Hot Summer Guide

It was my first time in Paris—actually, at age 15, my first international sojourn—and after a week of intensive morning French classes and afternoons of negotiating huge lines of fellow tourists and letting my mother do all the talking, I finally rode the Paris Metropolitan on my own. It is a testament to how easy […]

The sun rises over the Mekong River and meets my excitement about the next three days with no rain clouds to accompany it. Excellent. It’s monsoon season in Laos and a rainy day would mean six-to-eight hours of hiking instead of three. My boyfriend Jeff and I are about to participate in The Gibbon Experience—a […]

Two years ago I impetuously joined a group of Dalhousie University history and theatre students who were travelling to a small Bohemian town in the Czech Republic to study Baroque culture. My desire to go to the Czech Republic had nothing to do with the pursuit of higher education, rather it was flimsily based on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Shakeel Rehemtulla has done some unsavoury jobs. The NSCAD student and local designer once scooped out fertilizer from a huge steamy vat filled with a concoction of long-fermented yogurt, compost and manure. Along with girlfriend Carey Jernigan, they spent a week last year working on an aloe and date farm in Gujarat, India as volunteers […]

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 […]

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 […]