CBC needs to regain relevancy, say experts
By Amy Steele

Telus and Union reach tentative agreement and other stories
By Amy Steele

Report says Alberta’s energy security is at risk
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Workplace often breeds unhealthy competition
By David Swann, MD

Government’s gambling addiction is the worst
By Judith M. Snell

Not everyone has the same access to education
By Nate Speers

WEB WATCH

Change-a-lujah!
Preacher fights consumerism
By Courtney Thompson

VIEWPOINT

It’s time for the city to clean up its act
Balancing the right to choose versus the responsibility to recycle
By Adrienne Beattie

CITY

Zombie Walk invades Calgary
March of the living dead will be fun for the whole family
By Kirsten Kosloski

FOOD

Kidding around
Youngster adds charm to Restaurant Indonesia
By Danyael Halprin

WORDFEST

Picking through The Wreckage
Michael Crummey views today through lens of 1940s Newfoundland
By Harry Vandervlist

Killer debut
Charlotte Gill’s potent story collection proves addictive
reviewed by C.B. MacKintosh

What’s happening at WordFest
A selection of highlights for this year’s Calgary-Banff literary festival
By Bryn Evans

A fine madness
Joan Clark traces a bipolar personality
By Bryn Evans

BOOKS

There’s life beyond WordFest
Check out new books on Haiti, homophobia and the Virgin
By Bryn Evans

COVER STORY

Bring on the deep funk revival
L.A.’s Breakestra use their hip hop roots to get in the groove
By Kenna Burima

MUSIC

Moving forward by embracing the past
For Great Big Sea, the next big thing means going back in history
By Martin Kemp

Using his Vibe to open minds
Calgarian Jeff Hendrick’s new album celebrates soul music
By Frank Litorco

Label watch – ECM Records
By Timothy Heck

The best band you never heard
Music writers nationwide let you in on their favourite unsigned acts
By FFWD writers

Before the dream Faded by Calvin Johnson
By Joanne Huffa

Getting behind the music
Reading between the lines to get the stories about songs
By FFWD writers

Girls, girls, girls
Check out the new releases – ladies have big plans this fall
By Aubrey McInnis

My Favourite Letter by Alice Russell
By Jason Lewis

Best new (old) trend
Classic hip hop getting re-released on CD
By Jason Lewis

A little bit country
Cuff the Duke ain’t steppin’ in no cow pies
By Brad Halasz

Dominos by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
By Bruce Pollock

Country in more than just name
Corb Lund breathes life into a genre that has lost itself in commercialism
By Jeremy Klaszus

Sound Mirrors by Coldcut and Jon Spencer
By Sean Marchetto

Small-town songwriting
Alana Levandoski has become the new ‘it’ girl of Canadian roots
By Bruce Pollock

CD REVIEWS

Franz Ferdinand could be so much better
CD Reviews:
Franz Ferdinand’s You Could Have It So Much Better
reviewed by Jane McCullough
Blackalicious’s The Craft
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Blood on the Wall’s Awesomer
reviewed by Kirsten Kosloski
Calla’s Collisions
reviewed by Jason Lewis
A Dozen Furies’ A Concept From Fire
reviewed by Ashley Ingoldsby

VISUAL ARTS

It’s M:ST3
Set your watches for a month of ‘performative’ art
By Wes LaFortune

THEATRE

Doing Hank Williams
Tom Phillips and musical pals raise the ghost of a country legend
By Mary-Lynn Wardle

THEATREboom’s tuna meltdown
Sometimes it only takes a slippery sandwich to inspire a new play
By Martin Morrow

Adam and Eve and cancer
Vern Thiessen’s low-key marital crisis drama sounds the depths of love
By Martin Morrow

DANCE

Ready for Romeo
Alberta Ballet remakes timeless tragedy
By Natalie St-Denis

FILM

Despite the talent pool, Domino falls down
By Bryn Evans

Get on up
Dancing instead of gangbanging in Rize
By Matthew Currie Holmes

Say something, Say Anything
Cameron Crowe’s latest, Elizabethtown, can’t find its voice
By Rachel Deahl

Playful clay
Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit is cause for celebration
By John Tebbutt

Brave new tomorrow
Despite its flaws, Frozen Angels is a freaky cautionary tale
By Andrea Huck

A disturbing pleasure
Pretty Persuasion is a dark, engaging tale of teenage revenge
By Krista Goheen

It’s not just the service that’s bad
Dick jokes (plenty of ‘em) are the order of the day in Waiting
By Jason Armstrong

VIDEO VULTURE

The finest sci-fi TV on DVD
Catch up with the crews of Serenity and Galactica on home video
by John Tebbutt

JOYSTUCK

Video game auteurs
The storytelling revolution is on its way
By Blaine Kyllo

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Girls only
Survey focuses solely on the sexual status of teenage girls
By Josey Vogels