Vacancies won’t stop rising rents (and other stories)
by FFWD Staff

LETTERS

Fashion cop draws harsh reaction
by FFWD Reader

SPLICE

Mellencamp: paintings and reflections
by FFWD Staff

VIEWPOINT

True North is frozen in fear
Scare tactics are being used to control Canadians' political and social beliefs
by Hamish MacAulay

COVER STORY

Legislation needed to protect city's vulnerable
Voluntary registry for personal care homes is not enough to ensure people are the priority, not profit
by Timothy Wild

BOOKS

A twisted tale with an edge of black humor
Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam reviewed by Lachlan Mackintosh
Lesley-Anne Bourne’s The Bubble Star reviewed by Alan Egerton Ball

Bookends
Competition a test of time
by Harry Vandervlist

FOOD

Good Seoul food
Koryo BBQ offers a quick taste of the Far East
by Patrick Rengger

MUSIC

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
Seanachie continue the storytelling tradition with their new disc, A Quarrel With Whiskey
by Martin Kemp

Tape Head's for gear heads
Musicians' musicians King's X stake their claim to a piece of rock history
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

CD REVIEWS

XTC release some blasts from their glorious past
XTC’s Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC sessions reviewed by Mike Bell
Ani DiFranco’s up up up up up up reviewed by Martin Kemp

VISUAL ARTS

A kinder, gentler abstract expressionist
New Yorker's bland paintings fail to excite or stimulate
by Mark Walton

THEATRE

Getting deeper with new millennium drag
(preview: House Opera)
Artists embrace gender balance to express hope for our survival
by Lori Montgomery

Ecuador via the imagination
(preview: PITH!)
Grown-ups pretend to penetrate the dense jungles
by Nikki Sheppy

Women at the heart of Sherlock Holmes mystery
mystery (preview: Sherlock’s Veiled Secret)
Canadian play lifts the veil off the private life of the world's greatest detective
by Nikki Sheppy

New battles on the home front
(preview: The Fox)
D.H. Lawrence adaptation offers a veteran's perspective
by Lori Montgomery

OPERA

Opera's greatest love machine
(preview: Don Giovanni)
Sexing up Mozart's Don Giovanni
by Gaelle Eizlini

FILM

A postcard from the hearts of Los Angeles
(review: Playing By Heart)
Novice filmmaker uses a light touch with great ensemble cast
by Julie Pithers

Poets in khaki
(review: TheThin Red Line)
Hopping back and forth over the line
by Robert Tarry

Varsity Blues fumbles so often you'll pass
(review: Varsity Blues)
Lame attempt at sports drama a calculated, convoluted mess
by Richard Zywotkiewicz

Wake up beautiful dreamer
(review: In Dreams)
Neil Jordan needs a pinch to stir him from his slumber
by Julie Pithers

VIDEO

Video Vulture
Sometimes we worry about you, John
by John Tebbutt

MR. SMUTTY

Fresh horse-pucky
Making the world a crummier place, one rumor at a time
by James Martin

HOROSCOPE

What's your sign
Cruising the cosmos this week
by The Kid