Meet The Junior High Riot Grrrls Fighting Back Against School Dress Code

“What they said is “I don’t want to see bra straps, I don’t want to see your underwear girls.” Mya Bixby chimed in, “Nothing else for the guys. Guys go around showing their butts out of their pants and that’s completely ok.” Cindy agreed, “There’s one guy who takes off his shirt everyday and no one really talks to him about it.”

Shifty Business: Fredericton Fest Turns Inf4rno

Fredericton’s favourite cult festival is back this July as Shifty Bits Circus turns Inf4rno. Ben Burnett caught up with organizer Penelope Stevens of the Shifty Bits Cult to talk conceptual and organizational planning of the Circus, and mindfully challenging the gender disparity in music festival culture.

If They Can Make it in Alberta…

Last Tuesday, pseudo-Trotskyites like myself got hammered the country over to celebrate the fall of Canada’s longest lived conservative dynasty. Rachel Notley’s NDP routed the governing PCs, and Albertans decided to change their governing party for the first time in 44 years.

But observers across the country have started making some hasty predictions about what this swing implies for Federal and other provincial races.

The Poetry and Performance of Riley Palanca

Secret East TV has teamed up with Spoken Word St. John’s to offer a capture of the poetry and performance of Riley Palanca in our first Spoken Word at the Log Cabin session. We’ve combined a video feature with three pieces of audio, and the accompaniment of a written profile, courtesy of contributor Russell Cochrane.

If it’s Broke, it Ain’t Fixed

J.H. Burns gets the fill from Greg Hewlett about running Fixed Coffee & Baking — a downtown St. John’s business which has found support and success, even in the hardest of seasons.