Health care deadbeats owe millions
Staggering number of Health and Wellness premiums go unpaid
By Jenn Wiley

Media conglomerates becoming monsters?
CRTC ruling may be precedent setting
By Amy Steele

Conservative climate change plan criticized (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

VIEWPOINT

A world in chaos
Making sense of the senseless
By David Bright

CITY

Streets no place for a sister
By Amy Steele

FOOD

Belly-busting beef
Tommy Burger sends you to patty heaven
By Lenore Hume

URBAN LIVING

Architectural initiative
A group of students and professionals seeks to push the progress of good urban design and planning
By Kevin Rosmanitz

BOOKS

Cultural celebrations
ImaginASIAN festival events and more
By Mark Hopkins

COVER

Standing up to hate
Human rights complaint brings anti-gay backlash
By Amy Steele

MUSIC

A testament to psychobilly
Reverend Horton Heat brings booze-soaked righteousness to town
By Roberta McDonald

Young and old folks love Peter Bjorn and John
The best Swedish exports – no assembly (or commas) required
By Aubrey McInnis

When instinct becomes technique
Crank up the volume, you’ll find the Absent Sound is anything but
By Jason Lewis

The downside to downloading
Digital Rights Management might as well be a four letter word
By Sean Marchetto

Making it his own
Songwriter Jim Bryson finds himself Where the Bungalows Roam
By Jason Lewis

Hillbilly garage grrrls gone wild
May local music news
By Alvy Singer

Mark your calendar
Cool festival preview and hot jazz
By Dennis Slater

CD REVIEWS

Frog Eyes makes a more accessible rock album
CD Reviews:
Frog Eyes’ Tears of the Valedictorian
reviewed by Charles Gunn
Fujiya & Miyagi’s Transparent Things
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
The Twilight Sad’s Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
reviewed by Charles Gunn
Aldo Leopardi’s s/t
reviewed by Bob Keelaghan
Maximo Park’s Our Earthly Pleasures
reviewed by Derek McEwen
Peter Elkas’s Wall of Fire
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Kings of Leon’s Because of the Times
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Alison Krauss’s A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
reviewed by Jennifer Abel

VISUAL ARTS

Near-psychotic sensations
New works explore Beckett
By Scott Rogers

Hide and seek
Stride’s Finding the Invisible connects three artists
By Anthea Black

Graduation day
Art student grad shows and more
By Jennifer McVeigh

THEATRE

Cerebral telepath
Dragonfly’s comic-inspired love story
By Jeff Kubik

Confronting injustice through story
Downstage debuts new Sharon Pollock play, Man Out of Joint
By Jeff Kubik

Celebrating two Mexican mother figures
Maple Salsa Theatre gets mythological in MACULA: A Ritual of Miracles
By Jocelyn Grosse

Murder most coiffed
The long-running hit, Shear Madness, returns to Vertigo Theatre
By Jeff Kubik

Bloody betrayals and ye olde English
The Shakespeare Company’s Henry VI an ambitious, jolly good show
By Jeff Kubik

FILM

Hitchcock classic gets a post 9/11 update
Civic Duty addresses culture of terrorism and paranoia
By Danielle Suchet

Pet project
Director Mike White’s Year of the Dog is the cat’s meow
By Jaime Frederick

Herland, Broken Reels and a Super 8 Challenge
The month of May will bring music to the ears of local film lovers
By Jane McCullough

VIDEO VULTURE

Fictional products: not available in stores!
I’ll buy one Binford Torque Wrench, some Weight Gain 4000, a Bass-O-Matic and a Talking Malibu Stacey, please
By John Tebbutt

New and notable on DVD
Chevy Chase fans rejoice – Fletch is back!
By Jason Lewis

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Enjoying "it"
Masturbation month pompts questions from 49-year-old pud puller — hooker, girlfriend or more hand sex?
By Josey Vogels