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Thursday, December 26th., 1997: Vol. 3 #1
Table of Contents
NEWS
Police personnel and expenditures in Canada
(and other stories)
by FFWD Staff
LETTERS
Reaction to Chinese president typical of Calgary
SPLICE
Useless and unuseless items (and other useful - and useless - stuff)
by FFWD Staff
VIEWPOINT
Make the beggars leave town
Predictions on Conservative social policy and other oxymorons
by Hamish MacAulay
Christmas is no crime
Season's greetings hijacked by politically correct
by Nick Devlin
BOOZE
Canada's microbreweries
Good things do come in small packages
by Geoff Last
BOOKS
Quarrington dishes out a little Philosophy 201
Paul Quarrington's The Boy on the Back of The Turtle reviewed by Richard Jagodzinski
bell hooks' Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life reviewed by Catherine Radimer
Lynn Crosbie's Paul's Case reviewed by Richard Jagodzinski
Book ends
by Harry Vandervlist
MUSIC
Bugged by the great pretenders
Roots rocker isn't nervous about keeping his respect for rockabilly while representing the present
by Mike Bell
Rewinding through the year in music
Fast Forward's music critics pick the best of '97
by FFWD Staff
THEATRE
Round up the usual suspects (COVER - preview: One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo)
This year's Rodeo features new work from some familiar faces
by Lori Montgomery
The art of offending (preview: Karen Finley's The American Chestnut)
Political notoriety and pure art go hand in hand
for Karen Finley
by Lori Montgomery
High Performance Rodeo Schedule
by FFWD Staff
FILM
Quentin's got mostly a new bag (review: Jackie Brown)
A more mature Jackie Brown no Royale With Cheese
by Robert Tarry
Deconstructing Woody's ego (review: Deconstructing Harry)
Allen stops taking himself so seriously and delivers
a comedy reminiscent of his best
by Richard Zywotkiewicz
Kids can be too cruel (review: Gummo)
Docu-drama offensive in the hands of sadistic but
talented filmmaker
by Richard Zywotkiewicz
Son of American Graffiti (review: Telling Lies In America)
Nothing new in Eszterhas' coming of age tale
by Robert Tarry
VIDEO
Video Vulture
Kiss my firm but pliant lips
by John Tebbutt
Be Kind - Please Rewind
Three good reasons to have cable
by Jane McCullough
MR. SMUTTY
Old angst whine
It's been a crazy year, Charlie Manson
by James Martin
HOROSCOPES
What's your sign, Cruising the cosmos with the Kid
Horoscopes for Dec 26 - Jan 7
by The Kid
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