AUPE fighting to change restrictive labour laws
By Amy Steele

Compton plans to drill controversial wells and other stories
By Amy Steele

Group demands action on post-secondary issues
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Film review shows disregard for artists
By Richard Zywotkiewic

VIEWPOINT

Bully Alberta goes to bat for big beef
Striking Lakeside workers battle the odds in effort to gain a first contract
By Gillian Steward

Brave act started a revolution
Rosa Parks tributes fail to ask how far civil rights movement has come
By Ashifa Kassam

WEB WATCH

Getting to know the Sobey nominees
By Courtney Thompson

CITY

Hanging up on a bad experience
Stint as a telemarketer a wake-up call for locked-out CBC employee
By Fred Youngs

FOOD

The risotto waits for no one
But at the terrific new Tribune, good things come to those who wait
By Janet McMahen

BOOKS

A well-stuffed Alligator
Lisa Moore’s Giller Prize contender is full of astonishing writing
By Lachlan MacKintosh

A question of Luck
Joan Barfoot makes the Giller shortlist with humorous novel about death
By Natalie St-Denis

Enjoying Paris to the hilt
Calgary writer Gordon Cope made the most of his year in the City of Light
reviewed by Bob Blakey

Capote’s ‘lost’ novel
First book by In Cold Blood author published
By Bryn Evans

COMEDY

Retaliation domination
Even a pack of naughty girls can’t compete with Dane Cook’s comedy
By Stephen W. Smith

MUSIC

Dual to the death
Cripple Creek Fairies and DC Heads get their rocks off for CD release
By Christine Leonard

DIY till they die
Knucklehead cruise to senior citizenry
By Brad Halasz

Practising what they preach
After a decade, Philadelphia’s Anti-Flag are still pissed off and lovin’ it
By Brad Halasz

In the Pocket
Soul-funk collective explore their hip hop side
By Jason Lewis

Give me that sugar, now
A quick guide to pigeonholing local bands
By Leslie Birdfly

A Cherry anniversary
By Rob Faust

CD REVIEWS

Quickly, something familiar from The Hip
CD Reviews:
The Tragically Hip’s Hipeponymous
reviewed by Jason Lewis
The Earlies’ These Were the Earlies
reviewed by David Boyle
Nine Norses’ Snow Borne Sorrow
reivewed by Timothy Heck
Scott Nolan’s NO Bourbon and Bad Radio
reviewed by Rick Overwater
The American Analog Set’s Set Free
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Nirvana’s Silver: The Best of the Box, Blink 182’s Greatest Hits & They Might Be Giants’ They Got Lost
all reviewed by Jason Lewis
Murcof’s Remembranza
reviewed by Timothy Heck
Jamiroquai’s Dynamite
reviewed by Lenore Hume
Bellini’s Small Stones
reviewed by Sean Marchetto
Devendra Banhart’s Cripple Crow
reviewed by Mark Hamilton

COVER STORY

Globalization’s ancestor
Glenbow spotlights magical metropolis built on world trade
By Wes LaFortune

In the land of Lawrence and Indiana Jones
Peaceful Jordan banks on tourism amid the tensions of the Middle East
By Wes LaFortune

VISUAL ARTS

Photojournalism is focus of new local magazine
By Wes LaFortune

THEATRE

Unable to let it go
Rogues Theatre unwinds a decade of unresolved anger with Tape
By Jeff Kubik

Lunchbox surprise
Company culls new AD from summer theatre
By Martin Morrow

Oh, my goth
Spymonkey pulls out all the stops with its hilarious but uneven Cooped
By Martin Morrow

FILM

Exposing oily, made-in-Calgary mess
Doc takes EnCana to task for questionable activity in Ecuador
By Jeremy Klaszus

Armed and dangerous
In Jarhead, war is still hell but not for the traditional reasons
By Rachel Deahl

Paper Clips shows what stats can’t
By Jason Anderson

It’s a Bug’s world
In this tripical rainforest adventure, it’s eat or be eaten
By Craig Boyko

VIDEO VULTURE

The worst of Star Wars
Awful Jedi moments fans would rather throw in the Sarlaac pit
By John Tebbutt

The dark side isn’t the only thing bad about Star Wars
By FFWD writers

VIDEO

Tired, bloody banality
Zombie flick could use some brains
By Bryn Evans

New and notable on DVD
By Jason Lewis

JOYSTUCK

Dangerous gaming
Beware of seizures, injuries and lightning
By Blaine Kyllo

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Drinking problem?
Even some four-legged friends like pee
By Josey Vogels