City delays bulldozing homes
By Amy Steele

Consumer pressure impacts sweatshops
Lost sales, bad PR forces companies to change criticized labour practices
By Amy Steele

Marda Loop wants giant metal sign back (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Five-star animal accomodation
By Carol Tracey

Royal Commission ought to investigate the RCMP
By Larry MacKillop

WATCH DAWG

An Alberta nativity
Martha and Henry have a child in the city of David (Bronconnier)
By Jeremy Klaszus

CITY

‘Holiday cheer’ in short supply
Busnesspeople and consumers lose as distribution crisis continues
By Mike Tessier

INTERNATIONAL

Hawking’s warning
Human beings off earth now! Global civilization’s collapsse coming
By Gwynne Dyer

SCIENCE MATTERS

The net effect
Time to ban high-seas bottom trawling as the seas empty of fish
By David Suzuki

ENVIRONMENT

Attack of the killer insects
Tree-ravaging beetle infestation set to take Alberta’s forest by storm
By Josh Markle

FOOD

Le yum yum
Popular Quebec breakfast joint Cora’s makes the move west with delicious results
By Lenore Hume

BOOZE

Merry libations to you
Saucy gifts to get you sauced this holiday
By Mike Tessier

COVER STORY

Twenty years later
Celia Farber looks back on two decads of AIDS reportage
By Bryn Evans

BOOKS

Parenting angst
Alyson Schafer takes down the mommy myths
By Christy MacKintosh

A sister’s memories
New memoir recounts the origins of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
By Jeff Kubik

Down the river
Robert Twigger recounts his trip by birch bark canoe in Voyageur
By Bob Blakey

Frustrating but good
Nell Freudenberger’s sophomore novel The Dissident contemplates art
reviewed by Heather Tyminski

Eye of the two-headed tiger
Tina Biswas’s debut novel a cat with claws
reviewed by Dipti Chakravorty

Straight thuggin’ in the 14th century
Forsoothizzle! Rap Canterbury Tales is awkward and tedious
reviewed by Norval Scott

Freefall Magazine gets a new look
By Mark Hopkins

MUSIC

The Red Sparowes are doing it old-school
L.A. band goes back in time – from the spelling of their name to symbolism
By Sean Marchetto

The accidental decade
The Rembetika Hipsters turned one show into a 10-year musical party
By Jason Lewis

The hardest working DJ in America
In a world where style often surpasses substance, DJ Dan is an anomaly
By Matthew Belleghem

Baaaaaad to the bone
Lamb of God defines American death metal
By Christine Leonard

See what you haven’t heard
A compliation of music DVD reviews just in time for the holidays
By Christine Leonard

CD REVIEWS

Canadian indie rock supergroup’s swan song
CD Reviews:
Swan Lake’s Beast Moans
reviewed by Aubrey McInnis
Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 1970
reviewed by Brandon Tenold
Everclear’s Welcome to the Drama Club
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
Himalayan Bear’s Lo Lonesome Island
reviewed by Peter Hemminger
Tony Furtado’s Thirteen
reviewed by Jennifer Abel
Tahiti 80’s Fosbury
reviewed by Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Jerry Lee Lewis’s Last Man Standing
reviewed by Peter Hemminger
Entrance’s Prayer of Death
reviewed by Cameron Noyes
Love is All’s Nine Times The Same Song
reviewed by Jesse Locke
The Gothic Archies’ The Tragic Treasury: Songs From a Series of Unfortunate Events
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
To Live and Shave in L.A.’s Noon and Eternity
reviewed by Jordan Lane
Various Artists’ Fifteen Years
reviewed by Red Eye
Nina Simone’s Nina Simone Remixed and Reimagined
reviewed by Roberta McDonald

VISUAL ARTS

Expressions in clay
Annemarie Schmid-Esler’s sculptural odyssey
By Wes LaFortune

Your own personal Jesus… figurine
Munkaspeni – the alter ego of controversial artist on his bizarre creations
By Hugh Graham

THEATRE

Singing whales and Shakespeare
Our new column focuses on up-and-coming and community theatre
By Jeff Kubik

Popped cherries
Random Acts merges musicians with the new Resident Company of Artists
By Jeff Kubik

Return of the Rodeo
OYR brings the Rheostatics, a burning SUV, a gay wedding and a sideshow
By Jeff Kubik

DANCE

Dancing across the world
Alberta Ballet’s holiday Nutcracker more than a local treat
By Natalie St-Denis

FILM

The animals have spoken
A lovely setting and cute barnyard inhabitants brings magic to Charlotte’s Web
By Carla Ciccone

Give Yoko a chance
Flawed documentary explores John Lennon’s anti-war idealism
By Jeff Kubik

VIDEO VULTURE

Of Mice and Mazes
This column has been tested on animals
By John Tebbutt

Wah-Wah can’t hold it’s liquor
By Jason Lewis

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Delightfully dirty books
Literary gift suggestions to stuff the stockings of the naughty and the nice
By Josey Vogels