Issue Archive
Fall 2010
• First Nation artist shot dead by Seattle police
• Activist marching bands and the sounds of protest
• People Power play explores the 1986 Filipino revolution
• Soulful renaissance: Naomi Shelton sings of hope and struggle
• Prayer Room exhibit to commemorate 9/11
• Violent protest of Q!, Jakarta’s gay film festival
Summer 2010
• The Forgotten depicts BC’s missing women
• SFU fulfills promise to contemporary artists with Woodward’s
• The politics of the Polaris Music Prize
• Artists back the right to education in Palestine
• Whores, gore and killer fish: Piranha 3D is one big misogynist gorgy
• Activists replace street advertising with art
• Deep-tissue work: A conversation with filmmaker Rémy Huberdeau
• Peter, Paul & Mary tell homophobes to cease and desist
• Sam Shalabi: compositions across continents
• Triumph for BC arts community
• A Conversation with Return to El Salvador director Jamie Moffett
• Video installation infiltrates 6000 NYC taxis
• What’s at stake in Canada’s culture war?
• A Short History of the BC Spirit Festival
• Artist Profile: Nicholas Hlobo
• “David Cameron endorses criminal graffiti vandal?” A conversation with Ben Eine
• Chinese artist Wu Yuren beaten and jailed for land protest
• UK Film Council disappears with extreme cuts to the arts in Britain
• Four great summer flicks with political punch
• Propaganda, racism and censorship at play over the Woods Hole Cinema Politica fracas
Spring 2010
• The G20 summer blockbuster
• Free MP3 download: Dear Ocean commemorates those killed on Gaza flotilla
• Mobilizing social imagination: Broken City Lab’s reconstruction of Windsor
• On the trail of women boxers in India: A conversation with the makers of With This Ring
• Filling your head with “Stuffed”
• Infringement Festival marks 7 years of artistic resistance
• A conversation with the director of the powerful doc Bas: Beyond the Red Light
• The Yes Men can’t corrupt the news, the mainstream media has done it for us
• For Angela confronts Aboriginal stereotypes
• What’s the status of guerrilla street art in Vancouver?
• Fact not Fiction: Women Documentary Directors of the Americas
• The animated chic of radical cats: The Pinky Show ascending
• Elvis Costello cancels shows in Israel
• Finkelstein fury: A conversation with American Radical’s directors
• Giant plastic six-pack rings strangle public sculptures
• 500 Years of Resistance comic book documents aboriginal resistance
• Public consultations on Canada’s digital future
• Bélo sings for justice in Haiti
• Report from Hot Docs: Bhutto, Budrus, and a questionable contract with Coke
• Ronnie Burkett’s search for meaning in marionettes
• Looking for truth’s ghost in the haunted house of journalism
• The water agenda: an interview with filmmaker Liz Marshall
• Kolkata Dreams: A poet’s eye in India
Winter 2010
• Crude, sublime power: artists make unnerving points about environment
• Palestinian poetic inspiration: Rafeef Ziadah
• Ethnic cleansing of the Serengeti documented in new film
• An interview with the directors of the haunting documentary A Tent on Mars
• Beyond the textbook: documentaries as a tool for teaching
• Olympic Mascot Mayhem: a conversation with photographer Jay Black
• A Guernica for Gaia: the UK art world gets serious about climate change
• The semiotics of protest and ethnographic violence at Vancouver 2010
• Yuri’s Red Tent helps the homeless
• Violence or vandalism: Safe Assembly at Vancouver 2010
• Playing with fire in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
• A World Without Water at the Olympics
• Photos reflect on movements in Manila
• One of the best environmental films ever made, Dreamland shakes the soul
• Coca-Cola intimidates student group over film screening
• Avatar: The new Dances with Wolves, now in Imax 3D
Fall 2009
• Vox Sambou confronts AIDS through hip-hop
• Racist docs! Punk Islam! Fake orgasms! Report from the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival
• Documents show university spied on novelist
• Public tragedy, corruption and the news: Sexy beton II opens in Montreal
• One slick mess: An interview with H2Oil’s Shannon Walsh
• Artists Against Apartheid play for Palestine
• Queer love in a concentration camp
• Community television is up for grabs
• Opensourcing GM flowers: “Biopiracy” in the name of art
• Artistic hammering: An interview with Donovan King
Spring/Summer 2009
• Should we boycott TIFF?
• Uighur doc spurs online attack on film festival
• The Bible as bathroom stall
• Saving local culture one witness at a time: inside the struggle to rescue Canadian TV
• Living without Money: a timely new doc from Germany
• The Free Music Archive: Collaboration in the cultural frontier
• Acoustic ecstasy at Boston’s Megapolis
• The new business of democracy: Low-profit limited liability as media reform
• The Dictatorship of Debt: A funny and rowdy political play
Winter 2009
• Remixing RiP: Two blogs debate the hit copyright documentary
• Breaking the Sound Barrier: An Interview with Nancy Tobin
• Opie in NY: an interview
• The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac
• Is new Middle Eastern art too political?
• UK documentary probes The Age of Stupid
• Molora: a Greek tragedy for the South African stage
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