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[Image-1] I’ve been slowly falling in love with you since the day we met – since our store manager told me to “go help the new guy” because he was “too much of a perfectionist to fold a damn sweater”. You’re sweet, and smart, and kind. You make me smile and laugh at my phone…
Thanks for all those drivers who turn off their fog lights when it’s raining or when the streets are wet. The less glare the better. —The streets are just a little safer…
I teased you about your beard and how it matched your plaid shirt at the L&B on Agricola last friday night. We talked about apples and the differences between Halifax and our hometowns. You thought I wanted the bartender….I’m just rusty at the flirting game. Gimme another chance? —the Gala fan
OCTOBER TWENTY-FOUR THE MOST POWERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR —cannnnn u diggggg it?
We had an awkward moment at the water fountain… thanks for the smile! — kevin durant
[Image-1] I’m 110 pounds. I eat three meals a day. I occasionally indulge in a tub of Ben & Jerry’s or a bag of Doritos. You’re 210 pounds. You eat three meals a day. You occasionally indulge in a tub of Ben & Jerry’s or a bag of Doritos. You can whisper “anorexic” and “skinny…
You should have known. You should have known you loved her before you involved me. —You were never kind
“Don’t Haunt Me, OK?” Cold Warps “C’est L’Halloween,” Matt Maxwell “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” Tracy Morgan and Donald Glover “Don’t Ghost My House,” Fresh Talks “Halloween,” Krispy Kreme Related Stories
Directed by Jason Eisener (and featuring a cameo by our own Adria Young), Rich Aucoin’s “Want to Believe” video has all the essential elements for an amazing movie trailer. How many bags of money can we throw at people to make this an actual movie? Name the number of bags, folks. While you are collecting…
[Image-1] “Councillor Walker has both my interest and my sympathy now,” —Barry Dalrymple, on Walker’s Canada Games Centre woes. “If council agreed with every petition they got, there’d be no convention centre,” —Steve Adams, on the thousands of people against the development on Wellington. “Bring this out in the open.” —Reg Rankin, about the Blue…
The 27th annual CAPACOA Conference will take place in Halifax this year, bringing representatives from the arts presenting and touring sector from all over the country to the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel from January 21-24. The theme is “culture of convergence” and although this event is pretty inside baseball regarding the professional commercial art world,…
Thanks so much to the father who drove three complete strangers with his daughters down to gottigen to enjoy nocturne. After 20 minutes of waiting for the 7 to show up and to no avail your offer took me by surprise and renewed my faith in random acts of kindness. —New to the North End
I’ll even eat asparagus just to see those freckles a bit more often. —Mr Receptive.
[Image-1] You always were a self serving, judgmental and immature bitch. You treated me like shit but you played the part of the victim so well that I still felt the need to want to help you only to find out that you are a gold star contributing member to your own manipulative and dysfunctional…
I’ve been hellbent on seeing what’s been going wrong and conspiracies that didn’t exist to see the good in people everything and my life. —See the light
To the teacher giving her time for an outside fundraising group of grade 6s and 7s, thank you. I watch in total awe as you guide these super sparky kids towards global and community thinking, responsible behaviour to themselves and their friends and equip them with awesome questions to continually ask themselves. You are literally…
You’re a Seriously Alright Male, and I’m Seriously into you. I wonder if you See me How I See you. Maybe You do, maybe you don’t. Me, —Always Doubting
[Image-1] Slow down your drinking. It’s not okay to puke on a person who’s just trying to see the show. You ruined the show for me. I hope you’re happy. —You owe me a new forever 21 cardigan.
To others do this, or is this one more activity I do alone? I pray for death. Maybe it will be a random shot or attack in the night. Maybe it will come in the form of being hit by a car. An aneurism would be just fine too. I won’t commit suicide. I am…
[Image-1] Proving again the Internet was a mistake, several actual people, who all probably have jobs and things to do, have taken to the web arguing last week’s shooting on Parliament Hill was a government conspiracy. The theories stem from this repurposed video of live CBC footage. For some, a heavy RCMP presence captured by…
Sixteen years ago, Doug Johnson had the great idea to open a pub that’d only serve only house-made beer on tap, his brainchild Rogues Roost (5435 Spring Garden Road) has been a downtown drinking fixture ever since. Today, Rogues officially became part of Charlottetown’s Murphy Hospitality Group—an extended family of two breweries and 12 restaurants,…
To the 1 driver with the stretched lobes and grey ‘hawk that always makes little old ladies smile: you’re the sweetest. It obviously makes their day. Thanks for making me smile too. —Glad to see ya
I know you don’t love me, hell none of you even like me, I also know the only reason any of you still speak to me is for sex.Well I’m telling you all the cow has officially been put into the barn..So I suspect this is goodbye, you sick sons of bitches…Because a woman enjoys…
As my companion said as we traipsed home, “I’ve been Halifaxed one too many times now”. What the fuck happened to this year’s Nocturne? We, with a sea of others herded from Bishop’s landing to Pier 21 in search of art. What did we all find? A lame ass Pong thing which didn’t work, nothing,…
Hi. I am looking for a womyn (not sure about the preferred pronoun) who was with the Cycle Jerk Ride during Nocturne. I don’t remember this person’s name, but I had met them last year at the market. They have beautiful and sleepy, soft eyes. I saw them on North street Sunday afternoon and honked…
[Image-1] Ugghhh… I am so SICK of this whole “babies having babies” syndrome. Seriously, girls, we are supposed to be the most progressive country in the world, but you make Bristol Plain and Jamie Lynn Spears look like “Mom of the Year”. You can’t even raise yourselves, how the hell are you going to raise…
[Image-1] The horror movie that is the current journalism landscape continues to eviscerate any college coeds dumb enough to enter its dilapidated farmhouse of an industry. Just yesterday, CBC president Hubert Lacroix met with union leaders to detail the expansion of corporate cuts first announced back in the summer. The national broadcaster will lose an…
Halifax is making a very typical Halifax impression for all these out-of-towners by insisting on raining constantly for the entire duration of the Halifax Pop Explosion. That said, it hasn’t “dampened” enthusiasm (HAHA GOOD ONE) at all and last night’s shows were a pretty good time. I got to the Olympic Centre early to see…
[Image-1] Capital Health is in the hot seat again following a recent Coast investigation. In question period at Province House yesterday, former health minister David Wilson asked current health minister Leo Glavine about concerns raised in The Coast’s “The always-on stalker” investigation, which Wilson said, “highlighted the need for trauma-informed services in our emergency rooms.”…
“It definitely tastes like something from our brewery,” says Peter Burbridge of North Brewing Company’s (2576 Agricola Street) latest experiment— a collaboration with Avondale Sky Winery and his friend, Avondale’s winemaker, Ben Swetnam. “It’s always been something I’ve had in the back of my mind,” says Burbridge of the partnership. “And Ben had some extra…
I love watching Andy Bush yell. And he yells a lot as the host of Good Morning Tonight, a live talk-show produced by HPX comedy whiz Stephan MacLeod, which features Andy’s “dad” Rollie Bush (Mark Little) desperately trying to derail all of Andy’s attempts at even marginal success. Joined onstage by “Positive” Geordie Miller and…
One of our favourite new restaurants of 2013, EDNA (2053 Gottingen Street), should be toasting itself with a glass of something cold and local today—it’s been named one of Canada’s Best New Restaurants by enRoute magazine. Ranked as number 10 in the entire country—the only Maritime restaurant to make the list—Jenna Mooers’ gorgeous north end…
Gianna Lauren w/Cold Specks, Nick Ferrio and His Feelings, Maicamia Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $27/$30 “If you thought what I did before was outsider, this new record is explosive,” says Halifax singer-songwriter Gianna Lauren. “I’m really looking forward to playing these new songs live.” She says she’s surprised herself with…
ACT II: And for that little guy, that little kid who heard the rest of the pre-meeting from the vents in the dust-laden and dampened basement, he heard A. Welnot sniffling to himself and mumbling maniacally while everyone else was lost during his time there by the bathroom door. He sat down by himself most…
Oh dear! Contrary to the assertion in the most recent “Love The Way We Bitch” (“Oh, deer!,” October 16), deer are not being driven from their natural forest habitat by residential development.Deer prefer open spaces interspersed with lightly wooded areas. They do not live in the deep, dark forest. In fact, residential development is responsible…
Rich Aucoin w/Windom Earle, Walrus, Kappa Chow Thursday, October 23, 8pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $20.25/$25 “Imagine an amusement park where you just re-enact iconic movies scenes,” says Rich Aucoin. I laugh and tell him he’s already living that dream and actually he is the amusement park. To understand Aucoin, it’s helpful to know…
Mozart’s Sister w/ Twin Shadow, Most People, Coco Barracuda Friday, October 24, 8pm Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street $39/$40 Mozart’s Sister w/Freelove Fenner, Un Blonde, Old and Weird Saturday, October 25, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $15 “I don’t really know how you measure success,” says Caila Thompson-Hannant, the voice and mind behind…
Over Thanksgiving weekend, in the early hours of Sunday, my partner and I were woken by the sounds of a very loud fight happening in the apartment above us. A man’s voice screamed continuously, loud bangs and crashes from what we assumed was furniture being thrown around. A woman’s voice cried and pleaded. My partner…
Ryan Hemsworth w/Danny Brown, Tennyson, Weirdo Click Saturday, October 25, 7pm Halifax Forum, 2901 Windsor Street $39/$45 Halifax-born, internationally adored DJ and producer Ryan Hemsworth (and former Coast writer, incidentally) just got back from Japan. He’s predictably tired but extremely happy. If you follow him on any social media, you’ll understand this was a big…
Cam Smith w/Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, BadBadNotGood Thursday, October 23, 7pm Halifax Forum, 2901 Windsor Street $39/$45 It’s been an insane year for Dartmouth’s Cam Smith. By dropping bar-setting videos for “Turbo” and “Mad Crack” in advance of self-produced party album Cannon, he has primed us for his HPX takeover. “Rap is one of the hardest genres…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Scorpio ((October 23-November 21) On a late summer day in 1666, Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England. An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of…
Spiked black leather teapots and massive golden phalluses have taken up residence at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery and these conceptual works are ready to challenge any and all humdrum ceramic stereotypes. *Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette* surveys five decades of subversive ceramics produced by three gay, francophone Canadian artists. *Camp…
Tanya Tagaq w/Paper Beat Scissors Saturday, October 25, 8pm St. Matthew’s United Church, 1479 Barrington Street $33/$35 Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is arguably our nation’s best-known Aboriginal artist. She is also one of the most successful avant-garde artists working in any medium in Canada. Considering the degree to which Canadian cultural interests tend towards the…
ODOD afterparty w/Jay Mayne, Thrillah, Alfie, Nicole Ariana Thursday, October 23, 11pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $15 Jay Mayne (above) and Daniel “Thrillah” Kane (right) have been building their rap games all year. In case you’ve been sleeping on it, both Dartmouth-raised rappers have been releasing tracks on the regular, racking up regional…
How can something so small and goofy pack such an emotional punch? Ours is not to reason why, so we’ve made the most of the rich tapestry of emojis and created a matrix for you to plan your Pop Explosion viewing by mood.
Sandi Rankaduwa w/Jen Kirkman, Bob Kerr, Jon Blair, Aisha Alfa Friday, October 24, 7pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $21/$25 “I did the improv intensive program at iO Theatre,” says Sandi Rankaduwa, a Halifax comic who’s been hanging out at Chicago’s best comedy joints for the last year. “It’s a lesser-known improv institution but…
It’s worth a mention right off the top that the Halifax Pop Explosion app (available where you buy your apps) is pretty handy for prioritizing your fest. Although if you’re anything like me all you’ve managed to do is created a bunch of scheduling conflicts for yourself. Varied musical interests! Great in every instance but…
In all relationships, communication is key. That’s especially true if the relationship is between local small business owners and the neighbouring construction projects that keep shutting down their street. “It’s been a pretty messy spring and summer, and now fall,” says Marshall Haywood, owner of Barrington Street sex emporium Venus Envy. Haywood’s shop is right…
Four years ago Jamie Tingley moved to Cow Bay. “I moved here for the surfing,” says Tingley. “And then I kind of fell in love.” The object of his affection: farming. With his partner, Sarah Fisher, he started Off Beet Farm, a small-scale vegetable farm overlooking the bay. “We’d always had little garden plots,” he…
Q I’m a twentysomething married trans guy in an openish marriage. In the online hunt for a guy to have some aboveboard, under-the-sheets fun with, I run into snags because I’m trans (I disclose on my profile) and because I’m married. I’m baby-stepping my way toward an offline search for guys, going to events hosted…
1. Bedford’s own Skratch Bastid backed him as a DJ a) Ghostface b) Raekwon c) both 2. Has appeared on 30 Rock, twice a) Ghostface b) Raekwon c) both 3. Has been compared to ancient Greek scribe Homer a) Ghostface b) Raekwon c) both 4. Has ten (10) rap aliases a) Ghostface b) Raekwon c)…
Against Me! w/Like A Motorcycle, Weekend Dads, Dyscontrol Thursday, October 23, 8pm Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street$40 In 2012, Florida aggro-punk band Against Me! announced that singer Tom Gabel was transitioning to a female identity and would be known as Laura Jane Grace. This year, the band released its sixth full-length album, the walloping…
It’s worth a mention right off the top that the Halifax Pop Explosion app (available where you buy your apps) is pretty handy for prioritizing your fest. Although if you’re anything like me all you’ve managed to do is created a bunch of scheduling conflicts for yourself. Varied musical interests! Great in every instance but…
For three years, non-profit groups have been fighting for a chance to use the old St. Pat’s-Alexandra school. On October 9, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled against their case, siding instead with a company that wants to redevelop the property—leaving the groups with few options. Margaret Casey, of the North Central Community Council,…
Ah, Thursday of the Halifax Pop Explosion. It’s like you’re in the eye of the hurricane—only it’s not calm at all and you’re drinking Lorelai Gilmore levels of coffee. Solidarity, sister, we’re right there with you. Here’s our guide to making the most out of HPX, right through to the wee hours of Sunday morning.…
Freelove Fenner w/Sheer Agony, Brave Radar Friday, October 24, 2pm Gus’ Pub and Grill, 2605 Agricola Street free Freelove Fenner w/Mozart’s Sister, Un Blonde, Old and Weird Saturday, October 25, 10pm Gus’ Pub and Grill, 2605 Agricola Street $15 Mysterious, moody and cinematic—with recordings that are bell-clear and, well, perfect, Montreal’s Freelove Fenner—Peter Woodford, Caitlin…
Last month at the King’s campus bar, student Meg Shields noticed something was missing. A few pints deep, Shields found herself staring at a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. She was suddenly struck with anger. “I noticed that the wall adjacent to her [the Queen] was totally blank. I was sitting with the King’s Students’…
