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Issue 2107, May 8, 2008

Theatre

No Exit’s fresh hell is diabolically inventive
The Dissemblers get too fast and too superficial

Dance

Sisters dance fiery flamenco in Mis Hermanas
SFU grads get edgy at Pulse
Marie Chouinard conjures stunning tour de force

Visual Arts

Vancouver Museum revived by Movers and Shapers

Comedy

James Campbell plays up to his audience at Vancouver kids fest

Arts Choices

9th annual Asian Comedy Night
Vancouver Bach Choir closes season with Last Night of the Proms
Lorita Leung Chinese Dance Company and Moving Dragon collaborate

Multimedia

Art Spiegelman draws on his experience
KRAZY! at Vancouver Art Gallery stretches visual vocabulary
KRAZY! corrals pop culture
Liz Magor explores our poisonous pleasures

Letters

Early-education story missed its opportunity
Learn from history, proceed with caution
Higher gas prices will only bring improvements
Burrard Bridge baloney: look to Lions Gate

News Features

B.C. has worst child poverty
How the Conservatives framed Stéphane Dion
Vision Vancouver’s ballot creates uncertainty

Straight Talk

John Bishop feeling “lucky” after stroke
VPD to investigate taser use by Translink
Grandview residents fear 2010 security
Allan Wong backs Raymond Louie, sticks with COPE
Councillors concerned by charter change
Taser International shares off sharply since Dziekanski death

Straight Issues

Is Bill C-51 a crackdown on natural health?

Commentary

Why did the (Zimbabwean) chicken cross the road?

Sports

Why Joe Sakic won't make the grade for 2010

Savage Love

Readers respond to the campsite rule about sex with younger people
Running around having sex — safe sex

Health Features

Families wait in limbo for autism assessments

Trigger Happy

Grand Theft Auto IV is a gritty take on the American Dream

Travel Features

At Red Mountain Spa in Utah, guests exercise their options

Fashion Plate

Sexy dresses take it to the maxi this summer

Style Watch

H&M has finally arrived
In a big-box world, Lemonade designer gets crafty

Kool Thing

Shutter Shades

Chic of the Week

Salvation Army Thrift Store Fashion Show

Dining Features

Wooden utensils cut waste at fast-food restaurants

Best Eating

White Spot tries to expand its comfort zone

Uncorked

Another batch of new wines ripe for picking

Food of the Week

Provence Mediterranean Grill

Straight Goods

Seven food and dining events

Book Reviews

Dervishes delight in heady debut
Salman Rushdie's Enchantress weighed down by detail

Movies Features

Emile Hirsch straps into wild Speed Racer
The Stone Angel reborn
Documentarian Errol Morris takes on Abu Ghraib
Iron Man's Gwyneth Paltrow is still a mom of mettle
Gun guy Michael Madsen seeks his redemption in Vice

Movie Notes

Vancouver website competes with TV
Blade Runner futurist docks in Vancouver
Pangea Day film festival will deliver the world
Big-screen therapy at the Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival

Movie Reviews

The Stone Angel
Iron Man
Standard Operating Procedure
The Babysitters
Vice
Redbelt
What Happens in Vegas...

Music Features

Lykke Li, from Sweden with love
The Kills make nonretro rock

Music Previews

El Perro del Mar finds heaven
Dirtbombs might be too adventurous for own good
Music has taken Congo’s Mapumba around the world
Tapes ’n Tapes expands its palette on Walk It Off
American Steel throws punk-rock curve balls

Local Motion

Dawntreader’s persistence pays off

Concert Reviews

Kate Nash gives more than she gets

Recordings

Hard Candy is Madonna at her most fun
Le Loup
Steve Stevens
No Age
The Last Shadow Puppets
Quiet Village
Rupa & the April fishes
Short Cuts

Music Notes

TV Heart Attack gets video love
Great Outdoors launches spring
NOFX about to get busy

Music Choices

NOFX
Kate Nash
Instant Playlist - May 8 2008
Cake
KT Tunstall
1964: The tribute

Cartoons

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

Press Clips

Gordon Campbell keeps it in the family
Frank magazine challenges CanWest

Transportation

Run the daylights out of this fun Honda bike

Blog - Sports

Pit your sporting wits against Alan Thicke when CBC next Tests the Nation

Real Estate

Development of Little Mountain Housing complex unlikely
The heat is coming off the housing market

Astrology

Your horoscope for May 8 - 14, 2008

Blog - Politics

Coun. B.C. Lee: “I am not running”
An appropriate metaphor: New Orleans and the SPP
Why did the Iraqi chicken cross the road?
Liberal media myths and why mainstream newspapers are in trouble
Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, Gordon Campbell, and peak oil

Blog - Movies

Mike Tyson is stepping back into the (digital) ring
Writer/director at The Stone Angel screenings in Vancouver
Next-generation video games getting players off the couch