The top 20 stories of 2007

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      What a year it was. And thanks to the wonders of the Internet (and the subtle retinal scanning we use here at Straight.com), we have the opportunity now to look back at the stories that helped define 2007. So herewith, the most popular stories of the year on Straight.com. And no, I'm not including some of the biggest hits on our site because you all clearly know already how to find the adult classifieds, the Singles of the Week, and - the mega-story of all time, our best-read feature of the last three years (and still going strong) - Denim's Big Booty Bonanza. Sigh.

        1. Health feature | The quest for the ultimate cure for addiction

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      Ibogaine has been lauded as a miracle cure for addiction to cocaine, crack, heroin, and more. A study launched last February is the first time the drug's therapeutic benefits for opiate addiction are being measured systematically in a public investigation...

       

        1. Pop Eye | Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton flash for success and distract the masses

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      Today we've been given star pussy in bulk. Googling the words "celebrity upskirt" yields a mere 1,850,000 results, although you can winnow it down to about half a mil if you throw terms like "nip slip" in there, too...

       

        1. High Tech | Sony PlayStation is in it for the long haul

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      If it seems like Sony's gaming division has been taking a kicking lately, that's because it has. Industry observers have been waiting for the company to announce a price cut for the PS3 to quiet retailers and gamers complaining that the sticker price is too high...

       

        1. Feature | Kinky sex makes for happy people

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      Vancouver has become one big sexy experiment, with grownups of all types and preferences getting their freak on...

       

        1. Feature | Straight sex survey: Angelina’s hot, Mick’s not

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      For the second consecutive year, Angelina Jolie has topped the Georgia Straight’s on-line sex survey as the top actor our readers want to have sex with. This year, Jolie placed well ahead of runner-up Johnny Depp...

       

        1. Movie feature | Geek gets lucky

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      Screenwriter and former Vancouver resident Seth Rogen scores the lead in Knocked Up...

       

        1. Movie feature | Carrie-Anne Moss: Unplugging the Matrix

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      Carrie-Anne Moss has been a model, a singer, and a cult-film hero—hell, she even has her own action figures. But the ex-Vancouverite has never had much to do with zombies. Until now...

       

        1. Feature | Mountain bikers flex their political muscles

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      Many people harbour the impression that mountain bikers are a scruffy lot. But on the North Shore, trail riders have emerged as an influential and organized lobbying group, in part because of the North Shore Mountain Bike Association's strength...

       

        1. Dining feature | Tricks for Halloween treats to eat

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      Halloween is perhaps the only occasion when we're encouraged to play with our food. But there's a danger in taking gruesome too far...

       

        1. Feature | The oldest profession

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      Sex workers say abolitionist approaches increase danger, but not everyone wants more prostitutes in the neighbourhood...

       

        1. Movie feature | The lonely passion of Will Smith

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      The star of I Am Legend will do anything to please the people who matter to him. With I Am Legend, the actor worried audiences might be getting too much of a good thing...

       

        1. Health feature | Hot careers in health

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      A shortage of health professionals will create big opportunities for the children of the baby boomers...

       

        1. Movie feature | Birth scene crowns saucy Knocked Up

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      Judd Apatow, the man behind two of the more outrageous film comedies of the new millennium, says they have roots in a kinder, gentler place than audiences might expect...

       

        1. Feature | Shock wave troopers

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      Naomi Klein exposes the economic ambulance chasers who take advantage of natural and economic disasters worldwide...

       

        1. High Tech | USB turntables raise vinyl from the dead

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      Converting old vinyl records isn't quite as simple as merely feeding CDs into a drive, but there are reasons you might want to make the effort. There are two main methods...

       

        1. Books profile | Trailer Park Boys

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      Though full of really bad plans made worse by hard liquor and strong weed, the Trailer Park Boys have become Canadian media moguls. As the Georgia Straight suggests to the boys when they stop for a chat at a downtown hotel during their book-signing tour, the country hasn't seen this kind of empire-building since the heyday of Conrad Black...

       

        1. Dining feature | Korean kimbap rolls out of sushi's shadow

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      Kimbap, if we must compare it to its Japanese sibling, is Korean sushi. And while it's part of the same family, it's got a whole different personality...

       

        1. Movie feature | Tricia Helfer: farm girl with a whip

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      With Walk All Over Me, one of the planet's hottest women has come a long way since she drove tractors on a farm in Alberta...

       

        1. Music preview | Joe Sumner's Fiction Plane flies with fatherly help

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      Yes, Sting's son has gone and formed a band influenced by the only era since Outlandos D'Amour when the Police were not cool. Analyze that...

       

        1. High Tech | Trade show takes new tack

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      E3 was different this year. Since its inception in 1995, the annual video-game trade show had become a circus of video-game excess, with 60,000 fanatics taking over the Los Angeles Convention Center...

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