Issue 2046, Mar 8, 2007

Arts Features

Vieaux retunes his classical guitar to jazz
Niblock wants audience to wander
Back to the land

Theatre

The Maiden's Prayer
Exuberant Banana Boys battling stereotypes
Hippies and Bolsheviks
Moonlight and Magnolias

Dance

Ailey II finds inspiration in timeless Revelations

Music Arts

Five Working Songs
Ariadne auf Naxos
Hammerhead Consort

Visual Arts

Vancouver loses its identity in The Backlot
New Yorkers clamber over Vancouver's Wall

Arts Notes

News from the art world

Arts Choices

Can't-miss arts events this week

Arts Time Out

March 8 - 15, 2007

Letters

Fences are everywhere, but hope does exist
Action only important thing in global warming
Copyright Act might not need tinkering after all
Bad media, faulty logic, propaganda taint letter
Anything you don't say may be used against you

News Features

Labour hopes COPE, Vision get it together
Bad news for environment policy

Straight Talk

Enrollment may fall again in Vancouver
Olympic flag theft "wasn't us": Anti-Poverty Committee
NDP distressed by Green surge
Women seek more women in politics
B.C. judge certifies class-action lawsuit against National Money Mart Company
Vancouver Police Foundation wants to buy the VPD a bulletproof armoured vehicle for the Olympics
George McWhirter is the City of Vancouver's inaugural Poet Laureate
Larry Campbell's left-centre-left knockout punch

Straight Issues

Are British Columbians beinggreenwashed by the B.C. Energy Plan?
Green power or green spin?

Commentary

Pope Benedict plays a big role in the demise of civil unions in Italy
Playing Monopoly with Iraqi money

Sports

NHL's Brit circus penny wise, pound foolish

Health Features

Allergens, flying rocks, and ticks: spring's here!

Health Notes

Run for your life—and the lives of others—in the Pacific Spirit Run at UBC on Mother's Day

Dot Comment

Multitasking is key to e-commerce success

Geek of the Week

Project Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News

Trigger Happy

A game a day keeps doctor errors away

Travel Features

Hospitality warms Siberian bicycle odyssey

Fashion Plate

Rip, chop, crop your duds to a hip new you

Style Watch

Paper-Doll clothes draw hip moms and quirky careerists
Belinda Bruce and the Tawny Stars CD-release party

Kool Thing

Mia suspender dress

Chic of the Week

Dress for Success

Best Eating

Fuel trail time with fast eats, movable feasts
Quick cures for supper blues

Uncorked

Y's forget-me-not label stops store zombie-ism

Food of the Week

Mistral French Bistro

Drink of the Week

Hendrick's Gin

Straight Goods

The freshest dining spots and events in the city

Dine Out Guide

March 15 - 22, 2007

Books

B.C. books before the juries

Book Reviews

Falling Boy / by Alison McGhee
Lost Genius / by Kevin Bazzana

Movies Features

Bullock weathers Premonition's strange days
Pure passion drives Barley
Namesake spans worlds
New-wave master revisited
300's graphic novelty calls for broad strokes

Movie Notes

News from Hollywood North

Movie Reviews

Terkel in Trouble
Zodiac
300
Starter for ten
Wild Hogs
Linda Linda Linda
London International Awards: World's best commercials

Music Features

Long Winters explore bittersweet ironies
Megadeth's tradition of serious shredding lives on
Smoosh sisters are no plastic-pop princesses
Foggy Hogtown Boys mix old-time tunes, bluegrass
British Invasion survivors revisit baroque-pop past
Heaven and Hell: Back in black

Local Motion

Veteran Barry Greenfield has worked with heavy hitters

Concert Reviews

Meat Loaf
George Clinton with Parliament Funkadelic
Sebadoh

Recordings

No Luck Club
The Smears
The February March
Mutators
Broken Condom Babies
The Book of Lists
Seven Year Old Poets
The Februarys
Dyad
Copilots
Belinda Bruce and the Tawny Stars

Music Notes

Get the lowdown on Vancouver's music scene

Music Choices

This week's best music bets

Payback Time

Van the Man fan slam

Concert Listings

March 8 - 15, 2007

Time Out Events

March 8 - 15, 2007
Straight List - March 8-15, 2007
March 15 - 22, 2007

Cartoons

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

City Singles

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

Straight Choices

City events for the socially conscious
City events for the socially conscious

Blogs

GS Blog gets Brewed by Beyond Robson's Sean Orr

Pop Eye

Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and and Paris Hilton flash for success and distract the masses

Straight.com

About the Straight
Advertise at the Straight - Web Advertising

Feature Articles

Mountain bikers flex their political muscles
Kayak into the land that only the animals recall
Trail running really is a total body workout
Interior slopes offer kiddies fun on or off skis
Cycling city councillor crosses Canada in bits

Video Game Reviews

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Test Drive Unlimited
Flushed Away

Blog - Movies

Local film remembers French filmmaker and author Guy Debord
Traveling through the world of film: South Asian and Celtic culture in focus
More on REAL Women's campaign to cancel funding to the Vancouver Queer Film Festival