Q:My boyfriend and I both like porn and toys, and we’re obviously open about everything and often play with them together. But recently he posed an interesting question that left me feeling like a prudish conservative: If virtual-reality technology’s developed such that one can have a sexual encounter with a computerized person (insert favourite famous […]
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Savage Love
Q: I’m writing in celebration of the California decision to allow gays to marry. I’m thrilled—I’ve always thought the idea that gay marriage could hurt or affect straight people in any way was ridiculous. But a year ago, I found out I was wrong. I’m a straight woman in her late 20s dating “the one,” […]
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Walk a New Canadian Pilgrimage
If you drop by Eyelevel Gallery on Gottingen Street, chances are you’ll find its director, Eryn Foster, sitting behind the high-walled desk down at the end opposite the storefront windows—the source of the gallery’s brightly lit space. Amid a clutter of printed matter—administrative and creative—she appears totally at home. In her three years of work […]
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Sail, kayak, canoe or fish
Newbie sailors and easy-access paddlers Congratulations, you’re a member of St. Mary’s Boat Club! The neighbourhood boat club is open to the public and it doesn’t get any better than this. SMBC offers various sailing lessons and camps to anyone over the age of 10. (And ranging to upwards of 85!) All instructors are nationally […]
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Easter in Copenhagen
Here I am, Easter weekend, 2004, stuck in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’m a third of the way through what will become a three-month trip through Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Even before I left my home in Vancouver, my mother was fretting over the holiday weekend, that I’d be left out in the cold with nowhere to […]
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Mud Festival in South Korea
At the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul, with a twilight parade of 10,000 paper lanterns making its way down the old temple streets, go figure I would randomly run into a guy I rode the bus with in high school. There are only about 10 million people in South Korea’s capital city after all. He […]
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Drive the Quinpool cruise
There’s something in our subconscious that ties us to our cars. Especially in men. Maybe it starts with our fathers and the cars we remember when we were children, the trips we took, stuck in the back seat as the world went by. It could be the lasting imprint of that adult thrill of learning […]
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Bike tune-ups across Halifax
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and bikes arecoming out of the garage. Some of them are squeaking, creaking and moving slowly. Al Barbour at Nauss Bicycle Shop (2533 Agricola Steet, 429-0024) says a lot of people wait until their bikes don’t work before they come in. His advice: Find out how much air […]
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Unicycle across Nova Scotia
She went out almost every day and rode 10 to 15 kilometres, 25 to 30 on the big days. Perhaps you passed her if you’ve driven out of Cole Harbour towards the eastern shore on Highway 207 in the past few months. It may have been a bright, sunny spring day, or even a slushy, […]
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Skateboard city
For people looking to start skateboarding this summer, or to just dust off their old deck, Halifax is the place to be in the Maritime skateboarding scene. The recently renovated Halifax Common Skatepark is the de facto place in the city to skate. “The city threw down, they built it, and it’s a great addition […]
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Outdoor adventures in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia boasts 7,500 kilometres of coastline, and almost that number of sea-adventure packages for the unsuspecting traveller to choose from. “Canada’s Ocean Playground,” indeed. But what about overland adventure? Head inland from any point along our coast and you’re liable to find yourself rubbing up against 300-million-year-old fossils at Joggins Cliffs, losing your boots […]
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Fallsy Downsies
Lansing Meadows sat in the back. He pressed the little tab that made the windows go up and down. He pressed it up, he pressed it down, he pressed it up again. Evan Cornfield, steering the car over the rutted road, around roadkill and potholes and the various other detritus of an old highway in […]
