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Issue 2104, Apr 17, 2008

Arts Features

Romeo and Juliet meet again in the Downtown Eastside streets
Earth Day: It’s easy celebrating green

Theatre

Volpone lacks emotional reality to be truly funny
Brutal Pillowman fails to transform the horror
No suspense in The View From Above

Dance

Danza Cuba returns to Canada

Music Arts

Sonic Boom, but little bounce
Guess Who tunes get new orchestral guise

Visual Arts

Barbara Milne: Overland and Erin McSavaney: Seven Paintings of South Vancouver

Comedy

Wanda Sykes needs the Viagra in her performance to work

Arts Notes

Jeff Wall wins Audain Prize in the Visual Arts

Arts Choices

High-Wire Act
planet of sound

Letters

City needs neighbourhood dialogues, not density
Vancouver should host more events, not fewer
We all choose to allow TV in our homes
Calling all racists: your spaceship is waiting

News Features

Monocrops bring food crisis
Eagles’ fate at centre of Squamish run-of-river debate
Records for 2010 Olympic Games go missing
Preparing for peak oil

Straight Talk

Water applications breach Garibaldi Provincial Park
COPE holds door open to Vision Vancouver
Liberals attacked on immigration vote

Straight Issues

Global warming hits home

Commentary

British Columbia’s manufactured energy crisis

Sports

Nonis’s Canucks never resembled a contender

Savage Love

Giving Mom credit for my very curious career

Health Features

Stephen Harper's government has no love of science

Trigger Happy

Ubisoft finds a path to get Lost gameplay right

Travel Features

Unearthing various shades of green tourism

Outside

Skaha Bluffs purchase blunts urban sprawl

Fashion Plate

New talent, hip pros hit Fashion Week runways

Style Watch

The world of modelling isn’t all looks and glamour

Kool Thing

Tretorn Skerry boots

Chic of the Week

Rocky Mountain Soap Company

Restaurant Reviews

Subtle spice route leads to Saravanaa Bhavan

Uncorked

Rare Rieslings are within reach at Fuel

Food of the Week

Bike the Blossoms

Straight Goods

New brunch at Beyond Restaurant + Lounge

Books

Wayson Choy’s path back through spirit world
Vancouver gets its literary groove on

Movies Features

Belgian teen’s death shaped Ben X
Reality TV grows into Young@Heart's rock opera
Film shoots reduce footprint
Garbage maker talks trash
Gabriel Byrne is happy Canada figures into Emotional Arithmetic

Movie Notes

Canadians plug into DVD club
B.C. screenwriters win national honours
Leo nominees announced
Yukon films light up local screens

Movie Reviews

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Ben X
Heima
The Forbidden Kingdom
Young @ Heart
The Ants
Prom Night
Emotional Arithmetic

Music Features

The Teenagers celebrate young lust
Australia’s Airbourne owns up to its AC/DC obsession
Fuck Buttons’ racket brims with push-pull tension
Apocalyptica’s baroque bombast keeps evolving
Dance-mix pioneers Sasha & Digweed return
Hot Chip battles boredom
Raconteurs produce rock ’n’ roll alchemy

Local Motion

Rat Silo swaggers to life

Concert Reviews

Confident Cat Power grows up
Hercules and Love Affair put the sweat back into disco

Recordings

R.E.M. - Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery (EMI/Virgin)
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)

Music Notes

Choir Practice bags spot at Sasquatch Music Festival
Domestic flood hits flow of new Salteens album
Red Cat claws into CBC Radio 3 top 10 list

Music Choices

Ani DiFranco
Rockstar Taste Of Chaos
Simian Mobile Disco
Handsome Furs
From Jamaica with love

Payback Time

Who are you calling gonad herniating faux-grunge rockers?

Cartoons

Tar Paper Town
Straight Jab
Ernie Pook's Comeek
The Midnight Inquirer
Red Meat
Arnould
Everyday Things

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Erin | Adrian

Playlist

Instant Playlist - 17 April 2008

Transportation

Going green can now mean zero emissions

Blog - Sports

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar ducks Delhi torch relay
Get ready for a Cherry bomb as good Canadian kids lead the way
Indian Premier League cricket coming to Canadian TV
Seattle Super Sonics moving to Oklahoma?
Celebrate Earth Day with the Stanley Cup playoffs
Canucks "not close" to Stanley Cup: New GM Mike Gillis

Video Game Reviews

Lost: Via Domus

Real Estate

To LEED or not to LEED

Astrology

Your horoscope for April 17 to 23, 2008

Blog - Politics

Bush panders to Catholic right-to-lifers
NA legislatives: Time to renegotiate NAFTA, not expand it
Campbell talks politics and religion at Vaisakhi parade

Blog - Movies

Will 2008 be Sony’s year to shine?
B.C. hair stylists dominate Superstar Hair Challenge II
Short film contest for Son of Rambow
Director Ang Lee chats with Vancouverites, Part 1
Ang Lee in Vancouver, Part 2: On Asia and Asians
Ang Lee in Vancouver, Part 3: On Canada and Bill C-10
Last three judges for So You Think You Can Dance Canada
MoMA honours First Nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin
Meat Loaf searches for paradise one night only
Degrassi nominated for GLAAD media award