Your mom will warn you against it. Your friends might, too. It really isn’t something to do on a whim. But, there may come a time in your life when you decide it’s a good idea to get the name of your honey forever emblazoned on your flesh in indelible ink. It’s good to remember […]
Lifestyle
The right track
It all comes down to the weather. Halifax Regional Municipality has agreed to repair the track surface at Metropolitan Field in Lower Sackville. The field is one of only two outdoor tracks in the Halifax area available to high-school and local clubs. It’s a busy spot. In the spring and summer, Met Field plays host […]
Savage Love Web Extra
I was browsing the Planned Parenthood website and something totally surprised me. In their birth control (BC) section, they quote the percentage of women who get pregnant during the first year of using a particular method. The interesting part: The breastfeeding method (mothers who are full-time breastfeeding, haven’t had a period, less than six months […]
A league apart
Professional sports often spawn breakaway leagues intent on going it alone and serving underserved markets. Hockey had the World Hockey Association, which ran from 1972 to ’79. As for football, some would place the CFL in this category. While that league limps along, other failed fraternities—the USFL, XFL and a flurry of indoor iterations—have risen […]
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Break away from the everyday you, Sagittarius, says Rob Brezsny.
Tray magnifique
It began as a last hurrah—a trio of friends heading to a downtown Halifax bar for a memorial puff to indoor smoking. “We were just like, you know what, let’s go have one last smoke in a bar,” Steve Maly says with a laugh. “That’s the only reason we were talking about the ashtrays.” It […]
Fighting words
Mental block: Psychiatric drugs are quick fixes—prescribed too quickly and without talk therapy. The world is divided when it comes to drugs to treat mental illness—from anxiety to depression to obsessive compulsive disorder and more. While the debate has as many folds and factors as the brain itself, the best entry point into the debate […]

