Issue 1998, Apr 6, 2006

Arts

Practice makes perfect
Quartetto plays on with new cellist
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

Whipping Boy
Queen rocks back to life
Hawthorne hits new heights

Travel

Marine tourism not always a beautiful thing

Style

Style

Theatre

Waiting for Godot
The Hothouse

Dance

Jennifer Clarke and Anne Cooper

Music Arts

String Crossings

Visual Arts

EK Modernism: New Works by Sylvia Grace Borda
Kathy Slade

Comedy

Angry Darren Frost visits the Dark Side
Rapid-fire Lorne Elliott has a way with words

Arts Choices

Stark raving funny
Star power
The King's strings
A ride worth taking

Arts Time Out

Comedy

Letters

Government takes abuse for Woodlands inaction
Granville Mall car plan drives pedestrian crazy
Some Jews more than triflingly Orthodox
Fool of the Year finalist is gold for reader
Arts community a strong contributor to economy

News and Views

Teen decries party defection
Head-tax activists praise promised apology

Straight Talk

TransLink review causes concern
Child advocate may face council's axe
Emerson tops 20K
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

Straight Issues

VPL booms, budget doesn't
Libraries, police, or parks--Which do you put first?

Commentary

Sad-sack terrorists no threat

Victoria Secrets

U.S. group eyes offshore oil

Savage Love

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

Health

Rapport key to treating teen eating disorders

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

Prepaid credit cards let paranoids buy incognito
The sweet siren song of high-end earphones

Geek of the Week

Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project

Trigger Happy

Fun Gun is Wild West cliché

Features

Welfare Denied
NGOs take plight of homeless to UN

Outside

Whistler festival not just skis and boards

Best Eating

Loll on West Van's Left Bank
Method to matzo madness

Uncorked

Austria's specialty wine is not so special

Food of the Week

Solid-chocolate Easter Seals

Drink of the Week

Cinzano

Straight Goods

Class acts
Food waves
More bowls
Rejoice
Major buzz
Fishy fun
Dynamite duos
Wine, woman and song

Books

The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and The Snow Dog / Doris Lessing
Vandal Love / D.Y. Béchard

Book Choice of the Week

B.C. Book and Magazine Week

Movies

Reitman returns to his roots
Chance conversation spawned Live
Brick's Haas still standing in Hollywood

Movie Reviews

Lucky Number Slevin
Live and Become
Take the Lead
ATL
Brick
Basic Instinct 2
Bloodrayne

Music Features

Sarah Harmer harbours a love of nature
Costa's better off with a guitar than a surfboard
Dance-pop Infusion is a band in the classic sense

Concert Reviews

Metric
Thursday

Music Notes

Tunesmith Cramer passes
Book of Lists heads to 1965
Stop suing US!
Brozman lends a hand

Music Choices

Arts County Fair
John Vanderslice
HorrorPops
Ross and the Hellpets

Payback Time

No complaints this week

Time Out Events

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

Cartoons

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

City Singles

Single of the Week - Mike
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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