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Issue 2111, Jun 5, 2008

Arts Features

Ambition lives in Townsville

Theatre

Ambition lives in Townsville
Cirque du Soleil dreams up another dazzler
A romp back to the futurists
A mixed catch of plays at the Walking Fish Festival

Visual Arts

Rebecca Belmore grapples with time and history
Illusions of freedom fill Bellocq's portraits of prostitutes
Moodyville taps into collective urban memory

Arts Notes

Criticism for Bill Reid copies
Calgary embraces embattled sculpture
Festival Vancouver tickets up for grabs
Bill Reid artworks recovered

Arts Choices

Vancouver International Song Festival
Shary Boyle’s porcelain figurines

Letters

Time for cars to make room on Burrard Bridge
Russia's Arctic Ocean dream doomed to sink
Natural health products will pass the test
Nothing sinister about supporting car-pooling
Car owners will drive, no matter what gas costs
Maybe not a first lady, but one heck of a Dame

News Features

Chip's Not Dead, so get off your butt
Group claims Bill C-51 could be lethal
Commission looks for Indian residential-school truth
Minority workers face "glass door" barrier
B.C. gas sector has carbon emissions to burn
Critic crunches Vancouver Olympics security numbers
Author reminds B.C. of 1984's Sikh massacre

Straight Talk

Peter Ladner refutes Burrard Bridge "lies"
Don Lee still listed as Sam Sullivan endorser
Leaseholders dispute Sunny Hill's Move
Vancouver falls short of 2010 cycling goal
Charities persevere in unfriendly neighbourhoods
Lower Mainland air quality continues to improve
129 Metro Vancouver staff earn more than $100,000
CanWest publisher defends Briemberg lawsuit to staff
NPA members have all day to cast ballots for Ladner or Sullivan
Peter Ladner beats Sam Sullivan in NPA race
More Canadians are choosing wine over beer
Neighbourhood groups will descend on Vancouver City Hall
Vancouver city council unanimously passes EcoDensity charter

Straight Issues

Jenny Kwan wants PM to back off supervised-injection site

Commentary

Food prices a long-term problem for world’s poor
Tensions ease between Japan and China
Irish set to vote on EU treaty they are not meant to understand
David Suzuki: The macaw, the toucan, and the manduvi

Sports

Vancouver Canucks can’t ignore WHL’s feisty Kyle Beach

Savage Love

Dumping jerks, band groupies, and open relationships
Readers respond to issues of marriage rights, threesomes and masturbation

Health Features

Babies for sale online highlight parents under stress

Travel Features

Zambian plains: where the wild things are

Travel Notes

How to get the best from your hostel

Style Features

Watch out! It's the invasion of the body shapers
Geox billionaire aims to stamp out smelly feet

Style Watch

Carnevale competition celebrates global body art

Kool Thing

Billabong Riley short

Dining Features

Where east meets bakery sweets

Restaurant Reviews

Japanese comfort food just the thing at Ping’s Café

Uncorked

A fruit bowl full of fine summer wines

Food of the Week

Big Al’s soul food

Straight Goods

Eight food and dining events

Book Reviews

Michael Chabon charts an entertaining trip with Maps and Legends
Meek not blessed by Descent into confusion
Forage / The Shovel / Subway Under Byzantium

Movies Features

The great call of China
Bollywood can break hearts
Lucy Liu animated by open mind
How Laurie Colbert raised Finn's Girl on a shoestring

Movie Notes

Out On Screen relaunches brand
Top docs at Doxa Awards
Technology changes scriptwriting
Fire up your cameras
Hollywood gurus advise screenwriters to be concrete at Summit

Movie Reviews

The Children of Huang Shi
Silent Light
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
Finn’s Girl

DVD Releases

New on DVD: Army Wives, The Bucket List, John Adams, Jumper, The Other Boleyn Girl

Movie Choices

Vancouver-Singapore Film Night

Music Features

Panic at the Disco cross Abbey Road
The Black Angels take a trip
U.K.’s Ting Tings spark international incident
Sunny pop and car crashes shape Islands’ Arm’s Way
Church explores ancient themes with Sea Wolf
Chick Corea returns to Return to Forever
Billy Bragg immerses himself in English history
NYC’s Jealous Girlfriends now a true group effort
Drowning Pool stays afloat despite personnel shifts

Local Motion

Swank sings hymns for hell-bound heathens

Concert Reviews

Rush defies age with vitality and verve
Kanye West embarks on space odyssey
Iron Maiden’s metal gets the masses moshing

Recordings

Here I Stand delivers an overdose of Usher
Def Leppard
Motorpsycho
The Explorers Club
Opeth
Millencolin
Orchestra Baobab
New Guitar Summit

Music Notes

Fire sparks Sandy Scofield benefit
Black Door opens for Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
On the road for Insite

Music Choices

Erykah Badu
Submarines
Crystal Castles
Wolf Eyes

Payback Time

Payback Time

Cartoons

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

Playlist

Instant Playlist - June 5 2008

Pop Eye

Why Scarlett Johansson fever isn’t catching

Transportation

Empty-nesters ramble on with Dodge Journey

Blog - Sports

Vancouver Canucks have 30 days to find the answers
Whitecaps retire Andrea Neil's number five
Plagiarism costs Province sports columnist his job
Battle rumbles on over Hockey Night in Canada theme song
CBC or now CTV: why all the fuss over the hockey theme?
Trevor Linden to announce retirement from NHL

Real Estate

NDP reveals its intentions in private member's bills

Techno Logic

Apple is here and the geeks are gobbling

Astrology

Your horoscope for June 5 to 11, 2008

Blog - Politics

Peter Julian: Buyer, be aware
Predicting the NPA mayoral outcome: Sullivan or Ladner?
Obama, Clinton should get real about oil
City of North Van council to vote on culture
Obama's no-brainer: make Hillary vice president
NPA's Peter Ladner: what does his victory over Sam Sullivan mean?
COPE's David Cadman says Ladner, Sullivan are two peas in a pod
How to defeat Brutus Ladner in the 2008 Vancouver election
Winners and losers from the NPA mayoral contest
Tim Louis tells Peter Ladner what’s best for Vancouver
The Georgia Straight did not misquote Peter Ladner on colours
Another theory why Sam Sullivan lost the NPA crown
Vancouver school trustee quits NPA, joins Vision
With respect to political correctness
Coun. B.C. Lee meditates on his future
Why gas in Vancouver is $1.40 a litre: U.S. investors

Blog - Movies

Get set for Metal Gear Solid 4
Terrence Stamp dabbles in comedy with Get Smart
Justin Timberlake irritated in awkward interview for The Love Guru
Denise Richards, Dina Lohan: B.S. from Hollywood mothers
Brokeback Mountain goes Broadway
Mark Leiren-Young honoured at Barcelona film festival
Canadian cinemas see more moviegoers