Issue 1950, May 5, 2005

Arts

VUEguide animates MOA
Liberals, NDP both shortchange the arts
City of Dreams
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

Recycling the Rock
Mando Diao harks back to '60s British pop

Travel

Belgium is the new France

Theatre

Seascape With Sharks and Dancer
School Inc.

Dance

Solos give Pulse a heartbeat

Music Arts

Masked Ball
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Visual Arts

Musical confronts mortality

Comedy

Muslim comics skip cussing, preaching

Arts Notes

Art to the Rescue
Eyes on the Prize
Music, Dance Seasons Previewed
1 Kingsway Goes Public

Arts Choices

Bard Times
Aria Ready For This?
Cyborg Dreamer
Shadow Play
Big Music
Heavy Metal

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

Reader's statistics don't wash with teachers
Despite cutbacks, legal aid is still alive and well
Single welfare moms accountable for problems
Stink may not just be coming from politicians
Henley's hipster bashing called mean-spirited
Dinner in the Dark a one-off, not a dim-lit theme

News and Views

Seniors may hurt Liberals

Straight Talk

Eco-Hero Dies
Green Invokes God
NDP for STV?
Ex–Liberal Employee Asked Questions
Straight Nominated
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

Commentary

Is contracting out to U.S. policy-laundering?

Savage Love

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

Health

Feeding the Beast
Healthy sex is all in the talk
Bend it and shape it with new yoga trends
Group broaches Asian sexual-health taboos
From loller to running man

Health Features

Canada: The world's non-smoking magical kingdom

Health Notes

Parties lack alternative-health visions
Equal-opportunity sex
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

Fly away on a tour of the World Wide Web

Geek of the Week

Become

Fashion Plate

Wedges put colour back in spring shoes

Streetwise

Show off swelling bellies

Kool Thing

Kenzie platform wedge

Chic of the Week

Christine Vancouver's sample sale

Best Eating

Savory is Sweet
Praise cheeses! An homage to "fromage frais" and its kin

Uncorked

Hester Creek Winery thinks inside the box

Food of the Week

World's Biggest Bannock

Drink of the Week

Bowes Original Lager Special 7

Straight Goods

Whisky Nuts
Tangerine Dream
By the Book
Mom's Day Alert
Spanish Classics
It's a Slice
Got Legs?
Iron Chefs' Salad Day

Books

Paul Moves Out, by Michel Rabagliati & Embroideries, by Marjane Satrapi
Towelhead, by Alicia Erian
The Turkish Gambit, by Boris Akunin

Book Choice of the Week

Write for the "Straight"

Movies

Meet the Press
Cheadle and pals' "Crash" is a labour of love
Hilton "brat" survives "House of Wax" panic attack

Movie Notes

Political Flicks Dominate Hot Docs Awards
Committee hearing canned

Movie Reviews

Crash
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Jiminy Glick in La La wood
Chinese Restaurants
Kingdom of Heaven

Television

Home Screen

DVD Releases

Kinsey set reopens book on sexuality

Music Features

Gang of Four rises again
Quiet Courvoisier lets her music do the talking
Umphrey's McGee gets gig-happy in Tennessee

Offbeat

Bottomley's latest is a musical "heart play"

Local Motion

Canned Hamm is no joke

Concert Reviews

U2 stays within its limits

Recordings

Regina Spektor
Spoon
Pierre Bensusan
Klute
AK Momo
Monade
The Evens
Mike Jones
The National
Youth Group
Love as Laughter
Loudon Wainwright III
Tim Burgess

Music Notes

Donna meets the fuzz
The 'fork digs "dirt road"
Go for the heck of it

Music Choices

Magnolia Electric Co.
Mommy and Daddy
Supersystem
Sloan
The Sadies
Raveonettes

Payback Time

Weedley-eedley-eedley

Club Kid

Believe: Saturdays at the Red Room

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
This movie brought to you by...
Warning: Rated "T" for terrorism