Mar 5-11, 2015

News + Opinion

• City

  Why isn’t this city more pedestrian-friendly?

  A beginner’s guide for making Halifax a better place to walk.

  By Erica Butler

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• News

  UPDATED: You helped the "asshole with a shovel" get a new wheelchair

  The hero we deserved this winter.

  By Jacob Boon

  Mar 6, 2015

  
• News

  Why we still need public payphones

  In defence of the oft-forgotten call boxes.

  By Jacob Boon

  Mar 11, 2015

  
• News

  The Ivany Report Report: Chapter one

  Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.

  By Michael Lightstone

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• News

  Child soldiers receive “full complement of horrors”

  Roméo Dallaire needs your help to stop global abuse.

  By Jacob Boon

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Shoptalk

  Just what the doctor ordered, The Old Apothecary

  Meet Laura MacLeod, she's opening a new bakery on Barrington

  By Allison Saunders

  Mar 4, 2015

  
• Opinion

  Advocacy and the future of cycling

  An excerpt from The Urban Cycling Survival Guide

  By Yvonne Bambrick

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Opinion

  Letters to the editor, March 5, 2015

  These are the letters and comments from the print edition

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Opinion

  Expressing some sidewalk fury

  Our city is better than this

  By Catherine Abreu

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Education

  Ableist sales staff can cramp a shopper’s style

  Everybody just wants to look good.

  By Jade Nauss

  Mar 5, 2015

  

Arts + Music

• Arts & Culture

  Wearable Art’s 25 alive

  Celebrating 25 years of avant-garde, politically minded fashion, the Wearable Art Show takes to the runway.

  By Jade Nauss

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Pillowman talk

  A spooky, darkly comedic play promises chills and laughs.

  By Kate Watson

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Write For Your Life, that’s an order

  Doppler Effect Production Society’s fundraiser pits all manner of wordsmiths against each other in battle.

  By Kate Watson

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Review: Focus

  Zippy and charismatic. Don't think about it too much.

  By Tara Thorne

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Tig Notaro in Halifax May 17

  At the Spatz Theatre! Sweet jumpin' Tig!

  By Stephanie Johns

  Mar 6, 2015

  
• Arts & Culture

  Your 2015 Merritt Awards nominees

  Winners to be announced at the gala Monday, March 23 at Casino Nova Scotia Schooner Room

  By Stephanie Johns

  Mar 10, 2015

  
• Music

  J-Bru’s the King of Halifax

  With a new album on the horizon, J-Bru will be honoured at the African Nova Scotian Music Awards.

  By Stephanie Johns

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Music

  Playing Video Games

  Video Games Live brings all the fun of gaming to Symphony Nova Scotia.

  By Jade Nauss

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Music

  Dream a little Dreamsphere

  Aqua Alta’s new album comes straight from a futuristic undersea world.

  By Adria Young

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Music

  Sloan come home

  Showing off Commonwealth to the hometown crowd.

  By Shannon Webb-Campbell

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Music

  Q&A with 902 NonStop Records' Ally Dee

  Catch tomorrow's stacked lineup for Rap Therapy

  By Stephanie Johns

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Music

  OBEY Convention VIII initial lineup

  Prepare for "sonic spring" May 21-24

  By Stephanie Johns

  Mar 10, 2015

  
• Comics

  Hey You Guys

  By Paul Hammond

  Mar 5, 2015

  

Food + Drink

• Food

  La Pitchoune’s California dreaming

  Peter Joachim Nielsen makes not-so-Californian wine at his Sonoma Coast winery and he’s bringing some home to Halifax

  By Melissa Buote

  Mar 5, 2015

  

Lifestyle

• Free Will Astrology

  Free Will Astrology

  Hang out in the depths, Sagittarius

  By Rob Brezsny

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Savage Love

  A bit of brevity

  Dan goes long off a seven-word question. Plus: I would rather cuddle than do it, do you think he’ll stick around?

  By Dan Savage

  Mar 5, 2015

  
• Health

  Safe sex over 65

  Sexual health is too often a stigma for senior citizens.

  By Ariane Hanlon

  Mar 5, 2015