Rally for Alberta landscape
Environmental groups say framework process too slow
By Amy Steele

Calgary drug court provides jail alternative (and other stories)
By Amy Steele

VIEWPOINT

A tale of two Albertas
Conservatives must pay for disregard of Alberta’s health and welfare
By Gillian Steward

CITY

Giant Tiger stalks the west
By Wes Lafortune

Casual Kyoto
Pub forum makes issues, experts and decision makers accessible
By Adrienne Beattie

INTERNATIONAL

Cuba: what if he comes back?
The disastrous possibility of Castor’s return to poer
By Gwynne Dyer

ENVIRONMENT

When global warming hands you lemons….
Biologist believes climate change doesn’t have to spell the end of us
By Adrienne Beattie

FOOD

Cozy cubbyhole of classy cuisine
Fleur de Sel offers warm and hearty respite from the Calgary cold
By Tara MacKinnon

TRAVEL

Born to be wild
Meet the Easy Riders of Dalat
By Ken Cameron

BOOKS

Rated PG for gratuitous poetry action
Familiar faces and upstarts featured in Frontenac’s 2007 Quartet
By Aneka Rao

Bookends
Le Francophone poetry is le awesome
By Mark Hopkins

FASHION

Beauty for sale
Local companies and technicians offer courses in ‘enhancing’ your personal style
By Stephanie Arsenault

Veggie clothes
Stores make move to offering eco-friendly duds
By Wes LaFortune

How to talk to your tailor
Getting the best fit for the best value
By Sean Marchetto

MUSIC

This DJ will rock you
Close Calls with Brick Walls, Andrew WK takes rockin’ out to the next level
By Christine Leonard

Just play the blues, man
Guitarist Jim Guiboche earns a solid reputation by playing from the heart
By Dennis Slater

Charting the buzz
How one website is monitoring band ‘chatter’ in the blogosphere
By Sean Marchetto and Wayne Meadows

The show must go on — now
There’s no time like the present for local ska-punks Five Star Affair
By Jason Lewis

CD REVIEWS

Blonde Redhead gets back in the saddle again
CD Reviews:
Blonde Redhead’s 23
reviewed by Charles Gunn and Mark Hamilton
Black Lips’s Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo Vice
reviewed by Jane McCullough
Bright Eyes’s Cassadega
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Jim Bryson’s Where the Bungalows Roam
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
Albert Hammond Jr.’s Yours to Keep
reviewed by Joanna Huffa
You Say Party! We Say Die!’s Lose All Time
reviewed by Marky Moon
Low Level Flight’s Urgency
reviewed by Jason Lewis

VISUAL ARTS

Alberta through the ages
The Glenbow unveils Mavericks
By Wes Lafortune

THEATRE

Giving the one-act a leg up
Lunchbox Theatre continues its development of new short plays
By Jeff Kubik

Getting the silent treatment
Nikolai Gogol adaptation The Overcoat ends Theatre Calgary season
By Jeff Kubik

Untethered nostalgia
Ghost River’s Confessions of a Paperboy beautiful but fleeting
By Jeff Kubik

Marijuana grow-op equals dramedy gold
Lunchbox Theatre ends season with the touching comedy Harvest
By Jeff Kubik

FILM

Far-fetched story is gory fun
Neighborhood Watch is not for the weak of heart – or stomach
By Shawn Hoult

The epitome of underground
By Shawn Hoult

How to make a horror movie in two days
By John Tebbutt

Don’t be ridiculous
Perfect Stranger’s humdrum script falls short of being captivating
By Carla Ciccone

Don’t get angry
The content is engrossing, but the presentation is unmoving
By Andrew Aitkenhead

Plagued by twist endings
The Reaping tries to do too much with the horror movie genre
By Nathan Atnikov

VIDEO VULTURE

Alas, poor Evil Henchman Number Three, we hardly knew ye…
The Video Vulture salutes expendable cast members
By John Tebbutt

VIDEO

New and notable on DVD
Entourage wants to hug it out, beeyatch
By FFWD Writer

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Psychographic dating makes age moot
By Josey Vogels