More co-op housing needed in Calgary
Groups urge governments to provide more financial support
By Amy Steele

Dyer predictions
Jounalist Gwynne Dyer warns of global famine due to climate change
By Amy Steele

Canada Signs on to cluster bomb ban (and other news notes)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

The World Is Not Your Shopping Mall
By FFWD Reader

Sexual deviance demeans worthy cause
By FFWD Reader

Party smants reader minds fistake
By FFWD Reader

Proportional representation needed
By FFWD Reader

Police brutality: musicians feel the sting
By FFWD Reader

VIEWPOINT

Unlikely oilpatch role model
Venezuela’s controversial Chavez uses oil revenues to combat poverty
By Colin Wiseman

CITY

Food fight fills out
By Wes LaFortune

Liquor prices to rise
By Mike Tessier

INTERNATIONAL

A world of walls
Global relations increasingly defined by physical barriers
By Gwynne Dyer

FOOD

There’s something in my eye
Blink Supper Club offers good food, but needs more innovation
By Tara MacKinnon

BOOKS

New and notable
From Bad Bridesmaids to Peter Pan’s return
By Bryn Evans

The art of translation
Calgary gets a taste of Montreal with four Canadian poets
By Mark Hopkins

OUT & ABOUT

Provincial potties put under the microscope
The CFL soon to shut doors to fans with the CBC losing broadcast rights
By Mark Sproxton

MUSIC

Lyrics born
Do Make Say Think create a tender musical history
By Jane McCullough

X marks the spot
Ross Haenfler’s new book examines the straight-edge movement
By Sean Marchetto

CD REVIEWS

Pop phenom Sondre Lerche attempts to crank it up
CD Reviews:
Sondre Lerche’s Phantom Punch
reviewed by Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Do Make Say Think’s You, You’re A History In Rust Constellation
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Royal Wood’s A Good Enough Day
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
Clouds’s Legendary Demo
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City
reviewed by Adele Brunnhofer
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter’s Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul
reviewed by Kallen Law
Benny Benassi’s Cooking for Punk-Kin: Special Menu
reviewed by Shawn Hoult

VISUAL ARTS

Photography extravaganza
Le art is le great this month
By Wes LaFortune

COVER STORY

Irish creamed
The Cripple of Inishmaan hobbles over to Theatre Calgary
By Alan Cho

THEATRE

Does cancer have a face?
This is Cancer! Personifies disease
By Jeff Kubik

Murder, child abuse and revenge
Downstage’s This is For You, Anna explores the aftermath of violence
By Jeff Kubik

Spend an intimate evening with Cancer
playRite’s This is Cancer! loses momentum in its search for catharsis
By Jeff Kubik

Cookie cabarets a tough (One) Act to follow
The On-Act Play Festival, pre-pre-teen angst and The Skinny Lie
By FFWD Staff

FILM

B-movies get some respect
Genre filmmaking struts that fine line between high and lowbrow art
By Joel McConvey

Black Snake Moan lacks bite
Souther fable has audiences singing the blues
By Jeff Kubik

Black Snake Moan Soundtrack reviewed by Jason Lewis
By FFWD Staff

A churned out cliché, but maybe that’s the point
Factory Girl fails to capture the vibrant and tragic life of Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick
By Roberta McDonald

Darkness of man
Days of Glory illuminates a little-known war story
By Roberta McDonald

VIDEO VULTURE

Alex Cox speaks
The iconoclastic director pontificates on spaghetti westerns and nuclear destruction in a variety of DVD bonus features
By John Tebbutt

New and notable on DVD
By Jason Lewis

JOSTUCK

PlayStation 3 heavy with promise, potential
Limited number of games now available for use with this powerful system
By Blaine Kyllo

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Transmission problems
Revealing the fact that you have herpes need not be shock-inducing
By Josey Vogels