Issue 2081, Nov 8, 2007

Arts Features

Modern Diwali fosters "groovilization"
Do Vancouver dancers have a common link?

Theatre

(BE)Longing
Bent
The Glass Menagerie

Dance

Music Arts

Red Chamber's musicians red-hot sexy, red-hot accomplished
I Pagliacci: ripe for parody

Visual Arts

Juan Zavaleta: Slaughterhouse and The Souls of God
Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings 1993–2007

Arts Notes

Notes from the arts world

Arts Choices

3 can't-miss arts events

Letters

Thanks for mocking the mouth that roared
Bio-fuels not the answer to anything
I am irony man: my work here is done
Queen Elizabeth Park can't fail with King Kong
Inclusion is best for our special-needs kids

News Features

Falling snow, not US dollar, the key for BC ski resorts
WorkSafeBC under fire from MLA, others
NDP MLA Jenny Kwan regrets failure to cap civic donations
Canadian reaction to Pervez Musharraf
Native deaths in custody come under scrutiny

Straight Talk

Old police chief Jamie Graham refused the apology that new chief Jim Chu delivered
New Westminster councillor takes up news-box fight
Activists team up against mining giant Goldcorp Inc.
Tips to avoid a Taser attack

Straight Issues

Will the falling US dollar limit U.S. visits to B.C. ski resorts?

Commentary

Remembrance Day: for the veterans, not the politicians
Remembrance Day: a grandson learns of his grandfather's noble fight against the fascists
Harebrained U.S. displays hypocrisy with Turkey and Iran
Disaster relief for the rich: Don't pray, just pay

Sports

Dante Marsh could help set up a BC Lions first

Savage Love

Do nice guys finish (themselves off) last?

Health Features

Parkinson's controlled: learning to live with electrodes in your head

Dot Comment

Open-source tools open democracy's doors
Tim Bray: father of XML, uncle of search engines

Travel Features

Mega gondola to link Whistler and Blackcomb
North Shore ski clubs cozy up to 2010 Games
Meet the world's first First Nations-only snowboard squad
The return of skiing
Cypress Mountain adds nine new runs, keeps old trees
Outrunning the bandits in Bolivia's back country

Travel Notes

William Jans is Burma Bound; Opus Hotel GM Daniel Edward Craig's hotel murder mystery

Style Features

3 emergency rooms for your damaged shoes and boots

Style Watch

Old-school garters can sex you up on the sly
Dahye Lee’s Beauties Gossip collection

Kool Thing

Lu Lu sock-monkey mittens

Dining Features

A goat milk explosion

Best Eating

The best Indian restaurant on the North Shore

Uncorked

Six South African wines worth the price

Food of the Week

Beard Papa cream puffs

Drink of the Week

Inniskillin Okanagan Pinotage

Straight Goods

7 dining events > WISE Hall winter market, fresh local salsa, the latest Beaujolais Nouveau + more

Books

Comix king Adrian Tomine discusses his Shortcomings

Book Reviews

Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
Arsenals of Folly by Richard Rhodes

Movies Features

Amnesty fest films leaven grit with hope
John Malkovich gets inside Beowulf's head
Mambo Italiano maker shoots for the mainstream with Surviving My Mother
Ludacris wanted surprises with elf comedy Fred Claus
No Country for Old Men's Kelly Macdonald brings quiet to the Coen Brothers

Movie Notes

News from Hollywood North

Movie Reviews

Surviving My Mother
Music Within
Dinosaurs Alive!
Lynch
Fred Claus
Darfur Now
Bee Movie
P2
Lions for Lambs
No Country for Old Men

DVD Releases

New on DVD > Little Mosque on the Prairie, Miami Vice, La Vie en Rose, Ocean's Thirteen, Shrek the Third

Music Features

Journalistic details inform Suzanne Vega's songs
Celtic-roots trio Strung stretches members’ acoustic capabilities
Hometown homages mark Cuff the Duke's latest
Jam-happy Gov't Mule dives deep into dub
Spunky Scout Niblett refuses to mellow out
HIM’s Ville Valo rolls in gloom and glam
Dean Ween picks his favourite Ween disc, gives the back story on La Cucaracha
Global dance music: the MC known as M.I.A. on worldbeat, trouble-making, and why she's no Rihanna

Concert Reviews

Kid Rock: lubricated freak fest extraordinaire
What is Maroon 5, anyway?

Recordings

Joined at the Hip by PJ Perry & the Campbell Ryga Quintet
Place of Decay by In Stride
Just Getting Started by Loverboy
Limited by Winston
Busy Guy by Ty Cizzler & Depth Perception by Main Offenders
Doublecross by the Riff Randells
Jungle City by Jagua
Famous Last Words by Hedley

Music Notes

Notes from the Music world

Music Choices

Ben Harper, Stars of Track and Field, wendythirteen + more

Payback Time

Calling out Rod Filbrandt for calling out Bruce Allen

Cartoons

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

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Lyrissa | Cory

Careers

Delivery Position
Accounting

Straight Choices

Building peace

Playlist

Top 50 albums: Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Hedley + more

Pop Eye

Straight.com

About the Straight

Transportation

Small is beautiful for Ford's restyled Focus

Video Game Reviews

Reviews of Bioshock, Legend of Zelda, NHL 08, Heavenly Sword

Real Estate

Courts give muscle to municipalities enforcing bylaws

Techno Logic

How your PS3 could help cure cancer

Blog - Politics

Taser death in Vancouver: authorities' arrogance led to man's unnecessary demise

Blog - Movies

Inspirational story of Pakistani gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai