COVER STORY:

True tales of the rat patrol
Dispatches from the front lines of Alberta’s war on vermin
By Zoltan Varadi

Rats: The Facts
You know nothing.... nothing!
By Zoltan Varadi

Put down that pitchfork
Why rats, mobs, and pet food don’t mix
By Zoltan Varadi

NEWS:

Nickel puts his big-city hat on
Decision 2007: We talk to politicians so you don’t have to
By: Angela Brunschot

Stepping up to the Mike
Nickel critics tackle talking points
By Angela Brunschot

The week in review
Rewind
By SEE Staff

News in Brief
By Matthew Halliday and Angela Brunschot

OPINION:

Talk is cheap
But not talking cheapens us all
By Craig Elliott

Funneling awareness
The tornado and twisted logic
By Fish Griwkowsky

Manic Motorists
Rant Acid
By SEE Reader

LETTERS:

We get ‘em
By SEE Reader

VISUAL ARTS:

A do-do-do where you draw-draw-draw
Paint, creativity, beer flow freely at Latitude 53 Draw-a-Thon
by Nicola Simpson Khullar

DIGITAL:

FORZA MOTORSPORT 2
By Zoz

IN PRINT:

Queer eye for the film buff
Tour of gay cinema gets us out to the video store
By Michael McNichol

ON SCREEN:

Look who’s Walken!
Is Christopher Walken wasting his career on crappy comedies?
by Paul Matwychuk and Matthew Halliday

All systems d’oh
The sun shines on Springfield yet again in The Simpsons Movie
by Zoltan Varadi

Fission: impossible
Sweltering Sunshine hopes to reignite sun, sci-fi genre
by Scott Lingley

Smell you later!
Perfume asks whether the perfect scent is worth killing for
by Tom Murray

Werner Herzog, escape artist
Not even the bonds of the POW breakout genre can hold him in Rescue Dawn
by Nicola Simpson Khullar

Cries and whispers
Ingmar Bergman was a Swede first, a filmmaker second
by Jerry White

Beyond the Blurbs
This week: Ingmar Bergman: irrelevant?
by Paul Matwychuk

DVD Dictator
These are the discs you must buy this Tuesday
by Paul Matwychuk

MUSIC:

Better than Television
Is guitar icon (and Wilco tutor) Richard Lloyd’s new album the masterpiece he says it is?
by Tom Murray

New guy no longer
Darrek Anderson is new firmly ensconced in local alt-country scene
by Amanda Ash

The secret of Tim
How did an untried 20-year-old musician land a record deal with Pop Echo
by Amanda Ash

Blood in, blood out
Edmonton hard rockers ready for the cards to be dealt, even if it means Texas hold ’em
by Zoltan Varadi

Track by track
Shivaree tackles the Great Crazy Man songbook on new CD
by Zoltan Varadi

Al or allosaurus?
Parodies or prehistory: which live show deserves to conquer Edmonton?
by Fish Griwkowsky

Merchandising Madge
Madonna mulls megadeal with Live Nation corporation
by Zoltan Varadi

Hot Tix
by Zoltan Varadi

CD REVIEWS:
BISHOP ALLEN The Broken String
MARK BIRTLES PROJECT Art Crime
DD/MM/YYYY Are They Masks?
KELLY CLARKSON My December
by Zoltan Varadi

AT THE BACK:

MY MESSY BEDROOM
Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy
Nothing like a little saline solution to give your balls that warm, full feeling
By Josey Vogels