Issue 1943, Mar 17, 2005

Arts

Fatal Attraction
Photos Connect Kids World
Gore warms my heart; Harper warms my planet
Straight writers and artists recognized, pt. II
Volume 41 Number 2015 August 3 - August 10/2006

Music

The Used evolves

Travel

Izakaya offer cheap eats

Theatre

Lion in the Streets
Quicken
Indigenous Gay Canadian Play
Coming Up for Air

Dance

Tutaj Tam/Here to There

Music Arts

Cosi Fan Tutte
Sonic Boom
Looking East

Visual Arts

For Dill, Words Are Energy

Comedy

Beuhler's Comedy Outgrows Dirty Roots

Arts Notes

Bard Laughing Hard
No-shows For Literary Dough
Surrey Guards Teens
Arts, Culture Set To Cash In

Arts Choices

Mystic River
Railroaded Into Love
What The phh!k
Swinging Strings
Say In It Writing

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

An educating debate about student debt
The cost of getting a degree
Moving goods pollutes, unless you walk
Sexual-health group looks at gaming
Lesbian questions use of de Beauvoir quote
NHL should be about hockey, not money
Wrestling with words, and asshole libertarians

News and Views

Developer plans big change on Seymour
Police seek biggest increase in city budget

Straight Talk

Merchant mad at TD Bank
Publisher caught up in racism scandal
Pizza chain battles McDonald's over name
Mayencourt ad posted on Ann Coulter site
Legal beagle heads local business group
Clarification on Success Realty buildings in East Van
Champion for the poor dies in bicycle accident
Just like old times
Multinationals thrash consumers in court
Rally planned for Lebanon
Clifford Olson - parole denied
Vancouver Olympics more expensive than Turin's Games
City racks up more legal bills
Whale lovers threaten court action
City of Richmond prepares to avoid the fate of New Orleans
Kettlewell fights for adopted granny Krawczyk
June Critical Mass smashes records
Commuter paper fined for confusing ads with editorial
Watts opposes Port Mann bridge twinning 'in isolation'
Do any politicians pay attention to what's happening in the North American convention industry?
Premier's office killed Ballem's lab-reform initiative
GVRD board receives update on Camp Howdy
CanWest paper still closed

Political Connections

B.C. Liberals Running "polling" Boiler Room

Sports

Labour of love brings tourney into big time

Savage Love

Dan Savage's anti-Santorum feud continues...

Health

Burger bacteria can put kidneys at risk

Health Features

Canada: The world's non-smoking magical kingdom

Health Notes

Shared yoga mats might carry nasty germs
Shocking discovery: watching TV decreases levels of physical activity!
What's a potato stick?
McNuggets are healthy?
You are what you eat - so eat well

Dot Comment

Waves of the future lie in satellite radio

Outside

Daffodil blooms lure day-trippers south

Fashion Plate

Bruce Eyeballs Fierce Frames From Belgium

Chic of the Week

Glitter, Lace, and Beads

Best Eating

Tender Palates
All-you-can-eat sushi draws youth

Uncorked

Would-be Movie Mogul Greenlights Dream Flicks

Straight Goods

Arf-Arf
Life enhancing
Get benched
C is for c note
Unbuckle
Bellissima
Meat-free downtown
Sweet deal
B'WAY Brekkies

Golden Plate Awards

Slow Food seeds local soil
Local chefs sauté simplicity
Making rice all boils down to the grains

Golden Plate Readers' Choice Winners

Stiffest drink
Diner/Casual
Late-night/All-night
Patio

Books

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, by Gary Geddes
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
BC Book Prize nominations announced

Movies

Meaney Plays Rake in Clare
Waters Airs Pakistan's Past
Eytan Fox Finds Hope in Challenging Machismo
Congeniality Director Reaps TV Rewards
The (Complex) Hero Returns

Movie Notes

Nobody Knows The Trabis They've Seen
"Death" Comes to Winnipeg

Movie Reviews

Downfall
Walk on Water
Silent Waters
The Upside of Anger
Steamboy
The Boys & Girl From County Clare
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Imaginary Heroes

Movie Choices

One Offs
Video Patrol
Tube Pix

Music Features

Gimme Gimmes happy to be a cover band
Senses Fail stupified by the rise of the emo army
Multitasking bohemian changes his m.o
Black brings in a legend for that "Classic" sound
Decemberists ponder a big-league leap
Metro Area leaves room to get into the groove
Tom Russell changes things up with "Hotwalker"
Time weighs heavily on sanity-testing "Chronoclast"

Offbeat

Stanko maintains mystery

Local Motion

Careworn plays punk with serious feelings

Concert Reviews

Fetal Butchery Gets Metalheads Moshing

Recordings

Out Hud explores euphoria
The Black Maria
Dead Meadow
Bill Frisell
Paris Combo

Music Notes

Welcome to the jungle
Start yourself up
Democracy in action

Music Choices

The Surf Coasters
Damien Jurado
Pepper
B.B. King
Joel Plaskett
Spirit Of The West

Payback Time

Giddy Over Ashlee Simpson

Club Choices

Dynamite! Thursdays at the Tokyo Lounge

Time Out Events

Take Action
Benefits
Fashion
Et Cetera
Kids’ Stuff
Out Of Town

Cartoons

Arnould
Ernie Pook's Comeek
Tar Paper Town
Van Stralen
Red Meat

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Michelle | Skidge

Careers

Advertising Sales Associate
Web Programmer
Retail Advertising Sales Associate

Blogs

Joining the Web, version 2.0
Welcome to the Views Blog

Straight.com

About the Straight

Blog - Sports

NHL draft: bargaining with the devil
Floyd Landis - alpine high
The incredible shrinking team
Hasta Luego, Bertuzzi
Big Bert's move bad news for circulation directors

Blog - Politics

Assembly of First Nations responds to Stephen Harper's call for a judicial inquiry into "racially divided fishery"
Chief Graham's world is changing
Emerson's leaving quite a legacy
NPA council jams with the best of them
Historian says EU would find our snow attractive; maybe so, but are we having fun being snowed?
Stephen Harper, clubbed seals, and the West End Girls (together again)
Harper woos animal lovers
Clinton transcript on peak oil
Gordo grudge match II
Gordo grudge match!
Cadman charges chump change compared to Carline's income
Harper clones Premier Campbell's winning formula

Blog - Movies

Mistress spices up Hollywood cliche
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