Curbside recycling passes
Program insufficient, argues Sierra Club
By Amy Steele

Report calls for regulations for plant molecular farming
By Josh Markle

Affordable housing recommendations made (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Reviewer’s Soundsystem busted
By Jason K

VIEWPOINT

From Vimy to the Summer of Love
Canada’s true vintage – ’17 or ’67?
By David Bright

CITY

Little people, big emotional problems
Surprising number of children experience depression, suicidal thoughts
By Jennifer Wiley

INTERNATIONAL

Israel’s dilemma
Uncertainty means genuine Arab peace offer simply won’t fly
By Gwynne Dyer

FOOD

Chopstick champions
Treat yourself to Blowfish Sushi’s classy setting and delicious creations
By Lenore Hume

Bombay at home
Vikram Vij’s cookbook divulges the secrets andpassions of his restaurant
By Jane McCullough

BOOKS

Poetry heroes
Long lost spoken word artists descend on Calgary for Home on Earth
By Hugh Graham

Poets gather for evening of Woman Song
By Shereen Samuels

A strange Alberta tale
Andrew Wedderburn’s Milk Chicken Bomb
By Mark Hopkins

COMEDY

More than potshots at broad stereotypes
Sugar Sammy on his raunchy sets, being an ethnic comic and Foucault
By Alan Cho

COVER

Van Halen without the solos and spandex
Trans Am throws down more juicy post-punk anthems
By Aubrey McInnis

SPRING NEW MUSIC

Deep love in a sea of indifference
Singer Bill Callahan blows away the Smog
By Jesse Locke

What goes around comes around
Hold on to your indie-rock record collection, it’s coming back into style
By Jason Lewis

The Alchemist
Andrew Bird enchants with his gentle science of songwriting
By Jane McCullough

Who doesn’t love a good party?
Parisian label Ed Records understands style
By Colin Smith

China new market imperatives
How the new global economy will affect North American pop culture
By Sean Marchetto

Major labels facing a major problem
Sounding like a broken record – why the old model isn’t working anymore
By Nathan Atnikov

MUSIC

From post-hardcore to pop-punk
There’s a Reason Things Couldn’t Be Better
By Jason Lewis

CKUA – 10 years past disaster
By Shereen Samuels

If it ain’t broken, why fix it?
Social Distortion’s twenty-nine year track record
By Laura Glick

Launch sequence initiated
C-Jazz starts the countdown to new festival
By Dennis Slater

CD REVIEWS

The Smog has lifted for Bill Callahan
CD Reviews:
Bill Callahan’s Woke on a Whaleheart
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
The Pony’s Turn the Lights Out
reviewed by Sean Marchetto
Tokyo Police Club’s Box
reviewed by Sean Marchetto
Moaners’ Blackwing Yalobusha
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Timbaland’s Shock Value
reviewed by Derek McEwen
The Innocence Mission’s We Walked in Song
reviewed by Mark Hamilton

VISUAL ARTS

Tranquil austerity
Getting introspective with Malcolm Rains’s minimal, nuanced paintings
By Scott Rogers

THEATRE

A little older, a little wiser
ATP ends season with Eugene Stickland’s Sitting on Paradise
By Jeff Kubik

Emotionally driven strippercize
Carrie Schiffler brings her former stripper self to the stage in Tabitha
By Jeff Kubik

FILM

Taking comedy very seriously
Hot Fuzz actor Nick Frost views American action through a British lens
By Shaun English

Hot Fuzz goes full-throttle
Bringing Hollywood action to cheeky new levels
By Shaun English

Romantic comedy strikes out
In the Land of Women fails to woo audiences
By Lindsay Bowman

Get ready for some reel fun
Film festival caters to cinema-loving kids
By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

A poignant doc about ALS
By Nathan Atnikov

A truly sensational story
Red without Blue honours and respects its delicate subject matter
By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

VIDEO VULTURE

We sent Bowser away to live on a farm, son
Hollywood’s ‘the dog always survives’ rule is more of a loose guideline
By John Tebbutt

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Questionable protection
Debate over the HPV vaccine is injected with sexual politics
By Josey Vogels