Campaign finance overhaul demanded
By Amy Steele

Youth climate change coalition to form (and other news briefs)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Manage arts groups, agencies effectively
By FFWD Reader

A huge addition to Fast Forward lineup
By FFWD Reader

Open forum lauded , inane ramblings criticized
By FFWD Reader

Conservative leadership candidate critique sharp
By FFWD Reader

VIEWPOINT

Aid accountability
Bill C-293 to ensure the effective use of Canadian foreign aid dollars
By Jesse Keith

Survivor: segregation island
Rality hit makes insincere attempt to address lack of racial diversity
By Erin Seatter

INTERNATIONAL

If 9/11 hadn’t happened
The event that changed the world forever may not have changed much
By Gwynne Dyer

SCIENCE MATTERS

Environment minister delivers death sentence to owls
By David Suzuki

FOOD

German delights
Heidelberg Haus’s cuisine is for the older set
By Tara MacKinnon

BOOKS

Short Fiction
Sandra Sabatini on dolphins and key reads
By FFWD Staff

An alphabet of sex and sin
Education in 26 easy steps, from adultery to zealotry
By James Dangerous

Bookends
Albertans illiterate?
By Mark Hopkins

TELEVISION

Perry rocks and the Woods sucks
Familiar faces deliver varied results in this season’s new TV series
By Stephen W. Smith

MUSIC

88 keys to charm you
The 88 try to get over (and over) The O.C.
By Christine Leonard

Pimp-slapping free zone
Atmosphere’s Slug talks about pushing the diehard hip hop envelope
By Alan Cho

A portrait of a man
Calgary pianist bring composer to life
By Kenna Burima

Like a moth to a flame
It’s a bitd. It’s a plane. It’s… Mothra!
By Christine Leonard

RAMP set to launch
The Summerlad curae a montly mixture of musical mayhem
By Jordan Lane

The Casualties do the math
Punk band brings success into the equation
By Keith Carman

Free to do what they want
Jesse and Josh Zubot bring their improv jazz style to Carnivale!
By Dennis Slater

High time for Prime Time
City and unlikely hot spot for big band music
By Dennis Slater

CD REVIEWS

Jason Molina lets go of Songs:Ohia moniker
CD Reviews:
Jason Molina’s Let me Go , Let Me Go, Let Me Go
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Bonnei ‘Prince’ Billy’s Cursed Sleep
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Sugarcult’s Lights Out and Lostprophets’s Liberation Transmission
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Sao Paris’s La
reviewed by Sean Marchetto
AA Soundsystem’s Laissez Faire
reviewed by Jason Lewis

COVER STORY

ArtCity goes incognito
Projects pop up in unexpected locations throughout the city
By Anthea Black

Projects pop up in unexpected locations throughout the city
By Anthea Black

VISUAL ARTS

Working side by side
Paul Butler brings his Collage Party to ACAD
By Nicole Burisch

Building a city of champions
Architect Randall Stout re-designs the Art Gallery of Alberta
By Angela Yee

For me? Why, you shouldn’t have!
Shelley Ouellet and Erin MacMillan team up for a giant game of Tag
By Anthea Black

Career built within the cityscape
Frederick Valentine retrospective displays works of famed architect
By Wes Lafortune

The faces of Calgary’s arts scene
Sarah holtom paints and paints for 100 Portraits of Calgary Artists
By Hugh Graham

THEATRE

The Great Depression means great theatre
Lennie and his rabbits return for Theatre Calgary’s of Mice and Men
By Jeff Kubik

Your memory is in the mail
Morpheus Theatre’s The Mail Order Bride looks at the prairie life
By James Dangerous

Existential angst is… boring
Muddled prose and murky metaphysics collapse The Chairs
By Jeff Kubik

FILM

Tinsel town’s tarnish
Hollywoodland exposes the sleazy 1950s
By Roberta McDonald

A haunting tale of love and treachery
Abduction is a documentary that examines a family’s personal anguish
By Roberta McDonald

Crank it up
Insane action flick kicks it up a notch
By Andre Aitkenhead

Divide and conquer
A bold technique raises Conversations with Other Women above gimmickry
By Jason Lewis

WEB EXCLUSIVE
Tony baloney
Protector can’t fend off laughter
By Tom Murray

VIDEO VULTURE

Cheap, cheap, cheap!
Go buy some DVDs that cost less than a grande latte at Starbucks
By John Tebbutt

VIDEO

A wilder take on film noir
Double Indemnity a pitch-perfect thriller
By Jason Lewis

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Scar Power
Some women learn to love their ‘battle’ scars
By Josey Vogels