Coast, I am really fed-up with your pretentiousness. I used to live in Montreal, and they have a weekly called the Mirror. It is PAINFULLY obvious that you’ve copied most of your material from them. Man, I have sooo many beefs with the Coast.
Leslie Lowe, who do you think you’re kidding with your shoddy journalism? You’re biased, opinion-riddled, irrelivent drivel is SWILL. WHY are you allowed to write for this paper when there are so many QUALIFIED writers who would LOVE an opportunity to write for the Coast, but cannot because YOU are filling the paper with your shoddily written sickness??
UGH, the Coast is pathetic…
And WHO writes that RIDICULOUS short story that runs along the bottom of the paper?? HOW are they able to have that cliche crap pulished??? Oh yeah, now I remember. Because it’s the COAST. Everything reads like an opion piece because your journalists are so incredibly amateur that those of us who actually VALUE well-written stuff are immensly frustrated….
Tell Leslie Lowe to brush up on her EMPTY store of talent, keep your opinions in moderation…maybe get a little creative with your articles. There is SOOO much potential with an incredible medium that is The oast, but man….you guys are letting it rust into something EMBARASSING.
This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2008.
RTMI: Ouch. The Coast is a free weekly. That being said, if you don’t like it don’t read it. Seriously, just don’t read it. I agree 999.99% with what you say about Leslie Lowe. She doesn’t write as a journalist. Her “stories” are editorials – even when they are features. As a journalist who left the industry due to a lack of credible, interference-free work (managers and editors have grown increasingly insistent that they dictate your tone and topic these days), I am embarassed that people refer to Leslie Lowe as a journalist. She often contradicts her own leading theses within the first page of any given story. And these stories are not written with the impartiality that all REAL journalism demands. But seriously, disliking one contributor shouldn’t leave The Coast victim to this kind of rant. Settle down, read something else, and let the rest of us enjoy (sans Leslie Lowe’s drivel) The Coast.
Yes, at least it is free. Kinda funny, the Metro is free and I think I’ve only read one issue of it so far. As bad as The Coast is in some ways, it does fill a niche that needs filling, warts and all.I haven’t read the bottom monologue in years, I suggest you do the same.
I see where the writer of this bitch is coming from. Two weeks ago (or so) I pick up an issue of the Coast and was so furious by what was on the front. What made the front cover that week was that dumb ass looking movie ‘way she move’. Where the hell has the Coast gone when they had to put a movie on the front page? Also on top of that, a movie that wants to look ‘cool’ for not using proper English! When I first moved to the city the Coast was about local stuff. Guess they ran out of material? Lay off the stupid movie shit. Find another cover story other than one that mimmicks those other senseless movies (step up, step up 2, etc. etc. etc.)
Steve yes!!! i did the same i picked up the coast and it was “how she moved” i put it down and walked on.But it is a free paper your not loosing out on anything and hey it is WAY better then the Metro and their tabloids!
i like the little storys on the bottomyou dont like it? dont read it!
uhm…go back to montreal? that’s pretty much all I can think of to say to you. You call the Coast pretentious, yet I don’t think there’s anything more pretentious than bitching about the Coast. And Leslie has a certain style of writing; so what? It beats the boring, generic crap you read in other newspapers, hands down.If you really, really hated the Coast, you wouldn’t have made an effort to create an account on the website now, would you? So please, go be pretentious and read the Mirror, preferably while on a plane back to Montreal. thanks.
“You’re biased, opinion-riddled, irrelivent drivel is SWIL”(1) you should probably double check your spelling before you attack others’ wrting merits and (2) pretentiousness? while you presume that similarities in formatting and layout are necessarily the result of a smaller town emulating your home-town high-cultured metropolis you accuse THEM of pretentiousness? ummm ok, just checking.
Yaaaawnnn….zzZZzzzzZZzzz…..The coast has its ups and downs… Its a great place to find out interesting things that are going on in Halifax that AREN’T typically C100 sponsored NSCAR races and Demolition Derbies (Thank you Chronicle Herald) But the publication itself is a yawn-fest; trying to be edgy and new-age yet ends up looking like something published by a High-school Yearbook Committee, where it is just one big clique writing for each-others amusement.The target audience (in my opinion) for the Coast are the those NSCAD types who live in (and boast about living in) the North End, who are UNBELIEVABLY pretentious; who look and smell like 80-year-old Farmers at a rotten-potato plantation; who think that they are edgy, contemporary and artistic demigods.Just like the Coast, these people are phony, boring and socially transparent (wow, you live next-door to real poor people, you are soOooo cool!)Yet despite all that, where would we be without The Coast? Its a quintessential part of being a Haligonian. And for all the tripe that is written in it (I’m in total agreement with Matthew about Leslie Lowe) there is always something interesting and informative in every addition….Even if its just a Bitch!!AND ITS FREE!
Theres only one reason to read the Coast, Dan Savage.
Janet is my new god and Savage Love barely gets a glance and skim-thru by yours truly in I don’t know how long….
Haha, Janet, you’re great- I haven’t laughed that hard in a while! Don’t forget about King’s either…
And how about ”Free Will Astrology” ? Gag!!!