Issue 2102, Apr 3, 2008

Theatre

Gale force heads True West
James Long’s Vue on Vancouver's gloomy future
Style inhibits substance in Penny Dreadful

Dance

The Tomorrow Collective pulses clubby cool

Music Arts

Anne-Sophie Mutter woos Beethoven in Vancouver
Composer-guru Christopher Butterfield’s past echoed in Sonic Boom festival
Anne-Sophie Mutter mixes virtuosity and va-va-voom in Vancouver

Visual Arts

Lisette Model's gritty images blend sympathy and voyeurism
Dan Starling takes Malcolm X and Salinger into the present

Arts Notes

Axing of CBC orchestra ignites protest

Arts Choices

Young British soprano Kate Royal
Chris Rock
The Woodsman

Letters

Never say never with Upper Pitt development
Us-and-them attitudes foster insidious racism
Councillor gets his say on mayoral candidates
Weiland slag sets off fed-up Stone Temple fan

News Features

Visa changes called unfair
Vancouver's new police force
Low wages hammer families
Ottawa lawyer: user fees break law

Straight Talk

Chow says endorsers should wait
Sullivan camp hears Ladner’s call
School trustees will look for quake cash
Shaughnessy fight may land in court
Students allege RCMP brutality at UBC
UBC students call for public inquiry to investigate RCMP response
Vancouverites want cellphone ban for drivers: GS poll

Straight Issues

Gold rush on B.C. rivers stalled
What happens when the B.C. Hydro power-purchase agreements with independent producers expire?

Commentary

Calculating the true cost of salmon farming
The coming food catastrophe
Feds' veto fish-fry-rescue plan
China's Olympic woes may increase in Australia

Sports

NHL got it right with late-season matchups

Savage Love

Readers respond to the issue of boobs after breast cancer
Hubby threatened by lesbians

Health Features

Rambling into eternity: Part 3

Trigger Happy

Games put poetry into running and gunning

Outside

Youngsters hit the slopes for Whistler Cup

Fashion Plate

Dress for work-travel success

Style Watch

Savvy fashion Kwantlen college grads target cool niche markets

Kool Thing

Rose-print washed-silk dress

Chic of the Week

Shoe designer John Fluevog opens second store in Gastown

Best Eating

Cascade riffs on British posh pub grub

Uncorked

Shiraz shines in a basket of Lehmanns

Food of the Week

Drink of the Week

Hacker-Pschorr Edelhell Münchner Exportbier

Straight Goods

Seven food and dining events

Book Reviews

Why Physics of the Impossible are closer than you realise
Stuffed and Starved makes sense of global capitalist food system

Movies Features

Down Under films come up north
How real is reality TV?
Why Simon Pegg won't pander to Run Fat Boy Run audience
George Clooney plays both sides of the ball

Movie Reviews

Kenny has heart of liquid gold
Under the Same Moon
Stop-Loss
Superhero Movie
Sex and Death 101

DVD Releases

New on DVD: The 11th Hour, Lions for Lambs, Music Within, Reservation Road, There Will Be Blood

Music Features

Alpha Galates loves lavish layers
Black Keys mix it up
Ladyhawk flies the rock flag

Music Previews

Brutal and beautiful merge in Farewell to Freeway
Morcheeba’s Dive Deep heralds trip-hop’s return
American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel finds his inspiration all over
That 1 Guy is more than happy to lay some Magic Pipe

Local Motion

Chaps celebrate 10 Buttless years

Concert Reviews

Eddie Vedder goes solo in Vancouver
All too easy for Foo Fighters
Bruce Springsteen takes Vancouver down E Street
Black Keys devastate with two-man assault on Vancouver

Music Notes

Pack A.D. goes postal
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? put to pasture
Radio vet Don Pennington feted

Music Choices

Julie Doiron
Acid Mothers Temple
Black Mountain
Guitarist Beppe Gambetta
Cat Power

Payback Time

Cartoons

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

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Valerie | Rob

Straight.com

About the Straight

Blog - Sports

Nonis and Vigneault keep Canucks' future shrouded in mystery
Vancouver Whitecaps bask in media spotlight

Real Estate

Ex-trafficker Eugenio Pugliese loses appeal

Astrology

Your horoscope for April 3 - 10, 2008

Blog - Politics

Stephen Quinn's CBC Quiz: Georgia Straight version
Incumbents can rejoice over upbeat economic forecast
On Beijing Olympics, Harper's actions speak louder than words
China claims Tibetan suicide squads on way to Beijing
Peak oil and the end of the world as we know it

Blog - Movies

Sigur Ros concert film to play in Vancouver
Crazy8s filmmaking winners announced by podcast
Judges announced for So You Think You Can Dance Canada
Battlestar Galactica launches into its last season

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