Issue 1967, Sep 1, 2005

Arts

Exposing the electric heart
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

Back in black
It's bigger than hip-hop

Travel

On the hunt for history in Southern England

Music Arts

Views take a beating at powerful taiko show

Visual Arts

Show's crows come home to roost

Arts Notes

Designs on a dream space
Artists feeling insecure
Playwrights' paradise

Arts Choices

Cocky bird
Noisy pictures
Painting paradise

Multimedia

FUSE lights up the right demographic

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

Gas utility fines chicken feed compared to U.K.
CanWest also gives Liberals a leg up
B.C. HIV tests both exhaustive and accurate
Cartoon draws ire of well-balanced reader
TA pay linked to grad-student well-being

Straight Talk

Kinder Morgan exec to meet residents
Tycoons Saw Premier
Forecast missed on convention delegates
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

Penner's spin wears thin
Put a name to forest foes

Victoria Secrets

Oppal explains his tax debt

Sports

Bertuzzi's Back

Savage Love

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

Health

Plan to build city for fitness, not fatness

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

Technology

The lure of the all-in-one
War of the consoles to wage in households
Visions of interconnection

Dot Comment

Next-gen cells answer call of the download

Geek of the Week

Atomic Tiki Storefront

Trigger Happy

Ads get piece of the action

Outside

Churn Creek's steppes are fragile gems

Streetwise

Fashion boutiques play double duty as galleries

Kool Thing

Royal Hunting blazer by Laurèl

Best Eating

Back to the land
How we cook and what ingredients we identify with say a lot about us

Uncorked

Seeing summer through rosé-coloured glasses

Food of the Week

Ask a Chef program

Drink of the Week

Royal Oak Traditional Bitter

Straight Goods

Naked + casual
Dishes to die for
Wired and wireless
Bon appetit
Think outside the can
Fun fests

Books

Radical Evolution / by Joel Garreau
Lady Franklin's Revenge / by Ken McGoo­gan
The Bird Factory / by David Layton

Book Choice of the Week

The Rice Queen Diaries

Movies

Ready for its closeup
Latin lovers get their fill at film festival

Movie Notes

Back to school with Federico
Cancer and Reality TV, together at last
Nickles and dimes add up

Movie Reviews

The Cave
Underclassman

Television

Home Screen

DVD Releases

Studio Ghibli offers more than Miyazaki

Music Features

These Girls drive boys crazy
Son Volt puts a pioneer back on the tracks
Craft finds Blackalicious with room to breathe
Molina makes sad songs strangely uplifting

Concert Reviews

Garbage makes a charismatic connection
Brian Wilson

Music Notes

Pornographers smoking hot
Cherrybomb seeks new name
Serviette gets his day

Music Choices

Backstreet Boys
Pearl Jam
Keren Ann

Payback Time

Michael Smith vs. Martin Turenne

Clubs

Know your history - Shine
Ask your bartender
Hot List
DJ lowdown - Needle Kineval
Tried & Tested

Time Out Events

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

Cartoons

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

City Singles

Single of the Week - Mick
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

Video Game Reviews

Area-51
Killer7

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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