COVER STORY:

Power of paint
It took decades for April Mercredi to overcome the fear of expressing her culture, but now she speaks volumes in form colour
By Zoltan Varadi

UP FRONT:

Feedback
Letters to the Editor
By SEE Readers

Suits play games!
Rant Acid
By SEE Reader

Tomorrow’s fuel: Coal!
The DEW Line
By E.J. Cochrane

NEWS:

Codex Conundrum
Is Canada’s natural health industry under threat?
By Angela Chang

Seven Days in Fourteen Inches
By Kevin Wilson

OPINION:

River dance
Now, with more destruction!
By Fish Griwkowsky

IN PRINT:

Nervous wreck
Mental heath confessional merely self-indulgent
By Dana McNairn

RESTAURANTS:

Pretty regular Joe
How do you redeem a terrible breakfast? Start with the beer...
By Scott Lingley

Capsule restaurant reviews
By SEE Staff

ON SCREEN:

Last night a DJ made me laugh
FUBAR director hits the decks with Pete Tong
By Dave Alexander

Making it up as he goes
FUBAR director exchanges mockumentary for faux vibe and hits the big time
By Kevin Wilson

Deperate... with worse to come
First-rate doc explains: Nile perch aren’t the only predators threatening Mwanza
By Scott Lingley

Tag frag
Graffiti culture flick needs to settle down
By Scott Lingley

Untrue York
Perfection of The Perfect Man is all in the mind
By Celia Nicholls

Almost bewitching
Ephrons, Kidman successfully turn classic sitcom on its head
By Celia Nicholls

Our easily distracted media
Cinerama
By Chris Webster

Capsule Film Reviews
by SEE Contributors

FASHION:

The Young and the dressless
The drama! The cleavage! The hairspray! The Sterling awards show off theatre’s greatest in garments
By Juliann Wilding

THE WORKS:

Good times
An Affair to Remember collects The Works’ seminal moments
By Christa O’Keefe

The three graces
The uplifting Touch Me is a dare and an invitation
By Christa O’Keefe

Slow seduction
Ric Kokotovich’s Water Lilies revels in random beauty
By Christa O’Keefe

My music at Works
Plenty of sounds within festival’s visual agenda
By François Marchand

The Works Listings
By SEE Staff

YARDBIRD FESTIVAL:

Pair nets a full house?
Likely, when you’re swinging into a festival with old faves P.J. Perry and Tommy Banks
By Cam Hayden

Festive for a fiver
Affordable cover and close proximity of venues sets the stage for a true festival circuit
By Cam Hayden

Perfect harmony
Side-by-side and back-to-back, jazz series at Catalyst and Yardbird to have Old Scona ensconced in music
By Cam Hayden

Neither gone nor forgotten
Jazz City vow to continue and redeem tarnished reputation
By Angela Chang

MUSIC:

Rebirth of cool
Don’t call them revisionists—Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings classic soul sound comes Naturally
By Tom Murray

Sonic waves
BEAMS’ Sea of Sound washes over Works
By François Marchand

Victory not defeated
Listless label roster helped by Canada’s Comeback Kid
By Jason Keller

Frame by frame
Stillframe evolves from a whisper to a scream
By François Marchand

House your holiday
Chicago’s next wave hits Canada Day eve/early, early morn
By Prosper Prodaniuk

Highway stars
London’s literal road out-of-town became The Clash’s metaphor for discovering—and conquering—the world
By Lech Linkiel

Pop Matters
Post-rock and Pop News
By Thea Varvis

Forget Coldplay
The hit parade is tame compared to what these techno legends have cooked up for June
By Prosper Prodaniuk

Days in the life
Dispatches from the audiophile
By Tom Murray

CD Reviews
By SEE contributors

ON STAGE:

Plenty of stars in our eyes
Rider romps on an otherwise varied night at the Sterlings
By Eva Marie Clarke

Love over and over and over
River City Festival actors rekindle the dark and the light nightly
By Eva Marie Clarke

Delicious unpredictability
How green is Marianne Copithorne’s river valley
By Eva Marie Clarke

Shrouded in symbolism
Magritte paintings inspire Mile Zero feats offering
By Sherry Knettle

AT THE BACK:

Sex school study guide
You don’t want to fail, but you do want detention
By Josey Vogels