COVER:

War and remembrance
Vern Thiessen reinvents the wartime play with poetic Vimy
by Paul Matwychuk

NEWS:

Rewind
The Week in Review
By SEE Staff

A night with the dragonslayer
Inside Don Iveson’s election night headquarters
By Angela Brunschot

News Briefs
By Angela Brunschot

OPINION:

2007 isn’t the new 1971
Rumbling of discontent won’t sink Stelmach Tories
By Exile

Mandel’s gonna take it!
How to handicap a municipal election
By Craig Elliott

RANT ACID
Critical Ass
By SEE Reader

ON STAGE:

Pining for your lover
Coralie Cairns cuts her directing teeth on quirky Almost, Maine
by Paul Matwychuk

Get Bizet living or get busy dying
Edmonton Opera gives Lyne Fortin her long-awaited chance to play Carmen
By Michael McNichol

Little girl blue
I, Claudia is a poignant reminder of how it feels to be 12 and three quarters years old
By Renato Pagnani

Feather daddy
John Ullyatt goes to gymnastic extremes to protect his flock in Duck Duck Bang
By Renato Pagnani

IN PRINT:

Doomsaying on the prairies
William Marsden dismantles Alberta’s politics of oil with scary, scary aplomb
By Matthew Halliday

FOOD AND DRINK:

Enjoying the super bowl
Phobulous scores with soup ’n’ weasel coffee
By Scott Lingley

ON SCREEN:

The object of my Affleck-tion
Ben Affleck redeems himself with gritty private-eye yarn Gone Baby Gone
by Paul Matwychuk

Guns and neuroses
The Assassination of Jesse James is a Western with modern moral sensibility
By Michael McNichol

Speak softly and carry a big dick
Male bonding and bloodshed make We Own the Night a stag affair
By Zoltan Varadi

Jake Gyllenhaal is conflicted!
Rendition’s heart is in the right place, even if its hero isn’t
By Matthew Halliday

George Clooney: legal janitor
Movie star mops up a morally messy case in Michael Clayton
by Paul Matwychuk

Call it BuonFellas
Romanzo Criminale is an Italian take on a genre Italian-Americans have made their specialty
By Tom Murray

Royale with cheese
Elizabeth: The Golden Age reigns over a lush costume department and little else
By Zoltan Varadi

Let the first sinner...
A Stone’s Throw is a visually rapturous tale of family dysfunction and eco-activism
By Michael McNichol

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

Beyond the Blurbs
This week: Critics take their shots at Jesse James
By Paul Matwychuk

TELEPROMPTER
Canadian eyeballs
Reality shows and ethnic comedies reap ratings for CBC, Global
By Nicola Simpson Khullar

MUSIC:

Barenaked Sadies
The Sadies revel in the past—even as they can’t help but sound contemporary
By Matthew Halliday

Evil in E-Ville?
Who’s got the metal to take the dark crown: Zombie or Osbourne?
By Zoltan Varadi

Cod-rock cliché #1...
Maritimers Hey Rosetta! steer clear of bagpipes and fiddles—if not beer
By Amanda Ash

Bring the noise
Jim Renick pushes the boundaries of "song"
By Zoltan Varadi

No rock, lots o’ talk
Eye on Music
By Zoltan Varadi

Hot Tix
By Zoltan Varadi

CD REVIEWS:
JAPANTHER Skuffed Up My Huffy
JONI MITCHELL Shine
THE ACORN Glory Hope Mountain
by SEE Staff

AT THE BACK:

MY MESSY BEDROOM
Piss congeniality
Pierre and Irene are a normal loving couple that loves peeing on each other
By Josey Vogels