Issue 2045, Mar 1, 2007

Arts Features

State of the arts
The dream lives on
Spring Arts Preview: Critic's Dance Picks
Julie Morstad's hair, limbs cut with the macabre
Doctorow fights for fair use

Theatre

Spring Arts Preview: Critic's Theatre Picks
The Invisible Life of Joseph Finch

Dance

Dance festival delivers diversity
Dance All-Stars

Music Arts

Spring Arts Preview: Critics Music Picks
Ariadne transforms maestro
Violinist champions passion
Russiafest
Stravinsky

Visual Arts

Spring Arts Preview: Critics Visual Arts Picks
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre

Comedy

Spring Arts Preview: Critic's Comedy Picks
Jamie Foxx hams up Hollywood

Arts Choices

Can't-miss arts events this week

Letters

Fraser Institute school rankings get F for flaws
Portuguese travel piece speaks the local language
How nontactical is Iran's Ahmadinejad really?
Legalizing prostitution won't help the workers
Sarah Rowland's gutter prose gives instant wide-on

News Features

Dumpster issue divides city
Fair trade is improving coffee farmers' lives

Straight Talk

City creates phantom "olympic" fund
Lack of pupils may close schools
Climate-change facts easy to spin
Former NPA councillor’s firm tapped to recruit civil city commissioner
Turns out there's no such thing as a free drink fest for Private Public Partnerships BC
Activist elder Harriet Nahanee mourned
Inaction leaves us "30 Capital Plans" from extinction: Al De Genova
Larry Campbell's left-centre-left knockout punch

Straight Issues

What do you think of the $50 shelter-rateincrease for people on welfare?
Critics slam welfare bump

Commentary

For phone lovers, good ideas come easily
U.S. interrogation may finally be put to trial
Pine-beetle blight may bring Fraser flooding
Maintain hope, all ye who enter here

Health Features

Multicultural health fair tackles barriers

Health Notes

Lactose-free chocolate bar discovered to contain milk protein

Dot Comment

Phone companies cozy up as woo date draws near

Geek of the Week

Bang! Howdy

Travel Features

Sarajevo returns to life by forgetting the past

Travel Notes

Visiting a post-Castro Cuba

Fashion Plate

Lemon zest: yellow breaks the monochromy

Style Watch

Old-school style drives historical Puma forward

Kool Thing

The Sexy Doll by T-box

Chic of the Week

Spray to Change Attitudes

Best Eating

High-tech magic leads to weird new pleasures

Uncorked

Reds and whites make beautiful spring duets

Food of the Week

15th Annual Wellness Show

Drink of the Week

Killarney Stout: official beer of Celtic Fest Vancouver

Straight Goods

The freshest dining spots and events in the city

Book Reviews

Helpless / By Barbara Gowdy
The Translation of Dr Apelles / By David Treuer
Cusp/detritus: an experiment in alleyways / By Catherine Owen

Movies Features

The F word
Obsession drives Zodiac
A battle to get 300's Greek warriors on film

Movie Notes

News from Hollywood North

Movie Reviews

Black Snake Moan
Reno 911!: Miami
The Rules of the Game

Music Features

The magick man
Cape May explores the dark
His love of live action keeps Lyrics Born busy
Do Make Say Think flees T.O. for rustic ambiance
Blues giants inspired guitar great Gomes
Rickie Lee Jones finds her spiritual side
Quebec's Belzébuth dances with the devil
BossHoss's country trip is stranger than fiction

Concert Reviews

Wolfmother unleashes an all-out love fest
Van Morrison

Music Notes

Get the lowdown on Vancouver's music scene

Music Choices

This week's best music bets

Payback Time

Fifty-plus friendly venues

Clubs

March 1 - 8, 2007

Time Out Events

Straight List

Cartoons

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

City Singles

Single of the Week - Clara
Singles of the Week - Michelle | Skidge

Straight.com

About the Straight
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Transportation

Kia's sedan redesigned as a youth magnet

Blog - Sports

Remembering the Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots of 1994

Blog - Movies

Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman explores the future of news
Amateur Vancouver filmmakers win over Winnipeg
Deepa Mehta's "Water" at the First Weekend Club's Canada Screens series
Vancouver actress Olivia Cheng wins the role of Iris Chang