COVER STORY:

Guilty by reason of damage
Toronto Wunderkind directs Rice Season opener: Frozen asks how forgiving we’re prepared to be
By Michael Evans

Brains, evil, plagiarism, forgiveness
A controversial psychiatrist and an unknown playwright collide
By Michael Evans

UP FRONT:

Food not junk
Rant Acid
By SEE Reader

Brains, buffalo, and black holes
The DEW Line
By EJ Cochrane

IN PRINT:

To tell or not to tell
Miriam Toews confronts the complicated community of her youth
By Allison Kydd

VISUAL ARTS:

SNAP’s back
Printmaking gallery fully operational in new digs
By Christa O’Keefe

RESTAURANTS:

Capsule restaurant reviews
By SEE Staff

ON STAGE:

Partial reunion
Murphy shines, leads don’t quite connect in The Pavillion
By Eva Marie Clarke

Let down your message
Rapunzel could do with a little conditioner, maybe
By Eva Marie Clarke

Rezervations
Walterdale’s Highway has momentum problems
By Eva Marie Clarke

Star-crossed and living large
Alberta Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet doesn’t skimp on the details
By Salena Kitteringham

ON SCREEN:

There will be trouble
Should you go to Stay now, that is
By Nathan Cuckow

Mining a deep vein
Whale Rider director reminds us that women are still getting shafted
By Mari Sasano

Hit the Heights
First-time director builds modest, satsifying web of intrigue in Heights
By Kevin Wilson

Harold be thy name
As clever as Chaplin, as daring as Keaton: a rare look at Lloyd
By Scott Lingley

Dense and denser
Fog machine industry loses another one to the computer age
By Dave Alexander

Yokel heroes
Cheesy, hick-deriding celebration of life nothing to Crowe about
By Mari Sasano

Fanning hits the shit
Petite lead holds reins of horse flick
By Mike Hebert

It’s a mans, mans, mans film
Cinerama
By Chris Webster

Capsule Film Reviews
by SEE Contributors

MUSIC:

Misfits for the masses
With acclaim for their second release, Metric prove that you can have your pop and eat it too
By Juliann Wilding

Rhythm recycling
contoller.controller’s sound nested in their influences’ influences
By Christa O’Keefe

Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper
The Prince of Darkness kicks it back old school with a new release straight out of the ’70s
By François Marchand

Dig it
Lord Worm keeps Cryptopsy crawling
By Tom Murray

Yes, Virginia...
There are heavy metal gods, including Judas Priest
By Tom Murray

Cinematographer overboard
Hilarious hijinks ensue with Most Serene Republic
By Christa O’Keefe

The Floor no more?
With a noise-laden, electrifying set, local post-punk revivalists turn out the lights—for now
By François Marchand

Eye on Music
By Zoltan Varadi

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

Change of Mode
A Black Celebration to mark a shift in commercially proven aesthetic ideology
By Lech Linkiel

Deep Routes
All Blues Edition
By Cam Hayden

Supa Old Skool
On the Classical Music Tip
By Prosper Prodaniuk

Days in the Life
By Tom Murray

CD reviews
By SEE contributors

AT THE BACK:

Erections and honesty
Viagra may have inspired men to open up about sex
By Josey Vogels