of. OR Was that…
Government tendering gets outsourced
Just weeks after entering into a 10-year $100 million deal with IBM for outsourcing of the province’s back-end finance department operations, the government is embarking on a “strategic procurement initiative” that appears to be written specifically to benefit IBM. That initiative seeks to contract out the management of short-term IT projects costing over $15 million…
To the ocean
I love you so much. Thank you for your beautiful waves, for being warm to swim in on cold days and for obliterating all of life’s crap with just one sweet kiss upon my toes. —Yours
Smiling to your face even while hatin’
I know the shit you talked about me you little prick, look harder at yourself and the crap you pull and keep outta my business. Just so you know, secrets have a way of biting you on the ass. Keep up the act for those idiots who think you are a changed man, but you…
Kind man with the white Miata
You trusted me with your parking metre loonie. I got a poem out of our small interaction. (“With a voice like/still-warm travel mug coffee.”) Thank you. —A Strange Girl Scribbling with a Clove Cigarette
I’m sorry!
To the young lady with the blond hair driving a blue car on Prince Albert Road. I’m REALLY sorry. I was in a blue caravan and was trying to merge lanes and almost side swiped you. You were kind enough to honk your horn to let me know I was gonna hit you—I actually saw…
Learn to fucking drive
To the prius who hit me Friday evening in the rotary around 6pm, then drove off leaving me on the ground with my broken motor bike, they have a special place in hell for you, and I tried giving you the weekend to give you the benefit of the doubt. But you have shown me…
Benjamin Bridge takes it to the limited
The hottest club in town is about to be the BB Club. That BB is Benjamin Bridge, easily the province’s hottest new winery—the one responsible for the Brut Reserve and Nova 7, two wines that people lost (are losing) their minds over. Well, it’s very likely minds will continue to be lost, as Benjamin Bridge…
Thank you for the awesome subs & chats
To the really cool sandwich artist on Portland Street. I just want to say THANK YOU. My Husband and myself really appreciate all you do for us, you make amazing subs and are truly a great person, you treat us like normal people, not as ‘blind or disabled’ as the rest of society does.. if…
Harper take note… yer next boy wonder
Beiber is the new future boy wonder…time to move over. Bye bye Mr. Ford you jack arse nutbar. Go on a diet before you have heart issues dude. Karma dogma you call it what you may. Who cares anymore in this land of greed and technology. We lost the game plan. Hey Christopher Robin where’s…
Pedestrian unfriendly crosswalks
What’s with the Halifax crosswalks that don’t activate the crosswalk unless you were waiting there on the red? Are Halifax traffic planners crazy safety? Am I jaywalking if I just go ahead? How about I just watch the cars. No one has ever been run down by a traffic light. —Impatient Foot Commuter
Dear Halifax
It has been one of the most challenging years of my life and yet I love you more. Your rocky shores and wooded trails have held me while uncontrollable winds have ripped the metaphorical siding, insulation and slats away and tested my being. Bones and blood exposed to the elements, I thank you for reminding…
Heartsick for Halifax
Dear Halifax, I miss you. It has been six months since I moved across the world and I am heartsick for your people, your food, your north end dance parties. Until we meet again. —breadispencer
The Boy Down the Hall
I just want to say that I really like you. You work in the lab down the hall and I wish we talked more. I come to school anticipating the brief convos before class and the smiles in the halls. I’m very guarded it’s true and I don’t know how to show you how interested…
Won’t be home for Christmas
Since moving west my trips home have gotten less and less frequent, now only amounting to Christmas visits with my family and friends. This year money’s gotten even tighter (and plane tickets even more expensive), so it looks like my Christmas visit has been scrapped for, hopefully, spring time. Maybe next year I’ll be able…
More Fruition
If you haven’t noticed, the vegan-friendly foodies at Fruition (Seaport Farmer’s Market) have gotten a market stall-makeover. Thanks to an upgrade that took them from a five-foot table to a top-floor, harbour-view nook, Jessie Doyle and Seth Graham have been able to expand on their already established menu of raw eats. Known for tasty snacks…
Hey Sock Monkey
You are one cute mess. Take me to your castle to watch all the cartoons. —Stages of Fright
Do I believe you to be some kind of super sexy geek?
I know you are! I’ve had my suspicions since I first met you. You’re incredibly well-versed in superhero movies and video games, not to mention comic book continuity. On top of that, I’m geeky, but your Halloween costumes make mine look like sewn-together grocery bags. Then there’s the comic shops and Comic Cons. Plus, the…
Cuddles
Sometimes I stay in really awkward, comfortable positions because they allow optimal closeness to you. —That’s My Kind of Love
I’m a sucker for sucker punches
So, I’ll set the scene. It’s 5:45am in the morning, last Saturday. I had gotten off work at 5:30am, so I was looking forward to relaxing and enjoying my day. I was walking up the left side of the Bridge Terminal and a “gentleman” was walking toward me on the right side of the sidewalk.…
Get a slice of Piazza
If you haven’t found your holiday cheer yet, the shops at Bishop’s Landing’s piazza are giving you the chance to win some. The piazza’s 12 days of Christmas kick off on December 3, and every day shoppers have a shot at winning their purchase. So here’s how it works: everyday one of the participating shops…
Scopophilia: Into the Eye of the Sun
Clare Waqu There are two storylines in Elizabeth Ann McCarthy’s one-woman show Scopophilia: Into the Eye of the Sun. The first is that of Marina, an artists’ model who reveals bits of her life while giving the audience a kind of primer on life drawing. The second is a history-rich story that deals with Mata…
It’s us
Hey everybody, do you like them lovely big store bargains? Come on we all do. The cheap towels and tees and not to mention TVs. Well, seems like a garment factory in Bangladesh caught fire and 110 of its workers burned to death because there wern’t any fire escapes. Guess who their main customer was?…
Sunday spoiler
To the harshest mom ever: You had two boys with you, the younger one was obviously your son. I couldn’t tell your relation to the older, teenaged-looking boy because the way you spoke to him was so rude and condescending that he may as well have been nothing to you. You criticized his every move…
M.B.
If you only had a heart. —Cowardly Lion?
Special collections
PLEASE STOP bringing your coffee into the 5th floor Special Collections room! The sign is by the door, where you all pause to read if you are allowed to come in to study. It tells you the hours we are open, and then below states, “No food, No drinks, No cell phones. Quiet study.” So…
Wake up fatass!
Hmmm. Let’s really think about this one… You wonder why you can’t lose weight. Could it possibly be that you eat deep fried garbage every morning and lunchtime? You wonder why you’re broke. Could it be that you dish out at least $20 a day on that deep fried garbage? You wonder why your back…
Repetitive man bashing
Unfortunately, my view on feminism has completely changed since I’ve been in your class. Our class started out lovely and now all we talk about is the hatred towards men that you, clearly not all of us, have. Please stop bashing men, we have them in our class too! God. Equal rights, I get it,…
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Kitchen party
On (nearly) the eve of Ratinaud French Cuisine’s (2082 Gottingen Street, 446-8222) one-year anniversary, the north end cure for charcuterie cravings released some super exciting news for the new year. Unwrap your brand new 2013 calendar and put a big circle around January 26: It’ll be the first of many Kitchen Table dinners at Ratinaud,…
Seaport Farmers Market investors may be “toast”
The Seaport Farmers Market will “undoubtedly” be a success, says Frank Schwartz, head of the group of citizens who invested $1.7 million to help make the market a reality. But part of that future success is based on a restructuring of the market that squeezes the investors out. It’s possible the investors have simply lost…
Naming those lost
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Since 1988, communities around the globe have been gathering on this day to support one another in the fight against HIV/AIDS and to memorialize those who have died. It is a day to break the silence, to mark progress and to celebrate the strength of people living with HIV/AIDS.…
Wayves goes digital-only
Millions of words and thousands of stories later, Atlantic Canada’s LBGTQ monthly newspaper Wayves Magazine is going to an exclusive online format. Staffed by volunteers, publisher Daniel MacKay declares Wayves’ December 2012 issue the last print edition. “All of our advertising revenue is currently used for printing and distribution,” says MacKay. “We’ll have a completely…
The Mill on the Floss
I struck up a conversation with the woman next to me during the intermission of The Mill on the Floss. She said she always jumps at the chance to see any DalTheatre shows. She raved about the quality of sets that “rival many professional companies”. She said she was always impressed by the costumes and…
Hot for teacher
“It was all Patsy Cline and Hank Williams in my house,” says vocalist and award-winning saxophonist, Shirley Jackson of her Alberta upbringing, “but as we grow as musicians, we develop our own tastes.” Seeking deeper moods, she moved to the Maritimes in 1988 and found a wealth of untapped talent. “The east coast is a…
Gifts that give
The 12 days of Christmas can’t contain all the fun that’s about to come at you. Breaking the holiday mould—read: a book for Uncle Steve, a puzzle for Grandma and beer for your younger brother—is a new frontier in gift-giving. It’s groundbreaking stuff, people: gifts that actually keep on giving. Self-improvement is the name of…
Free Will Astrology
Happy Birthday! SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 21) If you say “rabbit rabbit rabbit” as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that’s how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I…
Fashionable fete
The theme is a ’50s birthday party but you don’t have to dress up (although you should) to fit in at this fete—after all, you might just be on the wall. The award-winning street style blog Fashion East is only turning one but it’s already plenty grown up, having spent relatively no time becoming Halifax’s…
Wanting for none of it
Q I’m a straight man at that age where the general public still considers me young. Although I’ve attended many weddings, I have no interest in marrying or even being in a relationship. I never have. I’m not asexual. I’ve had and enjoyed sex. I just don’t feel the need to be with anyone. As…
Bottle service
I used to think giving booze as a gift was a bit of a cop- out, until I realized what a creative outlet it can be. Inspired by tips from Premier Wine and Spirits’ (1535 Dresden Row) ever-helpful Dave Clair, here’s list of liquid gifts made for sharing. Clair likes to give liquor because it…
Kontravoid
The bastard by-product of an affair with Crystal Castles, ex-touring drummer Cam Findlay’s solo recording project Kontravoid mixes the desolate electronica of The Human League, while channeling a vocal prowess straight from the grave of Ian Curtis. On its self-titled debut, Kontravoid creates a sonic landscape filled with atmospheric synths and down-tempo drum machines. But…
USS enthusiasm
“Every year there’s a word and this year it’s ‘vindication’,” says Ash Boo-Schultz, part one of the two-part Ontario dance party duo (can’t forget his other half, Jason “Human Kebab” Parsons) that has been touring Europe with Walk Off the Earth this year. “We were playing in all these immaculate places…and I realized I was…
This Hour Has 20 Years
Twenty years is a long run for any television show. It’d be unheard of for Canadian political satire if it wasn’t for a handful of Newfoundlanders, a cramped Halifax studio and 22 minutes. Six years before Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would hit the air, This Hour Has 22 Minutes was ambushing politicians and carving…
Wrap star
1) A free and easy wrapping paper replacement? This very page, friends. After you finish reading this article, it’ll make some mighty fine wrapping material, and Coast covers and comics make for even more attractive prezzies. Tip: make your own bow, too—the one pictured was made using the cover of last year’s holiday planner. 2)…
Kyp Harness
Fellow songwriters like Ron Sexsmith keep praising this fellow and he lives up to it on this double CD. He is at least an acquired taste as a singer. The lyrics should enable a shift in perception about that. If “Autumn Leaves” make you blue, know “there’s a summer sun inside” them. “Evil and stupidity…
Talking Tutte
St. Cecilia’s production of the famous Mozart opera comes bearing unexpected gifts—a pre-concert talk by Dr. Jennifer Farrell aptly called Women Are Like That: The Gender Divide in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte. The plot of the opera revolves around that simple but deeply problematic idea—that women are like that, inherently and inevitably unfaithful—and Dr. Farrell…
Stop Motion Massacre
Stop Motion Massacre cloak its fun-loving garage music in tons of fuzz, the group’s three distinct voices and styles giving Beneath The Lost Vault 1977-74 a “something for everyone” feel. The blood-red splattered cassette careens through 15 short-but-sweet tracks sprinkled with bratty/tortured screamed back-up vocals, thoughts on getting older, chord progressions that would fit perfectly…
Recount confirms Bill Karsten’s District 3 victory
Supreme Court justice Kevin Coady yesterday oversaw the recount of the District 3 council race, and confirmed that Bill Karsten defeated Jackie Barkhouse by 66 votes. See background here.
Stupid Brain:
It’s been awhile since anyone has put together a punk rock compilation from this region, let alone one as good as this. Most of the songs are unreleased which means songs from defunct bands like Dead Red and the Dean Malenkos finally see the light of the day. Fear of Lipstick, Tongan Death Grip and…
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
If you are looking for a merely OK game to play, this is it. All-Stars manages to combine the frantic play of Super Smash Bros. and the strategic combos of Street Fighter, but not all that successfully. The frantic play is destroyed by few arenas that allow ring outs, leaving all the kills to super…
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper drops a spiral pass straight into the face of his boring career with a 180 called Pat Solitano, a seriously unhinged man trying to get his life back on track in Silver Linings Playbook. We meet him as he exits the institution he’s been inhabiting since he beat his wife’s lover nearly to…
Killing Them Softly
Brad Pitt is all business in the luridly entertaining Killing Them Softly. Loosely adapted from the novel Cogan’s Trade, the film finds wise gang enforcer Pitt trying to clean up the ever-widening mess made when two no-name junkies stick up the wrong back room card game. Director Andrew Dominik, who previously collaborated with Pitt on…
My Heart is an Idiot
No one can claim that Davy Rothbart, of NPR’s This American Life, is inexperienced when it comes to love. My Heart is an Idiot, the most appropriately titled autobiographical essay collection ever, is a road trip through the USA and Rothbart’s unfortunate dating history, peppered with random adventures. Stories like “Ninety-nine Bottles of Pee on…
We must protect our wild sides
When I completed my graduate studies, I moved back to Halifax because I love it here. The city is just so jammed full of interesting people, places and things to do. There’s also a level of grit and realness to Halifax that comes from being an old port city with a deep culture and style all…
Talaash
Equal parts murder mystery, police procedural and melodrama, it’s hard to take Reema Kagti’s Talaash too seriously. As inspector Surjan Singh Sekhawat (Aamir Khan) investigates a suspicious and fatal accident with the help of a sex worker named Rosie (Kareena Kapoor), a series of supernatural events and forays into the city’s criminal underbelly ensue. Khan…
RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race
By now we all know the inaugural Drag Race hall of famer (crosses fingers for Jujubee), but as of right now, I do not. All I know is that the penultimate episode of RuPaul’s All Stars Drag Race had my television companion and I screaming with joy so loudly the cat hid behind the armchair.…
It gets sweater
For you I wool Blazing beauty Sweater-blazer hybrid by Free People, Wildflower Clothing, 5553 Clyde Street, 420-0364 Comfort zone Oversized pullover by BB Dakota, Twisted Muse, 5486 Spring Garden Road, 446-3662 Fair lady Fair Isle-style sweater by Lauren Moffatt, J&R Grimsmo, 1533 Barrington Street, 446-3665 Mr. Rogers redux Shawl good Patterned shawl neck by Matinique,…
Anna Karenina
Joe Wright adds his name to the long list of directors who’ve adapted Leo Tolstoy’s classic Russian tome. This iteration, penned by playwright Tom Stoppard, has its shortcomings, including its length. Two and a half hours isn’t adequate time to develop characters complex enough to pull of the dramatic and dark plot of the socialite…
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
This pleasant enough straight-to-DVD comedy stars Catherine Keener as an uptight lawyer who takes her kids (one is Elizabeth Olsen) to her Mom’s for the summer. Problem? Mom is a hippie of the original sort, and is played by Jane Fonda. Cue the unwinding, maaaaaan! Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chace Crawford play the respective laidback…
Eye of the beholder
There’s laying your soul bare on the stage, then there’s Elizabeth Anne McCarthy. With her one-woman play, Scopophilia: Into the Eye of the Sun, McCarthy draws inspiration from her day job as a life model at NSCAD, setting her tale of dual identities, voyeurism, feminism and violence in a life drawing class. McCarthy plays Marina,…
Chasing the Carrot
A quarter-century after Sobeys left Gottingen Street, a community group aims to open a grocery store in the north end. by Jordan Whitehouse Good news, north enders: it looks like you might finally be getting a grocery store in your neighbourhood that offers healthy and affordable food. And anyone reading this can help make it…
Elf yo’ self
If you’re looking to beat the bah-humbug blues, a trip to Neptune Theatre’s Elf: The Musical is just the ticket. Any movie-to-stage transition can be tricky, but this show manages to keep all the fun and magic of the popular Will Ferrell film. Some of this success is due to clever writing, but even more…
Soulful sister
The buzz surrounding Halifax’s hip-hop scene is steadily growing, and if you’ve been paying any attention then you’ve likely come across the voice of R&B singer Laura Roy. Having worked with such local rappers as Classified, Quake Matthews, Kayo and Cam Smith, Roy has made a big splash in a small amount of time. Now,…
Mall Santa secrets
I’m sitting in the Santa Room. It’s a two-by-four metre box containing hanging rank-smelling Santa costumes, eyebrow makeup, a mirror, a few water bottles and a bottle of Febreeze. I’m sweating profusely, only partly due to the layers of North Pole gear and the insulating white wig and beard combo I’ve just put on. I’m…
Stacks of Wax
For recording artist Phyl La Ferriere, Quebec City may be a great place live, but it’s not the ideal city to make it as a musician. “I wouldn’t say it’s the right place to start a band,” La Ferriere says. So he left home and enrolled at Montreal’s Trebas Institute to study audio engineering. But…
Bidding for LovE
The sixth annual art auction in support of Leave Out ViolencE Nova Scotia is all set to awe you with work from some of the best (and most generous) local artists around. “Some of the artists that give to us rarely show or sell their art,” says executive director Sarah MacLaren. “They are so generous…
Happy chocoversary
Calling all chocoholics: The Choco Cafe (1360 Lower Water Street) is celebrating its first anniversary in a really sweet way. In honour of one year of pleasing the sweet toothed folks among us, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (from 7am to 7pm) the cafe will be giving out free coffees with every food purchase, handing…
Thanking the bus driver from the back door is for total morons
OK, I love Halifax. People are great. Except for the hobbit complex. You know, the selfish, inconsiderate friendliness that backs up traffic for innocent jaywalkers or holds the door for you when you’re a good ten steps away. The brain-dead “aren’t we just so friendly today” friendliness that is really a form of after-you-Alphonse passive…
Provincial Council of the Disabled has met just six times in 10 years
On his James McGregor Stewart Society website, accessibility activist Gus Reed has put together a pretty much perfect blog post: he starts by outlining the problems people with disabilities face in Nova Scotia. He then details, through documents he obtained through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, how the government is failing…
Merry Christmas car thief
Thank you very much for stealing my car and smashing it. I do feel blessed that the police found you with it and I got it back. I have been dealing with car problems ever since you took it. Thank you again. And along with that Thank you for stealing my new shoes and breaking…
Oooooo big man
I just reported this to the police. Right by Citadel Hill on the corner across from the horse stable I was eating a sub when a guy and a girl walking by stopped and the man said “Are you a guy or a girl?” (I had a hoodie up). Thinking I might be sketching them…
If only I was there five minutes before shit hit the fan
On my daily stroll past Spring Garden where people are rife with indifference to one another—no doubt a byproduct of their blissful consumerism—I notice what was probably five police cars. When I stopped and asked what was going on I was told that a young woman who was a lesbian just got the shit kicked…
Put out or get out
Dude, this is a gay bar. You sat there all night and let me buy you drinks, and we had a wonderful time. When it was time to go home with me, you told me that you were a straight guy and shook my hand. You wasted my time. —No Sex and No Money
