Lawyer accuses province of dragging feet on drug court
by Amy Steele

Cold can’t compel some homeless indoors
by Amy Steele

Red Cross appeal (and other news notes)
by Amy Steele

LETTERS

Secular showdown
by Lloyd Ash

There’s more to the Moose than the rent
by Dennis Cahill

VIEWPOINT

The Politics of Survival, Part 2
An unpopular Tory leader, ineffective successors and a merger - sound familiar?
by David Bright

WEB WATCH

Annoying my landlord, one nail at a time
by Courtney Thompson

FOOD

Bringing back the lunchtime sandwich
New Penny Lane bistro features an alternative to heavy noon-hour fare
by Danyael Halprin

BOOKS

Crafting creative history
Popular historian Ken McGoogan uses fictional tools to dig for the truth
by Gayl Veinotte

BOOKENDS

Practise safe reading in 2004
But whatever you do, don’t let it keep you out of the bookstores
by Harry Vandervlist

TELEVISION

Memo to Finkleman - shift focus
The Newsroom stumbles by putting the wrong character up front
by Stephen W. Smith

MUSIC

Improvisation doesn’t always mean jazz
Calgary’s Bent Spoon Ensemble continues to twist the rules of musical form
by Kenna Burima

When musical backgrounds collide
Vancouver’s Bottleneck recreate their own version of the alt-country genre
by James Keller

A hint of new among the old
Do you really expect us to believe that a brand new song is a greatest hit?
by Jennifer Abel

RECORD REVIEWS

Canuck rock vets with the best intentions
CD Reviews:
The Unintended’s s/t
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone’s Twinkie Echo
reviewed by Zak Pashak
Noha’s Next Plateau
reviewed by Rob Faust
The Offspring’s Splinter
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Rage Against the Machine’s
Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
reviewed by Rick Overwater

VISUAL ARTS

Hot art for cold months
New column highlights exhibitions and galleries
by A.B. thompson

THEATRE

Bringing Butoh to the Rodeo
Toronto’s Denise Fujiwara takes Calgary audiences down a new river
by David King

Theatrical quickies
Rodeo audiences get off on Ground Zero’s 10-Minute Play Festival
by Hugh Graham

COVER

Twenty and loving it
Passion fuels Decidedly Jazz’s two decades of dance-making
by Dough McLaughlin

Dance troupe becomes pillar of arts scene
by Dough McLaughlin

FILM

Burton’s Big Fish
Fantasy comes to life with director’s magic touch
by Susan Cullen

No statement of purpose
Canadian thriller is numbingly impersonal
by Bjorn Olson

VIDEO VULTURE

Horror cinema in 2003
A ghoulish retrospective by the Vulture
by John Tebbutt

VIDEO

Don’t be a Schneller
With Gerry, as with Elephant, Gus Van Sant confounds middlebrow hacks
by Jaime Frederick