Issue 2074, Sep 20, 2007

Arts Features

Eyes on the horizon
Struggles along road to Paris

Theatre

Stylish Lady has winning wit

Music Arts

Dame Kiri scales back career
New group engages mind and passions

Visual Arts

Show offers the book on art
Latin American Contemporary Artists

Comedy

Arts Notes

News from the art world

Arts Choices

3 must-see arts events

Multimedia

Genre-blurring art both vexing and beautiful

Letters

Premier's Green ally looks like an easy mark
Many feminists want the sex trade decriminalized
Don't trust those pass-up numbers from drivers

News Features

NPA opens fast track for its incumbents
CSIS retiree: nothing "nefarious" with tapes
Neighbours rally to dispute city densification

Straight Talk

Bennett a politician by name
Anti-Gateway rally cast includes Sather
Burnaby proclaims Bhagat Singh Day
Drug dialogue to go with a swing
City of North Vancouver earns kudos for environmental sustainability
Library workers agree to enhanced mediation
Labour expert says it will be hard for union and city to reject an agreement based on mediator's recommendations
UBCM gives the thumbs down to Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement between B.C. and Alberta
Vancouver Iraqi describes "fake sheikh" as "nothing new"
Hookah shop owners win a temporary reprieve on smoking bylaw
Senlis Council Criticizes CIDA Efforts in Afghanistan
Larry Campbell's left-centre-left knockout punch

Straight Issues

Opium for meds, not drugs
How should the drug problem in Afghanistan be addressed?

Commentary

Germany shrugs off terror
U.S. mixes Taiwan message

Sports

Hay building a winning dynasty for the Giants

Health Features

Guardian protects us from the drug pushers

Health Notes

Just a few more days left to submit comments to the Conversation on Health
Vancouver civic workers strike undermines MS patient's recovery

Dot Comment

Why news is still good news on the Internet

Trigger Happy

Success story, as seen on TV

Travel Features

Concierges offer the moon–or just a doggy

Coastlines

Elgood & Son's Captain Vancouver's 250th Anniversary Ale

Outside

A dose of nature is good for body and soul

Style Features

BC Fashion Week ready to strut its stuff

Fashion Plate

Slip on a shot of cool that fits like a glove

Menswear

Black pretied bow tie

Kool Thing

Best Eating

Dinner is served for the poor and dispossessed

Uncorked

Out on a limb with groovy new grapes

Food of the Week

Oyama Sausage Company

Drink of the Week

Straight Goods

7 dining spots and food events

Books

Leilah Nadir
Ameen Merchant
Matt Hern

Movies Features

Across the Great Wall
Chuck lets Alba have her cake–and eat it
Intelligence provides proof that crime pays
Garner faces the heat for The Kingdom
Brenneman breaks from small screen
Festival flits around the world in 41 films

Movie Notes

News from Hollywood north

Movie Reviews

In the Valley of Elah
Good Luck Chuck

DVD Releases

New this week on DVD

Music Features

Switch and Diplo facilitate others' debauchery
Besnard Lakes step into the winners' circle
No Ager trades textbooks for debilitating tinnitus
Formerly impoverished Clientele gets polished
Boys Night Out welcome post-screamo backlash
Czech can't find words for his bluegrass fixation
Northern State no longer rock it like Beastie Girls
Rouse will take any label fans want to stick on him
Absence grows fonder at mention of Malmsteen
Carthy enjoying a time when everything's shifting
Dark times inspired Matthew Good's Hospital Music
Notes from underground

Local Motion

Hung Jury revisits the '60s

Concert Reviews

The Academy Is…
Akon shows Rihanna how it's done

Recordings

Smashing Pumpkins bootleg archive

Music Choices

Get the lowdown on Vancouver's music scene

Payback Time

A fun-filled, expletive-laden, ad hominem attack

Cartoons

Everyday Things
Tar Paper Town
Midnight Inquirer
Red Meat
Straight Jab
Arnould
Ernie Pook's Comeek

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Miranda | Daniel

Single of the Week

Best of Vancouver

Best of Vancouver 2007
Best of Media, Arts & Culture
Best style
Best of Nightlife
Best of Food & Drink
Our Contributors' Choices
Best of Mind, Body, & Soul
Best of Sports and Recreation
Best of Travel
Bright lights transform our view of the city
YVR
Kensington-Cedar Cottage
Dunbar
Tsawwassen
Best of Sex and Romance
Best Services
Best of City Life
Best Lifestyle

Playlist

Top 50 albums of the week, September 20 - 27, 2007

Straight.com

About the Straight
Advertise at the Straight - Web Advertising
2007 Best of Vancouver Party

Real Estate

Parking drives up costs

Blog - Movies

First Weekend Club needs volunteers for the VIFF
Burnaby launches its first annual Environmental Film Festival