COVER:

The city is our playground
Urban gamers seize the night, projecting a new vision of metropolitan fun
By Nina Varsava

NEWS:

Clap if you believe in challengers
Civic Election 2007: Don Iveson, Ward 5
By Angela Brunschot

Weekly Vote
We sat though city council so you don’t have to
By Angela Brunschot

Rewind
The Week in Review
By SEE Staff

OPINION:

Our unregulated police
Violent protests get attention, fake cops... not so much
By Craig Elliott

The cascading logic of growth
New 23rd Ave interchange is crack for sprawl junkies
By Exile

Rant Acid
TRAIN IN VAINBy SEE Reader

LETTERS:

Fringe fester
By SEE Readers

IN PRINT:

Banff is purgatory?
Todd Babiak tells us what we knew all along
By Matthew Halliday

ON SCREEN:

A little satire with your ultraviolence?
Shoot ’Em Up skewers mindless action flicks—even as it is one
By Matthew Halliday

3:10 merits a 6 out of 10
Bale and Crowe fail to put fresh spin on Western genre
By Scott Lingley

Karnage for kiddies
Azumi’s antiheroine is too young to vote, old enough to kill
By Tom Murray

Revenge with a side of Bacon
Footloose star turns vigilante in laughable Death Sentence
By Zoltan Varadi

There’s a new seraph in town
According to Angel-A, angels look like slutty supermodels
By Paul Matwychuk

All murder, all guts, no fun
Halloween comes early this year and spoils the surprise
By Zoltan Varadi

Beyond the Blurbs
This week: Pacino’s Cruising arrives on DVD
By Paul Matwychuk

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

TELEPROMPTER
NBC to iTunes: "iQuit!"
Antagonism against Apple may lead to writers’ strike
By Nicola Simpson Khullar

MUSIC:

Champs with amps
Neo-proggers The Fucking Champs prevail over metal clichés
by Zoltan Varadi

Much ado about fucking
by Zoltan Varadi

The Stockholm syndrome
Wendy McNeill is hardly a hostage in her hip new Swedish hometown
By Tom Murray

L.A. Confidential
Carole Pope still finds her trade a little rough
By Zoltan Varadi

This Pool isn’t shallow
Even The Wheat Pool’s upbeat songs are about heartbreak and loss
By Cory Richard

EYE ON MUSIC
Don’t know Diddley ’bout dying
Bo apparently unaware of musicians’ high mortality rate
By Zoltan Varadi

HOT TIX
By Zoltan Varadi

CD REVIEWS:
DIETZCHE V. AND THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN Macho 2003-2007
TEDDY THOMPSON Upfront & Down Low
THE PAPERBACKS An Illusion of Death
DEAD JESUS ...More Funerals
by SEE Staff