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Valentine’s Day, like other bleak winter nights, calls for someplace cosy, tastey, and just public enough to be seen with that cutie you have been stalking, I mean, cruising since he broke with his boyfriend over the holidays. Have your date, and eat him too! at these Village and HoMA eateries.

It’s getting hot in here! Montréal’s own Sarah Bernard, aka 2Bmag’s chosen nakedly amitious DJ The Salivation Army gives it her all for her birthday, this Sat., Jan 28th at the RP. Free entry before 11.

Saveur Soleil, located on Ontario street East in Montréal, offers up something rather unique for the city’s epicureans: an authentic taste of Guadeloupe. Top that off with live concerts and cooking classes and Saveur Soleil has everything you need to spice up your winter.

Off-beat, up-tempo, and outta-the-village exploits as suggested by 2Bmag’s party connoisseur, Tom McGraw, for Dec. 31st. Sweepstakes Superstar, Carnavilesque, Crew Year’s Eve, and a pyjama party Jan 1st!…

Our beloved nightlife correspondent Danny Légaré has some hot ideas for even the chilliest New Year’s Eve, as well as for that seemingly emptiest of party months: January. Check out his top picks at Apollon, STEREO, and that little fest we call igloo…

When Bruce Horlin opened the K.O.X. Nightclub in Dec. 1984, the world was a different place. This was before the Internet, before the worst years of the AIDS crisis, and even before there was a Gay Village as we know it. The party godfather of Station C has some words of advice for club-promoters, the City of Montréal, and creatures of the night like RGmag’s Boísin Murphy: You have to believe…

Just a few weeks after the opening of Katakombes in the basement of Station C just a few weeks ago, the team of Le Parking fame, Greg Thibault and Pascal Lefebvre, are set to open their new club upstairs, Apollon. Named after the Greek god of the sun, the owners are hoping it will become a pillar of Village nightlife.

Billing itself as a “dissolute lounge for the mildly curious,” the newest addition to Ottawa’s alternative nightlife scene is a powerhouse collaboration between La Petite Mort’s Guy Bérubé and party hostess Sara Ainslie. In advance of their Sept 24 Grand opening, 2B got an exclusive look at their programming and raison d’être.

After similar events in Boston, Washington, and other cities, it will be Montréal’s turn to experience the mayhem of QGB on Sept. 22nd. No, we’re not talking about a tropical disease, but rather the DIY homo phenomenon of Queer Guerilla Bar, a US-based movement for LGBT people who are frustrated with the divisions between gay and straight night spots in their cities, and want to break out!

Ottawa girls who like girls have traditionally not had much to celebrate. But as contributor FC Estrella gives us a virtual tour of the Capital’s sapphic hang-outs, the lesbianography of the 613…