COVER STORY:

The perfect crime
Kill your own company with bands on rollerskates: the Halloween party to end all Black Dot parties
By Juliann Wilding

UP FRONT:

Hands off
Rant Acid
By SEE Reader

If your friends jumped off a bridge...
The DEW Line
By EJ Cochrane

OPINION:

Thumbs up for Bush
Maybe Iraqis are trying to send George a message
By Craig Elliott

VISUAL ARTS:

Trauma centre
Paul Freeman shows us the flesh is weak
By Christa O’Keefe

Another world
The fabulous post-geek meta-universe of Tony Baker
By Christa O’Keefe

RESTAURANTS:

Capsule restaurant reviews
By SEE Staff

ON SCREEN:

Jig’s not quite up
Serviceable Saw sequel resets the traps and brings back the pain
By Dave Alexander

How about that acting!
What a shame that Separate Lies seems to be lacking a point
By Mari Sasano

Parents! Parents!
Squid demonstrates exactly how they fuck you up
By Ian Drummond

The Holocaust doesn’t need help
Tolerance documentary lays it on too thick
By Kevin Wilson

Doom and gloom
Dismal movie lumbers out of popular video game
By Mike Hebert

Chin up, Zorro
Who was that half-masked man?
By Adam Houston

Deeper and Deepa
Cinerama
By Chris Webster

Capsule Film Reviews
by SEE Contributors

ON STAGE:

Uncommon shapes seeking solutions
Chouinard discovers unexpected feelings in propped-up bodies
By Salena Kitteringham

Absurdly entertaining
Beer hall dada may shock local student thesps
By Gilbert Bouchard

HALLOWEEN:

Halloween Gig Guide
Trick or treat, what’s your beat?
By Christa O’Keefe

Spontaneous combustion
Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray turn up the heat on Heavy Trash
By Jason Lewis

Hour of the Wolf
More on the lupine trend in naming your band
By Jason Lewis and Jane McCullough

For your viewing pleasure
Films sure to break those tired Halloween movie habits
By Dave Alexander

Before he learned to floss
Spielberg’s greatest achievement opens Metro’s weekend horror fiesta
By Celia Nicholls

Get your freak-out on
interFEAR enters the frightening realm of puppets, hags and Dead Trolls
By Eva Marie Clarke

MUSIC:

Two of a kind
Toronto’s Deadly Snakes and Tangiers partially shed their old skins
By François Marchand

Dialogue in noise
Los Angeles rabble-rousers The BellRays call for a revolution
By François Marchand

Come together
Amateur musicians make some noise in a Cosmopolitan kind of way
By Tom Murray

Repainting heavy rock’s boundaries
Almost counted down and out, Led Zeppelin triumphs Physical Graffiti
By Lech Linkiel

Brain candy
Damo Suzuki stuns music geeks with a unique jam performance
By François Marchand

Halloween not horrible
Get ready to Scream again
By Prosper Prodaniuk

Eye On Music
By Zoltan Varadi

Days in the Life
By Tom Murray

CD Reviews
By SEE contributors

FALL BOOKS:

Being sense-able earns approval
Edmonton author Ted Bishop study of the physical and the abstract nets Governor General’s nod
By Jay Smith

Cut and paste expatriate
Former-Journal columnist pens definitive biography of counter-culture catalyst and onetime Edmontonian Brion Gysin
By Barry Hammond

It’s all about Location
Excitement about Edmonton prompted editor Heather Zwicker to collect the city’s tales
By Thea Bowering

All the world’s a page
From Ancient Greece to Ellesmere Island, Newfoundland to New York, global authors provide the passport for a fanciful fall in fiction
By Jay Smith

Disasters, friendly fire, pestilence, and death
...and yoga and spicy cooking: Necessary non-fiction for Fall ’05
By Barry Hammond

Warning: graphic descriptions
Adult-oriented comics come on strong
By Gilbert A. Bouchard

AT THE BACK:

Make it or break it
The post three-month relationship barometer: do you freak or breathe through it?
By Josey Vogels