Issue 1956, Jun 16, 2005

Arts

Nice work if you can get it
Dancing the wait away
Pitt turns 30 in new digs
Conference explores science of performing arts
Aboriginal fest helps urbanites loosen up
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

On the road to Nowhere in wild Patagonia

Theatre

Shear Madness
As You Like It
A Month in the Country

Dance

Virtuoso dancers bring Vishnu to Roundhouse
Frisk

Music Arts

Fischer makes doom a cathartic art

Visual Arts

Wang Du explodes media distortions

Arts Notes

Richmond ramps up arts
New fund could go artist-direct
Renaissance fund arrives

Arts Choices

Wigging out
How Swedish it is
Commercial, no drive
Dance lessons
Float your boat

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

Readers tally reasons for Lorne Mayencourt's victory
Getting power to the people with wind energy
Assaulted Fish clarifies former member's role

News and Views

Fests foster car-free ideas

Straight Talk

Big boxes bring big crowds
Noncommittal Non-partisan
Yes, No, Maybe
Publish or Perish?
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

Idea of resisting the unspeakably rich lives on

Savage Love

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

Health

Mutant microbes get help from hospitals

Health Features

Canada: The world's non-smoking magical kingdom

Health Notes

Shift in cancer care sought
Scratch and stop smoking?
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

Hiptop2 the tiptop for pocket-power brigade

Geek of the Week

The Big Tiki Drive

Features

The perils of planting

Coastlines

Islands mark escape route to ocean, sky

Fashion Plate

Kwantlen grads stitch toward market niche

Streetwise

Five easy pieces build breezy new collection

Kool Thing

American Apparel One-piece halter

Chic of the Week

Clinique's Colour Surge Impossibly Glossy lip gloss

Best Eating

Bocconcini rising
High summer's holy day calls for culinary homages to Father Sun

Uncorked

Batting a few summer finds over the net

Food of the Week

Farmers market reopens

Drink of the Week

Thomas Hardy's Ale

Straight Goods

Original zin
Rave on
Mercado Italiano
Good grapes
Galloping gourmet
Thai one on
Cocktail queen
Hip, hip, we're hip

Books

Everything Bad Is Good For You
Ghosting
The Rivers North Of The Future

Book Choice of the Week

The Quest for Truth: Adventures of a Leading Foreign Correspondent in Iraq

Movies

Two and two together
Downtown screens may go dark

Movie Notes

Heritage hears from who's who
Needled in Seattle

Movie Reviews

Batman Begins
Howl's Moving Castle
The Honeymooners

Television

Home Screen

DVD Releases

Brewster a one-of-a-kind blowhard

Music Features

Spoon serves groovy moves
Trailblazing Planets make an unexpected return
Inner nasties drive Stephen Malkmus to Face the Truth
"Phantoms" turns dial back to the psychedelic '60s
Stefie Shock exemplifies contemporary Montreal
The Atomic Bitchwax rocks it old school

Jazz Fest

Benoît Delbecq
Dianne Reeves
Bill Charlap

Offbeat

Scorch burns on rock's edge

Local Motion

Mimosa mom multitasks

Concert Reviews

Beatstreet Mixtape Launch

Recordings

No Luck Club
Britt Black
The Neins Circa
The Panic
Ten Ways From Sunday
Ronnie Artur and His Orkestrio
Blue Monday
Burlap
Astrid
The Belushis

Who Are You?

Mya Mayhem

Music Notes

NMW takes a year off
Basil plays for time
Homebass ending

Music Choices

Eels
Bonfire Festival
Graham Brown
Longwave
Xiu Xiu
Reachout 2005

Payback Time

Martin Turenne had been kidnapped

Club Kid

Forward

Time Out Events

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

Cartoons

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

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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