What happens when nerds don fishnet stockings? An Ottawa burlesque group is exploring why “geek” is the new sexy — and they’re not the only ones.

Using bikinis and beautiful people, the Save the Boobs video trumpets an important message: that breast cancer isn’t just a worry for older women.

Slam poetry is one part great poetry, one part performance, and one part competition: verse against verse. It’s gripping, it’s fresh, and it’s taking Ottawa by storm.

Since female roller derby was re-introduced in 2006, gladiators in fishnets have taken Canada’s amateur-sport scene by storm. But what makes this sassy, grassroots, rejuvenated, all-girl sport such a smash?