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Issue 2099, Mar 13, 2008

Theatre

Hosanna sobs her heart out
Characters lack credibility in Red Light Winter
My Chernobyl radiates toxic wit

Dance

Joe Ink pays price of beauty
Sarah Williams dallies over the message
Christopher House builds a chilly beauty

Music Arts

Louis Lortie attracted by Mozart’s hidden sensuality

Visual Arts

Outsiders surveyed by Internal Guidance Systems

Comedy

Maz Jobrani shifts comedy’s axis

Arts Notes

Margaret Atwood opera coming to Vancouver in 2010
Vancouver cultural makeover begins
Spencer Herbert proposes Mount Pleasant arts centre

Arts Choices

Tremors, a festival of emerging arts
Eve Egoyan in concert

News Features

City hall blocks CUPE e-mail
Allan De Genova ready for Vancouver mayoral battle
Greens seek a breakthrough in Vancouver Quadra
Vancouver Quadra's usual suspects face voters' decision
City lobbyists come under the microscope
Streetcars named as Vancouver's desire

Straight Talk

Tim Louis withholds tax over military spending
Metro Vancouver to build compost facilities
Canadian Federation of Students goes to court to stall student vote
CTV News reports that police are investigating Conrad Black's son Jonathan
Tibet support groups ask IOC president Jacques Rogge to make a statement
Liberal Joyce Murray wins a squeaker over Deborah Meredith in Vancouver Quadra

Straight Issues

Pads to save or trash Africa
Can we consume our way to a better planet?

Commentary

There’s nothing new to say about Israel and Palestine
Beijing Olympics will be China's coming out

Sports

After move to Canucks, Matt Pettinger's on an endless road trip

Savage Love

Tough times for the young and gay

Health Features

Taking meditation to B.C.'s hard-core streets

Travel Features

Birds flock and gigolos hustle in the Gambia

Travel Notes

Pack your common sense for safe travels

Fashion Plate

In flats and high heels, spring struts in playfully in Vancouver

Style Watch

Jenny Yen's Cici mixes mod, vintage, and a touch of Shanghai

Kool Thing

Nikki skinny jean

Chic of the Week

Schwarzkopf's OSIS Dust hair fix

Dining Features

Where the wok meets India

Best Eating

Cosy Chilli Padi cooks up a Malaysian mix
Discover Vancouver in Golden Plates

Uncorked

Sumac Ridge Estate’s big gun moves and shakes onward

Food of the Week

Sha Lin Noodle House

Drink of the Week

Liberty Wine Merchants

Straight Goods

Eight food and dining events

Book Reviews

The Monsters of Templeton
Zarah Ghahramani fearlessly chronicles her time In Tehran's worst jail

Movies Features

Zeros 2 Heroes plots move from online to silver-screen hit
Canadian films seek more screen time
Nick Stahl peels back dark layers in Sleepwalking
Michael Pitt’s preppy psycho gets violent in Funny Games

Movie Notes

Jacqueline Samuda wins at Women in Film & Television awards
Corner Gas and Robson Arms star Gabrielle Miller rips Bill C-10
CBC loses Intelligence and jPod

Movie Reviews

Funny Games
Caramel
Horton Hears a Who!
10,000 B.C.
CJ7
Never Back Down
College Road Trip
Sleepwalking

Movie Choices

Sistahood Cinema: Exquisite Cinematic Corpse

Music Features

Hawksley Workman celebrates spring
Saul Williams aims to break the colour barrier

Music Previews

Beach House’s buzz hasn’t paid off just yet
Former KISS man Ace Frehley still has a few tricks up his sleeve
Steve Earle makes himself at home in New York City
Fiddle Festival looks back to its deep Celtic roots
Allison Moorer learned from Mockingbird’s masters

Local Motion

Spirit of the West marks a milestone

Concert Reviews

Veda Hille gets emotionally raw and restless
Avril Lavigne pleases her screaming tween legions

Recordings

Graham Brown & the Prairie Dogs
Ranj Singh
Cobblestone Jazz makes techno by hand
Ladyhawk
Mikey Manville
The Monica Lee Band
The Pack A.D.
Rabnett 5
Lisa Miller Octet
Chris Smith

Who Are You?

I’m Grant!

Music Notes

Cobalt averts fire disaster
Bringing Nyasha to Canada
Back on the S.T.R.E.E.T.S.

Music Choices

Nation Beat
April Wine
Ashley MacIsaac

Payback Time

Payback Time

Cartoons

Ernie Pook's Comeek
Straight Jab
Tar Paper Town
Everyday Things
Arnould

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Lana | Luis

Top 50

Top 50 albums for March 13-20, 2008

Pop Eye

Why must pop duets blow?

Straight.com

About the Straight

Transportation

China makes waves at the Detroit auto show

Real Estate

Ladysmith goes big time with Pamela Anderson

Techno Logic

It’s not all Rainbows for Radiohead fans

Astrology

Your horoscope for March 13 - 19, 2008

Blog - Politics

Prime Minister's libel suit could cost Liberals money regardless of outcome
Vancouver Quadra candidate Rebecca Coad keeps hammering Stephane Dion
One day after the Georgia Straight's editorial, Dion calls for a carbon tax
Could Tibet achieve the impossible dream of independence?
Why Joyce Murray's narrow win in Quadra is good news for the Liberals
Proportional representation would have resulted in greater turnout in Vancouver Quadra

Blog - Movies

Harry Potter finale to be a two-part ending
Local filmmaker Carl Bessai wants Canadian filmmakers to come out of the celluloid closet
Leatherheads' Renée Zellweger tries to find normalcy
Vancouver Film School hooks up with YouTube to offer scholarships
Diablo Cody is back in Vancouver shooting new movie
Cross-Canada rock-paper-scissors tournament and screening reaches Vancouver
Winning Vancouver filmmakers changed the world in five minutes
So You Think You Can Dance Canada auditions in Vancouver
Blunder-spotting in 10,000 B.C.
George Lucas adds another Star Wars installment: The Clone Wars
Iron Man becomes Audi Man
Oscar-winning writer-director Anthony Minghella dies at age 54
Canadian double bill of Away From Her and Radiant City
BC Film is planning a trade mission to Beijing
Producer J.B. Sugar thinks CBC made a mistake in cancelling jPod
Juno, the Jewish version