You call this a democracy?
Public Interest Alberta opens debate on province’s ‘democratic deficit’
By Amy Steele

Climate change report prompts concern
By Amy Steele

Affordable housing task force assembled (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Restricting cash corner ironic in labour shortage
By FFWD Reader

His name is my name, too – Club members have responsibilities
By FFWD Reader

VIEWPOINT

Global warming official – so what next?
By David Bright

WATCH DAWG

Missing out on kicking Tory ass
By Jeremy Klaszus

INTERNATIONAL

Chirac’s gaffe
French leader veers from western hard line on Iranian nuclear question
By Gwynne Dyer

COVER

Jamal Ali’s journey to wellness
By Amy Steele

GOING GREEN

Dog poop soiling Calgary’s air and water
By Adrienne Beattie

FOOD

Inconspicuous, delicious
Delhi Darbar’s tasty buffet worth the trip
By Lenore Hume

BOOKS

Fantasy island
Guy Gavriel Kay gets personal with Ysabel
By Jocelyn Grosse

Enter the Blogosphere
Author Michael Keren explores the phenomenon behind Internet authors
By Mark Hopkins

MUSIC

Taking a step back
Dave Simpson focuses on writing story-oriented songs
By Mary-Lynn Wardle

Matrimonial thematic
Geoff Berner answers the call of klezmer
By Jason Lewis

Doing things her way
Anita Athavale redefins the word success
By Shereen Samuels

CD REVIEWS

Of Montreal mixes pop with depression
CD Reviews:
Of Montreal’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
reviewed by Jesse Locke
The Good The Band and The Queen’s s/t
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Loney, Dear’s Loney, Noir
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Mnemic’s Passenger
reviewed by Shawn Hoult
Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black
reviewed by Red Eye

VISUAL ARTS

Keeping crafty in the cold
Get Exposed, go Beyond the Spirit and enjoy some wine this February
By Wes LaFortune

OPERA

Singing in the Arctic
Frobisher sentimental and bombastic, but fun all the same
By Jeff Kubik

THEATRE

Psychoanalysts in love
Why Freud Fainted a musical love letter of ideas between famed psychological giants
By Jeff Kubik

Loose corsets
Age of Arousal finds sexiness in Victorian era
By Alan Cho

Delightfully macabre
Murder in Green Meadows technically and artistically chilling
By Jeff Kubik

Toe-tapping country
Lunchbox Theatre rocks its musical chops
By Jeff Kubik

Tangled up in blue collar roots
Ron Chambers finds pathos in the rural back roads of The Knowing Bird
By Alan Cho

Return to the eerie past
Ghost River’s new production a masterful look at the dark underbelly of the boom
By Jeff Kubik

DANCE

Biography in ballet
Renaissance artist Joni Mitchell goes dancing in The Fiddle and Drum
By Jocelyn Grosse

The future of contemporary dance
Alberta Dance Explosions merges new and professional artistic creations
By Jocelyn Grosse

FILM

What are the chances?
An idea that one man can change the world
By Kevin Rosmanitz

Can you Picture This?
Film festival and Black History Month
By Jane McCullough

VIDEO VULTURE

Landing on my footage
Happy accidents captured on film to become classic celluloid moments
By John Tebbutt

The buzz is… limp
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
By Bryn Evans

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Dreading V-Day
Cynicism is a cop out – find the love behind the commercialism
By Josey Vogels