Visible minorities feel excluded within Canada
By Amy Steele

Quebec artists to protest Alberta oil and gas industry
Group plans to hand out traffic tickets for socially unacceptable transportation
By Amy Steele

Public Intrest Alberta advocates living wage (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

INTERNATIONAL

Iraq: no change of strategy
By Gwynne Dyer

FOOD

Early spring cleaning
No sugar? No booze? A diet cleanse much harder than it looks
By Tara MacKinnon

BOOKS

Get excited about the spoken word
Calgary’s Slam marches on, with mad poetry and prizes
By Mark Hopkins

TELEVISION

Happy hour in a hot tub
The dirt on MTV’s The Real World
By Alan Cho

FESTIVAL

Puppet bash
Metric frontwoman surprises fans and critics with solo record
By Peter Hemminger

Surrounded by masks
Faustwork Mask Theatre on the enduring The Mask Messenger
By Jeff Kubik

From Killer Klowns to Team America
Cult heroes the Chiodo Bros. still the premier puppet posse
By Jeff Kubik

Celluloid selections
Surreal to serious – creators put their Puppets on Screen
By Jeff Kubik

MUSIC

Three chords and the truth
Without rewriting the book on punk rock Anti Flag still have something to say
By Jason Lewis

Ice Cube dissects hip hop
By Alan Cho

Bentall’s balance
Past and present meet urban and rural tones at Bluebird North
By Mary-Lynn Wardle

CD REVIEWS

Endearing Julie Doiron wakes herself up
CD Reviews:
Julie Doiron’s Woke Myself Up
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Christina Rosenvinge’s Continental 62
reviewed by Timothy Heck
The Winks’ Birthday Party
reviewed by Jesse Locke
Various Artists’ Om Winter Sessions
reviewed by Christine Leonard
Architect’s All Is Not Lost & Since The Flood’s No Compromise
both reviewed by Zahinoor Ismail

VISUAL ARTS

Back to basics
Triangle Gallery’s Hit or Miss revels in creativity
By Wes LaFortune

THEATRE

The Rodeo roundup continues
The shockingly great Oedipus, the catastrophic Dead Elvis
By Jeff Kubik

COVER STORY

For adult eyes only
Pan’s Labyrinth mixes politics and fantasy for dark fable
By Jason Anderson

Heroes come in small packages
Pan’s Labyrinth is an echanting and illuminating film packed with surprises
By Roberta MacDonald

FILM

Dumpster divers
Found Footage Festival features the best of discarded and forgotten videos
By Shawn Hoult

Idi Amin and all things Scottish
The Last King of Scotland examines the life and reign of Ugandan general
By Jason Anderson

The Last King of Scotland
Idi Amin biopic delves into the complex mind of a paranoid despot
By Roberta MacDonald

Picture perfect
The real star of The Good German is the film itself
By Jason Lewis

Miss Potter, I presume?
The life of an innocent and eccentric woman
By Shaun English

Hell in the Pacific
Eastwood explores the Japanese war experience in Letters From Iwo Jima
By Jason Lewis

They be straight-thuggin, yo!
Despite the plot twists, Alpha Dog is painful and should be put to sleep
By Jesse Locke

Muppets take Kosovo
The World According to Sesame Street
By Carla Ciccone

Highbrow camp
Notes on a Scandal is pure melodrama
By Jason Anderson

WEB EXCLUSIVE
FILM
The Painted Veil
By Nathan Atnikov

WEB EXCLUSIVE
FILM
Stomp The Yard
By Nathan Atnikov

VIDEO VULTURE

The Revolution will not be colourized
Bleak old movies repackaged in an eye-pleasing array of tasteful pastels
By John Tebbutt

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Redefining intimacy
Mating in Captivity author Esther Perel doesn’t accept the usual excuses for why we’re n t doing it
By Josey Vogels