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The only liquor store near me is this little boutique version that is never open on Sundays and closes at 6pm. What a pain in the ass. Every time I wanna buy some drinks, it’s closed! WHY can’t it be open seven days a week until 10pm like the rest, and on Sundays? Having to…
To the woman in the bathroom stall at the gym: I don’t think the multi-stall bathroom (that has no entry door and is open to the whole locker room!!) the best place to get off. I hope you don’t cum here often because it was pretty selfish of you to do that at the gym.…
This one’s to you, The Coast. That’s right, you! Are there really so few “Love The Way We Love” submissions to choose from that you have no choice but to publish so many that seem to depict a “nice guy” misreading the supposed signals a woman was sending their way? They remind me of a…
You just trolled one of Gordon Ramsey’s cooking videos while eating a Bacon Dipper cracker off the floor. —I Think I Love You
When I go up to the bank teller, it’s because I have less than the minimum $20 the ATM will dispense in my account and I need my money. When I get up to the counter, I’ll say, “Can I withraw the funds in my account?” The teller then proceeds to tell me my balance…
Why must you suck so much? Please stop. I just want to go home but my bus just never came. —Busser
I’m pissed at a certain auto body place. They damaged a head liner during a recent repair at their shop and refused to fix it. The owner is a very unethical business owner, and I wouldn’t recommend taking your wheelbarrow there to be fixed. The owner doesn’t have any backbone to face the customer, but…
I wanted to write to share how grateful I am for my weird little apartment building. I live in a brightly painted building that most people recognize and few know. I rented it without ever seeing it (just moved from another city). When I come back from my morning walk/gym sesh, I am comforted by…
To the coffee shop manager with the tattoos and pony tail: You’re just great! You always find a way to brighten up my often-dull days with a smile or secret treat. Big Love! —Soy Mocha
Am I your dad…think about it. America is a duck…think about it. Am I in your closet…think about it. Are you wearing a wig…think about it. Am I annoying…think about it… —Think About It
Big shout-out to all the extra Y Chromosome types who are so starved for attention that they feel an entitlement to block the front entrance and share with the driver their autobiography, snippets of life-affirming wisdom and observations about the state of the world. Shut the fuck up. Sit the fuck down. —Ross A. Parksandrec
Enough with the clowns and the constant ads for the Joker movie and the It movie. Both are so over and done, they’ve been remade a million times. BORING! Every time I go to a movie site it’s all clowns. Make something original for once. This stupid shit sucks. —Down With The Clown
The last night of Halifax Pop Explosion did not disappoint at the Marquee. Garage bands from as far as New York to as close as Dartmouth came together for one last explosive show on Saturday, October 26th. First on the docket? Diamondtown. Looking very comfortable on their home stage, the bandmates pulled the crowd in…
There is nothing more healing than listening to the beautiful musical stylings of Charlotte Cornfield and Spencer Krug. At the pair’s Halifax Pop Explosion set on Oct 26, Cornfield played a short but sweet set. Standing on a beautifully lit stage, she wore the same overalls she is wearing on the cover of her newest…
Walking into a sold out show, you know it’s going to get a little wild but walking into a sold out PUP show? Wild doesn’t even begin to cover it. OUTTACONTROLLER and Weekend Friends got the crowd very warm and sweaty for PUP on Friday October 25th at the Marquee Ballroom. Going back to its…
Halifax Pop Explosion got off to a moving start on Wednesday night with Songs of the City, presented by United Way Halifax at the Spatz Theatre. The show featured six storytellers and five artists. Each storyteller told their own personal story of struggle, transformation and resilience. Each artist debuted an original song that was inspired…
BACKXWASH w/Janette King Thu Oct 24, 8:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street free A shanti Mutinta—AKA the rapper BACKXWASH—fills the phone line with incandescent laugher, ready to soften the moment and appreciate a joke. She fills her songs with audio snippets from Mean Girls and Britney Spears samples, a cotton candy cloud foundation for infectious…
Sorrey w/Calm Baretta, Little Cities, Vince The Messenger Fri Oct 25, 4:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 F all may be nature’s brilliant and prolonged sendoff before winter, but this year it’s also the start of Sorrey season. “I do feel like we’re blooming. I feel like we’re taking advantage of all these opportunities…
NDP mistake In last week’s City article “Pushing beyond the glass ceilings of BIPOC political representation,” writer Julia-Simone Rutgers raises the good point: in all four Metro ridings, there has only ever been a “smattering” of racialized candidates, and none ran for the major parties in Monday’s federal election. But one recent incident was left…
Haviah Mighty w/Just John x Dom Dias, Hua Li, Yohvn Blvck Sat Oct 26 The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street, 9-11pm $15/$20 “T he past year has been a bit of a blur,” says Brampton, Ontario’s Haviah Mighty—and if you’ve been paying attention to Canadian music in 2019, it’s abundantly clear why that might be…
PUP w/Weakened Friends, OUTTACONTROLLER Fri Oct 25, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street Sold out Toronto four-piece punk outfit PUP is going to tear up the Marquee Ballroom at Halifax Pop Explosion, and we’re sorry you couldn’t get tickets. This Halifax stop on the Morbid Stuff tour will be the band’s third time playing…
Spirited Away Oct 25-27 Various locations, Lunenburg nsspiritsfestival.com Anne-Marie Bungay-Larose was out for a drive one night when she noticed—while the air was cool and crisp—the smell of fresh flowers wafting on the breeze. In that moment, it felt as if winter and summer collided. “I wrote that feeling down,” Bungay-Larose (a Halifax bartender who…
Driftwood People w/Alexandria Maillot, Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s Fri Oct 25, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 C assie Josephine—the eponymous leader of Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s—has a record both lovely and vulnerable in 2018’s Only Half Blue. Written in the months preceding her…
Shimmering opals, oceanic blues, cream white pearls; that’s Charity. Fresh sweetgrass, shapely moose antler, textured birchbark; that’s Mi’kma’ki. Charity Doucette, of Potlotek First Nation, combines the dazzle of trendy jewellery with the meaningful beauty of Indigenous beadwork to create show-stopping pieces that represent a restored pride in her heritage. “Know your worth—because that was the…
Diet Cig w/Walrus, Luna Li, Diamondtown Sat Oct 26, 9:15pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street C ool To Who, the latest full-length album from local band Walrus, opens with a soft, electronic beat that blossoms into warm synths that recall Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips in their simple spaciness. “Feels good to breathe again,” frontman…
A utism Nova Scotia has unveiled Building to Better, a white paper document with 29 calls-to-action for government, community and society to create and improve housing options for people with developmental disabilities. “Fewer people are receiving fewer services,” says Paula Hutchinson, senior associate with Horizons Community Development Associates and Building to Better co-author. “Because we…
Q I am a guy in my 40s and a classic sexual scoundrel. I cheated on my ex-wife and every girlfriend I’ve ever had. I’m currently dating a woman in her 20s. We are both each other’s ideal type. She has as scandalous a past as I do. We met via a hookup app. We…
The future of alcohol on Dalhousie’s Halifax campuses is on hold with the Dalhousie Student Union and the school both giving different reasons for the current alcohol suspension. “The DSU is complying with the university’s request to cease the service of alcohol on campus, despite the DSU making every effort to follow the University Alcohol…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCORPIO (October 23- November 21) “Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it,” writes computer engineer Bill Joy. Consider the value of that perspective, Scorpio. Being naive just doesn’t come naturally to you; you often know more than everyone else around you. Are you familiar…
The Lighthouse Oct 25-30 Scotiabank Cineplex 190 Chain Lake Drive cineplex.ca When Robert Eggers unveiled The Witch in 2015, he was so convinced it wouldn’t succeed that he sought a back up project “just in case.” After learning that his brother, Max, was working on a story about two men living in a lighthouse at…
This past weekend on the waterfront, a large white tent hosted thousands of keen oyster enthusiasts for a shucking good time. Over the course of three sessions, Haligonians and visitors alike ate and drank their way through a 3-hour long Maritime party. Songs worthy of a sing-a-long blasted from the tent as guests lined the…
Settle Elsewhere Oct 24-25, 5pm; Oct 26, 1:30pm, 5pm; Oct 27, 1:30pm, 5pm Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road $10-$20 T heatre du Poulet came onto the local scene in 2017 with The Extinction of Hong Kongers, a puppet show that tells a story of Hong Kong’s fraught past and uncertain…
Zomblet Oct 24-25, 8pm; Oct 26-27, 2pm & 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15-$30 T en years ago, when Dan Bray and Colleen MacIsaac began helming Villain’s Theatre (then known as Vile Passéist), they mainly aimed to stage plays by Shakespeare’s unsung peers. But, after mounting many a show by Marlowe, Middleton…
C ouncillor Sam Austin asked his colleagues this week to consider pulling the plug on the Shannon Park stadium plan from Schooner Sports and Entertainment before council hears back from staff about the proposal—originally requested by council a year ago. Austin’s intent with the motion to rescind was to take what he and other councillors…
In 2016, I was a lost father. I had no idea what was to come, it was uncharted territory. I was a male victim of domestic abuse. I quit my job of seven years to try and give my son stability when his mother went back to work after her maternity leave ended. I thought I was doing…
Fiends 5775 Charles Street, second floor Opens Thursday, October 31 F orest Eden Greenwell’s new shop, Fiends, is a one-stop shop for folks interested in leading an intentional lifestyle. Linking self care to our own unique rituals, whatever those might be, Greenwell wants to elevate the little moments we give ourselves. A poet and a…
A spotlight beams down over two women on stools, warm blue. With soft voices, they share a Mi’kmaq lesson: “This land is known as the land of deep water,” says Ursula Johnson to Angela Parsons. “Kinuk” is the opening act of Jeremy Dutcher’s co-performance with Symphony Nova Scotia. It’s a subtle sign the evening will be…
