Earth Day events celebrate progress (and other stories)
by FFWD Staff

SPLICE

Norm on the Web (and other controversial comedies)
by FFWD Staff

VIEWPOINT

Preston is leading Reform into the desert
The United Alternative: Promised Land or false idol?
by Hamish MacAulay

COVER

Bulldozers desecrate local buffalo jump
Culturally significant and environmentally sensitive Paskapoo Slopes at risk
by Jack Locke

BOOKS

Calling Paul Quarrington's bluff
Paul Quarrington’s The Spirit Cabinet
reviewed by David Bright

Victor Pelvin’s A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
reviewed by Lachlan MacKintosh

Oscar Hijuelos’s Empress of the Splendid Season
reviewed by Gaelle Eizlini

Bookends
Gas jockeys unite for filling station anniversary
by Harry Vandervlist

FOOD

Kashmir curries favour
New Indian restaurant in old familiar spot keeps standards
by Patrick Rengger

MUSIC

Tune up, drop out and get a real job
Tal Bachman has inherited the recipe for songwriting success
by Aubrey McInnis

Back in the New York groove
Crash Test Dummies get a h and from the Harlem shuffle
by Mike Bell

Thankful for small favours
Despite adversity, The Smalls refuse to buy the farm
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

The sweet sounds of lips on chrome
Harmonica player Carlos del Junco ignites musical passion
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

Streetsounds
Five years of foggy memories
by Aubrey McInnis

CD REVIEWS

Pissed off and venomous is what Nas is
Nas’s i am? reviewed by Frank Litorco
Underworld’s Beaucoup Fish reviewed by Red Eye
Vinicius Cantuária reviewed by Jordan Kawchuk
Cassandra Wilson’s Traveling Miles reviewed by Ian Chiclo

Beatzme (Urban Groove reviews)
The house will be rockin' all summer long
by Red Eye

VISUAL ARTS

Intimations of a fleshly mortality
Calgary artist's first exhibit intended to get under our skin
by Mark Walton

ArtsUpdate
School's never out for art
by Anne Severson

THEATRE

Startling you out of your winter slumber (preview: ATP’S SRING REPERTORY)
Alberta Theatre Projects' new productions take on violence, white trash and family values
by Nikki Sheppy & Lori Montgomery

Mocking the musical in song (review: The Fantasticks)
Theatre Calgary's The Fantasticks is two-dimensional whimsy
by Nikki Sheppy

FILM

Keeping those demons on the run (preview: Maxwell’s Demon)
Calgary director David Clark hits the finish line with some quirky film noir
by Julie Pithers

Go gets it right (review: Go)
Film shows that if you're going to steal, steal well
by Robert Tarry

Altman's cookie jar is two-thirds full
Legendary director scores with style and setting, yet stumbles with story
by Richard Zywotkiwicz

VIDEO

Gangstas and hos,
Japanese style
by Jaime Frederick

Video Vulture
Funnies you may have forgotten
by John Tebbutt

MR. SMUTTY

Billion dollar babies
Or: gestalt, gestation, gesundheit, Ginger
by James Martin

HOROSCOPE

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