City greens work together
by Tom Babin

Union leader says province must butt out or pay up
by Tom Babin

Cyclists support trail closures
by Tom Babin

CPO’s situation dire (and other news notes)
by FFWD Staff

VIEWPOINT

Buzz speaks out
On surprising candidates for Bush’s next target in war on terrorism
by Hamish MacAulay

WEB WATCH

Snowboarding for dummies
by Courtney Thompson

SCIENCE MATTERS

Time for action
Kyoto bickering a waste of energy
by David Suzuki

WORDFEST

Dutch Wife playful and mysterious
Waterloo author Eric McCormack keeps himself and his readers amused
by Harry Vandervlist

Hating Canadians and finding Happiness
After years of neglect, Will Ferguson is getting the recognition he deserves
by Lee Shedden

Poetry parties and weekend readings
by Harry Vandervlist

Stinkers, bombs and farts
Louis de Bernieres’s Red Dog full of adventure
by Lachlan Mackintosh

The Navigator of New York transports the imagination
by Julie Pithers

Let’s get lost
On a good road trip with Guillaume Vigneault
by Lachlan Mackintosh

FOOD

Galliano’s pizza has the pleasant taste of nostalgia
by Miles Pittman

BOOZE

Do you like brown or orange food?
Dispelling a great myth about the colour and flavour of beer
by Don Tse

MEDIA

She’s definitely not boring
Sook-Yin Lee changes direction and takes Definitely Not the Opera with her
by Rob Faust

MUSIC

Amon Tobin’s fragmented funk
Left-field DJ builds sci-fi collage over bed of broken beats
by Rob Faust

A shit-hot song-wrecking machine
On This Night, Dan Bejar and Destroyer steer straight into the accident
by Mark Hamilton

Bluegrass, banjos and bouncing babies
Julie Kerr and Craig Korth prove that fairy tales come true – if you’ve got music
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

Turning up the good
Local bands turn down the suck on new records
by Aubrey McInnis

STREET SOUNDS

DJs at work and at play
by Aubrey McInnis & Jaime Frederick

This is the old music
If new releases don’t hold enough allure, try these reissues instead
by Zoltan Varadi

RECORD REVIEWS

Thievery Corporation raises consciousness
CD reviews:
Thievery Corporation’s The Richest Man in Babylon
reviewed by Timothy Heck
Underworld’s One Hundred Days Off
reviewed by Jason Lewis
King Britt’s The Philedelphia Experiment Remixed
reviewed by Kenna Burima
Vincent Delerm’s s/t
reviewed by Timothy Heck
Archive’s You All Look the Same to Me
reviewed by Timothy Heck
Warsawpack’s Gross Domestic Product
reviewed by Christine Leonard
Various Artists’ Dressed in Black:
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
reviewed by Christine Leonard
Kathleen Edwards’ Failer
reviewed by Lenore Hume
The Natacha Atlas and Marc Eagleton Project’s Foretold in the Language of Dreams
reviewed by Timothy Heck

VISUAL ARTS

Mixed tribute
Paintings a simple reflection of Leonard Cohen’s lyrics
by Jennifer McVeigh

THEATRE

Dracula brings old story back to un-dead
Jean LeClerc plans to use you and seduce you – and have fun doing it
by Jeff Goffin

Shop till you drop
Lighthearted play a shopping and laughing spree
by Jeff Goffin

FILM

Unique perspectives
Festival features films by and about the disabled
by Brad E. Simkulet

Laughs will tear us apart – again
Michael Winterbottom delves into pop history with 24 Hour Party People
by Timothy Heck

Ode to action
What I learned from Formula 51
by Mark Hamilton

Why the caged bird sings
On film, White Oleander flies free from the bonds of Oprah’s Book Club
by Rachel Deahl

VIDEO

Changing Lanes sideswipes Hollywood
Simple morality play also a cerebral game of cat and mouse
by Jason Lewis

VIDEO VULTURE

Righteously pissed off
Vulture airs his beefs with the film industry
by John Tebbutt