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Thursday, January 16th. 1997: Vol. 2 #4


Table of Contents

NEWS
Coal Mining hearings begin in Hinton (and other news)
by FFWD Staff


SPLICE
Drinking Problem? (and other vices)
by FFWD Staff

LETTERS
Arrow misidentified
Remember the Festival
GOVERNMENT
Not guilty?
Mulroney still responsible for offences against Canadians
by Nick Devlin

Lost without a deficit
Klein's Conservatives continue to search for election issues
by Hamish MacAulay
BOOZE
1997 wine resolutions
Aspirations for getting the most out of every bottle
by Dana Ostapiuk

BOOKS
Nancy Huston's brilliant ambiguities
Calgary writer's love of new language (and Paris) parallels Samuel Beckett's
by Harry Vandervlist

Great writing, chatty gossip from The Porcupine's Quill Reader
Two book reviews:
The Porcupine's Quill Reader reviewed by Harry Vandervlist
Keith Maillard's Two Strand River reviewed by Alan Egerton Ball


COVER STORY
Searching for Native fact in North American fiction
Tired of improper portrayals,
Gary Farmer takes back the image of Aboriginal peoples

by Mike Bell
MUSIC
Home is where the songs (and cows) are
Singer-songwriter Jane Hawley grows roots out West
by Martin Kemp

Sugar, aww honey honey
Brown Eyed Susans are your candybar and they'll have us all craving more
by Aubrey McInnis

Curing those Electro Psychosis blues
After six years of preparation,
Bartok Guitarsplat emerges from a dark place and proves he's not just talk

by Derek McEwen

Enjoying Creature comforts
Moist are back (they went away?)
with an album that's definitely nothing like their first one - definitely

by Mike Bell


VISUAL ARTS
The artful architect
Richard Henriquez explores buildings as art while building art
by Mark Walton
THEATRE
Bite Me doesn't (review of Bite Me / Borrow Me)
First in the Bite and Borrow series a comic hit
by Lori Montgomery

The truth is way out there (review of Scotland Road)
by Lori Montgomery


FILM & VIDEO
Up close and personal (review of Microcosmos)
Microcosmos refreshingly awestruck and silent
by Robert Tarry

A Birdcage without bars (review of Beautiful Things)
Love story in need of a little crisis counselling
by D. Christensen

An (expatriate) American in Europe (review of The Portrait of a Lady)
Jane meets James in a rather drab adaptation
by Leslie Strudwick

Cry for me, film reviewer (review of Evita)
Evita a beautiful film but a lousy movie
by Robert Tarry

Be Kind - Please Rewind
Video reviews for January 16 - January 22
by Jane McCullough


HOROSCOPES
What's your sign, Cruising the cosmos with the Kid
Horoscopes for Jan.16 - Jan. 22
by The Kid

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