Savage Love bonus letters
please tell Horny and really tempted she’s neither weird nor past her prime, and call me! Please! grin By salvagesavage
Rogue airwaves
Hello, This is not a comment, but more of a question. I am a student at Dalhousie uni. and I have to find an article that I am interested in and post it in my class. First I have to get the permission of the author. I am interested in the article, “Rogue airwaves,” written…
Savage Love web-extra.
Hello, if possible could you let me have contact email for Dan Savage? Many thanksPaul Dunphypauldunphy2004@hotmail.com By paul dunphy
Savage Love web-extra.
Hello, if possible could you let me have contact email for Dan Savage? Many thanksPaul Dunphypauldunphy2004@hotmail.com By paul dunphy
Good gourd
It’s taken a few weeks, but news of Martha Stewart’s Nova Scotia-based pumpkin debacle has reached the inboxes of American glossy editors. The story got some coverage as it was happening, but now that it’s over it’s starting to hit “best of the week” lists in tabs like Star and InTouch. Our favourite is in…
Kerry’s cause
Kerry’s cause Pogue Fado will host a fundraiser for injured busker Devlin Kerry (AKA Kerry Holland) on October 30. Kerry, an August Coast cover subject, received extensive head injuries when he was attacked from behind by unseen assailants. The day runs from noon till close and though bands were still being finalized at press time,…
Room2Party
Room2Move Urban Fitness Centre, 5571 Cunard, is celebrating its first anniversary in business with a member’s bash, complete with a disco ball in the aerobics room. “It’s amazing,” says owner Danny MacKinnon, “it’s like ‘oh my god, I’ve been in here working this many hours for a year?’” The party isn’t until December 2, but…
Ich verstehe nicht, Marcus
Liebe Kirsten, in der Anlage ein Artikel in einer regionalen Zeitung hier an Nova Scotia’s Ostküste… Herzliche Grüße, By Marcus Behrens
Testing malfunction
To the editor, For someone that I don’t know, I’m very fond of Stephen Lewis. He works his butt off to help people, people who are normally pushed aside or ignored especially. If that doesn’t show goodness of character, then I don’t know what would. There was one thing about The Coast’s recent article (“Struggle…
Petals vs. pedals
To the editor, Why is it that if the Halifax Regional Municipality doesn’t have enough money to meet the recommendations for implementing its bike plan that it still seems to come up with the money for all those flower beds on Connaught Avenue, between Jubilee and Quinpool Road? Connaught Avenue is a beautiful boulevard already.…
Cookie, d’oh
To the editor, What an interesting letter! (“Cookie dough intake related to exclamation point usage,” October 20) From this I learned: 1. Ms. MacDonald has an overweight son and it’s due to his life at home. 2. She likes exclamation points, and has no idea how to use them. 3. She is totally rotted out…
Good luck with the dating young.
To the editor, As the first commercial FM talk show host in Canada, I couldn’t appreciate more doing it here in Halifax on the new station News 95.7 FM. With the exception of Wark, the city has a pretty big BS meter. I was confused by the nature of Wark’s lament in his editorial about…
Letterhead
Back at ‘cha, Mr. Wark, from 95.7 FM.
Love the Way we Bitch
This week’s Bitch: Money for nothing
Disaster Drama
It began with a bump. A big bump. On Thursday, October 23, 1958 at 8:06pm, a series of shock waves thundered through the Number 2 Colliery of the Springhill Coal Mine, creating an intense, localized earthquake that was felt 23 kilometres away. One hundred seventy-four miners were trapped or crushed as floors smashed into ceilings…
New word order
In it, a single word can pull double or even triple-duty, serving completely different functions, depending on its context. The recent decision by the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board to cancel a high school trip to Neptune Theatre’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird provides a unique opportunity to watch the English language at work; here…
Rogue airwaves
Michael Catano’s voice starts to fade on the car radio just before Portuguese Cove. Static overtakes the CKDU-FM station coordinator’s cheery read of more than a dozen names of listeners who support Moxieland, an eclectic cartoon/pop program. Host Stephen Cooke, a Chronicle-Herald reporter who started his CKDU show in the late 1980s, is inching the…
Make-out music
The members of the Maynards have an enviable relationship. Guitarist Heath Matheson, bassist Kristina Parlee and drummer Chantal Tardiff are the kind of friends who always one-up each other’s jokes, finish each other’s sentences and almost look alike. Perhaps not coincidentally, all three wear black-rimmed glasses. The Halifax indie-rock band has been together for five…
Immaculate collection
The members of Victoria-based Immaculate machine are earning a reputation for their remarkable live presence, but few dates are as memorable as those they travel over 6,000 kilometres to reach. Since forming in late 2002, the band’s handful of gigs in our city have included two venue closings—one of which happened unexpectedly in the middle…
Dreamer, Doom
Only occasionally does Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story stretch credibility. Its problems aren’t its claims to truth so much as its letdowns of genre. The sentiment in a story of friendship between a girl and a horse is so expected it needs ways to hook the audience. Writer-director John Gatins is left keeping his…
Monster mash
Halloween is coming and along with planning costumes, we’re thinking of the food to serve at our All Hallow’s night parties—graveyard cakes, dried cherry scabs, witch’s fingers and bat wings. But we Atlantic Canadians don’t have to look very far to find some unusual food that, to those who are unfamiliar with it, may seem…
Snack-o’-lantern
Pumpkins aren’t just for making pie or jack-o’-lanterns. They’re also the perfect source of the raw ingredient for one of fall’s most underrated snacks: pumpkin seeds. With a little bit of time and effort, you can turn your pumpkin’s innards into a snack that’s healthy and delicious—and which will put any Halloween candy to shame.…
Niro and far
Shelley Niro sounds wiped. Calling from her home on the Mohawk reservation Six Nations, near Brantford, Ontario, it’s not surprising; she just attended the busy four-day imagineNATIVE media arts and film festival in Toronto. There she screened her new 57-minute film of connected shorts, Suite: Indian. Niro, a member of the Turtle Clan, only had…
Campbell’s soup
If you are a B-movie fanatic, chances are you’ve run into Bruce Campbell at least once in your movie-renting career. The 47-year-old actor, who is best known as Ashley J. “Ash” Williams from the Evil Dead trilogy, has appeared in over 50 films, including such classics as Maniac Cop, Lunatics: A Love Story and the…
Life’s a Riche
According to Newfoundlander Edward Riche, no writer is an island. The award-winning novelist is making the trek from St. John’s to the mainland to read from his latest piece of fiction The Nine Planets. Riche is stopping in Halifax on October 27 to read at the Dalhousie University Club. “I’ve dared myself never to read…
Goin for golden
As if Vancouver needs any more ego boosting, early this month The Economist magazine’s research arm named it the world’s best place to live. The city has been at the top of the “Liveability Ranking” before, consistently scoring well in terms of stability, healthcare, education, infrastructure, culture and environment to be the planet’s “most attractive…
Savage Love web-extra.
The guy who puts semen on his friends’ toothbrushes is committing sexual assault. No one should be forced or tricked into coming in contact with another’s semen. Once, in college, while perusing a campus online discussion forum, I came across a posting from a woman who said her male friend had revealed to her that…
Need for speed
So far everything looks good on paper, but this weekend Metro Transit will find out exactly what happens when they put a fast ferry in the water and make the run from Mill Cove in Bedford to downtown Halifax. As part of HRM’s Ferry Cultivation Study, the Municipality has chartered a 200-passenger fast ferry from…
Calculated risks
Chalmette, Louisiana A few slabs of brick wall are all that remains of the De la Ronde mansion. Pieces of rusted iron fence are broken and lying on the ground. A bent sign along the St. Bernard Highway announces this as a site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. The major conflict here is…
Take a pill
In 1967, my mother-in-law had to lie to a doctor to get the Pill, saying she was married (she wasn’t), interested in learning more about the rhythm method of birth control (she didn’t care), and having “troublesome” periods (nope). In 1987, my doctor offered it to me — then 15 — after asking a few…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan Savage talks about young love.
Drafty plans
Angela Weal might want to save some of the red tape she’s been buried under—she could use it to fix up her apartment. With winter looming, Weal has found herself in a battle with her landlord over the state of her Bloomfield Street residence, which she claims does not meet the minimum housing standards outlined…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
You have three assignments this week, Libra, says Rob Brezsney.
Live and learn
Joni Stewart is a 27-year-old single mother of two children, aged 8 and 12. Recently, her son TJ had an ear infection and was treated at the IWK by a doctor who saw potential in Stewart and her children. He set the children up in tae kwon do classes and told Stewart about a new…
Let the games begin
It’s summer 2014, and sports enthusiasts, tourists, and 5,000 international athletes have descended upon Halifax. The sun glints off several shiny new sporting venues, and the new transportation upgrades are a success. Doubtless this is what city staff are daydreaming about as they gear up to compete against Ottawa, York Region, Hamilton and Calgary for…
