Jul 16-22, 2015

News + Opinion

• City

  How to be Halifax’s next poet laureate

  What a poet laureate does and how to apply.

  By Jacob Boon

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• City

  New app offers free legal help for transgender Canadians

  Halifax-born developer launches JusticeTrans at Pride.

  By Jacob Boon

  Jul 20, 2015

  
• News

  You can probably forget about that giant waterslide, Halifax

  Slide the City cancels Citadel Hill event, ruins summer.

  By Jacob Boon

  Jul 19, 2015

  
• News

  Friday's 11 things to get your read on with

  Jones, drones, groans and microphones

  By Team Coast

  Jul 17, 2015

  
• News

  Wednesday's 8 things you oughta know

  Donair crawls and Jimmy Melvin's downfall. Plus, who will pick all these strawberries?

  By Team Coast

  Jul 22, 2015

  
• News

  Thursday's top 10 things to know

  Pride Week, Timmie Ho's, a shit load of oysters and Legofax

  By Team Coast

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• News

  Monday's 9 things you need to know

  Dykes vs. Divas is rained out, Jimmy Melvin Jr. is reined in.

  By Team Coast

  Jul 20, 2015

  
• News

  Tuesday's 8 things you need to know

  Yes, Halifax, there is a new bike lane. And a sample sale!

  By Team Coast

  Jul 21, 2015

  
• Shoptalk

  Top 5 Thursday Nights in Halifax

  Open Your City with Heineken and find out what's hot right now.

  Aug 5, 2015
• Shoptalk

  4 to 8 Sample Fashions visits Bishop's Landing

  A one month pop-up for ladies in single-digit sizes

  By Allison Saunders

  Jul 21, 2015

  
• Opinion

  Scenes from growing up gay in small-town Nova Scotia

  Celebrating the survivors, remembering the lost during Pride.

  By Sherwood Hines

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Opinion

  Pride, I love you but you’re bringing me down

  Some history, and gratitude, from a self-described “bitter old queen.”

  By John Williams

  Jul 16, 2015

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Queer Acts is acting up again

  The queer theatre festival is under new management, revving up for Pride

  By Kate Watson

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  The Halifax Summer Opera Festival is here and its queer

  Subversive and accessible, HSOF is an opera festival for the rest of us

  By Adria Young

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Meet the three amazing artists creating public art for the Halifax Common

  HRM announces diverse line-up for cultural project.

  By Lewis Rendell

  Jul 22, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  (Re)Introducing The Mankos

  The slut-punk four piece re-emerges from Halifax’s underground with a new lineup

  By Lewis Rendell

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Review: Amy

  Don’t fall in love with a shitty man. Don’t be born to a shit, either.

  By Tara Thorne

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  NS Music Hall of Fame's first legends

  Casino announces five inaugural inductees.

  By Kyle Shaw

  Jul 21, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  I’s the bi

  It’s not a phase. Bisexuality is real, it’s important and it has a place at Pride.

  By Rebecca Dingwell

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Take me to church

  Keeping the faith at some of Halifax’s most inclusive religious spaces.

  By Laura Kenins

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Plenty of options for staying sober at Pride

  Not drinking doesn’t mean having to be a buzzkill

  By Rebecca Dingwell

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Mind your business (association)

  Halifax’s LGBT Business Association is on the hunt for new board members.

  By Jacob Boon

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Trans-substantiation

  Making room for the trans community at Halifax Pride.

  By Laura Kenins

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Cultural Festivals

  Paint the town Rad

  The rebels of Rad Pride are bringing Pride Week back to its activist roots.

  By Rebecca Dingwell

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Music

  Love the ones you're with

  The Wooden Sky's Gavin Gardiner talks Halifax Pop Explosion, tour life and future plans

  By Lewis Rendell

  Jul 17, 2015

  
• Comics

  Welcome to Hellifax

  By Tim Carpenter

  Jul 16, 2015

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  Strawberry shortcake forever

  The time is ripe for summer’s sweetest dessert, so hit the U-Pick and try baking this perfect this perfect biscuit.

  By Melissa Buote

  Jul 16, 2015

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Gather the broken parts, Aquarius

  By Rob Brezsny

  Jul 16, 2015

  
• Savage Love

  Quick hits

  A little bit of cuckolding, one snooping and judgmental mother plus tips on how to ex-proof your apartment/life.

  By Dan Savage

  Jul 16, 2015