COVER STORY:

Your eyes and ears
Festival programmer Tony King scans the horizon for your viewing pleasure
By Celia Nicholls

LETTERS:

Feedback
Letters to the Editor
By SEE Readers

OPINION:

Putting a name to a face
Try naming the newborn with the television off next time
By Fish Griwkowsky

UP FRONT:

C’mon, Ralph!
The DEW Line
By E.J. Cochrane

Rant Acid
Petty Smash
By SEE Reader

IN PRINT:

Betrayal or benefit?
Furor over Mulroney book leads to another look at his legacy—both good and bad
By Craig Elliott

RESTAURANTS:

Capsule restaurant reviews
By SEE Staff

ON STAGE:

No amphibian ambivalence
Musical Frog and Toad prepared for reverential fans
By Gilbert A. Bouchard

Turning LePage
Opera returns to its home with a coup or two
By Eva Marie Clarke

Grab the golden Ribbon
One-woman show economical but elequent
By Eva Marie Clarke

They’re spoiled, we’re spoiled
In Network’s Leisure Society, nothing succeeds like excess
By Gilbert Bouchard

Theatrical superheroes abound
Curtain Raiser
By Eva Marie Clarke

MUSIC:

As amazed as we are
The Arcade Fire can’t believe their luck
By Mark Hamilton

Fuzzy logic
Black Dice define their own audio semantics
By Christa O’Keefe

Cox rocks
UK tastemaker doesn’t sweat the technique—he shares it
By Prosper Prodaniukk

Won’t play Possum
Thee Shams refuse to roll over for their record company
By François Marchand

Old soldiers
New Model Army entrenched without leave for 20 years
By François Marchand

Rain dog
Wherever Ray Bonneville lays his head he calls home
By Cam Hayden

Blind faith
Gospel legends don’t suffer non-believing fools gladly
By Tom Murray

Electric company
Johnny Burnette Trio’s loose tubes fuzz-warped rockabilly into history
By Lech Linkiel

Days in the life
Dispatches from the audiophile
By Tom Murray

Deep Routes
Folk, Blues, World. Etc
By Cam Hayden

Margin Walker
Rock and Pop and...
By James Stewart

CD Reviews
By SEE Contributors

VISUAL ARTS:

Photons and pigment
Lynn Malin’s Lightscapes are windows to her Alberta
By Christa O’Keefe

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:

The movies!
A couple dozen movies for your consideration over the next ten days
By SEE Contributors

But wait... there’s more!
EIFF is watching, but it’s also about making and talking
By SEE Staff

ON SCREEN:

Trashed Action Hero
Cronenberg offers history lesson on the nature of violence
By Dave Alexander

Genius results
Proof guides us beautifully toward the answer
By Juliann Wilding

The cold ball ’n’ chain
Burton’s latest kick at the animated corpse stiff but beautiful
By Dave Alexander

Inelastic Bounce
Jam skating flic too heavy on the jam
By Mike Hebert

Dive bomb
Into the Blue can’t swim
By James Elford

Faulty landing gear
Foster flying solo in Flightplan
By Mike Hebert

More Josh, b’gosh: Post-Buffy madness
Cinerama
By Chris Webster

Capsule Film Reviews
by SEE Contributors

AT THE BACK:

Puck life
Dave Bidini regales with tales of ’70s hockey sex and debauchery
By Josey Vogels