Power plant proposal hs fans, foes
By Amy Steele

Petro payout fairness questioned
Oil patch opposed to critics’ demands for higher royalty payments
By Adrian Morrow

Calgarians support social programs (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Respect nature and ditch off-road driving
By Jon Walters

Police ‘hijinks’ require independent review
By Marvin James

VIEWPOINT

Why Josh or Ashleigh will never be PM
By David Bright

I’ll be watching you, secular nationalist
‘Our attitude was one of let’s-wait-until-we-know-what-we’re-doing’
by Bob Keelaghan

CITY

Stealers’ wheels
City considers use of bait cars to curb theft
By Wes LaFortune

INTERNATIONAL

Anatomy of violence
Understanding and stopping the carnage in Iraq
By Gwynne Dyer

FOOD

Where the sandwiches roam
Buffalo Café is a cozy treat
By Lenore Hume

COVER

Rebranding Bolivia’s demonized, sacred coca plant
By Anne Georg

BOOKS

The hungry dominatrix
Susan Winemaker’s Concertina brings together food, sex and travel
By Anthea Black

Who’s Sassy?
New book a relevant look at classic teen magazine
By Kirsten Kosloski

Books are great
In the summertime, the readings are fine
By Mark Hopkins

MUSIC

That amphibian emotion
No fraud or lies for Frog Eyes on new album Tears of the Valedictorian
By Christine Leonard

Rolling with The Ostrich
Local foursome is rocking the block
By Roberta McDonald

Just don’t call him mundane
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine plays a dark duet with Lacuna Coil singer
By Christine Leonard

Punk rock still relevant
D.O.A. front man keeps busy with new projects
By Keith Carman

Canada’s favourite flying mammals
Cancer Bats continue taking over the night
By Laura Glick

No direction home
Elvis Perkins can’t deny where he’s from
By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

CD REVIEWS

Duo Handsome Furs puts its best paw forward
CD Reviews:
Handsome Furs’ Plague Park
reviewed by Jesse Locke
They Shoot Horses Don’t They?’s Pick Up Sticks
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
Elliott Smith’s New Moon
reviewed by Mark Hamilton
Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts’ Let’s Just Be
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Arctic Monkeys’ Favorite Worst Nightmare
reviewed by Jesse Locke
Angelique Kidjo’s Djini Djin
reviewed by Bruce Pollock
D.O.A.’s Puk Rock Singles 1978-99
reviewed by Sean Marchetto
Lavender Diamond’s Imagine Our Love
reviewed by Shawn Hoult
Mark Davis’s Don’t You Think We Should Be Closer? & Mistakes I Meant to Make
both reviewed by M.D. Stewart
Joel Plaskett Emergency’s Ashtray Rock
reviewed by Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
Datarock’s Datarock Datarock
reviewed by Ashley Ingoldsby

VISUAL ARTS

When all is Said and Done
Stride’s new collaborative show
By Janelle Dubeau

Paint money
Robin Arsenault nominated for Sobey Award
By Jessica McCarrel

THEATRE

Pain in the ass
THEATREboom gives audiences a Wedgie
By Jeff Kubik

FILM

When Ripley met Sally
Severance actress makes most of horror clichés
By Danielle Suchet

Working yourself to death
Humour and horror combinie in the wickedly funny flick Severance
By Danielle Suchet

Knocked Up delivers
Director Judd Apatow infuses pregnancy comedy with a heart of gold
By Jason Lewis

A cheap postcard
Avenue Montaigne tries its hand at whimsy and fails
By Alan Cho

Costner and Moore make a comeback in stylish thriller Mr. Brooks
A return to intelligent murder mysteries
By Danielle Suchet

At World’s End leaves you wanting more
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise charts some rough waters
By Shaun English

VIDEO VULTURE

Sword of Swords is astonishingly brutal
All this fuss over one lousy sword? What, is it magic or something?
By John Tebbutt

Split personality
What’s around Dark Corners? Not much according to actress Thora Birch
By Bryn Evans

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Feminizing porn
Director Anna Span brings a woman’s perspective to adult entertainment
By Josey Vogels