Forest freak-out
Kananaskis residents raise uproar over local clear cutting plan
By Adrian Morrow

Report raises grizzly alarm
Endangered designation urged as bear population drops dangerously
By Amy Steele

Calgary turning a lighter shade of blue (among other stories)
By Amy Steele

LETTERS

Drawing theatrical parallels legit
By Jason Rothery

Arctic Monkeys tops say middle-class arseholes
By Barry James McCarthy

VIEWPOINT

It was 20 years ago today
Why the stench of the Meech Lake Accord lingers
By David Bright

CITY

Spaced out
Beating the arts space crunch
By Adrian Morrow

INTERNATIONAL

Calling the BMD bluff
Putin’s ‘interesting proposal’ a brilliant negotiating ploy
By Gwynne Dyer

FOOD

Your new favourite joint
Niko’s Bistro puts the zing in Kenzington
By Lenore Hume

TRAVEL

Cruisin’ the Cape
By Wes Lafortune

BOOKS

Jetpacks! Rayguns!
Author Daniel Wilson on sci-fi inventions
By Kyle Francis

The medium is the message, and it sucks
New book chronicles the battle to end media monopolies in the U.S.
By Amy Steele

Realities of the immigrant experience
The American dream is a joke, or, how I learned to be a fundamentalist
By Aneka Rao

It’s raining books, hallelujah
Book launches, and Pages changes hands
By Mark Hopkins

COMEDY

It’s Charlie Murphy!
Chappelle’s Show comedian comes to Calgary
By Alan Cho

MUSIC

Let all the children boogie
Super soundman Ken Scott brings his stories on the road
By Jesse Locke

Saved by Saved By Radio
Mark Davis offers fans two compelling albums
By M.D. Stewart

Shapeshifters of jazz
The Christine Jensen Quartet defines the shape of jazz to come
By Christine Leonard

Turn up the heat
June is the right time for jazz
By Dennis Slater

Mistress of the double entendre
Little Miss Higgins tempts audiences with her driving rhythms
By Bruce Pollock

CD REVIEWS

Los Campesinos! Will have you doing backflips
CD Reviews:
Los Campesinos!’s Sticking Fingers into Sockets
reviewed by Kyle Francis
Tiger Army's Music from Regions Beyond
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Satellite Party’s Ultra Payloaded
reviewed by Shawn Hoult
Chainfire’s Details
reviewed by Keith Carman
Metric’s Grow Up and Blow Away
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
The Cribs’s Mens’ Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
reviewed by Jason Lewis
Society’s Parasites’ s/t
reviewed by Keith Carman
Wheat’s Every day I said a prayer for Kathy and made a one inch square
reviewed by Nathan Atnikov
Armand Van Helden’s Ghettoblaster & Antoine Clamaran’s The Best of Antoine Clamaran
both reviewed by Sean Marchetto
Fiction Plane’s The Left Side of the Brain
reviewed by Kyle Francis

COVER

The man, the myth – the Shatner
UPPERCASE Gallery pays homage to larger-than-life pop icon
By Peter Hemminger

VISUAL ARTS

Super-8-style prairie hoedown
Amalie Atkins’s Welcome to My Party is a real barn-burner
By Anthea Black

Get crafty, Calgary!
ACAD hosts events, exhibitions and conferences for Craft Year 2007
By Nicole Burisch

Six Calgary sculptors take over the Triangle
Exhibition celebrates the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society’s 25th year
By Janelle Dubeau

THEATRE

Lurid noir and the elderly
Sour Water Strippers and theatre classics
By Jeff Kubik

From Muppets to millenarian prophecy
THATREboom goes bonkers with the glorious and goofy Wedgie
By Melanie Little

Attracting theatre
Magnetic North draws attention to Canada’s best indie companies
By Martin Morrow

FILM

The guys who fooled the BBC
Yes Men bring their political theatre to town
By Adrian Morrow

Let’s get visual
Indie Music Video Festival reinvents the way we watch music videos
By Lindsay Bowman

Love is Work needs closure
By Nathan Atnikov

VIDEO VULTURE

How to survive a boring movie rental
Embrace DVD tedium!
By John Tebbutt

MY MESSY BEDROOM

Popular love wisdom is crap
Stop listening to bad, clichéd relationship advice
By Josey Vogels