Issue #635: January 26, 2006
Table of Contents:
COVER STORY:
Your average tranny granny spy story
I Am My Own Wife a minefield for playwright and audience
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
Party of two
Friends/colleagues find hard-won joy in Fully Committed
By Eva Marie Clarke
LETTER:
Ballot boxed in; Sister tact, too
By SEE Readers
NEWS:
The stink over drink
Council solutions unlikely to go down smoothly
By Mark Wells
Do the right thing
Proposal would make Edmonton North Americas first Human Rights City
By François Marchand
Peckish pollsters, masked emergencies, and P3 paranoia
News Briefs
By Mark Wells
Reality check
International Week 2006 makes human rights its top priority
By François Marchand
Spooling through the weeks headlines
Rewind
By Mark Wells
Clean up you carbon turds
Active Citizen
By Myles Kitagawa
OPINION:
Disappointed, not despondent
A progressive perspective on the election results
By Craig Elliot
Stanks for nothing
Rant Acid
By SEE Reader
IN PRINT:
Panel discussion
Frame by frame, Thrizzle sizzles with absurdity
By Fish Griwkowsky
re: reading
By Jay Smith
RESTAURANTS:
Its not you...
Reviewer likes Thai eatery, but he doesnt love it
By Monte Krueger
Capsule restaurant reviews
By SEE Staff
MUSIC:
On the record
Devilsplender releases his fifth full-length on his first LP
By Christa OKeefe
Magic carpet ride
Red Shag Carpet tend to do things backwardswith unexpected results
By François Marchand
Better all the time
Kurt Elling gets vocal about his illustrious, rewarding career
By Cam Hayden
Wherewithal
The nomadic, haunting, in-between music of Oldseed
By Christa OKeefe
Rock of ages
Seven inches of Junior Bloomsday
By Christa OKeefe
Forbidden thoughts
Metalheads God Forbid use music as a political weapon
By François Marchand
Deep Routes
By Cam Hayden
Margin Walker
By James Stewart
Serge of subversion
Gainsbourgs quintessential pop masterpiece a testament to his twisted genius
By Lech Linkiel
Supa Old Skool
By Prosper Prodaniuk
CD Reviews
By SEE contributors
ON SCREEN:
People over policy
Brault cast a humanists eye on October crisis
By Celia Nicholls
Frantic return
Manic Canadian comedy troupe reunites
By Scott Hayes
They bite
Underworld: Evolution only posits advancements in effects
By Zoltan Varadi
There goes the neighbourhood
New World treads thin line between genius and preciousness
By Tom Murray
El filmo misogynisto
And rather misanthropio, despite Almodovar influence
By Mari Sasano
Miner miracle
Hoops and integration pic doesnt dribble
By Mike Hebert
Capsule Film Reviews
by SEE Contributors
ON STAGE:
Measured tragedy
Shadows Helen charts landscape of grief
By Eva Marie Clarke
Not absolutely August
Strindberg adaptation seeking viscera
By Eva Marie Clarke
Repertoire and more
Flexible DJD looks backward and forwards at once
By Salena Kitteringham
Dancing for the ages
Red Sky at night a movement lovers delight
By Salena KItteringham
Young Macdonald has a theatre
Curtain Raiser
By Eva Marie Clarke
VISUAL ARTS:
Collective culture
Guest curator Anne Whitelaw makes sense of the EAG vaults
By Christa OKeefe
An ideal consumer
FROST collects industrial designers interpretations of fictional taste
By Christa OKeefe
AT THE BACK:
Pussy praise
Sizing up the ideal words for sticks and stones is also nice
By Josey Vogels |