Issue 1981, Dec 8, 2005

Arts

Music Yule love
Cold War play aims to open viewers' hearts
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

King Crimson
The drama king

Travel

Northern lights star in greatest show on Earth

Theatre

A little night music
The tale of Teeka
Peter Pan
Southern Time

Dance

UMOJA: The Spirit of togetherness

Music Arts

Thomas Tallis

Visual Arts

Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero

Comedy

Lewis Black's angry-man act gets personal

Arts Notes

Not just kids' stuff
Kogawa House gets helping hand
Standup holds own in Seattle

Arts Choices

A change of face
Christmas crackers
Get your freak on
Sneak peek
Manly, yes

Multimedia

Experiment #1: The Abandoned Body

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

Police chief articles praised, analyzed, amplified
Readers urged to fully research drug choices
HIV article switched interviewees' voices
Group's official stance at odds with headline

News and Views

Mayor faces bridge backlash
RAV line pushes out florist
Most young folks don't vote
Let's go to the polls!!!

Straight Talk

Mayor defends choice
Head-tax anger rises
Fees will rise at rinks
Editor quits
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

Sustainable cities are the key to our future

Victoria Secrets

B.C. Liberals flip-flop on debt

Savage Love

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

Health

Artists share illness burden

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

Get ready for a mega-, giga-, tera-shiny world

Geek of the Week

Golden age of animation

Features

Get a Turin preview at Whistler's Snowscene
Fabled Kabul transcends its cruel history
P3 bridge costs ramp up

Outside

Foggy days great for sleuthing around Slough

Fashion Plate

Garnishings boost basic black

Streetwise

Hunt and gather elegance with rustic appeal

Menswear

First Nations male role models strike a pose

Style Watch

Hot gifts for the cool season...

Kool Thing

Retro print knickers

Chic of the Week

Mary Craig's Clutch collection

Best Eating

French connection arrives on a breeze
Retro nosh brings spirit of Christmas passé

Uncorked

Meat, cheese, wine: a trio made in heaven

Food of the Week

Banana Leaf

Drink of the Week

Vincent Van Gogh gin

Straight Goods

Mix and match
Gastown groovy
Brimming baskets
Lend your support
In-and-out burgers
Just call him spice man

Books

The Commitment By Dan Savage
We Are Iran By Nasrin Alavi
Anomaly By Anne Fleming

Movies

Kong the wild
Yeoh flexes acting chops in "Geisha"
A tragic romance
"Family" strife imitates art

Movie Notes

Cash injection for Projections
Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah, film geeks
BC film society loses senior staff

Movie Reviews

The Syrian Bride
Syriana
Aeon Flux
Kamikaze Girls

Television

Home Screen

Music Features

Demented Dandi Wind blows back into town
Chicago's DJ Heather builds her house in a modern style

Local Motion

Old-school Sora is all about the classic rock

Concert Reviews

50 Cent

Recordings

Johnny Cash
Various Artists: Hollywood Rocks!
Jelly Roll Morton
The Grateful Dead: Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings
Various Artists: Goth Industrial Club Anthems
The Band
Bruce Springsteen
Hank Williams
Various Artists: This Is Hip-Hop
The Tragically Hip
Yo La Tengo
Ashley Hutchings
Various Artists: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
Various Artists: Mountain Gospel
The Grateful Dead: Beyond Description
Various Artists: The Soundtrack of a People
Ozzy Osbourne
Death Angel
Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton
Big Bill Broonzy
Various Artists: Early Country Radio
Stereolab
Various Artists: The Complete Verve/Remixed
Various Artists: The Motown Box
Bar Kokhba Sextet
Roy Brown
The David S. Ware Quartets
Various artists: Emociones
Shorty Rogers
Various Artists: Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
Boxes hold music world's best (and worst)

Music Notes

Lamplighter gets gassed
How the gonch saved christmas
Local labels unite

Music Choices

John Pizzarelli
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Mint xmas party
Blowfly
My Chemical Romance
Christa Couture

Payback Time

Respect is for guitar heroes only

Club Guide

Clubs

Time Out Events

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

Cartoons

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

City Singles

City Single of the Week - Robert
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
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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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