Culture

Fine tuning

By Serafin LaRiviere

Arts

The Habit unveil understated debut

Major milestone for Ottawa fighters

By Lara Purvis

Power

Icon bar opens as youth shelter

Former gay club becomes inclusive housing

By Marcus McCann

Vancouver

The pipe organ DJ

Bob Kerr had a particular passion for organs

By Robert Rothon

Arts

Queer comics seized by Canada Border Services

Censorship process shrouded in secrecy

By Rob Salerno

Arts

SUMMER LISTINGS: queer guide to concerts and events

From June to August

By Capital Xtra Staff

Arts

Party scene: DJ Daniel Wang

Disco’s optimistic rhythms

By Kevin Ritchie

Arts

Pink Martini offers dose of gay with its jazz

It’s better than vermouth

By Lara Purvis

Arts

On screen: Barbara Hammer

Breathing life into phantoms, fashioning art into resistance

By Jon Davies

Arts

CD reviews: Björk and Elliott Smith

One sparks, the other sputters

By John Webster

Arts

Manga men

Anime North’s bent offerings

By Miriam Boon

Arts

Dance: Matjash Mrozewski’s global ambitions

Wolf’s Court portrays a sinister, sexy world

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Winds of change

By Chris Dupuis

Toronto

Inspirational wavelengths

By Jane Ford

Arts

Music: Joan Armatrading

On her own with a field of dreamers walking beside her

By Lisa Foad

Arts

Silver screen: Louis Negin’s shocking disclosures

Silent film star silent no more

By Serafin LaRiviere

Arts

Film review: Jack Smith And The Lost World Of Atlantis

A utopia of the imagination for bohemians & libertines

By Jon Davies

Power

Councillor proposes red-light district

Council, mayor, sex workers group hostile to the idea

By Rob Salerno