Alana Yorke w/Brinleigh, Greg MacPherson, The Skydiggers Thursday, January 22 Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 8:30pm, $20 “I’ve been making music forever,” says Alana Yorke. And anyone who listens to Dream Magic—the local composer/singer/pianist’s latest—can hear the years of experience. “Ian [Bent, Yorke’s partner] is my co-producer and arranger for specifically orchestral instruments like […]
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Alex Oh so good
Alex Oh Sushi & Rolls Hours: Tue-Wed, 11:30am -10pm; Thur-Sat, 11:30am -10:30pm; Sun, 12pm- 9:30pm It’s a busy Friday night at Alex Oh Sushi. The dining room is tiny, but full; the heat of the small crowd has the windows sweating against the outside cold. My friend is running late, so I sit at the […]
Half-heard, chapter 21
Myles and Northwood’s stoops were probably 10 feet apart at the most, and though the stoops were about to function as spots for incidental social encounters in citified environments, just the sheer notion of Myles making small-talk with Sarah—this paragon of coolness who just now came outside and sat down with a pack of smokes—terrified […]
Trina in Halifax February 28
You know how it is, just browsing Facebook on a Wednesday, having some tea and WHAT THE SWEET JUMPIN FRIG IS THIS TRINA IS COMING TO TOWN??!? Yes. That is exactly what is happening. My idol and mentor, Miami’s Trina (AKA Da Baddest Bitch AKA Diamond Princess AKA Steph’s Ideal Woman) is indeed coming to […]
Tinder Daymare
[Image-1] “I love misogyny,” he told me in the morning while he put his shirt back on. “Why?” I, an idiot, asked. “Because as a man, it benefits me.” Wrong, grasshopper. You mean the patriarchy, not misogyny. And you’re still wrong. The patriarchy hurts everyone. —Out of your league
Ignorance on the 102 Highway
[Image-1] To all the road bullies driving SUVs light trucks and RST Tankers: why don’t you smarten the hell up when you see an older model car driving 10-12 km below limit. Haven’t you figured out in your thick stupid skulls that older cars can’t race at 140km in the fucking dark during a rain […]
Drawing the line between freedom of expression and hate speech
[Image-1] The Dawgfather, a popular hot dog vendor who usually sets up shop outside of Dalhousie’s student union building, has recently come under fire for posting jokes on Twitter about the Holocaust and 9/11 attacks. He claims this was done not out of hatred, but as a response to the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoon. He […]
Marked or Unmarked
[Image-1] For the love of God, people. Why does such a basic rule of the road seem to be completely unknown to so many drivers? Listen, crosswalks exist at every intersection, MARKED OR UNMARKED. It’s not complicated. If there is an intersection there is a crosswalk. Four, actually, at most intersections. I’m pretty sick of […]
Finding an assertive lady over 70
[Image-1] Lack of or difficulty finding an assertive lady over 70 in Halifax area: I have been seeking an assertive demanding lady over 70 who has no compulsion in stating her demands and being in charge for a very, very long time in this area to date—no success. Women in this area seem to be […]
Coast guide to the 2015 Oscar nominees
Don’t have any bon mots about the 2015 Oscar nominees to impress your buddies with? Here’s some! Please note: Not all films were reviewed, because we are not made of film reviewers, guys. And you know nothing in the “documentary short subject” category even came here. Animated Feature Film: Big Hero 6 Song of the […]
At least two Dalhousie “gentlemen” remain unsuspended
[Image-1] Updated with Dalhousie’s response below. There were at least 15 members of the misogynistic Facebook group that’s rocked Dalhousie’s dentistry school. Right now, 13 male students in the fourth-year dentistry program are suspended from clinical practice and isolated from their classmates because of the sexually violent posts some put onto the DDS Class of […]
Is the cup half-empty or half-full?
[Image-1] I just ordered the pizza and garlic fingers from your pizza shop and it cost me 30 bucks! I opened the garlic fingers and only half of them had cheese on them—the outer perimeter was dry as fuck. There were like eight fingers left at the end that didn’t even have a shred of cheese […]

