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[Image-1] I read this paper every week and am always amazed on how in this section, the number of bitches are more than double the number of loves. This city (which I love) does have quite a few problems that need attention, but I can’t help but wonder how many of these keyboard activists don’t…
It is so awesome that you are using an electric saw and a drill and hammering shit outside my bedroom window at 7am on a Saturday. Keep up the great work! You are my favourite person ever! —zzz
So this is a bit of an apology and a bitch… I was coming down Portland Street on my bicycle, moved into the left turn lane just as the light turned red and stopped—with my left arm out signaling to turn left. You came up Portland Street in the opposite direction and signaled to turn…
[Image-1] Dear grown-up man that pushes women when they’re standing alone at a gig: The first time you pushed me, I was scared. Congrats to you for living the life of a fair-sized white man and never having to be afraid of someone assaulting you. I do not live that life. You kept pushing me every time you…
[Image-1] You stopped your car on Bayers Road before running over my phone. You called my Mom through emergency contacts and returned my phone to me. (Bless you for getting through a phone call with my Mom.) I didn’t even know I lost my phone and you come to the front door like a real-life…
[Image-1] I didn’t expect to (or want to), but I think I’m moving on. I miss you and your croaky voice but our timing has been tragic. I need to be kind to myself, and that means living in the present. I hope the rest of your trip is really wonderful, and that we can…
Movie reviewers everywhere are loving The Lobster, the first English-language film by Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos. The absurdist comedic satire is set in a UK near-dystopia where it’s illegal to be single. So when David (Colin Farrell) gets dumped, he’s immediately transferred to this freak-show singles hotel where he has 45 days to find a mate or…
[Image-1] After two terms representing the people of Halifax Peninsula North, Jennifer Watts says she won’t be running in next fall’s municipal election. The news comes from an announcement in her District 8 newsletter, though Watts says it was a decision she made before even being elected in 2008. “The next municipal election will be…
It was probably the hickey. hard to stop looking at your hickey on your neck. you look sucky —your old boss
A local Downtown Dartmouth stored which is not on your list has relocated to the Burnside area and has expanded into Antiques and looks like a turn of the century old general store. We have still failed to get your attention-Dartmouth is a part of Halifax. —Brenda
[Image-1] I was a cyclist in the wrong. I should have yielded! Thanks for telling me in a respectful way and thanks for looking out for our safety! —Thankful and more careful from now on
[Image-1] Loved watching you play with your pooch today at the lake, YOU’RE HOT! —Flower Saint
[Image-1] I don’t understand the predictable response to developments like the Fares proposal for Quinpool and Robie – no homes would be affected by shadow or wind, and contrary to the people who “slammed” the development, there are benefits to the whole city from developments like these. The missing piece of the puzzle in my…
[Image-1] When I was young, I was a conscious non-voter. During election season my parents always spoke about the importance of voting and how “This is our chance! This is our voice!” I looked forward to the day when my voice would be heard but when that day came I felt that my voice was…
Tomorrow night at The Company House, Toronto/L.A. comedy duo Cheap Smokes (Kaitlin Mamie and Laura Danowski) are presenting a variety show that’ll satisfy all of your comedy cravings (8pm, $7). The show will feature special guests Adam Christie (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Heidi Brander (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), local comic Dan Hendricken and appearances…
[Image-1] this bitch goes out to the construction workers on Richmond st. Letting you know how much you have all disturbed our lives for digging up our street, closing off our street, litter it with pylons, leaving the dirt and gravel everywhere, the constant drilling at 7am, giving no concern to the residents that work…
[Image-1] If it actually is the you I am thinking of, I do like you, just not all your choices. Think about you? Only every day. I loved you, after all. That doesn’t just go away over night, or over 365 + nights. You did kind of fuck it up, which is something I am…
[Image-1] To the girl in the headband and colourful backpack who gave the women on the steps of the blue house on Cunard St. a beautiful white gladiolus as she passed by on Monday, you made both her day and mine. And you should know that she sat there smiling long after you were gone.…
I am at the IWK to have my beautiful baby girl and realized I locked my keys in my car, so I called a towing company to unlock my car and they told me it was $55 plus tax to have my car unlocked. I told him to send a guy out and to call…
[Image-1] Election day is still a few weeks away but the gloves are starting to come off downtown. Last night, around 300 people packed the seats at Neptune Theatre to hear what the next members of parliament for the ridings of Halifax and Dartmouth-Cole Harbour had to say about public transit, affordable housing, economic development…
The Board of Governors sealed the school’s fate Friday night, approving this resolution: “Be it resolved that NSCAD management proceed with the planning of an exit strategy from the Fountain Campus facility on or before the year end 2019.” Even BoG member Margaret Fountain, NSCAD’s great benefactor and namesake of the beloved Granville Mall rabbit…
On Saturday night, Toronto-Halifax’s Sloan returned home to celebrate the 35th Atlantic Film Festival at a pass-holders special event at The Marquee Ballroom. There were also performances by The Brood, Rose Cousins and Buck 65 but I only made it for my Sloan dogs. Just after midnight, Sloan appeared and jumped right into “If It…
This weekend, several selections at the 35th Atlantic Film Festival explored human psychology through various narrative styles. On Friday, I rolled into the Lord Nelson Hotel at 1:30am to catch 1980 sci-fi musical, The Apple, which was one of the best worst movies I’ve ever seen, a terribly awesome, tacky romp through the exploitative music…
[Image-1] i wish i had stopped to say hello, but to the elderly lady waiting outside the Sobeys with the long silver hair, blue pants with big bright white stars on them, a gold belt and a red top. Your Wonder Woman outfit made my day. 🙂 —Stoo
[Image-1] Dear stranger in the black car, thank you for making the Macdonald bridge, and my tuesday commute home from work, super sexy. I was totally digging you all the way to north street. —Unnamed Brunette
To the dipshit that side swiped my wife while driving on lacewood near Needs. Check you f%$%ing blind spots dumb ass. Aaaaand your saying its her fault because she was driving too fast in her lane, which I know is not true. Even if it was so, you wouldn’t have hit her had you checked…
[Image-1] The end of Portland Street by the Tim Hortons reeks. It only stinks in the summer when the backed-up sewer system heats up and starts humming. Fix the fucking sewer. I am so sick of breathing in other people’s fermented fucking feces. They even had the nerve to put up new apartments (condos?) which…
Putting together a retrospective screening isn’t easy when you’re dealing with two decades, hundreds of writers, directors and producers and 60 films—especially when most of those were shot on 35mm film. “Well, firstly we had to find all the films,” says Martha Cooley, executive director of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, laughing. To celebrate the anniversary…
Film festivals love premieres—showing a movie for the first time. But in Canada, they also tend to love premiers, the politicians whose provincial government pays some of the fest’s bills. The Atlantic Film Festival is no exception on the premier front, and Nova Scotia’s top dog always gets their face on a welcome letter in…
This week, Paul Gross (Due South, Passchendaele) premiered Hyena Road, the first Canadian contemporary war film, which he wrote and directed, at TIFF and last night at the Atlantic Film Festival. The Afghanistan-based, Jordan-shot film also stars Allan Hawco (The Republic of Doyle) and Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland). And, just like the film, I’m conflicted. It…
Finally I can say I’ve seen Room, probably the festival’s favourite and a Canadian co-production of all things. Starring Brie Larson as a woman who was kidnapped at 17 and has been kept in a 10 x 10 shed for seven years as a mostly unseen man’s sex slave. The son from that union is…
[Image-1] When Canada’s political leaders meet later tonight in Calgary to discuss the economy, Elizabeth May won’t be in attendance. Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau and Tom Mulcair will all be taking part this evening in the Globe and Mail’s leaders debate, but no invitation was offered to the Green party. Just because May is leader…
[Image-1] As we age, we become more concerned with the practical side of life, or so the story goes. Lo and behold, one day we realize that we’re not going to live forever and suddenly all those little things associated with how to age, retire and ultimately die comfortably—things we used to put off and…
[Image-1] It’s a conspicuously missing link on the multi-use paved path along part of Dartmouth’s waterfront. Now, more than a decade after the first phase of the municipal trail was constructed, a long-lasting gap is scheduled to be filled. Halifax spokesperson Tiffany Chase says that the city will finally plug the linear break that exists…
[Image-1] It’s what New York and Los Angeles have known for decades: There’s an inestimable thrill in seeing your town up on the big screen. It’s qualifying. It’s justifying. It’s mythic. And it’s a privilege we in Halifax will likely have fewer opportunities to enjoy as Nova Scotia’s cinematic storytellers leave town in gangs, thanks…
North Mountain Premiere Wednesday, September 23, 9:15pm Park Lane Cinema, 5657 Spring Garden Road $11.25 Bretten Hannam shot his first feature film, North Mountain, over 13 days in January down near Kejimkujik—the Mersey River and Caledonia area, not too far from where he grew up in the Annapolis Valley. It was brutally cold. “We finished…
Q My son, who is almost 30 years old, was married four years ago. He just shared with us that for the last three years, he and his wife have been practicing polyamory. They are committed to their relationship but have each had relationships with both men and women. We are trying to get our…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22) Some people express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it’s a sign that they are not really confident in themselves. They overdo the vanity because they’re trying to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. In the coming weeks, I expect you to express…
Who he is If anyone knows about turning a passion into a business, it’s Peter Nowlan. Four years ago, the newly retired naval officer with a love for sharpening knives started New Edge Sharpening. “The purpose of opening the business was for me to make some money so that I could purchase Japanese water stones,”…
The trouble with food banks I recently watched My Week on Welfare by Jackie Torrens. There are many discussions that need to be started regarding the issues raised in this documentary that people living on income assistance face. One particular issue stood out for me, because food insecurity has been a constant concern with the…
Leaning over the wooden ledge of the boardwalk, Andrew Hunt preps one of his many fishing rods with a shrimp-like lure—a tackle suited for squid. “Those are huge!” he says, as he jigs his line near the tentacled shadows below the surface, waiting for them to take notice. Hunt, a local artist and graphic designer,…
[Image-1] Alan Kurdi’s death on a Turkish beach has weighed heavily on the consciences of Canadians. The discovery that an NDP MP personally appealed to Immigration and Citizenship minister Chris Alexander on behalf of the Kurdi family has sparked moral outrage and a call to action. Ottawa must submit to the demands of human decency…
Tonight, the 35th Atlantic Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Hyena Road, the new Paul Gross-Allan Hawco joint about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan (7pm, Rebecca Cohn). There are a number of internationally acclaimed films and shorts screening in the next eight days, but there are also great batch of Atlantic-made features that show just how skilled…
The Australian director Gillian Armstrong—lady directors are nearly a casual occurrence here, it’s great—presents an odd hybrid of documentary with Women He’s Undressed, about the openly gay costume designer Orry-Kelly, who won multiple Oscars in the Golden Age (including for Some Like it Hot and An American in Paris) and banged Cary Grant when he…
Always happy to be back for a week at Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre, looming above John Street with its escalator to the sky and wildly variant air-conditioning levels. Catherine Hardwicke came out swinging with 2003’s thirteen, a gritty coming-of-age story starring Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed that went from Sundance sensation to Academy Award nomination…
