Issue 2097, Feb 28, 2008
Arts Features
Spring Arts picks: Peter Pan, air guitar, and an avant-garde evening of sex toysState of the ArtsTheatre
Anosh Irani's Bombay Black bares talons of fateSpring Arts Theatre picks: Compassion and laughter lighten anxious timesSouth American poet Léo collides with dark factsThe Amorous Adventures of AnatolDance
Margie Gillis seeks inside-out revelations in dance solosStyle-makers spring into Vancouver International Dance FestivalMusic Arts
Eerie and powerful sonic memoirs explore Roy Kiyooka’s artistic legaciesIron Curtain rises on starkly current FidelioDream Healer blends art and psychiatry at Chan CentreSpring Arts Classical picks: Love, tears, and the search for a musical geneAmedeo Modigliani Quartet from Paris prove impeccableSpring Arts new music picks: Where finesse and brutality meetVisual Arts
Elspeth Pratt builds outside the rulesSpring Visual Arts picks: Images dominate as chronicle and conscienceComedy
Spring Arts comedy picks: Everybody’s here, so laugh your ass offWhy Patton Oswalt is no alt-comedy snobMike Bullard dines out on hecklersArts Choices
Bring on BhangraLetters
Designer knockoffs irk furniture builderCarbon tax nothing but a windfall for businessConservatives in glass houses shouldn’t...Maté’s Ghosts haunt grateful readerClaims, not territory, disputed in wine spatNews Features
Mayor’s flack worries about Ladner’s plansIndie mayoral hopefuls hit Vancouver campaign trailLiberals won't topple HarperStraight Talk
Carbon tax "classic" Gordo: Gordon PriceU.S. Judge rescinds earlier decision to shut down whistleblower siteLiberals pull “Robin Hood in reverse”Holden and Schneider depart Fraser institutePacific Ocean filling up with plastic, experts sayBusted Vancouver cockfighting ring had Philippines connectionSex-advice broadcaster Rhona Raskin wins procedural victory against KCTS TelevisionDona Cadman: $1-million offer to Chuck Cadman was not a "Party" initiativeRCMP charge UBC student in connection to recent threats, lockdownsOil prices bust through another barrierOne racist slur not necessarily discrimination, B.C. Human Rights Tribunal rulesBC Parks “emasculated” by Liberals, Pinecone Burke defenders sayCancer diagnosis of Hollywood star Patrick Swayze confirmed by agentSF Guardian wins ‘David and Goliath’ suit over Village Voice Media’s SF WeeklyStraight Issues
Government ignores wage protestWhat is an appropriate minimum wage for B.C.?Commentary
The Middle East after IraqSports
Canucks' playoff chase leads to scoreboard-surfingSavage Love
Slave etiquette & sexual disclosureVibrator blowbackHealth Features
Superbugs face a new foeHealth Notes
Smoking marijuana could impair MS patients’ cognitive functionsLaugh for the health of it—it's contagiousTravel Notes
Ways to wean travellers off the water bottleUrban Living
Fresh laundry, EcoRoof tiles and hot tubs at BC Home and Garden ShowStyle Watch
New Mavi store opens on Granville StreetFor Vancouver designers, it’s not easy being greenKool Thing
Grey scoop-neck T-shirt with embellished necklineChic of the Week
Vintage letter signs from StepbackBest Eating
Salsa & Agave Mexican Grill slingshots you southUncorked
Sweet rewards await tasting just over Mission HillFood of the Week
Canstruction at Canada PlaceDrink of the Week
Australia’s Heath Wines Lizard Flat 2005Straight Goods
Eight food and dining eventsBook Reviews
The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial AmericaThe Painter of BattlesMovies Features
B.C.'s Women in Film Festival flips the chick-flick thing28th annual Genie Awards appear genial to Away From Her's Sarah PolleyWill Ferrell makes slam-dunk fun in Semi-ProIt's a swine time for Reese Witherspoon in PenelopeMovie Notes
News from Hollywood North: tax credit changes, Videomatica's Alternative Oscars, Conceptual Paradise, and Devil Plays HardballMovie Reviews
PenelopeCity of MenThe Other Boleyn GirlSemi-ProMusic Features
Romancing the stoned with Daniel WesleyBlack Halos revisit their rootsMusic Previews
British Sea Power makes recording an adventureToronto's Crystal Castles' punks go dance-popBalkan Beat Box doesn’t recognize musical bordersChris Botti celebrates Italia with strings and ghostsAtlas Sound’s Bradford Cox vows to keep his drama to himselfConcert Reviews
Monotonix puts on fiery freak showJosh RitterMusic Notes
Notes from the music world: Paper Moon, Destroyer at Sasquatch! Music Festival, and Soulstream on the moveMusic Choices
Four musical acts to catch this weekCartoons
The Midnight InquirerErnie Pook's ComeekTar Paper TownRed MeatArnouldStraight JabEveryday ThingsCity Singles
Singles of the Week - Christine | BrendanTop 50
Top 50 albums: Jack Johnson, Juno, The Trews + morePop Eye
Britney: Where it all went wrongStraight.com
About the StraightTransportation
It's full speed ahead for clean electric bicyclesReal Estate
Jim Flaherty ignores housingObituaries
Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax diesTechno Logic
Blu-ray claims victory in high-def DVD warsAstrology
Your horoscope for February 28 - March 5, 2008Blog - Politics
Subpoena everyone connected to the Chuck Cadman bribe allegations, including Stephen HarperHow Tim Louis could become the surprise mayor of VancouverChuck Cadman's former staffer says there was only one meeting before voteVancouver Quadra Conservative Deborah Meredith skirts question on secret military deal with U.S.NPA opens up nomination processMayor Sam Sullivan’s team plays “catch up” in NPA nomination raceFederal NDP can't find candidates of Chinese descent in VancouverSome astonishing similarities between Hillary Clinton and Stephane DionParks chair Houghton says she would abide by no-confidence voteBlog - Movies
New Line ends run as an independent film studio, swallowed by Warner Bros.Less is more in Egyptian-Israeli comedy The Band's VisitOpposition to Conservatives' Bill C-10, with potential to censor Canadian film, grows quicklyAway From Her and Eastern Promises sweep the Genies with a tie, actors and directors openly criticize Bill C-10Sarah Polley is the big winner at the Genie Awards, and slams Bill C-10
