To June 22 Dartmouth Players Head over to the Sawmill Playhouse for Dartmouth Players’ summer show, the comedic musical Lucky Stiff. It’s a whodunnit murder-mystery featuring a shoe-salesman named Harry who’s set to inherit his uncle’s vast wealth if he goes to Monte Carlo with him. Trouble begins when the uncle is murdered and Harry’s […]
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100+ patios to simmer on this summer
NOTE: Click here for The Coast’s current Halifax patio guide, complete with map. The following version is from 2019 and is out of date, although you’re welcome to keep on reading for inspiration or a trip down pre-COVID memory lane. WATERFRONT Afrite Andrew Al-Khouri’s restaurant is all about creativity and rule-breaking, but it still knows […]
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Stay cool with these 13 summer art exhibits
To July 14 Nature as Communities For her masters in environmental studies, Dal student Jennifer Yakamovich has been researching the role art can play in helping a cultural shift towards sustainability. Here, she plays curator as she shares a slew of results by artists from across the country, with pieces in various mediums meditating on […]
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Sex and the curious shopper
Q I’m a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off the charts. While watching porn and masturbating once my child goes to sleep helps, […]
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Play and have fun, Aquarius
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band The Beach Boys. A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: “Be […]
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Kink conundrums
QI’m a 27-year-old, male, adult baby/diaper lover (AB/DL). I’ve been in the closet about my fetish since puberty. As a consequence, I never dated or became romantically involved. I thought if I buried my kink with enough shame, it would go away and I would turn normal. It didn’t work, and for the past year, […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) Some birds can fly for days without coming down to earth. Alpine swifts are the current record-holders, staying aloft for 200 consecutive days as they chase and feed on insects over West Africa. I propose we make the swift your soul ally for the next three weeks. May it […]
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Quickies
Savage Love Live swooped into Seattle’s Egyptian Theater and Denver’s Oriental Theater over the last two weekends. I couldn’t get to everyone’s questions at these sold-out shows—there were so many great questions and I’m just one lousy advice columnist—so I’m going to power through as many as I can in this week’s column. Q Weddings […]
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEMINI (May 21-Jun 20) I prefer live theatre over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t. Even if you’re […]
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With empathy, or not
Q I keep running into the same issue with my best friend of five years. (She’s also my maid of honour at my upcoming wedding.) We’re both empaths—most of my friends are—and we’re both in therapy working on how to cope with that. I have severe anxiety that impacts my physical health, so one of […]
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Free Will Astrology
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20) What standards might we use in evaluating levels of sexual satisfaction? One crucial measure is the tenderness and respect that partners have for each other. Others include the ability to play and have fun, the freedom to express oneself uninhibitedly, the creative attention devoted to unpredictable foreplay and the […]
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Decent disclosure
Q Garbage human here. I’ve had herpes for about 15 years. The first five years, I was in a relationship with a guy who also had it. The last 10 years, I haven’t been in a serious relationship. I’ve been a (rare, drunk) one-night-stand type of gal, and I don’t usually tell the guy because, […]