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Thursday, September 25th., 1997: Vol. 2 #40
Table of Contents
NEWS
Arts Centre attracts public radio (and
other stories)
by FFWD Staff
SPLICE
Tom The Dancing Bug (and other active creatures)
by FFWD Staff
GOVERNMENT
Teachers' strike an issue of greed
Those who sacrificed want payback
by Nick Devlin
Buzz speaks out
Saving the country means sell, sell, sell
by Hamish MacAulay
FOOD
Downtown dining gives eclectic best
Escoba adds flavor to Penny Lane
by Patrick Rengger
COVER STORY
Sorry, no vacancy
City gaining residents, but losing available housing
by Maureen McNamee
BOOKS
Mason & Dixon do America
Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon reviwed by James Martin
Lesley Choyce's Dance The Rocks Ashore reviwed by JKate Rowland
Book ends
by Harry Vandervlist
MUSIC
Crushed by the weight of the world
Suitably angsty for the end of the millennium, Econoline Crush lecture on personal politics
by Zoltan Varadi
Puttin' on the ritz
Bottoms up! The Dino Martinis celebrate all-out-fun
entertainment with their video release party
by Aubrey McInnis
An unnatural kind of joy
Melting in the LA sun with Artificial Joy Club
by Zoltan Varadi
Fearing loathing
Lullabies from an (un)manic depressive
by Mike Bell
CD REVIEWS
The Boss gets stepped on and Björk gets dark
Five reviews:
Coolio's My Soulreviewed by JFrank Litorco
Various Artists' One Step Up/Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen
reviewed by Mary-Lynn McEwen
Stereolab's Dots and Loopsreviewed by Aubrey McInnis
Björk's Homogenicreviewed by Ian Chiclo
The Mr T Experience's Revenge Is Sweet, and So Are You reviewed by Hector Litorco
THEATRE
How to stage a play about a victim and a saint (preview: Frida K.)
Mom's gift helps actress explore the legacy of Frida Kahlo
by Lori Montgomery
Seriously slash-happy (review: Dead Serious)
Pleiades takes its murder and mayhem to extremes
by Lori Montgomery
VISUAL ARTS
Let me see your body talk (review: Faces & Figures)
Twenty-four Alberta artists represent the human form
by Mark Walton
FILM
Snapshots of a City (preview: Moscow Summer)
Regina filmmaker documents the rarely seen Moscow
by D. Christensen
The Edge is pretty grizzly (review: The Edge)
The first story fits, the second one cuts, the third
bites
by Robert Tarry
Documentary a testament to the ugly Canadian
(review: Bitter Paradise: The Sell Out of East Timor)
Canadians implicated in Indonesian oppression of East
Timor
by Hamish MacAulay
Biology comin' between you and me (review: Different for Girls)
Film a compassionate success
by Mike Bell
VIDEO
Be Kind - Please Rewind
Video reviews for September 25 - October 1
by Jane McCullough
Video Vulture
For My Audition, I'd like to belch "O Canada"
in both languages...
by John Tebbutt
MR. SMUTTY
Drinking in LA confidential
There's some hot-buttered co-inky-dinks goin' on, yessir!
by James Martin
HOROSCOPES
What's your sign, Cruising the cosmos with the Kid
Horoscopes for September 25 - October 1
by The Kid
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