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Issue 2113, Jun 19, 2008

Arts Features

All the city's a stage
Bridges That Unite exhibit reveals hope for developing world
Sleuthing revives lost film of First Nations life by Edward Curtis

Theatre

Cirque du Soleil conjures surreal carnival dreamscape in Corteo
Where the blood mixes unleashes waves of pent-up emotion
Visceral thrills in Goodness
So Many Doors opens into soap-opera banalities
Townsville lacks substance to chew on

Music Arts

Berkshire choristers sing Canadian classic Requiem

Visual Arts

George Littlechild and Richard Tetrault revisit their tortured pasts
Susan Point's huge Coast Salish portals pay rich tribute

Arts Notes

Unofficial lantern fest plays with fire
Killam prize awarded to UBC English professor Sherrill E. Grace
Have a say in future of Great Northern Way Campus
Denmark beckons musica intima
Heritage committee asks CBC to reconsider orchestra’s demise
Legendary comedian George Carlin dies at age 71

Arts Choices

The Cheaper Show: Art on the cheap
The Back Kitchen Release Party

Letters

Insite is keeping addicts alive for treatment
Politicians rolling dice with children's lives
Canada needs to help outside of its borders
Unacceptable provisions mean C-51 must change

News Features

Pivot Legal Society lawyer opposes ticketing homeless
Terror of Air India Flight 182 comes to small screen
Canada's not immune to global food crisis
Peter Ladner promises to study Punjabi

Straight Talk

Women's march heads to Ottawa
Cameraman arrested at Colin Powell protest
Hollow Tree blockade is on, says author
Gregor Robertson quits as Vancouver-Fairview NDP MLA
10,000 to 15,000 homeless in B.C.: NDP report
Think-tank questions Afghan pipeline feasibility, beneficiaries
Gregor Robertson passes on opening of Dragon Boat Festival
Is the missing Queen Elizabeth Park statue bound for China?
North Shore mayors paid in different ways
U.S. Supreme Court slashes Exxon Valdez damages award by 80 percent
Immigrants fuel B.C.’s population growth

Straight Issues

Vancouver mayor's powers questioned

Commentary

Why silence greeted Stephen Harper's residential-school apology
Barack Obama's love of the free market is no spring fling
Algae or air could fuel cars of the future
David Suzuki reflects on 50 years of the planet’s destruction

Sports

Nat Bailey Stadium is groundskeeper’s new field of dreams
Corona Open highlights big attraction of beach volleyball
Badminton interest whips up across B.C.
Boot your workout outdoors

Savage Love

How to revive a comatose sex life, and the trials of gay marriage in the U.S.

Health Features

Can’t let your natural weight go? It’s biology
Mania can strike in summer

Trigger Happy

God of War leads new crop of video games to play the day away

Travel Features

Oprah’s the star in girls’ getaway to Chicago

Travel Notes

Souvenirs say Vancouver—to some

Fashion Plate

Saving on summer's hot looks

Menswear

How high can guys go? The long and short of it

Style Watch

A nu-rave feel and cute-creepy prints mean Carny Love

Kool Thing

Rubi & Kino floral blouse

Dining Features

Flip out with food fest fun

Restaurant Reviews

Concessions across Vancouver fry up guilt-free cod and chips

Uncorked

Barbecue vintages put on their best behaviour

Food of the Week

Chef Chopra’s heat-and-eat curries

Straight Goods

Eight food and dining events

Books

The Order of Good Cheer connects colonization and climate change
Hakawati entrances with postmodern twist
Perversely good, unexpectedly poignant: All the Sad Young Literary Men

Movies Features

Mongol delivers an epic tale of young Genghis Khan
Films to light up your summer nights
Steve Carell spies the laughs in Get Smart
Global Metal on a mission to find headbangers
Retrospective salutes Manoel de Oliveira, a century-old king of film

Movie Notes

Benefit screening for Myanmar
Quebec Effort tops Seattle fest
Festival promotes Taiwanese talent

Movie Reviews

Roman de Gare
Mongol
Global Metal

DVD Releases

New on DVD: 10,000 BC, Charlie Bartlett, Definitely, Maybe, Persepolis, Right By Me

Music Features

Cowboy Junkies revisit landmark moment
Charlie Haden still keeps it in the family
Pink Martini remains potent
RZA set to put the hip-hop in Hollywood
Putting the Pemberton Festival on the map
Cool concert lineup heats up the hot season

Music Previews

Hey Rosetta! is on a roll

Jazz Fest

Lionel Loueke embraces his African roots
Shanghai star Coco Zhao called "boy Billie Holiday"
Melodrama seems to suit wide-ranging Ndidi Onukwulu
New York City life shaped punkish Ravens & Chimes
Hilario Durán's jazz incorporates disparate Cuban threads
Satoko Fujii and Carla Kihlstedt find fast friendship in sound
Soul sensation Ryan Shaw has music in his blood
Iro Haarla builds upon her late husband's legacy

Local Motion

Christa Couture channels pain into heartfelt songs

Concert Reviews

Holes show through in Nylon's summer tour
Grotesque blowout a beer-drenched blast

Recordings

Saul Berson Quartet
Miguelito Valdes & Puro Son
Joel Haynes Trio + Seamus Blake
Gordon Grdina's Box Cutter
Sharon Minemoto Trio
Tony Wilson 6tet
Barry Guy New Orchestra is a jazz-fest dream team
The Green Hour Band bridges then and now
Loose Change Trio
Said the Whale
The New Odds
Fur Bearing Animals
Cradle to Grave
16mm
The Orchid Highway

Music Notes

Bison signs for Metal Blade
B.C. rockets up Polaris list
A Prairie Dog’s life is at home

Music Choices

Herbie Hancock
Dwight Yoakam
Snoop Dogg

Payback Time

Top 50 is gone but, apparently not forgotten

Cartoons

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

Playlist

Instant Playlist - June 19 2008

Transportation

Suzuki bike powertrain satisfies need for speed

Blog - Sports

Take pity on the fans as the Dutch crash out of Euro 2008
Canucks snap up Kyle Wellwood off waivers
Shot in the arm for Vancouver tennis

Real Estate

Bill 27: lowering B.C. housing prices or bankrupting municipalities?

Techno Logic

Hot-weather high tech boosts outdoor fun
Expert lighting casts a glow on Ratatouille

Astrology

Your horoscope for June 19 to 26, 2008

LifeStyle Features

Is nudity the new normal?
No shortage of nude events
Single in the city? No sweat

Blog - Politics

Bike Month highlights the importance of Critical Mass
B.C. cabinet shuffle follows Gordon Campbell's usual pattern
NDP's Garrison abandons lost cause in Vancouver Centre
Anti-anti-carbon tax lobby ups ante
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe loses knighthood, clings on to power
Waking up the citizens in New Westminster to Zero Waste

Blog - Movies

Global Metal preview and codirector's top five metal albums
Graham Greene's career to be celebrated at SFU event
How do you solve a problem like Canadian reality TV?
The good life at the Whistler Film Festival Society's La Dolce Vita
Old stereotypes are the new accessories in Sex and the City
Batman tickets go on sale this Friday