Issue 1948, Apr 21, 2005

Arts

Commercial Break
Revolution show flashes back to city's paisley past
"Broiler" alters stage recipe
Turning around a century
Gore warms my heart; Harper warms my planet
Straight writers and artists recognized, pt. II
Volume 41 Number 2015 August 3 - August 10/2006

Travel

Thailand's talismans cast a wide net of protection

Theatre

Trying
Alice: A Wonderland
Unless
Faith

Music Arts

St. Lawrence String Quartet & Todd Palmer
Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough
The Shape of Things to Come

Visual Arts

Vietnam's past haunts America's present

Arts Notes

Coast Salish art to go public
Et Tu, Coca-Cola?
Festival Vancouver turns five

Arts Choices

Foreign Bodies
Drunk On Self-Empowerment
Hop To It
A Dogged Talent

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

The hard truth about Pope's sex position
Who is anti-American, lawyer or George Bush?
Popular anti-Americanism?
TaxTron owns up to problems, but explains
Dance expert writes to right Rite's wrongs
Student's human-rights concerns questioned

News and Views

TransLink Pulls Newsboxes
Whistleblower worries about trees in park
City reviews payday lending

Straight Talk

Hydro debt collector calls man a queer
Mayor Counterattacks
Liberals bypass VSB
Kitimat sues Alcan
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

Savage Love

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

Health

Performers rebound creatively from injury

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

Public Net-surfing needn't be obvious

Features

Sucking it up for school
Selling the school
Teachers flee broken system

Coastlines

Old technology sheds new light on world

Fashion Plate

Designer's story TV-worthy

Streetwise

Spring looks pretty, casual

Kool Thing

Classic Girl cotton running shorts

Chic of the Week

PRE's Cucumber Cleansing Lotion

Best Eating

By the Book

Uncorked

Bonny Doon indulges in screwy cellar humour

Food of the Week

Gusto di Quattro

Drink of the Week

Shaftebury Wet Coast Wheat Ale

Straight Goods

Courses for a cause
Empty Bowls Fill Tummies
Jammed Weekend
Sunday School
Swirl Around The World
Delicious Conclusions

Books

Brett spills blood, joy, potatoes, hormones
Beyond Bountiful
Take these home to tomorrow's visionaries
Crawling through B.C. pages
Ladykiller, by Charlotte Gill
Treble, by Evelyn Lau
Liberalized, edited by David Beers
Painted Lives & Shifting Landscapes, by Richard Tetrault
Italy Out of Hand, by Barbara Hodgson
Tattycoram, by Audrey Thomas

Movies

Receding into the spotlight
German director finds his gumbo

Movie Notes

Not quiet on the set
Errol and Larry Go to Hot Docs

Movie Reviews

The World
Kung Fu Hustle
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Amityville Horror
Siblings
Schultze Gets the Blues

DVD Releases

Fitzgerald summoned by Last Call

Movie Choices

One-Offs
Tube Pix

Music Features

K'naan reps African hip-hop
The Donnas' one-trick pony grows and deviates from sonic blueprint
Sights not set on rewriting the rock 'n' roll rule book
Baka Beyond makes a sonic quilt of cultures
Beneath Augusta rocks without an agenda
Broken-beatmaker Duvanté inches back onto the floor
Sound Tribe Sector Nine goes for the groove
Amos Garrett floats beyond his guitar-hero roots

Offbeat

Veda Hille returns to the nest with "Killdeer"

Local Motion

Leeroy Stagger walks the line

Concert Reviews

Eternity plies mutant metal

Recordings

Prefuse 73
Glenn Hughes
Millencolin
Celtic Woman

Who Are You?

Sandy Coppell and Bambi the Pomeranian

Music Notes

White Whale makes Mediterranean splash
Hall of Fame to get Weird?
Turntablists slug it out

Music Choices

The Be Good Tanyas
Club Pick of the Week: Gallery Hop After Party, Saturday at the Lamplighter
The Gris Gris
Stereophonics
Puffy AmiYumi
Hard Rubber Orchestra
The Country Joe Band
An Evening Without Leonard Cohen
Erik Friedlander/Lucia Pulido

Payback Time

Impotent Rage Gets 6 Discs

Time Out Events

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

Cartoons

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

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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