Labour federation sets sights on Klein
Move away from support of New Democrats seen as admission of Tories’ strength
by Tom Babin

News Briefs
by FFWD Staff

LETTERS

Check your math on Stampede story
by FFWD Reader

VIEWPOINT

U.S. declares war on fat
Canadian bacon stopped at border
by Hamish MacAulay

WEB WATCH

Bric-a-brac for the bad secretary
by Courtney Thompson

FOOD

Merlot lets you smoke ’em if you got ’em
by Miles Pittman

BOOKS

All Hat is all character
Screenwriter’s novel overcomes clichés to deliver a fun read
by Brad E. Simkulet

Haligonian laureate hits town
Sue MacLeod joins fellow poet Jill MacLean for a Sunday reading
by Harry Vandervlist

FESTIVAL

Relearning a lost art
Kayak builder unlocks Arctic secrets over time
by Wes Lafortune

A time to smoke, a time to drink beer
Minor changes fine-tune folk festival
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

MUSIC

Putting some mood in pop music
Vancouver’s P:ano makes elaborate aural sketches that stem from simplicity
by Kenna Burima

Hot funk in the summertime
Guerrilla Funk Monster kicks out the jams with a marathon cabaret
by Christine Leonard

Dissing and reminiscing
Slow Fresh Oil eats their words and reunites
by Mary-Lynn McEwen

RECORD REVIEWS

Von Zippers pointing fingers with punk rock
CD Reviews
The Von Zippers’ The Crime is Now
reviewed by Jaime Frederick
Satirnine’s Void of Value
reviewed by Jason Lewis
B.B. King’s Reflections
reviewed by Jennifer Abel
Veal’s The Embattled Hearts
reviewed by Christine Leonard
Burquitlam Plaza’s Big on Fall/Sing, Burquitlam! Sing!
reviewed by Timothy Heck

COVER STORY

Motion pictures
Diane Bos records the passage of time through pinhole photography
by Katherine Bourke

VISUAL ARTS

Better dancing through art
Heavyweight Production House turns music into a visual medium
by Rob Faust

THEATRE

Sex, Survivor and Shakespeare
The Bard meets reality TV in new staging of Love’s Labour’s Lost
by Martin Morrow

War-torn romance
Miss Saigon a musical gamble that paid off
by Jeff Goffin

DANCE

Dancing up a summer storm
The Banff Centre’s arts festival prepares to descend into the Maelstrom
by David King

FILM

The Philip Seymour Hoffman show
Actor becomes his character in Owning Mahowny, his most complex role to date
by Bjorn Olsen

In search of a myth
The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa as much about filmmaker as subject
by Wes LaFortune

Wooing action fans
A rare big-screen look at early John Woo
by John Tebbutt

What Woo are you?
by John Tebbutt

Visual vocabulary
Naqoyqatsi follows predecessors, but stumbles
By Timothy Heck

Flaming blue soccer fan
Shaolin Soccer may be a touch odd for North Americans, but it’s a thrill
by Neal Ozano

How to Deal a conventionally unconventional love story
by Shaun English

VIDEO VULTURE
Acid is groovy, kill the pigs
‘You’re soaking in it’ - yaaaaarrrrhhhgg!!
by John Tebbutt