Issue #686: January 18, 2007
Table of Contents:
COVER STORY:
Super Video Brothers
Video Games Live and ESO transport iconic pop culture soundtracks from the small screen to the big stage
By Prosper Prodaniuk
NEWS:
Week in Review
Rewind
By SEE Staff
News In Brief
By SEE Staff
OPINION:
What wealth buys
Will flush Edmontonians walk the walk?
By Craig Elliott
Free to be me, me, me
Libertarians envision a world without "we"
By Exile
Get off the bus
Rant Acid
By SEE reader
ON STAGE:
Dirty talk, dirtier drawers
Shadow Theatre psycho-analyzes the laundry hamper
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
A spicy meatball
Dinner With Friends a blast from (your) past
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
Sweet home Ontario
Venerable franchises sixth installment shows some wear
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
Race and nation
GG-nominated play finds Canada in the strangest places
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
Of Mermaids and Menana
NewDance Collective find their sea legs
By Salena Kitteringham
Flying their own flag
World-renowned Edmontonians come home
By Salena Kitteringham
From Edmonton with love
Edmonton playwrights Chekhov adaptation gets primetime play
By Matthew Halliday
VISUAL ARTS:
Design blues
Charlotte Falk paints a melancholy self
By Amy Fung
IN PRINT:
Stonewalled
Gay life in the Mideast isnt necessarily what you think
By Jay Smith
This Will All End in tears
Book capsule review
By Gilbert A. Bouchard
ON SCREEN:
Fairy tales and fascists
Guillermo del Toro says no to Harry Potter, yes to honest violence
By Scott Lingley
Amins unbearable heaviness
Seduction precedes brutality in Last King
By Kate Rennebohm
An animated cut above
Saturday morning was never like this
By Scott Lingley
Mazes n Monsters
Del Toros rich masterpiece the best film of 2006
By Dave Alexander
Bunny flop
Potter pic plumbs peculiarity peculiarly
By Zoltan Varadi
Alpha rates a delta
Low marks for aimless Cassavetes flick
By Kate Rennebohm
Something smells
Its Primeval funkiness
By Michael Hebert
MUSIC:
Playboy bunnies
Casanovas are the type you can bring home to mom
By Amanda Ash
Cool it down
The Velvets put a damper on all tomorrows parties
By Lech Linkiel
Singer vs. songwriter
Jimmy Webb: wordsmith to the stars
By Cam Hayden
Unplugged and unbound
Local bandleaders hold their own, acoustically
By Eamon McGrath
Blues voice silenced
The FM Dial
By François Marchand
Dancing to forget
Gord Downie and Tragically Hip smarter than ever
By Fish Griwkowsky
Julie Doiron, Omarion, Die Mannequin, Converge, Of Montreal
CD reviews
By SEE Staff
Days In The Life
Weekly spins
By Tom Murray
STYLE:
The instant hourglass
Buy a corset, laugh at liposuction
By Fawnda Mithrush
EXTRA EXTRA!:
Canadas word lady
When is a word not a word?
By Fawnda Mithrush
Visions of Indonesia
By Fawnda Mithrush
AT THE BACK:
Captive subject
Avoiding the no-sex zone trap is your call
By Josey Vogels |