Berlinale preview 2015: The gay documentaries

Our Berlin International Film Festival preview concludes with a look at docs

By Dan Allen

Culture

Surreal love-fest

The Scandelles present their annual Valentine’s show . . . with extraordinary twists

By Jeremy Willard

Arts

Sodom presents Fangs and Chaynes

Sodom’s Vampire Love Ball crowns a new bloody queen

By Johnnie Walker

Berlinale preview 2015: The gay dark horses

Continuing our peek into the 65th annual Berlin International Film Fest

By Dan Allen

Love & Sex

How to speed through 10 dates

Venturing outside your dating pool is scary and rewarding

By Daniela Costa

Arts

Jean-Michel Basquiat shakes it up

An impressive AGO exhibit reveals the artist’s work to be as relevant as ever

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Buddies’ Rhubarb Festival returns

The 36th annual performance festival features more than 30 new works

By Chris Dupuis

Opinion

Xtra Hot: Mike Feswick

You just might find him at The Beaver

By Drasko Bogdanovic

Sharp in the Dark

Sharp in the Dark, Part 11

A Woman in the Night

By Hope Thompson

Arts

Drasko Bogdanovic and Mark MacKillop bare skin

Photographers unveil their sexual works

By Chris Dupuis

Culture

Berlinale 2015 preview

Taking a peek at the gay headliners in this year’s film festival

By Dan Allen

Culture

Review: Looking, Season 2, Episode 4

Looking Down the Road

By Matt Thomas

Nickelodeon gets on the Korrasami train

Cartoon network tweets about same-sex relationship from Legend of Korra

By Michael Lyons

Arts

Dina Martina’s best

The cult sensation brings her greatest-hits show to The Flying Beaver Pubaret

By Jeremy Willard

Power

McGill gay social-work student appeals discrimination case

Investigation by Quebec Human Rights Commission to be tested in court

By Michelle Pucci

Power

How gay media were stonewalled by the OCSB

‘We cannot win by engaging’ says Ottawa Catholic School Board spokesperson

By HG Watson

Opening the celluloid closet

The CLGA looks at queer stereotypes in the pre-Code and golden-age classics

By JP Larocque

Power

Daily Xtra gets a makeover, with mobile site to come

Publisher promises cleaner, more visual website in the spring

By Natasha Barsotti