Homebuilder says market needs skilled immigrants
by Tom Babin

Dandelion remains noxious
by Tom Babin

City to phase in water meters
by Tom Babin

G8 volunteer group created (and other community notes)
by FFWD Staff

LETTERS

Internet protesting must abide by rules
by FFWD Reader

VIEWPOINT

Competition is for losers
Language of sports should not be applied to world of business
by David Bright

Politicians face off in Kyoto Games
Climate change is a contest unlike anything this country has ever seen
by Gordon Laird

SPIN CONTROL

The Son King rises
Pulling wool and spinning yarns
by Nicholas Jones

TECHNOLOGY

High grades for new media programs
Magazine poll ranks Calgary post-secondary schools among country’s best
by Tom Babin

WEB WATCH

Messages from beyond the grave
by Courtney Thompson

BOOKS

Tales of debauchery
Old school punk rocker relives his early days
by D. Grant Black

BOOKENDS

Rhyme every mountain
Poets, bards and storytellers celebrate poetry on the peak
by Harry Vandervlist

FOOD

Longtime Calgary café needs to be updated
by Miles Pittman

BOOZE

Warming up to Canadian wines
The best is yet to come as Okanagan Valley wineries improve with age
by Kevin McLean

SPORTS

Crossing over
Pro lacrosse team boosts interest in national sport
by Ian Busby

MUSIC

An older, wiser De La Soul
Legendary hip-hop artists show maturity and respect on Bionix
by Craig Elliot

Advanced high school notebook poetics
Singer-songwriter Christine Fellows stays true to herself on Last One Standing
by Mark Hamilton

STREET SOUNDS

Duelling guitars
Bands vie for Garage Wars title
by Aubrey McInnis

BEAT BOUTIQUE

K-OS reigns supreme
Toronto artist is one angry rapper
by Rob Faust

RECORD REVIEWS

Old souls, wolf tickets and a snakebite
Chuck E. Weiss’s Old Souls
& Wolf Tickets & Eleni Mandell’s Snakebite
both reviewed by Jaime Frederick
Billy Bragg and the Blokes’ England, Half English
reviewed by Kari Watson
Coralie Clement’s Salle des Pas Perdus
reviewed by Timothy Heck
Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
The Impossible Shapes’
Laughter Fills our Hollow Dome
reviewed by Christine Leonard

VISUAL ARTS

Constructing contemporary mythologies
Excerpts of multimedia artist Tom Dean’s work on display at two Alberta galleries
by Jennifer McVeigh

Feds announce funding for arts
by Tom Babin

THEATRE

Crowd-pleasers
ATP plans eclectic new season
by Jeff Goffin

DANCE _ COVER

Musical movements
Dancers join string quartet to energize the stage
by Alison Mayes

FILM

Bollywood on a budget
Monsoon Wedding a new take on New Delhi
by Jason Anderson

Snipes is buff guy, the vampire slayer
by Julie Pithers

Turn that crap off
The downward spiral of Robert De Niro
by Mark Hamilton

VIDEO

Cinema bizarro
By his satanic majesty’s request, DVD oddities
by Mark Hamilton

VIDEO VULTURE

Spoiler alert
Video Vulture spills the beans on plot twists
by John Tebbutt

MR. SMUTTY

Maggot butt
Is the CIA "behind" must-clench TV?
by James Martin