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Issue 2105, Apr 24, 2008

Theatre

It’s fun to play a dork in Jason Bryden's hip Dissemblers
Romeo and Juliet makes sharp turn into urban fable
West Side Story rumbles with brilliance

Dance

Jennifer Clarke unsettles the score
Starry Peter Pan flies high

Visual Arts

Missing traces violence against the vulnerable in Mexico
Aaron Carpenter's work opposes idea of originality

Comedy

Wily Raiders of the Lost Improv leaves you wanting more

Arts Notes

CBC Orchestra strikes a chord in Parliament
Pantages reno under review
A Tony birthday evening for Holland
Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Gary Geddes

Arts Choices

A flamenco story
Folk-rock fun for kids
Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème

Letters

Peak-oil planning counterintuitive here
EcoDensity brings chain stores, deserted 'hoods
Sometimes you need to ask: what would Mao do?

News Features

Education activism in B.C.
Should three-year-olds be in school all day?
Stressed students pushed to breaking point
New B.C. universities need cash
Recovery centre challenges Richmond's fears
Sikhs create their own queer-support group

Straight Talk

Complaint filed on transit Taser Use
English Bay bistro worries residents
Growing population pressures Langley
Vancouver immigration advisor charged with nine counts of fraud
CanWest lawsuit defendant Briemberg wins peace award
LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies aged 102

Straight Issues

Is B.C. ready for peak-oil refugees?

Commentary

David Suzuki: Bearing down on grizzlies

Sports

Whitecaps go on attack to erase last year’s woes

Savage Love

Dino-dragon and robot porn

Health Features

Rambling into eternity: Part 5

Trigger Happy

Grand Theft Auto IV lives up to the hype

Travel Features

Beatles born again in Liverpool

Urban Living

How green and veggie beautiful is your garden?

Style Watch

The tramp stamp is out, but tattoos bloom big here

Kool Thing

Chic of the Week

Dining Features

Let Don Genova show you how to eat, direct from Italy

Restaurant Reviews

For fantastic pho, the proof is in the soup

Uncorked

Wines spring up: fresh, fruity, and scrubby, too

Food of the Week

Mandala Iki Asian Bistro

Drink of the Week

SOHO Lychee Flavoured Liqueur

Straight Goods

Eight food and dining events

Book Reviews

Misha Glenny exposes global network of organized crime
Salvage exorcises ghosts in beautiful debut

Movies Features

Helen Hunt takes director’s chair in Then She Found Me
Dilip Mehta's The Forgotten Woman highlights Indian widows
Visitor director starts from a simple place
Intimate lessons on Vancouver's streets

Movie Notes

jPod and Normal lead Leos
SHAPE teaches the film industry to play safe on set
Crazy8s ready for screening

Movie Reviews

The Visitor
The Forgotten Woman
Then She Found Me
Deception
La Chinoise
88 Minutes

Television

Robson Arms is still standing

Music Features

Sons & Daughters' gamble pays off
Laura Veirs sails stormy sea of love
As I Lay Dying tests loyalty
Oysterband dives for pearls of political wisdom
Iceland’s Mugison aims for “a masturbation feel”
Less is more on Morén’s spare The Last Tycoon
Sarah Slean has veracity down to a sweet science

Local Motion

Adaline does parents proud

Concert Reviews

Raconteurs first among equals in Vancouver tour opener
Duran Duran rides new-wave nostalgia trip

Recordings

Pet sounds truly dangerous
Korpiklaani
Sun Kil Moon
Pouya Mahmoodi

Music Notes

Jack White sighted on Gastown street
Airbourne jacks Plaza’s Jack Daniel's
Pat’s Pub is about to sound a lot better

Music Choices

Duran Duran
The Bills
Cut Copy
Tiger Army
Nina Nastasia
Queens of the Stone Age

Payback Time

Cartoons

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

MindBodySoul

Get a kick out of mixed martial arts

City Singles

Singles of the Week - Marla | Johnny

Careers

Inside Retail Advertising Sales Associate

Playlist

Instant Playlist - April 24 2008

Transportation

Honda keeps fit with this sporty hatchback

Blog - Sports

The Hollow Tree and the 2010 Olympics
Canucks need to go big and spend, or just stay home
BC Lions gobble up big Justin Sorenson in college draft

Real Estate

Safety crucial to realtors

Techno Logic

Leopard conquers Vista in the OS wars

Astrology

Your horoscope for April 24 to May 1, 2008

Blog - Politics

Right-wing pundits, Jeremy Leggett, Bill Clinton, and peak oil
We are still struggling against the high waste tide
63 NGOs make collective plea for eastern Congo
Cambie resident's heartfelt letter to premier about Canada Line
Rev. Jeremiah Wright gives thought-provoking speech to NAACP
Oil production stalled, but will it mean higher prices?

Blog - Movies

Countdown to release of Grand Theft Auto IV
Local film school students show their stuff
New Australia-Canada sci-fi series Stormworld
DOXA 2008 line-up announced